Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1. Introduction. Applied visual anthropology: intervention and visual methodologies / Sarah Pink -- The applied visual anthropology of John Collier: a photo essay / Malcolm Collier -- pt. 2. Medicine and health. Combining the applied, the visual and the medical: patients teaching physicians with visual narratives / Richard Chalfen and Michael Rich -- Steps for the future: HIV/AIDS, media activism and applied visual anthropology in Southern Africa / Susan Levine -- Bodywork: social somatic interventions in the operating theatres of invasive radiology / Christina Lammer -- pt. 3. Tourism and heritage. Look to learn: a role for visual ethnography in the elimination of poverty / Dianne Stadhams -- Archiving 'heritage', reconstructing the 'area': conducting audiovisual ethnography in EU-sponsored research / Vassiliki Yiakoumaki -- pt. 4. Conflict and disaster relief. Emergency agents: a birthing of incipient applied visual anthropology in the 'media invisible' villages of Western India / Jayasinhji Jhala -- The hunters redux: participatory and applied visual anthropology with the Botswana San / Matthew Durington -- Sharing anthropology: collaborative video experiences among Maya film-makers in post-war Guatemala / Carlos Y. Flores -- pt. 5. Community film-making and empowerment. The rhythm of our dreams: a proposal for an applied visual anthropology / Ana Martínez Perez -- Performing urban collectivity: ethnography of the production process of a community-based film project in Brussels / An Van. Dienderen -- pt. 6. Industry. Video ethnography under industrial constraints: observational techniques and video analysis / Werner Sperschneider -- Engaging our audiences through photo stories / Tracey Lovejoy and Nelle Steele.