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Visual Anthropology Theory View Online

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Learning Resources (4 items)

ERA Interactive Multimedia Projects:Website

CSAC Ethnographic Gallery:Website

Jay Ruby's Webpage:Webpage

Web Archive in Visual Anthropology:Webpage

Documentary and Ethnographic Film Resources (2 items)

Documentary Educational ResourcesWebpage

RAIWebpage

Journals (3 items)

Visual AnthropologyJournal

Visual Anthropology ReviewJournal

Visualizing theory: selected essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994 - Taylor, Lucien, 1994Book

Pre Course Reading (2 items)

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Documentary film: a very short introduction - Aufderheide, Patricia, 2007Book

Photography: a very short introduction - Edwards, Steve, 2006Book

Key Course Text (1 items)

Transcultural cinema - MacDougall, David, Taylor, Lucien, 1998Book | Core (Must Read) | Recommended for purchase

Key Reviews of the Discipline (2 items)

Rethinking visual anthropology - Banks, Marcus, Morphy, Howard, 1997Book

Visualizing theory: selected essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994 - Taylor, Lucien, 1994Book

Basic Texts and Overviews (21 items)

The Anthropology of media: a reader - Askew, Kelly Michelle, Wilk, Richard R., 2002Book | Suggested for student purchase

Visual methods in social research - Banks, Marcus, 2001 (repr. 2005)Book | Suggested for student purchase

Rethinking visual anthropology - Banks, Marcus, Morphy, Howard, 1997Book

Cross-cultural filmmaking: a handbook for making documentary and ethnographic filmsand videos - Barbash, Ilisa, Taylor, Lucien, 1997

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Visual anthropology: photography as a research method - Collier, John, Collier, Malcolm,1986

Book | Suggested for student purchase

Film as ethnography - Crawford, Peter Ian, Turton, David, Granada Centre for VisualAnthropology, 1992

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Fields of vision: essays in film studies, visual anthropology, and photography - Devereaux,Leslie, Hillman, Roger, 1995

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The camerawork essays: context and meaning in photography - Evans, Jessica, 1997

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Media worlds: anthropology on new terrain - Ginsburg, Faye D., Abu-Lughod, Lila, Larkin,Brian, c2002

Book | Suggested for student purchase

The ethnographer's eye: ways of seeing in anthropology - Grimshaw, Anna, 2001Book

Principles of visual anthropology - Hockings, Paul, 1995Book

Innovation in ethnographic film: from innocence to self- consciousness, 1955-85 - Loizos,Peter, 1993

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The corporeal image: film, ethnography, and the senses - MacDougall, David, 2006Book

Reflecting visual ethnography: using the camera in anthropological research - Crawford,Peter Ian, Postma, Metje, 2006

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Doing visual ethnography: images, media and representation in research - Pink, Sarah,2001

Book | Suggested for student purchase

Anthropological film and video in the 1990s - Rollwagen, Jack R., 1993Book

Picturing culture: explorations of film & anthropology - Ruby, Jay, 2000Book

Experimental ethnography - Russell, Catherine, 1999Book

Participatory video: a practical approach to using video creatively in group developmentwork - Shaw, Jackie, Robertson, Clive, 1997

Book

Visualizing theory: selected essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994 - Taylor, Lucien, 1994Book

Studying Visual Communication - Larry Gross (ed.)Webpage

Seminar Reading (335 items)

Week 1 Introduction to Visual Anthropology: Empathy, Collaboration &Intersubjectivity (17 items)

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Key Reading (5 items)

Cross-cultural filmmaking: a handbook for making documentary and ethnographic filmsand videos - Barbash, Ilisa, Taylor, Lucien, 1997

Book | Please read Chapters 1 and 2

Minima ethnographica: intersubjectivity and the anthropological project - Jackson, Michael,1998

Book | Please read Pages 1-36

Beyond the Words: The Power of Resonance - Wikan, UChapter

Rethinking visual anthropology - Banks, Marcus, Morphy, Howard, 1997Book | Please read Pages 1-35

Transcultural cinema - MacDougall, David, Taylor, Lucien, 1998Book | Please read Chapter 1

Film Screening (5 items)

How I Filmed Nanook of the North - Flaherty, RWebpage

A Canterbury TaleWebpage

The ethnographer's eye: ways of seeing in anthropology - Grimshaw, Anna, 2001Book | Please read Chapter 3, Pages 44-56

Documentary: a history of the non-fiction film - Barnouw, Erik, 1993Book | Please read Pages 33-51

A revisit to Injukjuak to examine how life has changed since Flaherty filmed in 1922 -Claude Massot, 2004

Document | Available from department

Further Reading (7 items)

Anthropological visions: some notes on visual and textual authority - Hastrup, KChapter

The Visual in Anthropology - MacDougall, DChapter

Visual anthrpology in a discipline of words - Mead, MChapter

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On the Use of the Camera in Anthropology - Mead, M and Bateson, GChapter

The interpretation of ritual: reflections from film on anthropological practice - Morphy, HJournal

Anthropology and Mass Media - Spitulnik, D, 1993Article

In anthropology, the image can never have the last say: the ninth annual GDAT debate,heldin the University of Manchester on 6th December 1997 - Watson, C. William, Wade,Peter, Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory, 1998

