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Dr. Stephanie Takaragawa Monday/Wednesday 2:15-3:35pm Office: Ruth Adams Building 316 Office Hours: Monday 1-2 and Wednesday 4-5 Or by appointment

Course Overview: This course offers a general introduction to visual anthropology. Its objective is to provide a grounding in the field of visual anthropology and its relationship to . This course has a survey approach; the theoretical overview is based in a perspective that applies concepts of culture to a process of visual communication. It discusses the history of the discipline and its current trajectories analyzing the various forms of anthropological research that utilizes visual methods as a tool as well as analyzing visual artifacts as repositories of culture. Lectures, readings and coursework will review and utilize theories, methods and topics relevant to visual symbolic forms. This course will analyze anthropology both as a process, studying visual , as well as the product, visual .

Required Texts: Jay Ruby 2000. Picturing Culture: Explorations in Film and Anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. And selected articles and excerpts located online.

Web Resources: Web Archive of Visual Anthropology: http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/wava/

Class Policies: Grades are based upon class attendance, participation and successful completion of all written assignments. Grading: There are no exams in this course, rather the grades are determined by a series of short essays and response papers, and one long essay due at the end of the semester. There will be 6 short writing assignments each worth 10% of your grade. The final paper for the course is worth 25% of your grade. 15% of your grade is based on attendance and participation, it is obviously important that you attend class, but it is also important to participate. Written Assignments: are important in both content and format. Work submitted with significant organizational or mechanical problems will need to be corrected before grading-in other words, spell-check and proofread all materials before handing them in. All written work is to be typed, double-spaced, on one side of the paper only and stapled. No work will be accepted late without prior arrangement, and I am not responsible for work left in my mailbox.

1 Other: Please turn off all cellular phones and communication devices BEFORE coming to class. The following schedule lists the topics of lectures and their corresponding reading assignments for the semester. Please read assignments before the class day with which they are listed.

September 6 Course Overview: Discussion of syllabus, expectations and overview.

September 11 Early Visual Anthropology . “Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words” in Paul Hockings (ed) Principles of Visual Anthropology pp. 3-11. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003. Jay Ruby 1996 “Visual Anthropology.” In Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology, David Levinson and Melvin Ember, editors. New York: Henry Holt and Company, vol. 4:1345- 1351. http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/ruby/cultanthro.html

September 13 Visual Anthropology Faye Ginsburg “Institutionalizing the Unruly” in Ethnos 1998 63(2):173–201. Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy. Introduction in Rethinking Visual Anthropology

September 18 The Anthropology of Visual Communication : Toward an Ethnographic Semiotic (unpublished paper) http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/wava/worth/sethnosem.html

September 20 Employing Visual Methods Ruby Chapter 1 part 1

September 25 Robert Flaherty. Ruby Chapter 2. Nanook of the North part 2

September 27 Representation Ruby Chapter 8

October 2 Assimilating the Outsiders Bill Nichols “The Ethnographer’s Tale” Visual Anthropology Review Sep 1991, Vol. 7, No. 2: 31-47.

2 Martin Jay “The Disenchantment of the Eye: Surrealism and the Crisis of Occularcentrism” Visual Anthropology Review Mar 1991, Vol. 7, No. 1: 15-38.

October 4 The Crisis of Representation James Clifford 1986 “Introduction: Partial Truths,” in Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of , edited by James Clifford and George Marcus, pp. 1-26 Berkeley: California.

Barbara Myerhoff and Jay Ruby 1982 “Introduction,” in A Crack in the Mirror: Reflexive Perspectives in Anthropology, edited by Jay Ruby, pp: 1-35. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

October 9 Art and Anthropology Wyatt MacGaffey 1998 "'Magic, or As We Usually Say, Art': A Framework for Comparing European and African Art." In The Scramble for Art in Central Africa, edited by Enid Schildkrout and Curtis A. Keim, pp. 217–35. New York: Cambridge University Press.

George Marcus and Fred Myers. “The Traffic in Art and Culture: An Introduction, “ in The Traffic in Culture, edited Marcus and Myers pp. 1-51. Berkeley and London: UC Press.

October 11 Art and Anthropology Christopher Steiner “On the Creation of Value and Authenticity in the African Art Market,” in The Traffic in Culture, edited Marcus and Myers pp. 151-165. Berkeley and London: UC Press.

Christopher Steiner “Art/Anthropology/Museums: Revulsions and Revolutions,” in Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines, edited Jeremy MacClancy. pp. 399-417. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

October 16 Photography David and Judith MacDougall Photo Wallahs Lois Barclay Murphy and Gardner Murphy “Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis . and Margaret Mead.” American Anthropologist Oct 1943, Vol. 45, No. 4: 615-619.

