Spring 2021

Visual Anthropology

Listed in: Anthropology and Sociology, as ANTH-241

Formerly listed as: ANTH-41

Faculty

Deborah B. Gewertz (Section 01)

Description

(Offered as ANTH 241 and FAMS 378) This course will explore and evaluate various visual genres, including photography, ethnographic film, and museum presentation as modes of anthropological analysis—as media of communication facilitating cross-cultural understanding. Among the topics to be examined are the ethics of observation, the politics of artifact collection and display, the dilemma of representing non-Western “others” through Western media, and the challenge of interpreting indigenously produced visual depictions of “self” and “other.”

Limited to 30 students. Spring semester. Professor Gewertz.

ANTH 241 - L/D

Section 01
M 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM ONLI ONLI
W 12:30 PM - 01:50 PM ONLI ONLI

This is preliminary information about books for this course. Please contact your instructor or the Academic Coordinator for the department, before attempting to purchase these books.

ISBN Title Publisher Author(s) Comment Book Store Price
Media Worlds University of California Press Ginsburg, Faye and Abu-Lughod, Lila Amazon TBD
On Photography Farrar, Straus and Giroux Sontag, Susan Amazon TBD

Offerings

Other years: Offered in Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023