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York University Department of Anthropology
Graduate Program in Social Anthropology http://www.yorku.ca/gradanth/
5230 Themes in Visual Anthropology

Location:
2043 Vari Hall
Days and Time:
Thursdays 10:00 - 1:00
Moodle Course No.: TBD
Course Director:
Web Site:
Email:
Office:
Telephone:
Office Hours:
Zulfikar Hirji, Assistant Professor

http://www.arts.yorku.ca/anth/zhirji/
zhirji@yorku.ca
2040 Vari Hall
416 736 2100 (extension 77783)
To be Announced
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course provides a critical analysis of a range of themes in visual
anthropology including the production and use of visual materials such as
photographs and film by anthropologists, the epistemological basis on which
authority is accorded/denied to the visual in the human sciences, the role of the
visual in the formation and articulation of self, community and the other, and the
differential impact of visual technologies on human societies. The seminar will
also include a number of practical sessions on the ethics and use of visual
technologies for research.
EVALUATION COMPONENTS & ASSIGNMENTS (detailed notes on
assignments will be provided)
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4.
TWO (2) SEMINAR LEADER PAPER-PRESENTATIONS (10% each)

TWO (2) DISCUSSANT PAPER-PRESENTATIONS (10% each)
RESEARCH PROJECT (VIRTUAL CASE BOOK) (50%)
a. Concept paper (10%)
b. Essay (10%)
c. Walkabout (15%)
d. Project (15%)
ATTENDANCE & PARTICIPATION IN THE COURSE: (10%)
a. Attendance
b. Seminar participation
c. Participation on the Moodle site (weekly questions postings)
SEMINAR THEMES
Seminar 1
Mapping the sub-discipline or what is visual anthropology?
Seminar 2
Texts 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 5
What else can photographs do? Photo-Research Methods and Approaches
Seminar 6
Engagements with film
Seminar 6
Jean Rouch
Seminar 7
Inter-ocularity
Seminar 8
Corpothetics
Seminar 9
Documenting movement
Seminar 10
Meditations on Contemporary (Visual) Praxis
Seminar 11
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
Seminar 12
STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
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.
SEMINAR THEMES & READING LIST (* Required Reading)

Seminar 1
MAIN THEME: Mapping the sub-discipline or what is visual anthropology?
* Ruby, Jay. The last 20 years of visual anthropology a critical review, Visual
Studies, Volume 20, Issue 2 (2005), pp. 159170.
* Banks, Marcus & Howard Morphy (eds.). Rethinking Visual Anthropology (Yale
UP, 1997), pp. 1-35.
[GN 347 R45 1997]
http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=a1352779{CKEY}
* Pink, Sarah. The Future of Visual Anthropology, (Routledge, 2006), pp. 3-38.
[GN 347 P57 2006]
Taylor, Lucien (ed.). Visualizing theory: Selected Essays from V.A.R. 1990-1994
(Routledge, 1994).
[GN 347 V575 1994]
http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aff1632
The chapters printed in the above volume are also available electronically in the
V.A.R. (Visual Anthropology Review).
http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aeq2984
RELATED THEME: Capturing the other and the obsession with

realism the case of Robert Flahertys Nanook of the North
Flaherty, Robert J.
Nanook of the North, (Criterion Collection, c1998).
[DVD 6841]
Grimshaw, Anna. The Ethnographers Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology,
(Cambridge UP, 2001), pp. 44-56.
Gaines, Jane. M. The Real Returns, in Collecting Visible Evidence, (U
Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 1-18.
Rony, Fatimah Tobing. Taximdermy and Romantic Ethnography, in The Third
Eye, (Duke U, 1996), pp. 99-126.
Ruby, Jay. The aggie must come first, in Picturing Culture, (U Chicago, 2000),
pp. 67-93.
Seminar 2
MAIN THEME: Texts vs. Pictures: Assumptions and approaches to the
visual in anthropology
* Mead, M. Visual anthropology in a discipline of words, in P. Hockings (ed.),
Principles of Visual anthropology, (Mouton, 1975), pp. 3-12.
* Worth, S. Pictures Cant Say Aint in Larry Gross (ed.), Studying Visual
Communication (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 of
Ethnographic 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 textual
authority, in P. Crawford & D. Turton (eds.), Film as Ethnography, (Manchester
UP, 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: Photographic

