The impact and contemporary significance in visual anthropology concerning the visual methods and the ethnographic photography/filmic works cultivated by Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead in their 1936-38 Bali research.

With a new focus on the plurality as to phases of feedback processes and the multifaceted dialogic co-working for visual anthropological production.

Abstract

In order to attain more clarified discussions and add new analytical ideas regarding the currently important issue on the intrinsic nature of feedback processes in visual anthropological production during and after fieldwork among native peoples, this study casts a new light on the visual methods and feedback/dialogic co-working processes underlying the then epoch-making visual and cultural anthropological endeavors of Bateson/ Mead's 1936-38 Bali research.