Book

Week 2 Visual and Textual Reflexivity (29 items)

Key Reading (6 items)

Transcultural cinema - MacDougall, David, Taylor, Lucien, 1998Book | Please read Chapter 2, Pages 61-92

Ways of seeing - Berger, John, 2008Book

The Modernist Sensibility in Recent Ethnographic Writing and the Cinematic Metaphor ofMontage - Marcus, G

Chapter

Identifying versus identifying with the 'Other': reflections on the siting of the subject inanthropological discourse - Bowman, G

Chapter

Corpore Obscuro: Meditation on the Dead in Thailand - Klima, AChapter

The funeral casino: meditation, massacre, and exchange with the dead in Thailand - Klima,Alan, 2002

Book

Film Screening (9 items)

When the moon waxes red: representation, gender, and cultural politics - Trinh, T. Minh-Ha, 1991

Book | Please read Chapter 2, Pages 29-50

Trinh T. Minh-Ha Observed: Anthropology and Others - Moore, HChapter

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Framer framed - Trinh, T. Minh-Ha, 1992Book | Please read Chapter 3 Pages 95-105 and Chapter 4 Pages 111-133

Woman, native, other: writing postcoloniality and feminism - Trinh, T. Minh-Ha, 1989Book

Film as Discourse: The Invention of Anthropological Realities - Crawford, PChapter

The Third Subject: Perspectives on Visual Anthropology - Wright, C, 1998Article

The cinematic griot: the ethnography of Jean Rouch - Stoller, Paul, 1992Book

Embodying colonial memories: spirit possession, power, and the Hauka in West Africa -Stoller, Paul, 1995

Book

Grizzly Man - Herzog, 2005Webpage

Further Reading (14 items)

First person films and video DiariesThis is a relatively new area of study so you are recommended to goout and find material online and in media journals. For a start see: (2items)

Girls on Film: Video Diaries as 'Auto-ethnographies' - Pini, MWebpage

'Take back the tube!' The discursive construction of amateur film and video making -Buckingham, D, Pini, M & Willett, R, 2007

Article

Image and Text (12 items)

Visual methods in social research - Banks, Marcus, 2001 (repr. 2005)Book | Please read Chapter 1 & 2

Illuminations - Benjamin, Walter, Zorn, Harry, Arendt, Hannah, 1999Book | Please read Pages 211-235

The ambiguity of the photograph - Berger, JChapter

On Ethnographic Authority - Clifford, J

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The Visual Image: its Place in Communication - Gombrich, EChapter

The representation of things and people - Hochberg, JChapter

Transcultural Cinema - MacDougall, DChapter

'What is an image?' - Mitchell, WJTChapter

Savage theory: cinema as modern magic - Moore, Rachel O., 2000Book

Course in general linguistics - Saussure, Ferdinand de, Bally, Charles, Sechehaye, Albert,Riedlinger, Albert, 1986

Book | Please read Pages 65-78 and 110-125

Physiognomic aspects of Visual Worlds - Taussig, MChapter

'Photography: theories of realism and convention - Wright, TChapter

Week 3 Sound-scapes and the Senses (23 items)

Key Reading (7 items)

Cross-cultural filmmaking: a handbook for making documentary and ethnographic filmsand videos - Barbash, Ilisa, Taylor, Lucien, 1997

Book | Please read Chapter 4

A Rainforest Acoustemology - Feld, SChapter

Doing Anthropology in Sound - Feld, S and Brenneis, D, 2004Journal

Alien Tongues - Samuels, DChapter

The Ethics of Listening: Cassette-Sermon Audition in Contemporary Egypt - Hirschkind, C,2001

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Technologies of the Voice: FM Radio, Telephone, and the Nepali Diaspora in Kathmandu -Kunreuther, L, 2006

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Radio Texture: Between Self and Others - Tacchi, JChapter

Sound Listening (3 items)

Voices of the Rainforest - 1991Webpage

Rainforest Soundwalks - PalombiniWebpage

The sorrow of the lonely and the burning of the dancers - Schieffelin, Edward L., 1976Book

Film Screening (7 items)

Ongka's Big Moka: The Kawelka of Papua New Guinea - 1974Document | Available from department

Cowboy and Maria in Town - 1991Document | Available from department

Cannibal Tours - O'Rourke, 1988Document | Available from department

The Making of Cannibal ToursWebpage

The Gospel According to the Papuans - 1999Document | Available from department

Amandla: A Revolution in Four Part Harmony - 2002Document | Available from department

Baraka - Fricke, 1992Document | Available from department

Additional Reading (6 items)

Noise: the political economy of music - Attali, Jacques, c1985Book

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The corporeal image: film, ethnography, and the senses - MacDougall, David, 2006Book | Please read Chapter 2

The Screaming - Seremetakis, NChapter

An Andean Cosmology - Classen, CChapter

An Anthropologist Underwater: Immersive Soundscapes, Submarine Cyborgs, andTransductive Ethnography - Helmreich, S, 2007

