ANT 315 - CULTURE THROUGH FILM AND SOUND

College of Arts & Sciences

Credit(s): 3

Anthropologists have drawn on visual representation and analysis of human experience since the inception of the discipline, and are increasingly paying attention to what can be learned through the other senses as well. This course will explore ethnographic, documentary, and cross-cultural film traditions; ethics, methods, and theories of recording and representation; ways to use sensory anthropology methods in all the subfields (archaeologists reconstructing soundscapes, for example); critical attention to the uses of cinema, television, radio and social media to disempower or empower; indigenous media; and current work in participatory video and interest in analog vs. digital technologies.