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York University – Department of AnthropologyGraduate Program in Social Anthropology http://www.yorku.ca/gradanth/

5230 Themes in Visual Anthropology

Location: 2043 Vari HallDays and Time: Thursdays 10:00 - 1:00Moodle Course No.: TBD

Course Director: Zulfikar Hirji, Assistant ProfessorWeb Site: http://www.arts.yorku.ca/anth/zhirji/ Email: [email protected]: 2040 Vari HallTelephone: 416 736 2100 (extension 77783)Office Hours: To be Announced

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course provides a critical analysis of a range of themes in visualanthropology including the production and use of visual materials such asphotographs and film by anthropologists, the epistemological basis on whichauthority is accorded/denied to the visual in the human sciences, the role of thevisual in the formation and articulation of self, community and the other, and thedifferential impact of visual technologies on human societies. The seminar willalso include a number of practical sessions on the ethics and use of visual

technologies for research.

EVALUATION COMPONENTS & ASSIGNMENTS (detailed notes onassignments will be provided)

1. TWO (2) SEMINAR LEADER PAPER-PRESENTATIONS (10% each)2. TWO (2) DISCUSSANT PAPER-PRESENTATIONS (10% each)3. RESEARCH PROJECT (VIRTUAL CASE BOOK) (50%)

a. Concept paper (10%)b. Essay (10%)

c. Walkabout (15%)d. Project (15%)

4. ATTENDANCE & PARTICIPATION IN THE COURSE: (10%)a. Attendanceb. Seminar participationc. Participation on the Moodle site (weekly questions postings)


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SEMINAR THEMES

Seminar 1Mapping the sub-discipline or what is ‘visual anthropology’?

Seminar 2Texts vs. Pictures: Assumptions and approaches to the visual in anthropology

Seminar 3 Anthropological engagements with [still images] photographs.

Seminar 4 An Experiment and Its Afterlife: Gregory Bateson & Margaret Mead in Bali

Seminar 5What else can photographs do? Photo-Research Methods and Approaches

Seminar 6Engagements with film

Seminar 6Jean Rouch

Seminar 7Inter-ocularity

Seminar 8

‘Corpothetics’

Seminar 9 Documenting ‘movement’

Seminar 10Meditations on Contemporary (Visual) Praxis

Seminar 11STUDENT PRESENTATIONS

Seminar 12STUDENT PRESENTATIONS


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KEY RESOURCES

Journals

Visual Anthropology : http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/08949468.asp

Visual Anthropology Review :http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/?page_id=23

Visual Studies: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1472586X.asp

Institutional Websites

http://www.visualanthropology.net/index.php

Society for Visual Anthropology: http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/

Royal Anthropological Institute: http://www.therai.org.uk/film/film.html

Professional/Personal Websites

Peter Biella: http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/urlist/index.html

Faye Ginsburg: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~fg4/

Sarah Pink: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ss/visualising_ethnography/

Jay Ruby: http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/ruby/

SMIL LIBRARY (YORK-SCOTT)

http://www.library.yorku.ca/ccm/SMIL/index.htm

YORK-SCOTT LIBRARY

Course materials (key texts) will be placed on reserve in the Scott Library.

BOOKSTORE

Some of the key texts for the course will be ordered for the bookstore.


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Seminar 2MAIN THEME: Texts vs. Pictures: Assumptions and approaches to thevisual in anthropology

* Mead, M. “Visual anthropology in a discipline of words”, in P. Hockings (ed.),Principles of Visual anthropology , (Mouton, 1975), pp. 3-12.http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1696445{CKEY }

* Worth, S. “Pictures Can’t Say Ain’t” in Larry Gross (ed.), Studying VisualCommunication (U Pennsylvania, 1981) pp. 162-184.http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aaq0341

* Stoller, Paul. “Eye, Mind and Word in Anthropology”, in P. Stoller, The Taste ofEthnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology (U Pennsylvania, 1986), pp.37-55.

http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=adx9873

* Hastrup, K. “Anthropological visions: some notes on visual and textualauthority”, in P. Crawford & D. Turton (eds.), Film as Ethnography , (ManchesterUP, 1992), pp 8-25.http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=afb9361

* Bakewell, Liza, “Image Acts”, American Anthropologist , New Series, Vol. 100,No. 1 (March, 1998), pp. 22-32.JSTOR: URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/682805

SEE ALSO: Horstkotte, Silke & Nancy Pedri. “Introduction: PhotographicInterventions”, Poetics Today 29, 1, (2008), pp. 1-29.

