Today we’re celebrating!
Our Multimodal Appreciation: A Kit for Evaluating Multimodal Works in Anthropology and Beyond is finally out!
After more than a year of work writing and designing the kit, we have finally received the printed copies from the press!
Written by Judith Albrecht, Tomás Criado, Ignacio Farías, Andrew Gilbert, Carla J Maier.
Published CC BY SA Institut für Europäische Ethnologie · HU Berlin, 2025 [ISBN 978-3-00-084575-8]
Cover and layout design: Dina Fluck
Acknowledgements
This book has been made possible with the generous support of the Volkswagen Foundation (project number 0069945-00, Multimodal Appreciation: Prototypes for the Evaluation and Institutionalisation of More-than-Textual Ethnography) as well additional funding from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle.
Summary
This kit provides a set of practical exercises and a framework for valuing and assessing multimodal works. It recognizes their unique capacity to weave together and activate diverse media forms, collaborative practices, and public engagement while expanding the traditional boundaries of anthropological knowledge production.
This kit is intentionally designed as an open-ended, dynamic resource. We are certain that there are dimensions we have overlooked and anticipate that new dimensions will emerge through its use. This is why you’ll find blank cards, expandable lists, adaptable templates, and blank pages throughout the kit – they are invitations for you to contribute your own insights, document new approaches, and expand the kit based on your experiences in appreciating and evaluating multimodal works. Your engagement with the kit actively shapes its evolution, making it a lively and collectively enriched resource rather than a fixed set of instructions.
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Printed copies
If interested in receiving a printed copy, please contact any of us!
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How to quote: Albrecht, J., Criado, T., Farías, I., Gilbert, A. & Maier, C.J. (2025). Multimodal Appreciation: A Kit for Evaluating Multimodal Works in Anthropology and Beyond. Published CC BY SA Institut für Europäische Ethnologie · HU Berlin [ISBN 978-3-00-084575-8] | PDF