Journal

The auditory culture reader - Back, Les, Bull, Michael, 2003Book

Week 4 Photography and Sociality (45 items)

Key Reading (6 items)

Visual methods in social research - Banks, Marcus, 2001 (repr. 2005)Book | Please read Chapter 1, Pages 1-12

Beyond the Boundary: a consideration of the expressive in photography and anthropology- Edwards, E

Chapter

The Gaze of Western Humanism - Faris, JChapter | Please also read Chapter 7

The parallel histories of anthropology and photography - Pinney, CChapter

Yoruba Photography: How Yoruba See Themselves - Sprague, SFChapter

The ambiguity of the photograph - Berger, JChapter

Film Screening (1 items)

'Photo wallahs:' An Encounter with Photography - MacDougall, D, 1992Journal

Further Reading (3 items)

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Another way of telling - Berger, John, Mohr, Jean, 1995Book

Malinowski's Kiriwina: fieldwork photography, 1915-1918 - Young, Michael W., Malinowski,Bronislaw, 1998

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On photography - Sontag, Susan, 1979Book

Philosophy of Photography (10 items)

'The photographic message' and 'The rhetoric of image' - Barthes, RChapter

Camera lucida: reflections on photography - Barthes, Roland, 1982Book

Photography, a middle-brow art - Bourdieu, Pierre, Boltanski, Luc, 1990Book

Thinking photography - Burgin, Victor, 1982Book

The Gaze of Western Humanism - Faris, JChapter | Please also read Chapter 7

Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989 - Grundberg, Andy, 1990Book

The lexical spaces of eye-spy - Pinney, CChapter

On the invention of photographic meaning - Sekula, AChapter

The burden of representation: essays on photographies and histories - Tagg, John, 1988Book

Photography: theories of realism and convention - Wright, TChapter

Documentary & Analytical Photography (Photography andEthnography) (17 items)

Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words - Mead, MChapter

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On the Use of the Camera in Anthropology - Mead, M and Bateson, G, 1977Article

Anthropological Uses of the Camera - Im Thurn, EF, 1893Journal

To Restore the Events?: On the Ethnography of Malinowski's Photography - Damon, FH,2000

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Freezing Time: Margaret Mead's Diagnostic Photography - Lakoff, A, 1996Journal

Balinese character: a photographic analysis - Bateson, Gregory, Mead, Margaret, 1942Book

Margaret Mead & Gregory Bateson in Bali: their use of photography and film - Jacknis, IJournal

The Balinese people: a reinvestigation of character - Jensen, Gordon D., Suryani, Luh Ketut,1992

Book

Photography and anthropological research: three case studies - Chiozzi, PArticle | Item not yet held in Library

Photography & visual anthropology - Collier, JChapter

Visual anthropology: photography as a research method - Collier, John, Collier, Malcolm,1986

Book

Anthropology and photography 1860-1920 - Edwards, Elizabeth, Royal AnthropologicalInstitute, London, 1992

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The visual essay and sociology - Grady, J, 1991Journal | Item not yet held in Library

The visual ethnographic narrative - Harper, D, 1987Journal | Item not yet held in Library

The parallel histories of anthropology and photography - Pinney, CChapter

Photography as a research tool - Norman, W, 1991Journal | Item not yet held in Library

The sociological imagination and documentary still photography - Suchar, CArticle | Item not yet held in Library

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Photographic Cultures and Indigenous Uses of Photography (8 items)

Edmund Carpenter: Explorations in Media and Anthropology - Prins, H and Bishop, J, 2001Journal

Self and Accessory in Gambian Studio Photography - Buckley, L, 2000Journal

Family photographs: a visual heritage - Geffroy, Y, 1990Journal | Item not yet held in Library

Photo hierarchicus: signs and mirrors in Indian photography - MacDougall, D, 1992Journal | Item not yet held in Library

Montage, doubling and the mouth of god - Pinney, CChapter

Camera Indica: the social life of Indian photographs - Pinney, Christopher, 1997Book

How I See the Yoruba See Themselves - Sprague, S, 1978Article

Yoruba Photography: How Yoruba See Themselves - Sprague, SFChapter

Week 5 Observational Film and the Power of the Camera (42 items)

Key Reading (7 items)

Observational Cinema - Young, CChapter

Transcultural cinema - MacDougall, David, Taylor, Lucien, 1998Book | Please read Chapter 7

Ethnographic film: failure and promise - MacDougall, D, 1978Article

Transcultural cinema - MacDougall, David, Taylor, Lucien, 1998Book | Please read Chapter 8

The ethnographer's eye: ways of seeing in anthropology - Grimshaw, Anna, 2001Book | Please read Chapter 4, Pages 57-68

Which Films are the Ethnographic Films - Banks, MChapter

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Representing reality: issues and concepts in documentary - Nichols, Bill, 1991Book | Please read Chapter 7

Film Screening (7 items)

Documentary film: a very short introduction - Aufderheide, Patricia, 2007Book | Please read Page 49

Titicut FolliesWebpage

To Live With Herds - MacDougall, 1972Document | Available from department

Innovation in ethnographic film: from innocence to self- consciousness, 1955-85 - Loizos,Peter, 1993