RELATED THEME: Theories of Visuality, Seeing, and Observation

Jenks, Chris. “The Centrality of the Eye in Western Culture”, in Visual Culture, C.Jenks (ed.). (Routledge, 1995), pp. 1-25.[NX 458 V57 1995]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1310218{ CKEY}

Brennan, Teresa & Martin Jay (eds.). Vision in Context: Historical and

Contemporary Perspectives on Sight , (Routledge, 1996).[B 105 I47 V57 1996]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1309803{CKEY }

Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in theNineteenth Century (MIT Press, 1992). (See the chapter on the CameraObscura).[N 7430.5 C7 1992]


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http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1621059{CKEY }

Crary’s Website: http://www.learn.columbia.edu/mvc/index.html

Mitchell, W. J., Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation,

(University of Chicago Press, 1995).

RELATED THEME: Interfaces with art reception theories

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing , [N 7430.5 W39 1973]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=adf1110 (BBC, 1972). See also the BBC Series on which the book was based [VIDEO0367]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aeb5461 .

Freedberg, David. The Power of Images: Studies in the history and theory ofresponse, (U of Chicago Press, 1991).

Coote, J. “Marvels of Everyday Vision: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and theCattle-Keeping Nilotes”, in Anthropology, Art, and Aesthetics, J. Coote & A.Shelton (eds.), Clarendon Press, 1992.

RELATED THEME: Iconophilia, Aniconism and Iconoclasm

Freedberg, David. The Power of Images: Studies in the history and theory ofresponse, (U of Chicago Press, 1991). (Chapters 1 & 2, 13 & 14)

Flood, Barry Finbarr. “Between Cult and Culture: Bamiyan, Islamic Iconoclasm,and the Museum”, The Art Bulletin 84, (2002), pp. 641-655.

Marazzi, Antonio. “An Anthropological View of Vision”, Diogenes, Vol. 50, No. 3,(2003), 89-98.

Latour, Bruno. “What is Iconoclash?” in Beyond the Image-Wars in Science,Religion and Art , Peter Weibel and Bruno Latour (eds.), (ZKM & MIT Press,2002) pp. 14-37. (Download from http://www.bruno-latour.fr/articles/2001.html ).

[MacKinnon Catharine A. 1993 Only Words. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University

Press.]


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Seminar 3MAIN THEME: Anthropological engagements with [still images]photographs.

Griffiths, Allison. Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-the-century Visual Culture, (Columbia UP, 2002).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1587210{CKEY }

Edwards, Elizabeth (ed.). Anthropology and Photography 1860-1920 , (Yale UP,1992).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=afc3619

Tagg, John. The Burden of Representation: Essays on Photographies andHistories, (UMinnesota, 1993).

http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=adt3985

Pinney, Christopher & Nicolas Peterson (eds.). Photography’s Other Histories,(Duke UP, 2003).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a2059305{CKEY }

Theoretical Readings

Banks, Marcus. “Reading Pictures”, in Visual Methods in Social Research (Sage,2001), pp. 1-12.


Barthes, R. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography , translated by RichardHoward, (Hill and Wang, 1981).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aam3792

Benjamin, Walter. “A Short History of Photography”, in Classic Essays onPhotography , ed. Alan Trachtenberg, trans. Phil Patton, (Leete’s Island BooksInc., 1980), pp. 199-216. See also: Benjamin, Walter. One-way street, and otherwritings: 1892-1940 , (NLB, 1979).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aar9562

Becker, Howard S. “Categories and Comparisons: How We Find Meaning inPhotographs”, Visual Anthropology Review (September 1998), Vol. 14, No. 2, pp.3–10. http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aeq2984

Mead, M. & G. Bateson. “On the use of the camera in anthropology”, in The Anthropology of Media: A Reader , (Kelly Askew, Richard R. Wilk, eds.)(Blackwell, 2002), pp. 41-55.


