VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

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Students will examine, contextualize and capture the human experience in ways that communicate deeper connections to the environment that surrounds them. We will explore audiovisual material in dialogue with selected theoretical, ethnographic, and case study readings in urban studies. These time-based works provide a powerful model for training students observational skills and conceptualizing scales of analysis. Students will gain basic skills of analyzing and producing visual ethnography to enhance their understanding of the intricate relationship between visuality and politics, and then extend into reflections over the crucial ethical questions about the author's authority as well as reciprocity with the subjects. 001994