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This new version of the authoritative textbook in the field of
visual sociology focuses on the key topics of documentary
photography, visual ethnography, collaborative visual research,
visual empiricism, the study of the visual symbol and teaching
sociology visually. This updated and expanded edition includes
nearly twice as many images and incorporates new in-depth case
studies, drawing upon the author’s lifetime of pioneering
research and teaching as well as the often neglected experiences of
women and people of color. The book examines how documentary
photography can be useful to sociologists, both because of the
topics examined by documentarians, and as an example of how seeing
is socially constructed. Harper describes the exclusion of women
through much of the history of documentary photography and the
distinctiveness of the female eye in recent documentary, a
phenomenon he calls "the gendered lens". The author examines how a
visual approach allows sociologists to study conventional topics
differently, while offering new perspectives, topics and insights.
For example, photography shows us how perspective itself affects
what we see and know, how abstractions such as "ideal types" can be
represented visually, how social change can be studied visually and
how the study of symbols can lead us to interpret public art,
architecture and person-made landscapes. There is an extended study
of how images can lead to cooperative research and learning; how
images can serve as bridges of understanding, blurring the lines
between researcher and researched. The important topic of
reflexivity is examined by close study of Harper’s own research
experiences. Finally, the author focusses on teaching, offering
templates for full courses, assignments and projects, and guides
for teachers imagining how to approach visual sociology as a new
practice. This definitive yet accessible textbook will be
indispensable to teachers, researchers and professionals with an
interest in visual sociology, research methods, cultural theory and
visual anthropology.
Good Company: A Tramp Life, is a vivid portrait of a lifestyle long
part of America's history, yet rapidly disappearing. The author
traveled extensively by freight train to gain rich insights into
the elusive world of the tramp.Richly illustrated with 85
photographs by the author, the book presents the homeless man as an
individual who "drank, migrated, and worked at day labor" rather
than the stereotype of a victim of alcoholism. The tramps with whom
Harper shared boxcars and hobo jungles were the labor force that
harvested the crops in most of the apple orchards in the Pacific
Northwest. They were drawn to the harvest from across the United
States and migrated primarily on freight trains, as had hobos in
the 1930s. Although not without its problems, the tramp way of life
is a fierce and independent culture that has been an integral part
of our American identity and an important part of our agricultural
economy. Since the first edition of this classic book was published
by the University of Chicago Press, the tramp has virtually
disappeared from the American social landscape. The agricultural
labor force is now made up of Hispanic migrants. This significantly
revised and updated edition contrasts this disappearing lifestyle
with the homelessness of the modern era, which has been produced by
different economic and sociological forces, all of which have
worked against the continuation of the tramp as a social species.
The new edition richly documents the transition in our society from
"tramps" to urban homelessness and the many social, political, and
policy changes attendant to this transformation. It also includes
an additional thirty-five previously unpublished photographs from
theoriginal research.
This new version of the authoritative textbook in the field of
visual sociology focuses on the key topics of documentary
photography, visual ethnography, collaborative visual research,
visual empiricism, the study of the visual symbol and teaching
sociology visually. This updated and expanded edition includes
nearly twice as many images and incorporates new in-depth case
studies, drawing upon the author’s lifetime of pioneering
research and teaching as well as the often neglected experiences of
women and people of color. The book examines how documentary
photography can be useful to sociologists, both because of the
topics examined by documentarians, and as an example of how seeing
is socially constructed. Harper describes the exclusion of women
through much of the history of documentary photography and the
distinctiveness of the female eye in recent documentary, a
phenomenon he calls "the gendered lens". The author examines how a
visual approach allows sociologists to study conventional topics
differently, while offering new perspectives, topics and insights.
For example, photography shows us how perspective itself affects
what we see and know, how abstractions such as "ideal types" can be
represented visually, how social change can be studied visually and
how the study of symbols can lead us to interpret public art,
architecture and person-made landscapes. There is an extended study
of how images can lead to cooperative research and learning; how
images can serve as bridges of understanding, blurring the lines
between researcher and researched. The important topic of
reflexivity is examined by close study of Harper’s own research
experiences. Finally, the author focusses on teaching, offering
templates for full courses, assignments and projects, and guides
for teachers imagining how to approach visual sociology as a new
practice. This definitive yet accessible textbook will be
indispensable to teachers, researchers and professionals with an
interest in visual sociology, research methods, cultural theory and
visual anthropology.
Good Company: A Tramp Life, is a vivid portrait of a lifestyle long
part of America's history, yet rapidly disappearing. The author
traveled extensively by freight train to gain rich insights into
the elusive world of the tramp.Richly illustrated with 85
photographs by the author, the book presents the homeless man as an
individual who "drank, migrated, and worked at day labor" rather
than the stereotype of a victim of alcoholism. The tramps with whom
Harper shared boxcars and hobo jungles were the labor force that
harvested the crops in most of the apple orchards in the Pacific
Northwest. They were drawn to the harvest from across the United
States and migrated primarily on freight trains, as had hobos in
the 1930s. Although not without its problems, the tramp way of life
is a fierce and independent culture that has been an integral part
of our American identity and an important part of our agricultural
economy. Since the first edition of this classic book was published
by the University of Chicago Press, the tramp has virtually
disappeared from the American social landscape. The agricultural
labor force is now made up of Hispanic migrants. This significantly
revised and updated edition contrasts this disappearing lifestyle
with the homelessness of the modern era, which has been produced by
different economic and sociological forces, all of which have
worked against the continuation of the tramp as a social species.
The new edition richly documents the transition in our society from
"tramps" to urban homelessness and the many social, political, and
policy changes attendant to this transformation. It also includes
an additional thirty-five previously unpublished photographs from
theoriginal research.
