Readings and assignments
Note 1: Readings need to be completed on the date they are listed alongside.
Note 2: This schedule is subject to change. You will be given advance notice and amendments will be made to this website. Please check back regularly.
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Week 1. July 11- 17
- Tues. July 12.
- Wright, Terence. The Photography Handbook. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2004.
- Read: Wright, “Introduction” (11p) •
- Read: Wright, “Historical outline of photographic representation” (24p)
- Wright, Terence. The Photography Handbook. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2004.
- Wed. July 13.
- Rodney, Seph. “The Politics of Seeing, Being, and Visibility in Photography.” Hyperallergic. N.p., 20 June 2016. Web. 12 July 2016.
http://hyperallergic.com/299182/the-politics-of-seeing-being-and-visibility-in-photography
- Rodney, Seph. “The Politics of Seeing, Being, and Visibility in Photography.” Hyperallergic. N.p., 20 June 2016. Web. 12 July 2016.
- Thurs. July 14.
- Sayer, Derek. “The Photograph: The Still Image.” History Beyond the Text: A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources. Ed. Sarah Barber and Corrina Peniston-Bird. London: Routledge, 2008. 49–71.
- Friday. July 15.
- Wolbert, Barbara. “The Anthropologist as Photographer: The Visual Construction of Ethnographic Authority.” Visual Anthropology 13.4 (2000): 321–343.
Week 2. July 18-24.
- Monday, July 18
- Read: MacDougall, David. “The Visual in Anthropology.” Visualizing Theory : Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994. Ed. Lucien. Taylor. New York: Routledge, 1994. 276–295.
- Tuesday, July 19
- Read: Wright, Terence. “Photography Theories of Realism and Convention.” Anthropology and Photography, 1860-1920. Ed. Elizabeth Edwards. New Haven: Yale University Press in association with the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, 1992. 18–31.
- Wednesday, July 20. Ethics 1
- Read: pages 30-76 of Pink2001
- Pink, Sarah. Doing Visual Ethnography: Images, Media and Representation in Research. Sage Publications Ltd, 2001.
- Read: pages 30-76 of Pink2001
- Thursday, July 21. Ethics II
- Read: Barbash-Taylor1997 (48-68)
- Barbash, Ilisa, and Lucien Taylor. Cross-Cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
- Read: Barbash-Taylor1997 (48-68)
- Friday, July 22. Ethics III
- Read:
- “Ethics Blog » Full Text of the 2012 Ethics Statement.” Ethics Blog.
- Papademas, Diana, International Visual Sociology Association, and others. “IVSA Code of Research Ethics and Guidelines.” Visual Studies 24.3 (2009): 250–257.
- Due: Project #2
- Read:
Week 3. July 25-31
- Monday, July 25
- Read:
- Cadogan, Garnette. “Walking While Black.” Literary Hub. N.p., 8 July 2016. Web. 8 July 2016.
- Nicholson, Geoff. “8. The Walking Photograph.” The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Literature of Pedestrianism. New York: Riverhead Books, 2008. 196–216.
- Read:
- Tues. July 26
- Read:
- Schacter, Rafael. “Street Art Is a Period. Period. Or the Emergence of Intermural Art.” Hyperallergic. N.p., 16 July 2016.
- Read:
- Weds. July 27
- Due: Project #3
- no additional readings today
- Thurs. July 28
- Due: Presentation #2 (group 2)
- Read:
- Ingold, T. “Footprints through the Weather-World: Walking, Breathing, Knowing.” JOURNAL- ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE 16 (2010): S121–S139.
- Fri. July 29
- Due: Presentation #2 (group 1)
- Read:
- Sweetman, Paul. “Revealing Habitus, Illuminating Practice: Bourdieu, Photography and Visual Methods.” Sociological Review 57.3 (2009): 491–511.
Week 4. August 1-7
- Mon. August 1
Due: Project #4no additional readings today- Independent Work Day. No seminar.
- Tues. August 2
- Due (new date): Project #4
- Read:
- Edwards, Elizabeth. “Beyond the Boundary: A Consideration of the Expressive in Photography and Anthropology.” Rethinking Visual Anthropology. Ed. Marcus Banks and Howard Morphy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. 53–80.
- Weds. August 3
- Read:
- Ingold, Tim. “The Eye of the Storm: Visual Perception and the Weather.” Visual Studies 20.2 (2005): 97–104.
- Read:
- Thurs. August 4
- Read:
- Arsenault, Raymond. “The End of the Long Hot Summer: The Air Conditioner and Southern Culture.” The Journal of Southern History 50.4 (1984): 597–628.
- Read:
- Friday. August 5
- Due: Project #5
Week 5. August 8-14
- Mon. August 8
- Read (recommended, only):
- Hitchings, Russell. 2011. “Coping with the Immediate Experience of Climate: Regional Variations and Indoor Trajectories.” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 2 (2): 170–84.
- Final project workshop #1
- Read (recommended, only):
- Tues. August 9
- Read:
- Pavsek, Christopher. 2015. “Leviathan and the Experience of Sensory Ethnography.” Visual Anthropology Review 31 (1): 4–11. doi:10.1111/var.12056.
- Westmoreland, Mark R., and Brent Luvaas. 2015. “Introduction: Leviathan and the Entangled Lives of Species.” Visual Anthropology Review 31 (1): 1–3. doi:10.1111/var.12055.
- Read:
- Weds. August 10
- Final project workshop #2
- Thurs. August 11
- no class – independent work day
- Friday. August 12
- Due: Project #6