Syllabus
Lecture with interactive elements: 10 hours
Short course presentation and discussion of its goals and deliveries.
Oculocentric culture, its origin, institutional and technical contexts. Discussion
The long history of visual anthropology in the context of visual inventions and its goals. Discussion
The short history of visual sociology and its goals. Anthropology of communication and its goals. Discussion
Methodology of visual research in media anthropology today. Discussion
Ethics in visual research. Case studies analysis. Test.
The students have to attend the lectures, read the bibliography and actively participate in discussion or analytical part of each lecture. The course ends with a short test and an individual project delivery given the last day of the course.
Bibliography:
Sarah Pink: Doing Visual Ethnography: Images, Media, and representation in Research. Sage Publications. London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi, Singapore 2007. Chpt. 1, 2, 3,4.
Gillian Rose: Visual Methodologies. An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual materials. Sage Publications. London NY New Delhi 2007. Chpt. 1, 9, 10.
Mihai Coman and Eric W. Rothenbuhler: The Promise of Media Anthropology. In: Media Anthropology. Ed. Mihai Coman. http://www.corwin.com/upm-data/5413_Rothenbuhler_Page_Proofs_Chapter1.pdf
Eric W. Rothenbuhler: Media Anthropology as a Field of Interdisciplinary Contact. URL: http://www.media-anthropology.net/rothenbuhler_interdiscontact.pdf
Ives Winkin: Anthropologie de la communication. De la théorie au terrain, Éditions De Boeck Université, Collection Culture & Communication, Bruxelles, 1996.
Course schedule:
Thu 21. June , Frid 22. June, Mon 25. June 2018
Thu 21.6. 2018 10.00 - 11.30h Jinonice - room 2071Fri 22.6. 2018 10.00 - 13.00h Jinonice - room 2071Mon 25.6. 2018 10-13h Jinonice - room 2071
Annotation
In this lecture, combined with elements of discussions and case studies (total 10 hours) students will be introduced to the historical and contemporary studies in visual anthropology, visual sociology and communication anthropology. The special accent is given to the historical panorama and visual technologies (especially photography and film and digital media) and their impact on the methodology of research, ethical problems.