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VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY - 54.317 Instructor: Brian J. Given PLEASE CHECK THE COURSE NEWSGROUP WEEKLY FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS AND DISCUSSION In part, this is an ethnographic film course, tracing the development of this important anthropological medium from its earliest roots to the present. Visual anthropology is by no means limited the ethnographic film but rather includes the study of the full range of media and the relationship between media and culture. We will pay attention to still photography, advertising, propaganda and issues of visual discourse and the Internet environment, for example. The course is also, to some extent, about central methodological and theoretical issues in anthropology. Student Assignments and Evaluation Test and assignment dates Please note that the time to begin work on your paper or project is now.
You must meet your assignment deadline. It will be much easier to discuss your work with
me early in the term than to wait until many other students need to see me.
Please
feel free to visit me in my office to discuss your work! 2. The term paper or approved project is due November 28. Please note: written assignments should be handed to me in class or placed in the "essay drop slot" outside the Department of Sociology and Anthropology main office, B-742, 7th floor Loeb bldg. Please do not shove them under my door. No written assignment will be accepted unless the student retains a photocopy of that assignment. Do not hand in your only copy please! A Note About Plagiarism and Duplicate Assignments I shouldn't have to include the following passage. I do know that most of my students
have far too much self-respect to cheat, but it is possible to plagiarize without
intending to cheat - please read the following carefully. Your essays and assignments must
be your work, informed by the work of other scholars, whom we cite in order to give
them credit for their contributions. We often summarize the work of others but we are
careful to cite them properly so that we do not appear to be claiming their work as our
own. Whenever you use somebody else's ideas or data please take care to cite them properly
- to fail to do so leaves you open to charges of plagiarism. Similarly, any collaboration
with other students on assignments should be cleared with the instructor in advance. Where
apparently duplicate papers are submitted, both parties are vulnerable to charges of
plagiarism. If you aren't sure, please check with me! Check the department of Sociology
and Anthropology style guide for instructions for appropriate citation of the work of
others. Review Week Schedule I will be available during my office hours during review week. Students with questions should see me then. If I am not there, I will get back to you if you email me. Required Reading Ruby, Jay, Picturing
Culture : Explorations of Film and Anthropology, University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, (August) 2000. I am always happy to receive suggestions from my students or other visitors to this site. If you want to bring an article or book in the field of visual anthropology or an interesting film to my attention, please email me. - Additional readings may be announced from time to time. The articles will be made
available through library reserve where students may read or photocopy them. Photocopying
all of these articles should cost about $10.00 for the term. I am organizing library and computer workshops for this class. I will announce the date when it is confirmed. TOP OF PAGE |