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Sekula, Allan. “The Traffic in Photographs”, in Modernism and Modernity: TheVancouver conference papers, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Serge Guilbaut andDavid Solkin (eds.), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1983, pp. 121-154.http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aax3625

See also: “The Traffic in Photographs”, Art Journal 41, no. 1 (1981), pp. 15-25.JSTOR URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/776511

* Hammond, Joyce D. “Photography and ambivalence”, Visual Studies, Volume19, Issue 2, (2004), pp. 135 – 145.

Sontag, Susan. On Photography , (Dell, 1997).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=NLR-13044

Websites:

DEVICES OF WONDER EXHIBITION (John Paul Getty Museum):http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/devices/flash/

http://www.photoethnography.com/

Scherer, Joanna C. “Red Cloud's Manikin and His Uncle's Shirt: HistoricalRepresentation in the Museum as Seen Through Photo Analysis”,http://anthropology.si.edu/redcloud/

Seminar 4MAIN THEME: An Experiment and Its Afterlife: Gregory Bateson & MargaretMead in Bali

Bateson, Gregory & Margaret Mead, Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis, (NY Academy of Sciences, 1942).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=abx9557

Jacknis, Ira. “Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in Bali: Their Use ofPhotography and Film”, Cultural Anthropology , Vol. 3, No. 2 (May, 1988), pp.160-177

JSTOR: URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/656349

Pink, Sarah. “Interdisciplinary agendas in visual research: re-situating visualanthropology”, Visual Studies, Volume 18, (Issue 2, 2003), pp. 179-192.

El Guindi, Fadwa. “For God’s Sake, Margaret”, in Visual Anthropology: EssentialMethod and Theory , (Rowman Altamira, 2004), pp. 61-88.


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Lakoff, Andrew. “Freezing Time: Margaret Mead's Diagnostic Photography”,Visual Anthropology Review , Vol. 12, No. 1 (March 1996), pp. 1-18.

Geertz, Hildred. “Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: FieldworkPhotographs of Bayung Gede” & “Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and

Highland Bali: Fieldwork Photographs of Bayung Gede, 1936-1939 GeraldSullivan. U Chicago Press, 1999”, Visual Anthropology Review , Vol. 16, No. 1(March 2000), pp. 78-81.

Hagaman, Dianne DiPaola. “Connecting cultures: Balinese character and thecomputer”, The Cultures of Computing , Susan Leigh Star (ed.), (BlackwellPublishing, 1995). [HM 258 C848 1995]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=afm8531

RELATED THEME: RACE

Poole, Deborah. Vision, race, and modernity: a visual economy of the Andeanimage world , (Princeton UP, 1997). [GN 347 P66 1997]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1357597{CKEY}

Poole, Deborah. “An Excess of Description: Ethnography, Race, and VisualTechnologies”, Annual Review of Anthropology , Vol. 34, (October 2005), 159-179.

Rony Fatimah Tobing. The Third Eye: Race, Cinema and EthnographicSpectacle. Durham, (DukeU, 1996).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1323109{CKEY}

RELATED THEME: INDIGENOUS MEDIA

Ginsburg, Faye. “Indigenous media: Faustian contract or global village”, Cultural Anthropology , Vol. 6, 1, (1991), 92-112.

Turner, T. “Defiant images: the Kayapo appropriation of video”, AnthropologyToday , Vol. 8, 6, (1992) 5-16.

Dovey, J. “Old dogs and new tricks: access television in the UK”, in T. Dowmunt(ed.), Channels of Resistance: global television and local empowerment , (BFI,1993), pp. 163-175.http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aff7480

Sturmer, C. “MTV's Europe: an imaginary continent?” in T. Dowmunt (ed.),Channels of Resistance: global television and local empowerment , (BFI, 1993),pp. 50-66.


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http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aff7480

Ginsburg, Faye. “Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in IndigenousMedia,” in Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, F. Ginsburg, J. Abu-Lughod, A. Larkin, (eds.) (California. 2002), pp. 39-57.


