SyllabusIntroduction to Visual Anthropology
ANTH 195/295
B. Broce, bbroce@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu
University of Vermont, Summer 1999, Summer 2000
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In the beginning...
Margaret Mead, "Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words" in Principles of Visual Anthropology edited by Paul Hockings (1995)
Ira Jacknis, "Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in Bali: Their Use of Photography and Film" in Cultural Anthropology 3(2)
Ira Jacknis, "Franz Boas and Photography" in Studies in Visual Communication (1984)
The triumvirate...
Mark McCarty, "McCarty's Law and How to Break It" in Principles of Visual Anthropology, edited by Paul Hockings (1995)
John Collier, Jr. and Malcolm Collier, "Introduction: How to Study for This Book", and "Chapter 1: The Challenge of Observation and the Nature of Photography" in Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method (1986)
Karl Heider, "Chapter 1: Introduction", and, "Chapter 3: The Attributes of Ethnographic Film" in Ethnographic Film (1976)
Reconsidering "Visual Anthropology"
Jay Ruby, "Visual Anthropology" in Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology (1995)
Faye Ginsburg, "Institutionalizing the Unruly: Charting a Future for Visual Anthropology" to be published in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology
Introducing Sol Worth
Sol Worth, "Toward an Ethnographic Semiotic," paper delivered at UNESCO conference (February 1977)
Sol Worth, "Chapter Seven: Pictures Can't Say Ain't" in Studying Visual Communication (1981)
Note: this chapter (and entire book) can be downloaded at: http://www.temple.edu/anthro/worth/ssev.html
Other publications by Sol can be downloaded at: http://www.temple.edu/anthro/worth/worth.html
Anthropology and Photography
Jay Ruby, "Seeing Through Pictures: The Anthropology of Photography" in Camera Lucida (1981)
Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins, "The Photographs as an Intersection of Gazes: The Example of National Geographic" in Visualizing Theory edited by Lucien Taylor (1994)
Introducing David MacDougall
David MacDougall, "Whose Story Is It?" in Visualizing Theory edited by Lucien Taylor (1994)
David MacDougall, "Chapter Two: Visual Anthropology and the Ways of Knowing" in Transcultural Cinema (1998)
Introducing Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch, "The Camera and the Man" in Principles of Visual Anthropology edited by Paul Hockings (1995)
Steven Feld, "Themes in the Cinema of Jean Rouch", in Visual Anthropology vol. 2 (1989)
Further contributions of Jay Ruby
Jay Ruby, "Is an Ethnographic Film a Filmic Ethnography?" reprinted from Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication 2(2) (1975)
Jay Ruby, "Exposing yourself: Reflexivity, anthropology, and film" in Semiotica 2(1-2) (1980)
Where art thou meaning?
Marcus Banks, "Which films are the ethnographic films?" in Film as Ethnography, edited by Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton (1995)
Eric Michaels, "A Model of Teleported Texts (with Reference to Aboriginal Television)" in Visual Anthropology vol. 4 (1991)
Do you mean what I see?
Wilton Martinez, "Who constructs anthropological knowledge? Toward a theory of ethnographic film spectatorship" in Film as Ethnography, edited by Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton (1995)
Veijo Hietala, "Meanings, Texts, Contexts- Tracing the Spectator in Post-structuralist Film Theory" in The Construction of the Viewer, edited by Peter Ian Crawford and Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinsson (1996)
Anthropology and Mass Media
Ien Ang, "Culture and Communication: Towards an Ethnographic Critique of Media Consumption in the Transnational Media System" in European Journal of Communication vol. 5 (1990)
Debra Spitulnik, "Anthropology and Mass Media" in Annual Review Anthropology vol. 22 (1993)
Shaun Moores, "Approaching Audiences" in Interpreting Audiences: The Ethnography of Media Consumption , 1993
Indigenous Media
DeeDee Halleck and Nathalie Magnan, "Access for Others: Alter (Native) Media Practice" in Visual Anthropology Review 9(1) (Spring 1993)
Faye Ginsburg, "Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village?" in Rereading Cultural Anthropology (1991)
Introducing Semiotics
Umberto Eco, "On the Contribution of Film to Semiotics" in Film Image and Film Language (1975)
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz, "Semiotic Theory and Communication Theory" in Semiotics and Communication: Signs, Codes, Cultures (1993)
Applied Anthropology and Social Theory
R. Bruce Broce, Samantha Longdin, and Bill McKinney, "CCBC Catonsville Cultural Diversity Assessment and Intervention Proposal" (1999)
R. Bruce Broce, "The Politics of Posture: Visualizing Social Theory" paper presented at AAA Conference, Philadelphia, 12/98