Book | Please read Pages 93-100

Transcultural cinema - MacDougall, David, Taylor, Lucien, 1998Book | Please read Chapter 9

Wedding Camels - MacDougallDocument | Available from department

The Kalasha: rites of spring - Sheppard & Parkes, 1990Document | Available from department

Additional Readings (28 items)

Documentary (14 items)

Documentary: a history of the non-fiction film - Barnouw, Erik, 1993Book | Please read Pages 31-71

Nonfiction film: a critical history - Barsam, Richard Meran, 1992Book

The cinema and social science: a survey of ethnographic and sociological films - DeHeusch, L, 1988

Journal | Item not yet held in Library

The ethnographer's eye: ways of seeing in anthropology - Grimshaw, Anna, 2001Book | Please read Pages 57-68

Narratives: the guilty secret of ethnographic documentary? - Henley, PChapter

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The origins of observational cinema: conversations with Colin Young - Henley, PArticle | Item not yet held in Library

Imagining reality: the Faber book of documentary - Macdonald, Kevin, Cousins, Mark, 1996Book | Please read excerpts by Flaherty (36-42), Vertov (50-55), Gierson et al (93-125)

and Rouch (264-270)

Representing reality: issues and concepts in documentary - Nichols, Bill, 1991Book | Please read Chapter 2, Pages 32-75

Directing the documentary - Rabiger, Michael, c2004Book | Please read Chapter 2, Pages 12-32

Robert J. Flaherty: a biography - Rotha, Paul, Ruby, Jay, 1983Book

Framing Science: the making of a BBC documentary - Silverstone, R, 1985Document | Out of Print and not held by the Library

Manufacturing Vision: Kino-Eye, The Man with a Movie Camera, and the Perceptualreconstruction of Social Identity - Tomas, D

Chapter

Claiming the real: the Griersonian documentary and its legitimations - Winston, Brian,British Film Institute, 1995

Book | Especially Chapters 29-31

Observational Cinema - Young, CChapter

Ethnographic Film (14 items)

Memories of the origins of ethnographic film - Engelbrecht, Beate, 2007Book

Which Films are Ethnographic Films - Banks, MChapter

The history of ethnographic film - De Brigard, EChapter

Television and the mediation of culture: issues in British ethnographic film - Ginsburg, F,1992

Journal

The ethnographer's eye: ways of seeing in anthropology - Grimshaw, Anna, 2001Book | Please read Chapter 3, Pages 44-56

Ethnographic films and the politics of difference - Harvey, P, 1993Journal

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British Ethnographic Film - Henley, P, 1985Article

The cinema of John Marshall - Marshall, John, Ruby, Jay, 1993Book

The film elicitation technique - Krebs, SChapter

Innovation in ethnographic film: from innocence to self- consciousness, 1955-85 - Loizos,Peter, 1993

Book

How to look at us looking at the Yanamamo looking at us - Michaels, EChapter

Representing reality: issues and concepts in documentary - Nichols, Bill, 1991Book | Please read Chapter 7, Pages 201-228

Anthropological filmmaking: anthropological perspectives on the production of film andvideo for general public audiences - Rollwagen, Jack R., 1988

Book | Especially Chapters by Collier, Faris and Rollwagen

Speaking for, speaking about, speaking with, or speaking alongside - Ruby, J, 1991Journal

Week 6 Participatory Film: Jean Rouch and the MacDougalls (25 items)

Key Reading (7 items)

The ethnographer's eye: ways of seeing in anthropology - Grimshaw, Anna, 2001Book | Please read Chapters 6 and 7

The camera and man - Rouch, JChapter

'The Life That We Don't Want': Using Participatory Video in Researching Violence -Wheeler, J, 2009

Journal

Beyond observational cinema - MacDougall, DChapter

Transcultural cinema - MacDougall, David, Taylor, Lucien, 1998Book | Please read Chapter 4

Transcultural cinema - MacDougall, David, Taylor, Lucien, 1998Book | Please read Chapter 6

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From ethnography to metaphor: recent films from David and Judith MacDougall - Myers, F,1988

Journal

Film Screening (1 items)

An example of PV from Insight MediaDocument

Participatory Video (5 items)

Insights into Participatory Video: A Handbook for the Field - Lunch, N & Lunch, C, 2006Webpage | See also Page 122 for further reading

Participatory video: a practical approach to using video creatively in group developmentwork - Shaw, Jackie, Robertson, Clive, 1997

Book

Pedagogy of the oppressed - Freire, Paulo, 1996Book

Ideas for development - Chambers, Robert, 2005Book

More Information on Participatory VideoWebpage

Further Reading (12 items)

Jean Rouch (6 items)

The predicament of culture: twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art - Clifford,James, 1988

Book | Please read Chapters 3 and 4

Anthropology - reality - cinema: the films of Jean Rouch - Eaton, Mick, 1979Book

Innovation in ethnographic film: from innocence to self- consciousness, 1955-85 - Loizos,Peter, 1993

Book | Please read Chapter 3, Pages 45-66

L'autre et lesacre

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:surrealisme,cinema, ethnologie - Thompson, C. W., French Institute, 1995

