VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
I was doing photography "professionally" at age 14 with
a home darkroom and my trusty Yashica "D." At 17 I
opened our second photographic studio with a partner. By age
twenty I was running the business on my own and was still in love
with photography. It was clear by then though that I couldn't
realize my ambition to go to university while running a business
so I decided to close the studio and study full-time. My interest
in photography merged with a fascination for visual anthropology
and I was delighted to discover, when I joined the Department of
Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton that I would get to teach
visual anthropology (54.317) once in a while. I'll be offering
this course in 1997-98 (Professor Bruce Cox often offers this
course too). This page is very much under construction but here
are a few links to get on with.
- Our Visual Anthropology Course This
is the 54.317 course taught by either Professor Bruce Cox or
myself in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at
Carleton University.
- Center
for Visual Anthropology A good place to start off!
- Fixing
Shadows A very interesting project by anthropologist J. David
Sapir at the University of Virginia.
- Curtis,
Edward Sheriff Curtis was a grandfather of contemporary
Visual Anthropology. This is a commerical page.
- Cricket
Critics"The Self in the Other: Ethnographic Film,
Surrealism, Politics" and article by Martin Roberts
- Bibliography
for Media and Anthropology for a journalism course but very
useful to anthropologists.
- Black and
White World A good source for B&W sites.
- David
Plowden's home page Some lovely work!
- European
Association of Social Anthropologists Visual Anthropology
Network
- Granada
Centre for Visual Anthropology description
- International
Visual Anthropology Festival Parnu, Estonia
- Is
Ethnographic Filme a Filmic Ethnography? anarticle by Jay
Ruby.
- Non-Verbal
Communication in Japanese Society. A most interesting
handbook.
- Laboratory
of Visual Anthropology In 1988 Lithuanian Folk Culture Center
had organized a seminar "Folklore and Cinema". There
were about 60 Lithuanian films released in 1967 - 1988.
- bui
doi : life like dust Information about the film with an
audio-visual section.
- Bibliography
for media and anthropology - Mathers
Museum
- Photographs of Tibet by W.Spiegelman Lovely!
Taken in 1995
- Festival
of Ethnographic Film At Kent University in the U.K.
- Photo
Gallery of India
- PHOTO
WALLAHS An encounter with photography in Mussoorie, a north
Indian hill station . Ein Film von David und Judith MacDougall
- Penan:
Endangered People of the Borneo Rain Forest
- Non-Verbal
Communication at Cornell
- Taboos
in my Culture/Non-verbal Communication Newsgroup thread -
very interesting!
The Haddon Homepage A catalogue of ethnographic
film produced during the first half century of cinema, 1895 to
1945.
- Visual
Anthropology Resources
- Documentary
Educational ResourcesD.E.R., Inc. is a non-profit educational
organization which produces, distributes and promotes the use of
anthropology, ethnographic, and documentary films. They rent and
sell film and video titles.
- Visual
Anthropology Review
- A
Bibliography courtesy of Mathew Ball
- Understanding
What We See by Mathew Ball
- Visual
Research Methods by Marcus Banks
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