What Is Visual Knowledge, and What Is It Good For? Potential Ethnographic Lessons from the Field of Legal Practice
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Richard K. Sherwin - RICHARD K. SHERWIN has written widely on the interrelationship between law and culture, including interdisciplinary works on law and visual communication, law and film, discourse theory, political legitimacy, and the emerging field of cultural legal studies.;
Neal Feigenson - NEAL FEIGENSON is Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law and a Research Affiliate in the Yale University Department of Psychology. Professor Feigenson's research interests include applications of social and cognitive psychology to legal decision making and the role of visual communication and rhetoric in law.;
Christina Spiesel - Christina Spiesel is an artist and writer who has been co-teaching Visual Persuasion in the Law to advanced law students since 2000 at Quinnipiac University School of Law and New York Law School. She is a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. She has presented at meetings of the AALS, Law and Society, ASLCH, and the International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law.
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10.1080/08949460601152799
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Visual Anthropology;
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Abstract
A firm basis exists for an instructive exchange between anthropologists and legal scholars regarding the production, dissemination, and interpretation of visual meaning in this digital era. The practice and theory of law and anthropology today are increasingly being shaped and informed by what appears on electronic screens—in the field, the workplace, and inside the classroom. Practicing lawyers and ethnographers need new tools of analysis and representation to meet the intellectual and aesthetic demands of digital visual rhetoric. This article offers a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the visual meaning-making process on the open source borderland between disciplinary expertise and pop cultural communication.
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