Unit VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- Course
- Cultural heritage
- Study-unit Code
- A002542
- Curriculum
- Antropologia
- Teacher
- Alexander Koensler
- Teachers
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- Alexander Koensler
- Hours
- 36 ore - Alexander Koensler
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline relative ai beni storico-archeologici e artistici, archivistici e librari, demoetnoantropologici e ambientali
- Academic discipline
- M-DEA/01
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- This year's course focuses on visual anthropology. It therefore offers the tools to analyze visual representations and the contexts in which they are produced: who represents whom and by what means? In the first part, general themes relating to the representation of cultural diversity will be introduced. In the second part he reflects through specific cases on imaginaries, stereotypes and resistances through ethnographic films, documentaries and experimental cinema.
- Reference texts
- L'esame si basa sui seguenti tre testi:
Pennacini, Cecilia (2005), Filmare le culture. Un'introduzione all'antropologia visiva. Milano: Carrocci
Canevacci, Massimo (2017 ) Antropologia della comunicazione visuale. Esplorazioni etnografiche attraverso il feticismo metodologico. Roma: Postmedia Books
Benjamin, Walter (2014), Breve storia della fotografia, pp. 19-55. In: Banjamin, Walter, Breve storia della fotografia. Firenze: Passigli - Educational objectives
- The main knowledge that students will acquire will be:
knowledge of approaches and methods;
knowledge of the relationship between anthropology and forms of governance;
knowledge of tools and techniques for the interpretation of socio-cultural processes - Prerequisites
- n/a
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
frontal lessons;
meetings with the authors of the study texts;
discussion groups;
vision of ethnographic audiovisual materials as integration of the frontal lessons - Other information
- Studenti con disabilità e/o con DSA: per la modalità di svolgimento delle prove di verifica, gli studenti possono giovarsi delle tecnologie inclusive, degli strumenti compensativi e delle misure dispensative previste dalla normativa. Tecnologie, strumenti e misure vanno richiesti e concordarti con il docente con congruo anticipo rispetto alle prove. Per le informazioni generali, consultare i Servizi di Ateneo alla pagina https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa e mettersi in contatto con il Referente per il Dipartimento.
- Learning verification modality
- Standard oral exame
- Extended program
- This year's course focuses on visual anthropology. It therefore offers the tools to analyze visual representations and the contexts in which they are produced: who represents whom and by what means? In the first part, general themes relating to the representation of cultural diversity will be introduced. In the second part he reflects through specific cases on imaginaries, stereotypes and resistances through ethnographic films, documentaries and experimental cinema.