Anthropology of Experience
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Course code
HIA7227.HT
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Course title in Estonian
Kogemusantropoloogia
Course title in English
Anthropology of Experience
ECTS credits
6.0
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Examination
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
Students will study key anthropological films as well as documentary films and examine their intentions, methodologies, effects, and reception in their historical context. The course will examine how visual has been used in anthropology as data, for social research purposes, as art, and as a commercial commodity in television. The course will also examine different trends that have characterized the history of anthropological cinema such as observational films, to cinema verité, and experimental films.
Brief description of the course
Moving visual images (ie. film) have been used as part of anthropological research since the first institutionalized anthropological expeditions. This course will examine the different functions and ideologies that have characterized the use of the visual medium in anthropology with an emphasis on narrative cinema. In doing so, the course will examine some of the contradictions and contributions that have emerged with the implementation of the visual medium in anthropological research. This course will also look at narrative anthropological films within the context of the development of anthropological discourse and the development of documentary film. The course will examine the relationship that anthropologists have historically had with visual media and relate these relationships to the history of cinema.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- can create opportunities for the development of knowledge of anthropological knowledge from a historical perspective;
- can establish parallelisms between the development of anthropological cinema, shifts in the dominant paradigms of anthropological discourse, and the development of the documentary;
- can develop basic skills in the appreciation and critical analysis of the visual medium in anthropological research.
Teacher
Dotsent Carlo Cubero Irizarry
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