College Bulletin 2016-2017 
    
    May 01, 2024  
College Bulletin 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ANTH 072D. Visual Anthropology


This course introduces students to the history, theory, and practice of visual anthropology. Topics include the intertwined histories of colonial photography and anthropology, how anthropologists use visual ethnographic methods as tools of cultural analysis, and how indigenous groups and activists use contemporary visual technologies to gain visibility and to remake their social worlds. The course will include a series of film screenings, as well as a small production component.
Theory and methods course.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for FMST
Spring 2019. Nadkarni.

Catalog chapter: Sociology and Anthropology  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/sociology-anthropology


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