Course Details
Country:
France
Institution:
Sciences Po - Reims campus
Course Title:
INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Course Number:
DHUM 27A29
Course Description:
Visual anthropology is a subfield of anthropology and focuses on the study of photography, films and other media forms. Humans are both producers and consumers of visual materials. The production and consumption of visual materials are, however, culture-specific but also universal. The course intends to familiarize students with the production and interpretation of visual culture. The twelve lectures are clustered into technical, theoretical, agency and interpretation of visual culture. The course begins with an epistemological discussion on the technical aspect of visual anthropology with minimum knowledge of the nature of light, photography and principles of visual anthropology. The second part of the course takes on ethnography films and agency as the embodiment of post-colonial anthropology. Students will be able to debate Theories in visual anthropology with subjectivity, agency and reflexivity at the core of the discussion. This is further enriched with debates on image production during the colonial and post-colonial
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
ANTH 399
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