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VE2: Advanced Course in Visual Ethnography

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2008-2009

Advanced Course to Visual Ethnographyapproaches in Visual Anthropology, and offers hands on training for the use of video by anthropologists. The course focuses on the possibilities that video recordings offer for anthropological research, as well as for the creation of ethnographic films that can be the result of such research. English is the language of tuition, unless only Dutch students are present.

Coördinator

Drs. Steef Meyknecht, Pieter de la Bourt Building, room nr: 3A29
Drs. Metje Postma, Pieter de la Bourt Building, room nr: 3A31

Onderwijsvormen

  • Lectures: 18 hours

  • Tutorials: 36 hours

  • Short video film: 10 minutes

  • Literature: 318 pages
    Total of 280 sbu = 10 ECTS

Studiemateriaal

COURSE LITERATURE (223 Pages)

  • De Bromhead, Toni (1996), Introduction to: Looking two ways. Hojbjerg: Intervention Press pp 1-12 (12 p.).

  • Crawford, Peter Ian (1992) Text and context in ethnographic films. Or “To whom it may concern” In: Crawford, Peter Ian and Sigurjon Baldur Hafsteinson(ed), The construction of the viewer, Intervention Press, Aarhus. pp.135-150 (15 p).

  • Kirsten Hastrup (1992): Anthropological visions, some notes on visual and textual authority, in: Film as ethnography, , Crawford, Peter and Turton, David (ed) Intervention Press, Aarhuss. (page 8-25 =17 p.)

  • Paul Henley (2006), Narratives the dirty secret of ethnographic filmmaking in: Postma M. and Crawford P. Reflecting Visual Ethnography 2006, CNWS Leiden/Intervention Press Aarhus (pp. 294-318: 24 p.)

  • David MacDougall (1976) Beyond Observational Cinema, in: Principles of Visual Anthropology, Paul Hockings (ed), Mouton Publishers, The Hague. (20 p.)

  • David MacDougall (1998) Complicities of Style, In: Transcultural Cinema (ed. Lucien Taylor), (pp. 140-149= 9 p.)

  • David MacDougall (1998) Whose Story is it? In: Transcultural Cinema (ed. Lucien Taylor), (pp. 150-164= 14p.)

  • David Mac Dougall (1999) Social Aesthetics and the Doon School. In: Visual Anthropology Review 15(1) (pp.3-20= 17 p.).

  • David MacDougall, (2006): Doon school reconsidered (2006). In: The Corporeal Image, 2006 Princeton University Press, New Jersey (p.120-144= 25 p.)

  • David MacDougall: Voice and Vision in Social Science, In: The Corporeal Image, 2006 Princeton University Press, New Jersey (p.32-65 = 33 p.)

  • CD-ROM-review: Saskia Kersenboom, Word, sound image; the Life of the Tamil text, in Odeion September 1998: http://www.iias.nl/oideion/journal/issue02/reviews/nijland.html (5 p.)

  • Akos Őstőr (2007), The ethnographer’s (visual) Knowledge. Fieldwork with camera and notebook in Vishnupur, 1982-1983 In: Barbash, Ilisa and Taylor, Lucien: The cinema of Robert Gardner, Berg Press, Oxford, UK. (pp. 223-236 = 13 p.)

  • Jean Rouch (1975) The camera and man, ed. in Mick Eaton, “The production of cinematic reality”, British Film Anthropology-reality-cinema: the films of Jean Rouch, (83-102 =19 p.)

Recommended further reading:

  • Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Taylor, Cross-Cultural Filmmaking. Chapter 2: From Fieldwork to Filming. Berkeley: University of California Press (34-89) (55 p.)

  • Sergej Eisenstein (1929), Buiten het Filmbeeld (pp. 30-47: 17 p), De Vierde Dimensie van de Film., In: Wilfred Oranje (ed): Montage, Het konstruktie principe in de kunst, Sunschrift 175, 1981, Nijmegen. pp. 63-79: 16 p

  • Paul Henley (2007) The Origins of Observational Cinema: conversations with Colin Young. In: Beate Engelbrecht (ed), Origins of Visual Anthropology, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main etc. (pp. 139-162: 23p.)

  • Paul Henley (2007) Beyond the burden of the real. –An anthropologist’s reflections on the technique of a ‘master cutter’. In: In: Barbash, Ilisa and Taylor, Lucien: The cinema of Robert Gardner, Berg Press, Oxford, UK. pp.33-57: 24 p.

  • Interpreting Ethnographic Film: An Exchange About ‘Celso and Cora’, Gary Kildea and Margaret Willson, Anthropology Today, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Aug., 1986), pp. 15-17 (JSTOR article consists of 3 pages) Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

  • David MacDougall (2007) Gardner’s Bliss. In: Barbash, Ilisa and Taylor, Lucien: The cinema of Robert Gardner, Berg Press, Oxford, UK.( pp. 153-173: 20 p.)

  • Howard Morphy, The interpretation of ritual: reflections from film on anthropological practice; Malinowski Memorial Lecture 1993 in: Man (N.S.) 29, pages: 117-146= 29 p.

  • Bill Nichols (1983) The Voice of documentary. In: Film Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Spring, 1983) pp.17-30: 23p. (BB)

  • Bill Nichols (2001) Introduction to Documentary, Indiana University Press, Bloomington 223 p.

  • Nijland, Dirk (2006), ‘Film and Non Verbal Expressions of Culture Amongst the Tobelo,’ in: Reflecting Visual Ethnography: using the camera in anthropological research, Postma, Metje & Crawford, Peter, Intervention Press, Aarhuss & CNWS publications Leiden (26 p.).

  • David MacDougall (1998),: Visual Anthropology and the Ways of knowing. In: Transcultural Cinema, Lucien Taylor (ed) Princeton University Press, New Jersey p.61- 92 (29 p.)

  • Metje Postma (2006) From description to narrative, what’s left of ethnography? In: Postma M. and Crawford P. Reflecting Visual Ethnography 2006, CNWS Leiden/Intervention Press Aarhus (pp. 320-357: 37 p.)

  • Rossella Ragazzi (2006) Memory, Resistance and Speaking the Self, in: Reflecting Visual Ethnography: using the camera in anthropological research Postma, Metje & Crawford, Peter, Intervention Press, Aarhuss & CNWS publications Leiden (p.186-210)

  • Jean-Pierre Warnier: Praxeology a praxeological approach to subjectivation in a material world. Journal of Material Culture 2001; 6; 5 (21 pp)

Toetsing

  • Take home exam (1/4) on literature and the content of the lectures

  • Video production (1/2)

  • QAQR & practical assignments (1/4)

  • Attendance of the lectures and tutorials is obligatory. Absence can in rare cases be compensated by reading additional literature.

Ingangseis/advies

Only students who have completed the “Introductory Course to Visual Ethnography” can apply for the Advanced Course. This condition applies also to students from other Dutch universities, and to foreign students.
A maximum of twelve (12) students can be admitted to Advanced Course in Visual Ethnography. Other students can attend the lectures, but do not have access to the tutorials. Preference will be given to students of the Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Department of Leiden University.
Financial contribution per student: € 50,-

Rooster

Wednesdays and Fridays, 4 February - 26 June 2009, 14-17 h
(no class on 13th of February)

Location: Filmzaal, Pieter de al Court Building

Inschrijving

Inschrijving op het secretariaat CA-OS, kamer 3A19, tel. 5273469, vóór 15 januari 2009.

Blackboard

See Blackboard for a detailed course programme.