Below you can find articles and books that guided my methodological, epistemological, and historical understanding of using sketches and drawings in field research:
Gesticulation sketched. From Wikimedia, courtesy of Hamlet Winstanley. Image’s source.
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Ballard, Chris. 2013. “The Return of the Past: On Drawing and Dialogic History.” The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 14 (2): 136-148.
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Bray, Zoe. 2015. “Anthropology with a Paintbrush: Naturalist–Realist Painting as ‘Thick Description’.” Visual Anthropology Review 31 (2): 119-133.
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Causey, Andrew. 2012. “Drawing Files: Artwork in the Field.” Critical Arts 26 (2): 162-174.
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Causey, Andrew. 2017. Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method. North York, ON: University of Toronto Press.
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Colloredo-Mansfeld, Rudi. 2011. “Space, Line and Story in the Invention of an Andean Aesthetic.” Journal of Material Culture 16 (1): 3–23.
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Geismar, Haidy. 2014. “Drawing It Out.” Visual Anthropology Review 30 (2): 97-113.
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Hendrickson, Carol. 2008. “Visual Field Notes: Drawing Insights in the Yucatan.” Visual Anthropology Review 24 (2): 117-132.
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Ingold, Tim. 2013. Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. New York, NY: Routledge
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Ingold, Tim. 2019. “Art and Anthropology for a Sustainable World.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 25 (4): 659-675.
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Simons, Eric. ND. “Illustrated: Locating Burials Using GPR.” Indigenous/Science website. Accessed April 26, 2023. https://indigenousscience.ubc.ca/ground-penetrating-radar-gpr-partnership-between-musqueam-and-ubc/gpr-course-indigenous-communties-2
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Taussig, Michael. 2011. I Swear I Saw This: Drawings in Fieldwork Notebooks, Namely My Own. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
If you are interested in reading a selection of these readings or if you are an instructor looking for readings to assign for a module on field drawings and ethnographic sketches, I suggest this list of readings. In addition to articles and books, I also suggest these other resources.