Wilson, Pamela & Michelle Stewart, (eds.), Global Indigenous Media: Cultures,Poetics, and Politics, (Duke UP, 2008).

Jackson Jr., John L. “An Ethnographic Filmflam: Giving Gifts, Doing Research,and Videotaping the Native Subject/Object”, American Anthropologist , NewSeries, Vol. 106, No. 1 (Mar., 2004), pp. 32-42.

Seminar 5

MAIN THEME: What else can photographs do? Photo-Research Methodsand Approaches

Harper, D. “Talking About Pictures: A Case for Photo Elicitation”, VisualStudies, 17,1 (2002), pp. 13-26.

Collier, John & Malcolm Collier. Visual Anthropology: Photography as aResearch Method , (U New Mexico, 1986).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a2057279{CKEY}

Levy, Robert and Douglas Hollan. “Person Centered Interviewing and

Observation”, in Bernard, H. Russell (ed.), Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology , (AltaMira Press, 1998), pp. 333-364.http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1440590{CKEY}

Miller, Jody & Barry Glassner. “The ‘Inside’ and the ‘Outside’: Finding Realities inInterviews”, in D. Silverman (ed.), Qualitative Research: Theory Method andPractice, (Sage), pp. 99-112.http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1753943{CKEY }

Harper, Douglas (ed.). Cape Breton 1952: The Photographic Vision of Timothy Asch, (International Visual Sociology Association, 1994).

Samuels, Jeffrey. “Breaking the Ethnographer’s Frames: Reflections on the Useof Photo Elicitation in Understanding Sri Lankan Monastic Culture”, AmericanBehavioral Scientist , Vol. 47, No. 12 0(2004), pp. 1528-1550.

Gallo, M. L. “Picture this: Immigrant Workers Use Photography forCommunication and Change”, Journal of Workplace Learning , 14, 2, (2002), pp.49-57.


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Krebs, S. “The film elicitation technique”, in Principles of Visual Anthropology , PHockings (ed.), (Mouton, 1975), pp. 283-301. [GN 347 P75 2003]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1696445{CKEY}

RELATED THEME: Photographing/Representing ‘Kinship’ and theFamily–Family Albums

Vokes, Richard. “On Ancestral Self-Fashioning: Photography in the Time of AIDS”, Visual Anthropology 21 (4), (2008), pp. 345-363.

Bouquet, Mary. “The Family Photographic Condition”, Visual AnthropologyReview Vol. 16, No. 1, (Spring/Summer 2000), pp. 2-19.

Bouquet, Mary. “Family Trees and Their Affinities: The Visual Imperative of theGenealogical Diagram”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 2, No.1, (March 1996), pp. 43-67.

RELATED THEME: ‘Subaltern’ (Pictorial) Histories

Wanhalla, Angela, “In/Visible Sight: Mamacrori-European Families in Urban NewZealand, 1890-1940”, Visual Anthropology , 21: 39–57, 2008.

Kazimi, Ali. Continuous journey [videorecording] / a film by Ali Kazimi, producedin association with TVOntario. Toronto: Peripheral Visions Film & Video Inc.,c2004 1 videodisc (87 min.): sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. Director,cinematographer, writer, producer, Ali Kazemi; editors, Graeme Ball, Ali Kazimi.[DVD 8102]

Seminar 6MAIN THEME: Engagements with film

Nichols, B. “Documentary modes of representation”, Representing Reality: issues

and concepts in documentary , (Indiana UP, 1991), pp. 32-75. [PN 1995.9 D6N54 1991]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aev6659

Banks, Marcus. “Which Films are the Ethnographic Films?”, in Film asEthnography , Crawford, P. & D. Turton (eds.) (Manchester UP, 1992), pp. 116-129. [GN 347 F55 1992]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=afb9361


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Ruby, J. “Speaking for, speaking about, speaking with, or speaking alongside: ananthropological and documentary dilemma”, Visual Anthropology Review , Vol. 7:2 (1991), 50-67.

El Guindi, Fadwa. Visual Anthropology: Essential Method and Theory , (Rowman Altamira, 2004). [GN 347 E5 2004]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1722645{CKEY}

Heider, Karl G. Ethnographic Film, (U Texas, 2006). [GN 347 H44 2006]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1986280{CKEY}

MacDougall, D. “Ethnographic film: failure and promise”, Annual Review of Anthropology , Vol. 7, (1978), pp. 405-425.

