ABSTRACT
Ethnographic film and video in the twenty-first century is no longer a self-contained linear product available on one medium such as VHS tape, 16mm film, or DVD disc. As multimodal anthropology continues to get traction in the discipline and expands, a robust critical analysis of it has begun to emerge. Current interests in drawing and illustration as a form of multimodal anthropology begin with a series of multimedia and multisensorial installations entitled Ethnographic Terminalia, exhibits that included illustration and comic art. In cultural anthropology, things develop differently. There is a long history of drawing in anthropology, grounded in several traditions, among them the sketches of nineteenth-century tourists, and illustration in the natural sciences. Multimodality is more than the sum of its multimedia. It also recognizes that media platforms are differently networked to different publics in a variety of contexts.
