Reorienting Visual and Digital Anthropology: Southeast Asian Perspectives

This volume reorients visual anthropology beyond its historically Western vantage point through a collaborative, cross-cultural editorship.With contributions from anthropologists with cultural connections to the Indian subcontinent, it presents contemporary ethnographic practice as it unfolds across both analogue and digital media.It examines representation across multiple forms-from film and photography to social media ethnography, immersive virtual and augmented realities, and the emerging horizons of artificial intelligence. Visual anthropology itself emerged from the intellectual ferment of the late 1960s, shaped by debates across literature, visual arts, sociology, psychology, and philosophy, alongside the political reckoning of the post-colonial moment.For students of social and cultural anthropology, its catalytic technologies were the hand-held camera and synchronised sound-tools that allowed ethnography to move, speak, and circulate beyond the written text.Yet the field has al