Dynamics in Social Platforms to Understand Culture

A View from Visual Anthropology

Abstract

In the modern era, social media platforms are playing a key role in understanding the critical concepts of subjects in a simple way. Post-Covid days has proved that even children, academicians are also using system and mobile phones to attend their daily class and even many meeting are organized in digital platforms. A Systematic and meaningful history of ethnographic films, short films, and documentaries on biographies, festivals, arts, and environments related to glimpses of the life and culture of Indian people are presented by various resources to understand and enhance their knowledge. Moreover, the present generation is unable to focus on just lectures but is in need of audio-visual aids to understand the issues. At this significant juncture, this paper highlights the Visual Anthropology, a sub-branch of cultural anthropology concerned with the study of human behaviour through visuals using anthropological techniques. Visual Anthropology helps in the observation of Dance and other kinds of performance, Museums and archiving, Histories, Sand paintings, Tattoos, sculptures, and relics, Cave paintings, Scrimshaw, jewellery, Hieroglyphics, paintings, and Photographs in the past and present. The Scope of Visual Anthropology is about to gain much more popularity in India. Visual Anthropology is going to play an important role in the empirical, methodological, and theoretical conceptualization of Anthropology in the near future.