Interventions, 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]
Brennan, Teresa & Martin Jay (eds.). Vision in Context: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives on Sight, (Routledge, 1996).
[B 105 I47 V57 1996]
Crary, Jonathan. Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the
Nineteenth Century (MIT Press, 1992). (See the chapter on the Camera
Obscura).
[N 7430.5 C7 1992]
Crarys 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 [VIDEO
0367]
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 of
response, (U of Chicago Press, 1991).
Coote, J. Marvels of Everyday Vision: The Anthropology of Aesthetics and the
Cattle-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 of
response, (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.]
Seminar 3
MAIN THEME: Anthropological engagements with [still images]
photographs.
Griffiths, Allison. Wondrous Difference: Cinema, Anthropology, and Turn-of-thecentury Visual Culture, (Columbia UP, 2002).
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 and
Histories, (UMinnesota, 1993).
http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=adt3985
Pinney, Christopher & Nicolas Peterson (eds.). Photographys Other Histories,
(Duke UP, 2003).
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 Richard
Howard, (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 on
Photography, ed. Alan Trachtenberg, trans. Phil Patton, (Leetes Island Books
Inc., 1980), pp. 199-216. See also: Benjamin, Walter. One-way street, and other
writings: 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 in
Photographs, Visual Anthropology Review (September 1998), Vol. 14, No. 2, pp.
310. 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.
Sekula, Allan. The Traffic in Photographs, in Modernism and Modernity: The

Vancouver conference papers, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Serge Guilbaut and
David 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, Volume
19, 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: Historical
Representation in the Museum as Seen Through Photo Analysis,
http://anthropology.si.edu/redcloud/
Seminar 4
MAIN THEME: An Experiment and Its Afterlife: Gregory Bateson & Margaret
Mead 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 of
Photography 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 visual
anthropology, Visual Studies, Volume 18, (Issue 2, 2003), pp. 179-192.
El Guindi, Fadwa. For Gods Sake, Margaret, in Visual Anthropology: Essential
Method and Theory, (Rowman Altamira, 2004), pp. 61-88.
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: Fieldwork
Photographs of Bayung Gede & Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and
Highland Bali: Fieldwork Photographs of Bayung Gede, 1936-1939 Gerald
Sullivan. U Chicago Press, 1999, Visual Anthropology Review, Vol. 16, No. 1
(March 2000), pp. 78-81.
Hagaman, Dianne DiPaola. Connecting cultures: Balinese character and the
computer, The Cultures of Computing, Susan Leigh Star (ed.), (Blackwell
Publishing, 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 Andean
image world, (Princeton UP, 1997). [GN 347 P66 1997]
Poole, Deborah. An Excess of Description: Ethnography, Race, and Visual
Technologies, Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 34, (October 2005), 159179.
Rony Fatimah Tobing. The Third Eye: Race, Cinema and Ethnographic
Spectacle. Durham, (DukeU, 1996).
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, Anthropology
Today, 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.
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.
Ginsburg, Faye. Screen Memories: Resignifying the Traditional in Indigenous
Media, in Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain, F. Ginsburg, J. AbuLughod, 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, New
Series, Vol. 106, No. 1 (Mar., 2004), pp. 32-42.
Seminar 5
MAIN THEME: What else can photographs do? Photo-Research Methods
and Approaches
Harper, D. Talking About Pictures: A Case for Photo Elicitation, Visual
Studies, 17,1 (2002), pp. 13-26.
Collier, John & Malcolm Collier. Visual Anthropology: Photography as a
Research Method, (U New Mexico, 1986).
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.
Miller, Jody & Barry Glassner. The Inside and the Outside: Finding Realities in
Interviews, in D. Silverman (ed.), Qualitative Research: Theory Method and
Practice, (Sage), pp. 99-112.
Harper, Douglas (ed.). Cape Breton 1952: The Photographic Vision of Timothy
Asch, (International Visual Sociology Association, 1994).
Samuels, Jeffrey. Breaking the Ethnographers Frames: Reflections on the Use
of Photo Elicitation in Understanding Sri Lankan Monastic Culture, American
Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 47, No. 12 0(2004), pp. 1528-1550.
Gallo, M. L. Picture this: Immigrant Workers Use Photography for
Communication 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, P

Hockings (ed.), (Mouton, 1975), pp. 283-301. [GN 347 P75 2003]
RELATED THEME: Photographing/Representing Kinship and the

FamilyFamily 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 Anthropology
Review
Vol. 16, No. 1, (Spring/Summer 2000), pp. 2-19.
Bouquet, Mary. Family Trees and Their Affinities: The Visual Imperative of the
Genealogical 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 New

