Schedule

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)
  • Wed. July 13.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

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.
  • Tues. July 26
    • Read:
      • Schacter, Rafael. “Street Art Is a Period. Period. Or the Emergence of Intermural Art.” Hyperallergic. N.p., 16 July 2016.
  • 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 #4
    • no 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Weds. August 10
    • Final project workshop #2
  • Thurs. August 11
    • no class – independent work day
  • Friday. August 12
    • Due: Project #6