ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the potential of ethnographic video-making for a graphic anthropology. There has for far too long been a sense of opposition between visual and written anthropology. Departing from existing treatments of the audio/visual in anthropology as either irrelevant or a challenge to the mainstream, the chapter argues that video can facilitate an alternative form of ethnographic note-taking and description. By resituating ethnographic video practices within the paradigm of a graphic anthropology, and thus understanding them in terms of lines and movement, the chapter suggests an understanding of video-recording as a form of inscription. Ethnographers and artists practise and write about methods of walking that involve audiovisual recordings in a range of different ways. These include the filmmaker-anthropologist following or walking alongside the protagonist, who might be on his or her way somewhere, or intentionally showing the filmmaker a route or locality, and studies in applied visual anthropology.