Zealand, 1890-1940, Visual Anthropology, 21: 3957, 2008.
Kazimi, Ali. Continuous journey [videorecording] / a film by Ali Kazimi, produced
in 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 6
MAIN 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 D6
N54 1991]
http://theta.library.yorku.ca/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=aev6659
Banks, Marcus. Which Films are the Ethnographic Films?, in Film as
Ethnography, Crawford, P. & D. Turton (eds.) (Manchester UP, 1992), pp. 116129. [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: an

anthropological 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]
Heider, Karl G. Ethnographic Film, (U Texas, 2006). [GN 347 H44 2006]
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
from
Visual Anthropology Review 1990-94, L. Taylor (ed.), (Routledge, 1994), pp. 326. [GN 347 V575 1994]
Seminar 6
MAIN 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 Anthropology
of Visual Communication, Vol. 5, No. 1 (September 1978), pp. 2-8.
Rouch, J. The Camera and Man, Studies in the Anthropology of Visual
Communication, 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, Studies
in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Sep 1975), pp. 112121.
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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. 128129.
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 Jean
Rouch:
FAYE GINSBURG, Dans le bain avec Rouch: A Reminiscence,
American Anthropologist Mar 2005, Vol. 107, No. 1: 108111.
JAY RUBY, Jean Rouch: Hidden and Revealed,
JEAN-PAUL COLLEYN, Jean Rouch: An Anthropologist Ahead of His
Time,
NADINE WANONO, Au vent de l'ventuel: Following the Winds of
Chance,
GRAHAM JONES, A Diplomacy of Dreams: Jean Rouch and
Decolonization,
SAM DIIORIO, Notes on Jean Rouch and French Cinema,
PAUL STOLLER, The Work Must Go On: A Tribute to Jean Rouch,
Kornfeld, Moric & Joram Ten Brink (Contributor Joram Ten Brink, Agnes
Szechenyi), Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch (U Michigan &
Wallflower, 2007).
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Piault, Colette. Forbidden Speech/Controlled Speech: Some Observations on

the 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]
Rouch, Jean. Cin-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 The
Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology, (Cambridge UP, 2001),
pp. 90-120. [GN 347 G75 2001]
Russell, Catherine, Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of
Video, (Duke UP, 1999), throughout, but particularly pp. 193-237. [PN 1995.9 D6
R79 1999]
Prdal, Ren. Jean Rouch, ou, Le cin-plaisir, (Tlrama, 1996).
Stoller, Paul. The Cinematic Griot (U Chicago, 1992).
Eaton, Mick. Anthropology, Reality, Cinema: The Films of Jean Rouch, (U West
Virginia & British Film Institute, 1979). [ROBARTS PN1998.A3 R68]
SELECTED ROUCH FILMS
Jean Rouch Cited Filmography, American Anthropologist, Vol. 107, No. 1,

(March 2005), pp. 129129.
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]
Chronicle of a summer = Chronique d'un t (Paris 1960)
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Rouch, Jean. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, [2002?]; 1 videocassette (85
min.) : 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
The lion hunters [videorecording]
Braunberger, Pierre; Jean Rouch.
Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, [199-?]; 1 videocassette
Jean Rouch and his camera in the heart of Africa [videorecording]
Bregstein, Philo. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources, 1986; 1
videocassette (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 Intercultural
Studies, 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 of

Video, (Duke UP, 1999), pp. 193-237. [PN 1995.9 D6 R79 1999]
Francisco Ferrandiz Martin. A Trace of Fingerprints Displacements and Textures
in the Use Of Ethnographic Video in Venezuelan Spiritism, Visual Anthropology
Review, Vol. 13, No. 2, (September 1997), pp. 19-38.
Hagaman, Dianne DiPaola. Connecting cultures: Balinese character and the
computer, The Cultures of Computing, Susan Leigh Star (ed.), (Blackwell
Publishing, 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 and
Gregory Batesons Trance and Dance in Bali, Discourse, 28.1, (Winter 2006),
pp. 5-27.
Seminar 7
RELATED THEME: Inter-ocularity
* Pinney, Chris. Photos of the Gods, (Reaktion Books, 2004), pp. 1-144
Edwards, E. Photographs and the Sound of History, Visual Anthropology
Review, Vol. 21, No. 1-2 (April 2005), pp. 2746.
Freitag, Sandria B. South Asian ways of seeing, Muslim ways of knowing: The
Indian Muslim niche market in posters, Indian Economic & Social History
Review, (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. 3370. (There are more excellent articles in Contributions to Indian
Sociology, Spring 2002.)
Gell, Alfred, Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory, (Oxford University
Press, 1998), pp. 1-27 & 96-154.
Jain, Kajri, Gods in the Bazaar: The Economies of Indian Calendar Art, (Duke
University Press, 2007).
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Seminar 8
MAIN 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 in
popular 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 urban
Senegal = Le Saint dans la Cit: l'art suffi du Sngal 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, in
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, (Schocken, 1969), pp. 217-252
SEE ALSO - ON BANJAMINS 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 Aura
of 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 emergence
of visual society, in Marshall McLuhan: critical evaluations in cultural
theory, 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 of
media, Kelly Askew and Richard R. Wilk (eds), (Blackwell, 2002), pp, 77-91.
Taussig, Michael. Mimesis and Alterity: A Particular History of the Senses, (New
York, 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. Markss articl on Haptic Visuality: Touching with the Eyes
Framework, Finnish Art Review 2 (2004).
Seminar 9
MAIN THEME: Documenting movement
Migration
Grossman, Alan & Aine OBrien (eds.). Projecting Migration: Transcultural
Documentary Practice, (Wallflower Press, 2007).
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 MIJ
Film/Bahman Ghobadi ; producers, Hamid Ghavami, Batin Ghobadi, Hamid
Karimi, Babak Amini ; written by Bahman Ghobadi ; directed by Bahman
Ghobadi.
A time for drunken horses = Zamani baray masti asbha, written, produced and
directed by Bahman Ghobadi. Publication infoToronto : Mongrel Media, 2000.
Marooned in Iraq = Gomgashtei dar Aragh, Mijfilm presents a film by Bahman
Ghobadi ; 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-Pea, 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 10
MAIN THEME: Meditations on Contemporary (Visual) Praxis
New Technologies at Work: People, Screens, and Social Virtuality, Christina
Garsten, Helena Wulff (eds.), (Berg Publishers, 2003). [HD 6331.2 U5 N49 2003]
Ginsburg, Faye, Lila Abu-Lughod & Brian Larkin (eds.). Media Worlds:
Anthropology on New Terrain (U California, 2002).
Pink, Sarah, Lszl Krti & Ana Isabel Afonso (eds.), Working Images: Visual
Research and Representation in Ethnography, (Routledge, 2004).
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Murdock, G. & S. Pink, Picturing Practices, in Media Anthropology, 2005 (Eric

