Film & Media Studies 378 - Visual Anthropology

Spring
2017
01
4.00
Deborah Gewertz
MW 02:00PM-03:20PM
Amherst College
FAMS-378-01-1617S
WEBS 217
dbgewertz@amherst.edu
ANTH-241-01,FAMS-378-01

(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.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.