Visual Anthropology from a Multimodal Perspective and Its Demonstration Significance
Multimodal anthropology,characterized by multi-senses,multi-media,and multi-agent collaboration,is increasingly becoming a focal point in contemporary anthropology,highlighting the issues and challenges posed to social sciences like anthropology by the new digital revolution.However,many discussions in the anthropological community regarding this field have diverged from a new technology orientation and shifted towards symbol-based multimodal discourse analysis.In contrast,visual anthropology,grounded in the relationships and practices between images and senses,images and media,as well as images and collaborative networks,is becoming a kind of visual anthropology within a multimodal perspective.It showcases various innovative attempts to engage in dialogue with multimodal anthropology,providing practical experiences for the social action orientation that multimodal anthropology has yet to fully address.This holds significant demonstrative implications for the in-depth development of multimodal anthropology,strongly advancing its contemporary evolution and indicating new exploratory directions for the innovation of anthropological representation methods and the future development of anthropological theories and methodologies.