ANTH 259 - Anthropology Through the Lens

3 Credit(s)

From history to philosophy, to religion, to folklore, to art, to eating habits, much of what we know (or at least think we know) about other peoples and cultures comes from what we have seen in movies and films, but the accuracy of these films has a lot to do with who made them and why. In this course, students explore the politics of representation by examining a series of films that attempt to depict cultural “others.” This course introduces students to the basic theories and methods of visual anthropology. Students apply these by analyzing excerpts of commercial and ethnographic representations of culture in film.
Prerequisite(s): No prerequisite.