“Corporeal vision” refers to the anthropological approach that recognizes the centrality of visual images and media to understanding social relationships and practices. For most of the twentieth century, anthropology followed natural science precepts about truth, fact, and certainty that were expressed in words, and visual data were considered inferior and illustrative at best. Developments in mobile visual technologies and anthropological interests in materiality, performativity, embodiment, and the sensorium have made it possible to imagine and understand the world through the body and its senses instead of through a disembodied mind. Ethnographic filmmaker and writer David MacDougall has made important arguments for the value of visual imagination and knowledge within and beyond anthropology. Some thinkers still uphold positivist principles, but the social roles of visual technologies are challenging the prevalence of detached analyses expressed only in words.