Book

The cinematic griot: the ethnography of Jean Rouch - Stoller, Paul, 1992Book

Special Issue on Jean Rouch - 1989Article

David & Judith MacDougall (6 items)

Beyond observational cinema - MacDougall, DChapter

Unpriveliged Camera Style - MacDougall, DChapter

Whose story is it? - MacDougall, DChapter

Whose story is it? - MacDougall, DChapter

Conversations with anthropological film-makers: David MacDougall - Grimshaw, Anna,Papastergiadis, Nikos, 1995

Journal

Re-framing ethnographic film: a 'conversation with David and Judith MacDougall - Barbash,I and Taylor, L

Chapter

Week 7 Reading Week

Week 8 Narrative and Soaps (34 items)

Key Reading (8 items)

Innovation in ethnographic film: from innocence to self- consciousness, 1955-85 - Loizos,Peter, 1993

Book | Please read Chapters 6 and 7

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Anthropology on television: what next? - Turton, DChapter

The ethnographer's eye: ways of seeing in anthropology - Grimshaw, Anna, 2001Book | Please read Chapter 8

The objects of soap opera: Egyptian soap opera and the cultural politics of modernity -Abu-Lughod, L

Chapter

The objects of soap opera: Egyptian soap opera and the cultural politics of modernity -Abu-Lughod, L

Chapter

Picturing culture: explorations of film & anthropology - Ruby, Jay, 2000Book | Please read Chapter 3

The cinema of Robert Gardner - Barbash, Ilisa, Taylor, Lucien, 2007Book

First exits from observational realism: narrative experiments in recent ethnographic film -Loizos, P

Chapter | Discusses (1) From the Heart of the World (2) Cannibal Tours (3) NiceColoured Girls (4) Over the Threshold (5) Polka

Film Screening (10 items)

Picturing culture: explorations of film & anthropology - Ruby, Jay, 2000Book | Please read Chapter 3

The cinema of Robert Gardner - Barbash, Ilisa, Taylor, Lucien, 2007Book

Forest of Bliss - Gardner, 1986Document | Available from department

Pipe Dreams - Goodale, D, 2000Document | Available from department

First Contact - Connolly, B and Anderson, R, 1983Document | Available from department

Joe Leahy's Neighbours - Connolly, B and Anderson, R, 1988Document | Available from department

Black Harvest - Connolly, B and Anderson, R, 1991Document | Available from department

Fantastic Invasion - Evans, N, 1991Document | Available from department. Compare with Meet the Natives

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Disappearing World - Tv SeriesDocument | Available from department

Under The Sun - Tv SeriesDocument | Available from department

Anthropology on TV (4 items)

Television and anthropology: an unhappy marriage? - Banks, M, 1994Article

Anthropology on television: what next? - Turton, DChapter

Granada Television's Disappearing World series: an appraisal - Loizos, PChapter

Fields of vision: essays in film studies, visual anthropology, and photography - Devereaux,Leslie, Hillman, Roger, 1995

Book | Please read Chapter by Devereaux 'Experience, re-presentation and film'

Soaps and Docu Soaps (12 items)

Finding a place for Islam: Egyptian television serials and the national interest -Abu-Lughod, L, 1993

Journal

The objects of soap opera: Egyptian soap opera and the cultural politics of modernity -Abu-Lughod, L

Chapter

The objects of soap opera: Egyptian soap opera and the cultural politics of modernity -Abu-Lughod, L

Chapter

Egyptian Melodrama - Abu-Lughod, LChapter

Dallas and the ideology of mass culture - Ang, IChapter

Watching Dallas: soap opera and the melodramatic imagination - Ang, Ien, 1985Book

Mass culture and modernism in Egypt - Armbrust, Walter, 1996Book | Please read Chapter 7

Soap opera and tele-documentary: culture and the domestic sphere in comtemporary India

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- Das, VChapter

Prime-time society: an anthropological analysis of television and culture - Kottak, ConradPhillip, 1990

Book

Globo village: television in Brazil - Mader, RChapter

A Marshall plan of the Mind: the political economy of a Kazakh soap opera - Mandel, RChapter

The Young and the Restless in Trinidad: a case of the local and the global in massconsumption - Miller, D

Chapter

Week 9 Indigenous Media and Community TV (37 items)

Key Reading (6 items)

Screen memories: resignifying the traditional in Indigenous Media - Ginsburg, FChapter

'Anthropology and Mass Media', 'Emergence of Indigenous Media' - Spitulnik, D, 1993Article

Imperfect Media and the Poetics of Indigenous Video in Latin America - Salazar, JF &Cordova, A

Chapter

The Story We Now Want To Hear Is Not Ours to Tell: Relinquishing Control OverRepresentation: Toward Sharing Visual Communication Skills with The Yanomami - Asch, T,Cardozo, JI, Caballero, H & Bortoli, J, 1991

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Marketing Alterity - Moore, ROChapter

Hundreds Shot at Aboriginal Community: ABC Makes TV Documentary at Yuendumu -Michaels, E

Chapter

Film Screening (8 items)

Defiant images: the Kayapo appropriation of video - Turner, T, 1992Article

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Representing, resisting, rethinking: historical transformations of Kayapo culture - Turner, TChapter

