Visual Anthropology

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

There are both theoretical and practical classes. In theoretical classes we expose central ideas concerning the syllabus items; We also promote a critical approach to selected images exhibited during class.  In the pratical classes studentes are expected to present and critically debate selected texts, as well as present and discuss images, relating the debate to the topics exposed in the theoretical classes.

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)

No

Syllabus

1. The specificity of visual representaions.

2.Visual practices and .

3. Visual Cultures: adaptations, apropriations ans mediations.(particular ethonographic contexts).

 

Head Lecturer(s)

Luís Fernando Gomes da Silva Quintais

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 40.0%
Frequency: 60.0%

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.