Unit VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Course
Cultural heritage
Study-unit Code
A002542
Curriculum
Antropologia
Teacher
Alexander Koensler
Teachers
  • 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.
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