Weinberger, E. “The Camera People”, in Visualizing Theory: selected essays

fromVisual Anthropology Review 1990-94, L. Taylor (ed.), (Routledge, 1994), pp. 3-26. [GN 347 V575 1994]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aff1632

Seminar 6MAIN THEME: Jean Rouch

Rouch in his own words

Rouch, J. “On the Vicissitudes of the Self: The Possessed Dancer, the Magician,the Sorcerer, the Filmmaker, and the Ethnographer”, Studies in the Anthropologyof Visual Communication, Vol. 5, No. 1 (September 1978), pp. 2-8.

Rouch, J. “The Camera and Man”, Studies in the Anthropology of VisualCommunication, Vol. 1, No. 1, (September 1974), pp. 37-44. Also: Rouch, J.“The camera and man”, in Principles of visual anthropology , P. Hockings (ed.),(Mouton, 1975), pp. 83-102.

Rouch, J. “The Situation and Tendencies of the Cinema in Africa”, Studies in the

Anthropology of Visual Communication, Vol. 2, No. 1, (Mar 1975), pp. 51-58.

J. Rouch, “The Situation and Tendencies of the Cinema in Africa Part II”, Studiesin the Anthropology of Visual Communication, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Sep 1975), pp. 112-121.


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Websites on Rouch

http://der.org/jean-rouch/content/index.php Baugh, Brenda, “The Jean Rouch Tribute Website at DER: A Collaborative

Work”, American Anthropologist , Vol. 107, No. 1 (March 2005), pp. 128–129.

http://www.maitres-fous.net/

Selected Studies of Rouch & his work

Visual Anthropology 1989 vol. 2, no. 3 – special issue on Jean Rouch.

American Anthropologist March 2005, Vol. 107, No. 1 – special issue on JeanRouch:

FAYE GINSBURG, “Dans le bain avec Rouch: A Reminiscence”, American Anthropologist Mar 2005, Vol. 107, No. 1: 108–111.

JAY RUBY, “Jean Rouch: Hidden and Revealed”, American Anthropologist Mar 2005, Vol. 107, No. 1: 111–112.

JEAN-PAUL COLLEYN, “Jean Rouch: An Anthropologist Ahead of HisTime”,

American Anthropologist Mar 2005, Vol. 107, No. 1: 113–116.

NADINE WANONO, “Au vent de l'éventuel: Following the Winds ofChance”,


GRAHAM JONES, “A Diplomacy of Dreams: Jean Rouch andDecolonization”,


SAM DIIORIO, “Notes on Jean Rouch and French Cinema”, American Anthropologist Mar 2005, Vol. 107, No. 1: 120–122.

PAUL STOLLER, “The Work Must Go On: A Tribute to Jean Rouch”, American Anthropologist Mar 2005, Vol. 107, No. 1: 123–126.

Kornfeld, Moric & Joram Ten Brink (Contributor Joram Ten Brink, AgnesSzechenyi), Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch (U Michigan &Wallflower, 2007).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a2141554{CKEY}


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Piault, Colette. “Forbidden Speech/Controlled Speech: Some Observations onthe Role of the Word in Rouch's Films”, Visual Anthropology Review , Vol. 23, No.1 (April 2007), pp. 38-42.

Piault, Colette. “Speech-Dominated or Dominating? An Interview with Jean

Rouch”, Visual Anthropology Review , Vol. 23, No. 1 (April 2007), pp. 43-53.

