Abstract
This article explores the use of visuals by missionaries and social scientists to communicate their encounters in sub-Saharan Africa. It offers an alternative perspective by incorporating the Sight Beyond My Sight (SBMS) visual research methodology created by Gabriel Tait. SBMS is a participant research method that employs photography as a way to understand culture and identity. The implications of this body of work, and the method it provides, presents a much-needed contextual lens for missionaries, visual ethnographers, and general persons who are interested in communicating their contexts in partnership with the cultures they are encountering and impacting. The implication of this work is a more accurate representation of the identities of the people they are working alongside.
DOI
10.7252/Journal.01.2022S.04
Recommended Citation
Tait, Gabriel B.
(2022)
"SBMS: A Visual Exploration of Liberian Identity,"
Asbury Theological Seminary:
Vol. 77:
No.
1, p. 51-71.
Available at:
https://place.asburyseminary.edu/asburyjournal/vol77/iss1/4
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