SAN236 Visual Anthropology

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
1/1. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lucie Galčanová Batista, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Mgr. et Mgr. Adéla Souralová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Eva Šlesingerová, Ph.D.
Division of Social Anthropology – Department of Sociology – Faculty of Social Studies
Timetable
Tue 14:00–15:40 U53
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course provides a survey of main ideas underlying debates on visual anthropology. It aims at providing the introduction to the interpretation of visual materials. It presents the reflexion of contemporary interdisciplinary study of visualities.
Syllabus
  • 1) introduction: visual studies 2) methodology and interpretation 3) case studies
Literature
  • DAVIS, Whitney. A general theory of visual culture. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011, xvi, 384. ISBN 9780691147659. info
  • DIKOVITSKAYA, Margarita. Visual culture : the study of the visual after the cultural turn. 1st MIT Press paperback ed. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2006, 316 s. ISBN 0262541882. info
  • MIRZOEFF, Nicholas. An introduction to visual culture. 1st publ. London: Routledge, 1999, xi, 274. ISBN 0415158761. info
  • Interpreting visual culture : explorations in the hermeneutics of the visual. Edited by D. Ian Heywood - Barry Sandywell. 1st pub. London: Routledge, 1999, xviii, 260. ISBN 0415157099. info
Teaching methods
lectures, seminars, workshops
Assessment methods
project and its presentation
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2013.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Autumn 2011, recent)
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