Outside of Italy, the country's culture and its food appear to
be essentially synonymous. And indeed, as "The Italian Way" makes
clear, preparing, cooking, and eating food play a central role in
the daily activities of Italians from all walks of life. In this
beautifully illustrated book, Douglas Harper and Patrizia Faccioli
present a fascinating and colorful look at the Italian table.
"The Italian Way" focuses on two dozen families in the city of
Bologna, elegantly weaving together Harper's outsider perspective
with Faccioli's intimate knowledge of the local customs. The
authors interview and observe these families as they go shopping
for ingredients, cook together, and argue over who has to wash the
dishes. Throughout, the authors elucidate the guiding principle of
the Italian table--a delicate balance between the structure of
tradition and the joy of improvisation. With its bite-sized history
of food in Italy, including the five-hundred-year-old story of the
country's cookbooks, and Harper's mouth-watering photographs, "The
Italian Way" is a rich repast--insightful, informative, and
inviting.
This sociological classic shows how the railroad tramp's status as
a deviant changed from frontier itinerant to post settlement
vagrant; from class conscious proletariat in the Depression to the
damaged post WWII vet. The third edition (with new photos)
discusses how today the freights have become the milieu of violent
gangs who transport drugs, human traffickers, and serial killers.
Beating the odds against increased post 9/11 surveillance are
yuppie adventure seekers, young travelers, crust punks and oogles.
In the background is the same freight train-unforgiving and
lethal-and cultures policed at times by honorable tramps and at
times by sadistic enforcers of violent gangs. Features of the new
edition: Eight previously unpublished photos that reflect new
directions in visual ethnography. (90 photos altogether) A fuller
integration of photos made during the author's participant research
with tramps over thousands of miles on the freights and while
living homeless in urban America. New, nuanced edit of a narrative
describing author's five week immersion with the quintessential
tramp of the era, Carl.
From their mid-nineteenth-century fencing business the Harpers of
Aberdeen developed a unique system of suspension that allowed their
light foot suspension bridges to be relatively rigid. John Harper
was one of the first to employ steel wire rope, now universally
used. The Harpers' innovative work overcame the disadvantages of
this type of bridge and was of considerable benefit to those who
relied upon them. Harpers built over sixty such bridges throughout
the UK and the British Empire between 1870 and 1910, but until now
they have been little documented. The author, John Harper's
great-grandson, searched the globe to find and cross those still in
use. Here he tells the story of his ancestors, his journeys and the
communities the bridges served.
When we finally arrived at my brother's house in the United States,
I thought about how far I was from home in Mexico. I looked back,
saw the sun setting, and thought about my father and what he might
be doing. I thought, 'Why did I come so far, and how am I going to
return?' Before I left my father asked me why I wanted to leave. He
said he thought we would never see each other again. My brother
told him not to worry and that he would return me in a year. . . .
He was right, because we never did. Irma Luna recalls her
experience of migration, from Communities without BordersIn his
stunning work of photojournalism and oral history, David Bacon
documents the new reality of migrant experience: the creation of
transnational communities. Today's indigenous migrants don't simply
move from one point to another but create new communities all along
the northern road from Guatemala through Mexico into the United
States, connected by common culture and history. Drawing on his
experience as a photographer and a journalist and also as a former
labor organizer, Bacon portrays the lives of the people who migrate
between Guatemala and Mexico and the United States. He takes us
inside these communities and illuminates the ties that bind them
together, the influence of their working conditions on their
families and health, and their struggle for better lives. Bacon
portrays in photographs and their own words Mixtec and Triqui
migrants in Oaxaca, Baja California, and California; Guatemalan
migrants in Huehuetenango and Nebraska; miners and indigenous
communities in Sonora and Arizona; and veterans of the bracero
program of the 1940s and 1950s. Bacon's interviews with this first
wave of guest workers are especially relevant in light of the
current political focus on guest-worker programs as a model for
reforming immigration, an approach with which Bacon strongly
disagrees.Throughout Communities without Borders, Bacon emphasizes
the social movements migrants organize to improve their own working
conditions and the well-being of their enclaves. U.S. border policy
treats undocumented immigrants as an aggregation of individuals,
ignoring the social pressures that force whole communities to move
and the networks of families and hometowns that sustain them on
their journeys. Communities without Borders makes an urgent appeal
for understanding the human reality that should inform our national
debate over immigration."
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Tributes (Paperback)
Frederick Douglas Harper
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Tributes (Hardcover)
Frederick Douglas Harper
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The Durabone Prophecies is a novel about human nature and human
destiny. It is a multiplot story of romance, relationships, human
emotions, andpleasure vs. purpose. Also, it is a mystery novel with
predictions for the future of the Earth and the human race. Four
riveting romance stories areintertwined and involve major
characters who unexpectedly find love. The major plot and all
subplots are related in some way to the main character
andcounseling psychologist, Dr. Franklin Durabone, who, after a
near-death experience, commits to his destined purpose to write The
Durabone Prophecies.This prophetic book by Dr. Durabone is based on
the prophetic revelations of his mother, "Mama Durabone," who sees
alternative destinies for Earth andits human race through her
visions and dreams. The story takes the reader to Paris (France),
Washington, DC, Chicago, Virginia, and Florida. For thereader of
The Durabone Prophecies, author Frederick Douglas Harper evokes
intense emotional feelings, laughter, sensual arousal, nostalgic
memories, intellectual debate, philosophical questions, and
spiritual exploration. The Durabone Prophecies is a self-help
novel, because psychological principlesand messages are embedded in
the story. Also, characters are subliminal teachers and role models
of human imperfection and vulnerability as well ashuman possibility
and hope.
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