El Guindi, Fadwa. Visual Anthropology: Essential Method and Theory , (Rowman Altamira, 2004), pp. 23-60. [GN 347 E5 2004]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1722645{CKEY}

Rouch, Jean. Ciné-Ethnography , Steven Feld (ed. & trans), (U Minnesota, 2003).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=2002013793

Grimshaw, Anna. “The anthropological cinema of Jean Rouch”, in TheEthnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology , (Cambridge UP, 2001),

pp. 90-120. [GN 347 G75 2001]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1544527{CKEY}

Russell, Catherine, Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age ofVideo, (Duke UP, 1999), throughout, but particularly pp. 193-237. [PN 1995.9 D6R79 1999]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1439405{CKEY}

Prédal, René. Jean Rouch, ou, Le ciné-plaisir , (Télérama, 1996).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1509454{CKEY}

Stoller, Paul. The Cinematic Griot (U Chicago, 1992).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a2058123{CKEY }

Eaton, Mick. Anthropology, Reality, Cinema: The Films of Jean Rouch, (U WestVirginia & British Film Institute, 1979). [ROBARTS PN1998.A3 R68]

SELECTED ROUCH FILMS

“Jean Rouch Cited Filmography”, American Anthropologist , Vol. 107, No. 1,(March 2005), pp. 129–129.

Jean Rouch: Screening room with Robert Gardner

Rouch, Jean. [Cambridge, Mass.] : Studio 7 Arts; [Watertown, Mass.] :Distributed by Documentary Educational Resources, c2004. 1 videodisc (64 min.): sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. [DVD 8567]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1762792{CKEY}

Chronicle of a summer = Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)


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Rouch, Jean. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, [2002?]; 1 videocassette (85min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in. [VIDEO 6907]

Jaguar

Braunberger, Pierre; produced and directed by Jean Rouch.

Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, [1999?]; 1 videocassette(93 min.): sd., col.; 1/2 in. [VIDEO 5546]

Rouch in reverse [videorecording]Rouch, Jean. San Francisco, CA: California Newsreel, c1995; 1 videocassette(51 min.): sd., col.; 1/2 in. [VIDEO 4389]

The lion hunters [videorecording]Braunberger, Pierre; Jean Rouch.Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, [199-?]; 1 videocassette(68 min.): sd., col.; 1/2 in. [VIDEO 5182]

Jean Rouch and his camera in the heart of Africa [videorecording]Bregstein, Philo. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, 1986; 1videocassette (74 min.): sd., col.; 1/2 in. [VIDEO 4063]

RELATED THEME: FILMING ‘RITUAL’

Les Maitres fous, [film]Rouch, Jean. Paris: Les Films de la Pleiade, 1953.1 reel (29 min.): sd., col.; 16 mm. [FILM 3405]

Trance and dance in Bali , [videorecording]Bateson, Gregory & Margaret Mead. New York, N.Y.: Institute for InterculturalStudies, c1988. [DVD 8326]

Henley, P. “Filming Ritual”, Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter (Spring 1989), Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 19-23

Piault, Colette. “Filming Rituals: Introductory Remarks”, Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter , Vol. 5, No. 1, (March 1989), pp. 15-17.

Piault, Marc. “Filming Rituals”, Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter , Vol. 5,No. 1, (March 1989), pp. 17-19.

Henley, Paul. “Filming Ritual”, Society for Visual Anthropology Newsletter , Vol. 5,No. 1, (March 1989), pp. 19-23.


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Russell, Catherine, Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age ofVideo, (Duke UP, 1999), pp. 193-237. [PN 1995.9 D6 R79 1999]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1439405{CKEY}

Francisco Ferrandiz Martin. “A Trace of Fingerprints Displacements and Textures

in the Use Of Ethnographic Video in Venezuelan Spiritism”, Visual AnthropologyReview , Vol. 13, No. 2, (September 1997), pp. 19-38.

Hagaman, Dianne DiPaola. “Connecting cultures: Balinese character and thecomputer”, The Cultures of Computing , Susan Leigh Star (ed.), (BlackwellPublishing, 1995). [HM 258 C848 1995]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=afm8531

Rony, Fatimah Tobing, “The Photogenic Cannot Be Tamed: Margaret Mead andGregory Bateson’s Trance and Dance in Bali ”, Discourse, 28.1, (Winter 2006),pp. 5-27.

Seminar 7RELATED THEME: Inter-ocularity

* Pinney, Chris. Photos of the Gods, (Reaktion Books, 2004), pp. 1-144

Edwards, E. “Photographs and the Sound of History”, Visual AnthropologyReview , Vol. 21, No. 1-2 (April 2005), pp. 27–46.

