CONTEMPORARY WAYS OF DEVELOPMENT IN VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Abstract

Visual anthropology is a modern and perspective scientific discipline, involving a big number of researchers. Interdisciplinarity of visual anthropology involves the researchers from other different adjacent scientific disciplines and agents from different kinds of fine arts. New challenges for modern social and humanitarian sciences expect not only modernization of existing theoretical and methodological basis, but also a search of different new concepts for solving actual problems. The article presents specific themes of research in modern visual anthropology, such as anthropological cinema, anthropology of art, anthropology of design, applied visual anthropology. The article analyzes the main features and ways of development of scientific discipline, as well as theoretical and methodological conceptions. The most perspective ways of visual anthropological research among the social and humanitarian sciences are pointed out. The relevance of the article is in the structuring of the modern visual anthropology research theory and the analysis of the current ways of methodological practices and actual problems. The article appeals to modern theories and is based on relevant conceptions of development in visual anthropology as a scientific discipline. The article includes the literature of modern visual anthropologists, studying theoretical and practical aspects of scientific discipline. The research allows to confirm that the main specific feature of modern visual anthropology is interdisciplinarity, tendency for the collaboration between humanities and fine arts, expansion of visual sources and spheres of practical use. The most perspective ways of scientific discipline development are conditioned by these specifics.