Anthropological transparency: film, representation and politics - Faris, JChapter

A response to Terence Turner - Faris, J, 1993Article

Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video - Turner, TChapter

37 Uses of a Dead Sheep - 2006Document | Available from department

The Importance of Being Elegant - Amponsah, G, 2004Document | Available from department

Babakiueria - 1988Document | Available from department

Additional Reading (5 items)

The latest in reality TV? Maori Television stakes a claim on the world stage - Ginsburg, Fand Strickland, A, 2005

Journal

Culture/Media: a (mild) polemic - Ginsburg, F, 1994Article

Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples - Smith, Linda Tuhiwai,1999

Book

Visual media and the Primitive Perplex - Prins, HEChapter

Through Navajo eyes: an exploration in film communication and anthropology - Worth, S.,1972

Book

Aboriginal Broadcasting (7 items)

Singing the electric: aboriginal television in Australia - Batty, PChapter

Indigenous media: Faustian contract or global village - Ginsburg, F, 1991Journal

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Mediating Culture - Ginsburg, FChapter

Broadcasting in Aboriginal Australia: one mob, one voice, one land - Meadows, MChapter

Aboriginal content - who's got it, who needs it? - Michaels, E, 1991Journal | Item not yet held in Library

TV Tribes - Michaels, E, 1982Webpage

In the Belly of the Beast: Eric Michaels and Indigenous Media - Ruby, JChapter

Kayapo Video (5 items)

Representing, resisting, rethinking: historical transformations of Kayapo culture - Turner, TChapter

Anthropological transparency: film, representation and politics - Faris, JChapter

Defiant images: the Kayapo appropriation of video - Turner, T, 1992Article

A response to Terence Turner - Faris, J, 1993Article

Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video - Turner, TChapter

Latin America (4 items)

Imperfect Media and the Poetics of Indigenous Video in Latin America (1985-2005) -Salazar, JF & Cordova, A

Chapter

Making Culture Visible: the mediated construction of a Mapuche Nation in Chile - Salazar,JF

Chapter

Indigenous People and the Communication Rights Agenda: A Global Perspective - Salazar,JF

Chapter

Indigenous Peoples and the Cultural Constructions of information and communicationtechnology in Latin America - Salazar, JF

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Article | Item not yet held in Library

European Minority Media (2 items)

Channels of resistance: global television and local empowerment - Dowmunt, Tony, BritishFilm Institute, Channel Four (Great Britain), 1993

Book

Ethnic minority media: an international perspective - Riggins, Stephen Harold, 1992Book

Week 10 World Cinemas, Television Cultures and Publics (49 items)

Key Reading (9 items)

Indian Films and Nigerian Lovers: Media and the Creation of Parallel Modernities - Larkin, B, 1997

Article

The Tongan tradition of going to the movies - Hahn, E, 1994Journal

The Tongan tradition of going to the movies - Hahn, EChapter

Presenting Rotuma to the World: The Making of The Land Has Eyes - Howard, A, 2006Journal

Epic Contests: Television and religious identity in India - Mankenar, PChapter

Inside family viewing: ethnographic research on television's audiences - Lull, James, 1990Book | Especially Chapters 1 & 6

Feature films as cultural documents - Weakland, JChapter

Rambo's Wife Saves the day - Kulick, D & Wilson, MChapter

'It's Destroying a Whole Generation': Television and Moral Discourse in Belize - Wilk, RRChapter

Film Screening (9 items)

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The Land Has EyesWebsite

Presenting Rotuma to the World: The Making of The Land Has Eyes - Howard, A, 2006Journal

Indigenous Knowledge and Academic Imperialism - Hereniko, VArticle | Out of Print and not held by the Library

Inside out: literature, cultural politics, and identity in the new Pacific - Hereniko, Vilsoni,Wilson, Rob, 1999

Book

Don't cry, mama: a three-act play - Hereniko, Vilsoni Tausie, 1977Book

Atanarjuat the fast runner - Kunuk, Zacharius, 2001Audio-visual document

AtanarjuatWebpage

Ten Canoes - 2006Webpage | Available from department

Pathfinder - 1987Document | Available from department

Additional Reading (9 items)

Reading Lost: perspectives on a hit television show - Pearson, Roberta, 2009Book | Especially Chapters XI and XIII

Savage theory: cinema as modern magic - Moore, Rachel O., 2000Book

Picturing culture: explorations of film & anthropology - Ruby, Jay, 2000Book | Please read Chapter 10 on Intercultural Cinema

Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism - Anderson,Benedict R. O'G., 1991

Book

Third World film making and the West - Armes, Roy, 1987Book

Toward a third world politics: seeing through fiction and film in the Iranian cultural area -Fischer, M, 1984

Journal | Item not yet held in Library

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Hollywood, the dream factory: an anthropologist looks at the movie-makers -Powdermaker, H., 1951

Book

Hollywood, the Dream Factory - Powdermaker, HChapter | Extract only

An Indonesian film called Primitif - Sen, K, 1990Article

Africa (1 items)

Nollywood: The Video Phenomenon in Nigeria - Barrot, P (ed), 2008Document | Out of Print and not held by the Library

