In a world that increasingly requires researchers to skim, scan, glance, and browse, we might wonder how well we actually see. And if we do manage to see, why do we usually translate seeing and thinking into words? What would happen if researchers were to draw what they see? In this combined how-to-see / how-to-draw manual, Andrew Causey offers insights, inspiration, practical techniques, and encouragement for social scientists interested in exploring drawing as an alternative method of translating what they "see" during their research. Designed for those with no drawing experience, it includes a set of carefully calibrated exercises, grounded in the context of the social sciences, to provide comfort and confidence with drawing, as well as an understanding of the unique possibilities that drawing might offer contemporary research methods.
In a world that increasingly requires researchers to skim, scan, glance, and browse, we might wonder how well we actually see. And if we do manage to see, why do we usually translate seeing and thinking into words? What would happen if researchers were to draw what they see? In this combined how-to-see / how-to-draw manual, Andrew Causey offers insights, inspiration, practical techniques, and encouragement for social scientists interested in exploring drawing as an alternative method of translating what they "see" during their research. Designed for those with no drawing experience, it includes a set of carefully calibrated exercises, grounded in the context of the social sciences, to provide comfort and confidence with drawing, as well as an understanding of the unique possibilities that drawing might offer contemporary research methods.
List of Figures
List of Etudes
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Can't See?
3. Dare to See and Dare to Draw
4. Seeing Edges as Lines
5. Seeing Inside Edges
6. Seeing Movement
7. Seeing Absence
8. Final Words
Appendix
References
Index
Artist-ethnographer Andrew Causey shows that drawing is not just a way of describing what we have observed; it gives us an immensely versatile means of observing. It draws us to see. Through a series of practical exercises, Causey encourages us to drop our inhibitions, to slow down, and to get drawing. The rewards should be more than worth the effort, and they could transform anthropology. -- Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen With wit, passion, and empathic understanding of the bad feelings many (if not most) people have about their ability to draw what they see, this timely book provides a clear path to a powerful tool for anthropological research. -- Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Drawn to See is a call for people engaged in ethnographic projects to take up their pencils and draw their way to insight. -- Carol Hendrickson, Marlboro College Causey ... extends the connections between drawing and the practice of ethnography in a remarkable-and practical-way. -- Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Andrew Causey is Associate Professor in the Humanities, History, and Social Sciences Department at Columbia College, Chicago.
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