3 Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson “On the Uses of the Camera in Anthropology,” reprinted in The : a Reader. Edited by Kelly Askew and Richard Wilk. Pp: 41-55. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

October 18 Photography Chris Pinney “The Parallel histories of anthropology and Photography” in Elizabeth Edwards Anthropology and Photography. Jay Ruby 1976 In a Pic's Eye: Interpretive Strategies for Deriving Significance and Meaning from Photographs.Afterimage, 3[9]:5-7. http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/ruby/picseye.html

October 23 The Anthropology of Museums Anna Laura Jones, "Exploding Canons: The Anthropology of Museums," Annual Review of Anthropology, v 22 (1993): 201-220. Handler, Richard 1993. “An Anthropological Definition of the Museum and Its Purpose” 17 (1): 33– 36. Michael Ames. Introduction from Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums.

October 25 Museums James Clifford “Four Northwest Coast Museums: Travel Reflections” in Karp and Levine Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Pp 212:254.

Edmund Barry Gaither “’Hey! That’s Mine’: Thoughts on Pluralism in American Museums” in Karp, Kreamer and Lavine Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Pp:56-64.

October 30 Mass Media Debra Spitulnik 1993 'Anthropology and Mass Media." In Annual Review of Anthropology 22:293-315. http://www.anthropology.emory.edu/FACULTY/ANTDS/Spitu lnik93MediaAnthro.pdf Dickey, Sara. 1997. “Anthropology and its Contributions to Studies of Mass Media” International Social Science Journal 49: 413-427.

4 November 1 Mass Media Purnima Mankekar “Entangled Spaces of Modernity: The Viewing Family, the Consuming Nation, and Television in India Visual Anthropology Review Sep 1998, Vol. 14, No. 2: 32-45.

November 6 Margaret A. Villanueva Ethnic Slurs or Free Speech? Politics of Representation in a Student Newspaper Anthropology & Education Quarterly Jun 1996, Vol. 27, No. 2: 168-185.

Mei Zhan. “Civet Cats, Fried Grasshoppers, and David Beckham's Pajamas: Unruly Bodies after SARS” in American Anthropologist Mar 2005, Vol. 107, No. 1: 31-42.

November 8 : Observations of a filmmaker Reading: David MacDougall, “Whose Story Is It?” in Visualizing Theory. Edited by Lucien Taylor. 1994 Ruby Chapter 5

November 13 Reflexivity in Film Ruby Chapter 6

November 15 The Hunters John Marshall 1957

November 20 Les Maitres Fous Jean Rouch. “The Camera and Man” in Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication Sep 1974, Vol. 1, No. 1: 37-44.

Lucien Taylor “A Conversation with Jean Rouch” in Visual Anthropology Review Mar 1991, Vol. 7, No. 1: 92-102.

Jean Claude Muller “Les Maitres Fous, Jean Rouch” in American Anthropologist Dec 1971, Vol. 73, No. 6: 1471- 1473. November 22 no class- follow your Friday Schedule

November 27 Indigenous Media The Kayapo

5 Terence Turner. “The Social Dynamics of Video Media in an Indigenous Society: The Cultural Meaning and the Personal Politics of Video–making in Kayapo Communities” in Visual Anthropology Review Sep 1991, Vol. 7, No. 2: 68-76.

November 29 Indigenous Media Ruby chapter 9

December 4 CD-Rom and Timothy Ash The Axe Fight Peter Biella Martin Ottenheimer Yanomamö Interactive: on CD-ROM Yanomamö Interactive: The Ax Fight on CD-ROM. Peter Biella, Napoleon A. Chagnon, and Gary Seaman. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1997. American Anthropologist Sep 1998, Vol. 100, No. 3: 778- 779.

Alex Caton Yanomamö Interactive: The Ax Fight Yanomamö Interactive: The Ax Fight. Biella , Peter , Napoleon A. Chagnon, and Gary Seaman. Harcourt Brace College Publishers: New York, 1997. Visual Anthropology Review Mar 2001, Vol. 17, No. 1: 90-92.

December 6 Digital Ethnographies Jay Ruby “Oak Park Project.” Critical Arts Review in press. http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/opp/

December 11 The reception of Ethnographic film and Conclusion Ruby Chapter 7

December 13 Conclusion and the Future of Visual Anthropology Ruby Chapter 10 FINAL TERM PAPER DUE

December 15-22nd Finals Week

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