Pacific (3 items)

Presenting Rotuma to the World: The Making of The Land Has Eyes - Howard, A, 2006Journal

The Land Has EyesWebsite

RotumaWebsite

Latin America (3 items)

Magical reels: a history of cinema in Latin America - King, John, 2000Book | Especially Chapters 3 & 5

Questions of third cinema - Pines, Jim, Willemen, Paul, 1989Book

Glauber Rocha: introduction - Rocha, GJournal

South Asia (6 items)

Indian cinema: pleasure and popularity - Thomas, R, 1985Article

National identity in Indian popular cinema, 1947-1987 - Chakravarty, Sumita S., 1993Book

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Cinema and the urban poor in south India - Dickey, Sara, 1993Book

The mass media and village life: an Indian study - Hartman, P, 1989Document | Out of Print and not held by the Library

And Yet My Heart Is Still Indian: the Bombay Film Industry and the (H)Indianization ofHollywood - Ganti, T

Chapter

The Diaspora comes home: Disciplining desire in DDLJ - Uberoi, P, 1998Journal | Item not yet held in Library

TV Ethnography (9 items)

Television, ethnicity and cultural change - Gillespie, Marie, 1995Book

The National Picture: Thai Media and Cultural Identity - Hamilton, AChapter

Prime-time society: an anthropological analysis of television and culture - Kottak, ConradPhillip, 1990

Book

World families watch television - Lull, James, 1988Book | Especially Chapters 5 & 6

Inside family viewing: ethnographic research on television's audiences - Lull, James, 1990Book | Especially Chapters 1 & 6

China turned on: television, reform, and resistance - Lull, James, 1991Book

Epic Contests: Television and religious identity in India - Mankenar, PChapter

Television, audiences and cultural studies - Morley, David, 1992Book

Consuming technologies: media and information in domestic spaces - Silverstone, Roger,Hirsch, Eric, 1994

Book

Week 11 Film, Development and Medical Anthropology (17 items)

Key Reading (6 items)

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A Marshall plan of the Mind: the political economy of a Kazakh soap opera - Mandel, RChapter

Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer: an ethnographic film monograph - Connor, L, Asch, P &Asch, T, 1986

Document | Out of Print and not held by the Library (Please see Chapters 3 and 5)

Anthropology, Clinical Pathology and The Electronic Fetal Monitor: Lessons From The Heart- Bassett, K, 1996

Article

Applied Visual Anthropology: Social Intervention, Visual Methodologies and AnthropologicalTheory - Pink, S, 2004

Journal | See other authors in this special edition, particularly Flores and Stadhams

Applying Visual Research Patients Teaching Physicians Through Visual Illness Narratives -Chalfen, R & Rich, M, 2004

Journal

Physiognomic Aspects of Visual Worlds - Taussig, M, 1992Journal

Film Screening (11 items)

Celso and CoraWebpage

Interpreting Ethnographic Film: An Exchange About Celso and Cora - Wilson, M and Kildea,G, 1986

Article

Celso and Cora: An Appreciation - Brown, L, 1985Article

Innovation in ethnographic film: from innocence to self- consciousness, 1955-85 - Loizos,Peter, 1993

Book | Please read Chapter 4

Everyday politics in the Philippines: class and status relations in a Central Luzon village -Kerkvliet, Benedict J. Tria, 1990

Book

Manila, 1900-41: social change in a late colonial metropolis - Doeppers, D F., 1984Book

The 1984 RAI Film Prize - Henley, P, 1984Journal

Balinese Trance Seance/Jero on Jero: A Balinese Seance Observed - Asch and Asch, 1980Document | Available from department

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Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer: an ethnographic film monograph - Connor, L, Asch, P &Asch, T, 1986

Document | Out of Print and not held by the Library ( Please see Chapters 3 and 5)

Innovation in ethnographic film: from innocence to self- consciousness, 1955-85 - Loizos,Peter, 1993

Book | Please read Chapter 2

The Unbounded Self: Balinese Therapy in Theory and Practice - Connor, LChapter

Week 12 Advocacy and Activism (17 items)

Key Reading (4 items)

Strategic Distribution: Reaching Key Audiences in Innovative Ways - Harding, TChapter

The Convergence of Applied, Practicising, and Public Anthropology in the 21st Century -Lamphere, L, 2004

Article

The Primacy of the Ethical: Propositions for a Militant Anthropology - Scheper-Hughes, N,1995

Journal

Anthropology as a reality show and as co-production: Internal relations between theoryand activism - Turner, T

Article | Special issue in honour of Terry Turner

Film Screening (7 items)

Maps and dreams: Indians and the British Columbia frontier - Brody, Hugh, 2002Book

The other side of Eden: hunter-gatherers, farmers and the shaping of the world - Brody,Hugh, 2001

Book

Water - Mehta, Deepa, 2005Audio-visual document

From The Heart Of The World: The Elder Borther's Warning - 1990Document | Available from department

Eco-StormWebsite

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Wipe Off The Map - Short Documentary From Gaza CityWebsite

The Disappearing Of Tuvalu: Trouble In Paradise - 2004Webpage | Also available from department

Additional Reading (6 items)