Freitag, Sandria B. “South Asian ways of seeing, Muslim ways of knowing: TheIndian Muslim niche market in posters”, Indian Economic & Social HistoryReview , (September 2007), vol. 44, pp. 297-331.

Freitag, Sandria B. “The Realm of the Visual: Agency and Modern Civil Society”,in Sumathi Ramaswamy (ed.), Contributions to Indian Sociology , Vol. 3, 1&2,(2002), pp. 33–70. (There are more excellent articles in Contributions to IndianSociology , Spring 2002.)

Gell, Alfred, Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory , (Oxford UniversityPress, 1998), pp. 1-27 & 96-154.

Jain, Kajri, Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art , (DukeUniversity Press, 2007).


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Seminar 8MAIN THEME: ‘Corpothetics’

* Pinney, Chris. Photos of the Gods, (Reaktion Books, 2004), pp. 145-210.

Rush, Dana “Eternal Potential Chromolithographs in Vodunland”, African Arts,Vol. 32, No. 4 (Winter, 1999), pp. 61-96. JSTOR URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3337669.

Farrer, D.S. “The Healing Arts of the Malay Mystic”, Visual Anthropology Review ,Vol. 24, No. 1, (March, 2008), pp. 29-46.

Woodman, Taylor. “Penetrating gazes: The poetics of sight and visual display inpopular Indian cinema”, Contributions to Indian Sociology , Vol. 36, (2002), pp.297-322.

Roberts, Allen F. & Mary N. Roberts. “A Saint in the City: Sufi arts of urbanSenegal = Le Saint dans la Cité: l'art suffi du Sénégal urbain”, African Arts, Vol.35, No. 4 (2002), 52-73, 93-94.

RELATED THEORY

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge, 2002).

Ginzberg, Carlo. ”Clues: Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes”, in The Sign of

Three: Dupin, Holmes and Peirce, Umberto Eco and Thomas A. Sebeok (eds.),(Indiana UP, 1988).

Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”, inIlluminations: Essays and Reflections, (Schocken, 1969), pp. 217-252

SEE ALSO - ON BANJAMIN’S CONCEPT OF ‘AURA’:

Hansen, Miriam Bratu. “Benjamin's Aura”, Critical Inquiry , Volume 34,Number 2, (Winter 2008), pp. 336 -375.

Duttlinger, Carolin. “Imaginary Encounters: Walter Benjamin and the Auraof Photography”, Poetics Today , 29,1 (2008), pp. 79-101.

SEE ALSO - ON CRITICAL COMPARISIONS OF BENJAMIN:

Carey, James W. “Walter Benjamin, Marsall McLuhan, and the emergenceof visual society”, in Marshall McLuhan: critical evaluations in culturaltheory , Gary Genosko (ed.), (Routledge, 2005), pp. 273-282.


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Marshall McLuhan. “The Medium is the Message”, in The anthropology of

media, Kelly Askew and Richard R. Wilk (eds), (Blackwell, 2002), pp. 18-26.

Faris, James C. “The Gaze of Western Humanism”, in The anthropology ofmedia, Kelly Askew and Richard R. Wilk (eds), (Blackwell, 2002), pp, 77-91.

Taussig, Michael. Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses, (NewYork, 1992). (See Chapter 2, pp. 19-32).

Marks, Laura. The Skin of the Film, (Duke U, 2000). (Chapter 1, pp. 24-76).See also: Laura U. Marks’s articl on “Haptic Visuality: Touching with the Eyes”Framework, Finnish Art Review 2 (2004).

Seminar 9 MAIN THEME: Documenting ‘movement’

MigrationGrossman, Alan & Aine O’Brien (eds.). Projecting Migration: TransculturalDocumentary Practice, (Wallflower Press, 2007).http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a2179775{CKEY }

SELECTED FILMS/FILM-MAKERS FROM 2008 54th FLAHERTY SEMINAR:‘THE AGE OF MIGRATION’

Ghobadi, Bhaman

Turtles can fly , IFC Films, MIJ Film and BAC films present a production MIJFilm/Bahman Ghobadi ; producers, Hamid Ghavami, Batin Ghobadi, HamidKarimi, Babak Amini ; written by Bahman Ghobadi ; directed by BahmanGhobadi.

