Visual Anthropology

Year
2

Academic year
2013-2014

Code
01007665

Subject Area
Sociology and other studies

Language of Instruction
Portuguese

Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face

Duration
SEMESTRIAL

ECTS Credits
4.0

Type
Compulsory

Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

knowledge of english (reading).

Teaching Methods

Theoretical classes concerning the syllabus items and the exibition and critical reflexion aboutselected images.

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to explore images as ways of representaion and constitution of the reality, based on the comparative approach to different ethnographic contexts.

Work Placement(s)

Syllabus

1. The specificity of visual representaions.

2.Visual practices.

3. Visual Cultures: contemporary adaptations, apropriations ans mediations.

Head Lecturer(s)

Vera Manuela Miranda Marques Alves

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 100.0%

Bibliography

Barthes, Roland, A Câmara Clara, Lisboa, Edições 70.

Faris, James C., 1996, Navajo and Photography. A Critical History of the Representation of an American People, Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press.

Featherstone, Mike, 1993 (1991), “Postmodernism and the aestheticization of everyday life”, in Lash, Scott e Friedman, Jonathan (ed.), Modernity and Identity, Oxford (Reino Unido) e Cambridge (E.U.A.), Blackwell, pp. 265-290.

Gordon, Robert J.,1997, Picturing Bushmen. The Denver African Expedition of 1925, Athens (Ohio), Ohio University Press.

Lutz, Catherine A. E Collins, Jane L., 1993, Reading National Geographic, Chicago e Londres, The University of Chicago Press

Porto, Nuno (coord.) 1999, Angola a Preto e Banco. Fotografia e Ciência no Museu do Dundo, Coimbra, Museu Antropológico da Universidade de Coimbra