Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Milli Folklor, cilt.12, sa.97, ss.111-121, 2013 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus, TRDizin)
The visuality is discussed intensively in social science in the last years. It may be said that there are two main reasons of it. First reason is that the world has been surrounded by visual images in degrees. The other reason is that vision and ways of seeing are being discussed in social sciences in many different ways. Visual technologies have come on the scene simultaneously in the United States of America and Europe in the 19th century. These tools that are used to record still pictures and motion pictures are used to record scientific studies along with their popular use. Photographic image is used as documentary claiming that it reflects the truth directly. Disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and archeology have given a place to camera in their studies for a long time. Ethnographic fieldwork is based on a process in which the ethnographer participates in the group life for a long time and gathers the information by this way. Some different ways of having information are preferred. One of them is visual documentation. On the other hand the place of the use of these technologies in ethnographic fieldwork has been interrupted owing to some reasons. One of the reason is that the remove of visual images as a secondary data by ethnographic writing. Today, it is clear that ethnographic fieldwork should be considered with some different techniques. In this essay, it is tried to show how these visual technologies have been used in ethnographic studies in their historical context. At the same time the relation between visual images and ethnographic text is discussed.