SST 295-09 - Special Topic: Ethnographic Film

4 credits (Spring)

Cross-listed as: HUM 295-05. Anthropologists have deployed the medium of film (and before that photography) to emphasize the socially constructed nature of cultural reality and the evolving nature of our understanding of any culture. This course will train students to read classic film ethnographies; delve into the debates on ethnographic films over the last century; place them in their historical and theoretical context and lastly to assess the position of the film-maker as an ethnographer of ones’ own and other’s cultures.

Instructor: Arora