A time for drunken horses = Zamani barayé masti asbha, written, produced anddirected by Bahman Ghobadi. Publication infoToronto : Mongrel Media, 2000.

Marooned in Iraq = Gomgashtei dar Aragh, Mijfilm presents a film by BahmanGhobadi ; producers, Bahman Ghobadi ; written & directed by Bahman Ghobadi.


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Biemann, Ursula

Stuff it: the video essay in the digital age, 2003

Writing desire, 2000

Performing the border, 1999

Tajima-Peña, Renee

My America, or, Honk if you love Buddha, 1996

Kobayashi, Alison S. M.

From Alex to Alex, 2006

RELATED THEME: Gesture and Bodies

Mauss, M. “Techniques of the Body”, Economy and Society , 2(1), (1979[1935]),pp. 70-88.

Csordas, T.J. “Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology”. Ethos 18(1), pp.5-47.

Farnell, B. “Moving bodies, acting selves”, Annual Review of Anthropology Vol. 28 (October 1999), pp. 341-373.

Williams, Drid (ed.), ‘The Signs of Human Action’, special issue of Visual Anthropology , (1996).

Seminar 10MAIN THEME: Meditations on Contemporary (Visual) Praxis

New Technologies at Work: People, Screens, and Social Virtuality , ChristinaGarsten, Helena Wulff (eds.), (Berg Publishers, 2003). [HD 6331.2 U5 N49 2003]

http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1678587{CKEY}

Ginsburg, Faye, Lila Abu-Lughod & Brian Larkin (eds.). Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain (U California, 2002).

Pink, Sarah, László Kürti & Ana Isabel Afonso (eds.), Working Images: VisualResearch and Representation in Ethnography , (Routledge, 2004).


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Murdock, G. & S. Pink, “Picturing Practices”, in Media Anthropology , 2005 (EricW. Rothenbuhler & Mihai Coman (eds.), (Sage, 2005), pp. 149-162.

Crawford & D. Turton (eds.), Film as Ethnography , (Manchester UP, 1992).

Ginsburg, Faye. “Rethinking the Digital Age”, Flow , 2005 - philbu.net

Marks, Laura. “Immigrant Semiotics” see:http://www.sfu.ca/~lmarks/selected_essays.html.

RELATED THEME: Hypermedia

Banks, M. “Interactive Multimedia and anthropology: a skeptical view” 1994

Biella, P. “Codifications of ethnography: linear and nonlinear” 1994

Anderson, Kevin Taylor. “ETHNOGRAPHIC HYPERMEDIA: TRANSCENDINGTHICK DESCRIPTIONS”, http://cc.joensuu.fi/sights/kevin.htm 1999

Ginsburg, Faye & Barbara Abrash (eds.) ‘9/11 and After, A Virtual Case Book’,2002.

Pink, Sarah, “Conversing Anthropologically: Hypermedia as anthropological text”,in Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography (S.Pink, L. Kürti & A. Isabel Afonso (eds.), (Routledge, 2004), 166-184.[GN 347 W67 2004]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1711326{CKEY }

Pink, Sarah. “Visual anthropology and hypermedia”, in The Future of Visual Anthropology , (Routledge, 2006), pp. 105-128.http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1946984{CKEY }

RELATED THEME: Ethics

Guerin, Frances & Roger Hallas (eds.). The Image and the Witness: Trauma,Memory and Visual Culture, (Wallflower Press, 2007).

Hastrup, Kirsten. “Anthropological visions: some notes on visual and textualauthority”, in Film as Ethnography , Peter Crawford & David Turton (eds.),(Manchester UP, 1992), pp.8-25.

Kempf, Susanne, Visual Recordings and Intellectual Property (1998).


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Gross, Larry, John Stuart Katz & Jay Ruby (eds.), Image Ethics: The MoralRights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television, (Oxford U Press, 1988).

Gross, Larry, John Stuart Katz & Jay Ruby (eds.) Image ethics in the Digital Age,(U Chicago, 2003).[TR 820 I42 2003]http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1684143{CKEY}

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