W. 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

<http://www.rsl.ox.ac.uk/isca/marcus.banks.01.html> 1994
Biella, P. Codifications of ethnography: linear and nonlinear
<http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/welcome/codifications.html> 1994
Anderson, Kevin Taylor. ETHNOGRAPHIC HYPERMEDIA: TRANSCENDING
THICK 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. Krti & A. Isabel Afonso (eds.), (Routledge, 2004), 166-184.
[GN 347 W67 2004]
Pink, Sarah. Visual anthropology and hypermedia, in The Future of Visual
Anthropology, (Routledge, 2006), pp. 105-128.
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 textual
authority, 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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http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~ruby/aaa/kempf.html
Gross, Larry, John Stuart Katz & Jay Ruby (eds.), Image Ethics: The Moral
Rights 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]
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5230 Themes in Visual Anthropology

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SEMINAR THEMES & READING LIST (* Required Reading)

RELATED THEME: Capturing the other and the obsession with

SEE ALSO: Horstkotte, Silke & Nancy Pedri. Introduction: Photographic

RELATED THEME: Theories of Visuality, Seeing, and Observation

RELATED THEME: Interfaces with art reception theories

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing, [N 7430.5 W39 1973]

RELATED THEME: Iconophilia, Aniconism and Iconoclasm

Sekula, Allan. The Traffic in Photographs, in Modernism and Modernity: The

DEVICES OF WONDER EXHIBITION (John Paul Getty Museum):

Lakoff, Andrew. Freezing Time: Margaret Mead's Diagnostic Photography,

RELATED THEME: RACE

RELATED THEME: INDIGENOUS MEDIA

Ginsburg, Faye. Indigenous media: Faustian contract or global village, Cultural

Krebs, S. The film elicitation technique, in Principles of Visual Anthropology, P

RELATED THEME: Photographing/Representing Kinship and the

Vokes, Richard. On Ancestral Self-Fashioning: Photography in the Time of

RELATED THEME: Subaltern (Pictorial) Histories

Wanhalla, Angela, In/Visible Sight: Mamacrori-European Families in Urban New

Ruby, J. Speaking for, speaking about, speaking with, or speaking alongside: an

Rouch in his own words

Selected Studies of Rouch & his work

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

Piault, Colette. Forbidden Speech/Controlled Speech: Some Observations on

SELECTED ROUCH FILMS

Jean Rouch Cited Filmography, American Anthropologist, Vol. 107, No. 1,

RELATED THEME: FILMING RITUAL

Les Maitres fous, [film]

Russell, Catherine, Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of

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

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SELECTED FILMS/FILM-MAKERS FROM 2008 54th FLAHERTY SEMINAR:

RELATED THEME: Gesture and Bodies

Mauss, M. Techniques of the Body, Economy and Society, 2(1), (1979[1935]),

Murdock, G. & S. Pink, Picturing Practices, in Media Anthropology, 2005 (Eric

RELATED THEME: Hypermedia

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

RELATED THEME: Ethics

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