Abstract
Photography can be a useful and distinct method for community engagement and collaboration, especially when used as a tool to add depth to oral history or ethnographic interviews. In particular, 360-degree panoramic photos can mimic walking interviews, thereby allowing participants to virtually re-inhabit spaces within the study site, encouraging new dialogues about the materiality of historic places and personal experiences within them. This method of photo elicitation can enable more participation from those who may not be able to physically join archaeologists on a site that is difficult to access due to time, mobility limitations of participants, or the terrain of the landscape. I use examples from a community-based archaeology project focused on the site of a nineteenth century Bahamian plantation to demonstrate how photo elicitation can reveal unique insights into the ways that local people of all ages understand, interact with and value the historical site today.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 43-57 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Funding
This work was supported by Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork [grant number 9024] and Engaged Anthropology [grant number EAG-140], and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [grant number 1451512]. This research was made possible through funds from the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (Grant No. 9024) and Engaged Anthropology Grant (Gr. EAG-140), and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Grant No. 1451512). I would like to thank my research partners at the Bannerman Town, Millars and John Millars Association, the One Eleuthera Foundation, and the Wemyss Bight Community Library. Special thanks to Drs Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Elizabeth Chilton, Sonya Atalay, and Laurie Wilkie. Additional thanks to Evan Taylor for photography. Thank you to the University of California, Berkeley, the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and the UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology for facilitating this article as open access. This research was made possible through funds from the Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant (Grant No. 9024) and Engaged Anthropology Grant (Gr. EAG-140), and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Grant No. 1451512). I would like to thank my research partners at the Bannerman Town, Millars and John Millars Association, the One Eleuthera Foundation, and the Wemyss Bight Community Library. Special thanks to Drs Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Elizabeth Chilton, Sonya Atalay, and Laurie Wilkie. Additional thanks to Evan Taylor for photography. Thank you to the University of California, Berkeley, the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, and the UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology for facilitating this article as open access.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| University of California Berkeley | |
| Wemyss Bight Community Library | |
| One Eleuthera Foundation | |
| U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China | 1451512 |
| U.S. Department of Energy Chinese Academy of Sciences Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology Project Oak Ridge National Laboratory Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment National Science Foundation National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center National Natural Science Foundation of China | |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation | 9024, EAG-140 |
| Wenner-Gren Foundation |
Keywords
- Virtual reality
- accessibility
- collaborative research
- digital research methods
- ethnographic archaeology
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Archaeology
- Archaeology