Toward an anthropological theory of value: the false coin of our own dreams - Graeber,David, 2001

Book

Fragments of an anarchist anthropology - Graeber, David, 2004Book

The future of visual anthropology: engaging the senses - Pink, Sarah, 2006Book

Visual interventions: applied visual anthropology - Pink, Sarah, 2007Book

Video for change: a guide for advocacy and activism - Gregory, Sam, 2005Book

The Video Activist Handbook - Harding, Thomas, 2001Book

ADDITIONAL READING ON OTHER THEMES IN VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY (52 items)

Film Theory (8 items)

The major film theories: an introduction - Andrew, Dudley, 1976Book

Concepts in film theory - Andrew, Dudley, 1984Book | Especially Chapters 2-4

Film Studies and Grand Theory - Bordwell, DChapter

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema - Mulvey, L, 1975Article

Visual and other pleasures - Mulvey, Laura, 1989Book

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Movies and methods: an anthology - Nichols, Bill, c1976Book

Film as social practice - Turner, Graeme, 1999Book

Feature films as cultural documents - Weakland, JChapter

Museology and Cultures of Display (8 items)

On ethnographic surrealism - Clifford, J, 1981Journal

The predicament of culture: twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art - Clifford,James, 1988

Book | Please read Chapter 4

Routes: travel and translation in the late twentieth century - Clifford, James, 1997Book

Raw histories: photographs, anthropology and museums - Edwards, Elizabeth, 2001Book | Please read Chapter 8

The heritage industry: Britain in a climate of decline - Hewison, Robert, [1987]Book

Exhibiting cultures: the poetics and politics of museum display - Karp, Ivan, Lavine, StevenD., date of publication not identified

Book | Especially Parts 1 & 5

Heritage from the other side of the glass case - Merriman, N, 1989Article

Objects and others: essays on museums and material culture - Stocking, George W., 1985Book

Visual Anthropology and the Anthropology of Art (15 items)

The love of art: European art museums and their public - Bourdieu, Pierre, Darbel, Alain,Schnapper, Dominique, 1990

Book

The predicament of culture: twentieth-century ethnography, literature, and art - Clifford,James, 1988

Book | Especially Chapter 4

On ethnographic surrealism - Clifford, J, 1981

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Anthropology, art, and aesthetics - Coote, Jeremy, Shelton, Anthony, 1992Book | Please read Introduction

Art and anthropology - Firth, RChapter

Primitive Art & Society - Forge, A, 1973Document | Out of Print and not held by the Library

The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology - Gell, AChapter

The art of anthropology: essay and diagrams - Gell, Alfred, Hirsch, Eric, 1999Book | Please read Chapter 5

Art and agency: an anthropological theory - Gell, Alfred, 1998Book

Anthropology, Art and Contest - MacClancy, JChapter

Ancestral connections: art and an Aboriginal system of knowledge - Morphy, Howard, 1991Book

The Anthropology of Art - Morphy, HChapter

Walbiri iconography: graphic representation and cultural symbolism in a centralAustraliansociety - Munn, N D., [1973]

Book

Double vision: art histories and colonial histories in the Pacific - Thomas, Nicholas, Losche,Diane, Newell, Jennifer, 1999

Book

Collecting and nationality in the anthropology of art - Thomas, NChapter

Mass Culture and Media Studies (10 items)

The schema of mass culture - Adorno, TChapter

Culture industry reconsidered - Adorno, TChapter

The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction - Benjamin, WChapter

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Apocalyptic and integrated intellectuals: mass communications and theories of massculture - Eco, U

Chapter

The rediscovery of 'ideology': return of the oppressed in media studies - Hall, SChapter

Hiding in the light: on images and things - Hebdige, Dick, 1988Book

After the great divide: modernism, mass culture, postmodernism - Huyssen, Andreas,American Council of Learned Societies, 1986

Book | Especially Chapters 1 & 3

Coming of age in Birmingham - Lave, J et al, 1992Article

Whose Cultural Studies? - Rosaldo, RChapter

'Culture', 'Hegemony' and 'Masses' - Williams, RChapter

Postmodern Culture (11 items)

Global ethnoscapes: notes for a transnational anthropology - Appadurai, AChapter

The order of simulacra - Baudrillard, JChapter

Debating Muslims: cultural dialogues in postmodernity and tradition - Fischer, Michael M J,Abedi, Mehdi, 1990

Book | Please read Chapter 7

Modernity: an incomplete project - Habermas, JChapter

The condition of postmodernity: an enquiry into the origins of cultural change - Harvey,David, 1989

Book

Postmodernism or the cultural logic of late capitalism - Jameson, FChapter

Postmodernism or the cultural logic of late capitalism - Jameson, F, 1984Article

The medium is the message - McLuhan, MChapter

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Worlds apart: modernity through the prism of the local - Miller, Daniel, Association ofSocial Anthropologists of the Commonwealth, 1995

Book | Please read Introduction and Chapter 7

Picturing culture: explorations of film & anthropology - Ruby, Jay, 2000Book

Life on the screen: identity in the age of the Internet - Turkle, Sherry, 1996Book | See Pages 177-209 and 255-269

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