CMA04 Visual anthropology

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Paride Bollettin, MSc., Ph.D. (lecturer)
PhDr. Patrick Laviolette, PhD. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Irena Kašparová, M.A., Ph.D.
Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: PhDr. Patrick Laviolette, PhD.
Supplier department: Department of Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Wed 16:00–17:40 G24, except Wed 17. 4.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course introduces key areas of interest of visual anthropology. Starting from the contemplation as to who is the research, what is his cultural background and baggage that s/he carries into the field and its research, we will move onto various forms of visuality and presentation of anthropological data throughout the history. From objects to films, from truth to fiction, from confidence to uncertainty, from theory to its absence - the course will show, how visuality had a key role to play in this search for understanding other cultures throughout the human history.
Learning outcomes
After successfully completing this course, the student has theoretical understanding of importance and role of visuality in everyday life as well as in anthropological research. S/he is aware of sensory stereotypization and expectancies, has knowledge of various forms of visuality that surrounds us and has basic skills in multi sensual presentation of research outcomes.
Syllabus
  • 1)New kid on the block: sensory ethnography
  • 2)Communicating through the eye: What do we see? Cultural stereotypes and expectancies
  • 3)Material objects
  • 4)Art
  • 5)Photography
  • 6)Museums
  • 7)Exhibiting people
  • 8)Documentary
  • 9)Film
  • 10)Theater
  • 11)Live - production
  • 12)Visualising other senses: smell, touch, taste (sensual anthropology re-visited)
Literature
    required literature
  • Pink, Sarah, ed. 2009. Visual Interventions: Applied Visual Anthropology. Berghahn Books
  • PINK, Sarah. Doing visual ethnography. 3rd edition. Los Angeles: SAGE, [2013]. ISBN 978-1-4462-1116-8.
  • BOUQUET, Mary. Museums : a visual anthropology. English edition, first publi. London: Berg, 2012, xii, 243. ISBN 9781845208110. info
  • Principles of visual anthropology. Edited by Paul Hockings. 3rd ed. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003, xix, 562 p. ISBN 9783110221138. info
  • GRIMSHAW, Anna. The ethnographer's eye : ways of seeing in anthropology. First published. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xiii, 222. ISBN 9780521773102. info
  • TURNBULL, Colin M. The mountain people. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987, 309 s. ISBN 0671640984. info
    recommended literature
  • GRAY, Gordon. Cinema: a visual anthropology. English ed. Oxford: Berg, 2010. Key texts in the anthropology of visual and material culture. ISBN 978-1-84520-793-9.
  • ROSE, Gillian. Visual methodologies : an introduction to researching with visual materials. 4th edition. Los Angeles: SAGE, 2016, xxiii, 432. ISBN 9781473948891. info
  • HINE, Christine. Ethnography for the internet : embedded, embodied and everyday. First published. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2015, viii, 221. ISBN 9780857855428. info
  • Digital anthropology. Edited by Heather A. Horst - Daniel Miller. First published. New York, NY, USA: Berg, 2012, x, 316. ISBN 9780857852908. info
  • Made to be seen : perspectives on the history of visual anthropology. Edited by Marcus Banks - Jay Ruby. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2011, 419 s. ISBN 9780226036618. info
  • PINK, Sarah. Doing sensory ethnography. London: Sage Publications, 2009, viii, 168. ISBN 9781412948036. info
  • Anthropologies of art. Edited by Mariët Westermann. Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2005, xxxi, 263. ISBN 0300103530. info
  • Materiality. Edited by Daniel Miller. London: Duke University Press, 2005, 294 s. ISBN 0822335425. info
  • BANKS, Marcus. Visual methods in social research. 1st pub. London: SAGE Publications, 2001, xvi, 201. ISBN 0761963642. info
  • COLLIER, John and Malcolm COLLIER. Visual anthropology : photography as a research method. Rev. and expanded ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986, xvii, 248. ISBN 0826308996. info
Teaching methods
Lecture (45 minutes), seminars (45 minutes), active participation in class discussions; collective project participation
Assessment methods
Written assignment (25%), Group project (25%), Timed project development (24 hour project happening: 50%
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2025.
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