books

(these can be purchased from the UofA bookstore)

Edwards, Steven. 2006. Photography: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, USA.

Storey, John. 2006. Cultural theory and popular culture : an introduction. Harlow [u.a.]: Pearson/Prentice Hall.

Taussig, Michael T. 2003. Law in a lawless land : diary of a “limpieza” in Colombia. New York: New Press.

Articles

Articles published in journals course are posted under the ‘categories’ listing.  They will also be referenced on the calendar and listed here in the order they are assigned.

• Taussig, Michael. 2003. “The Diary as Witness: an Anthropologist Writes What He Must.” Chronicle of Higher Education 50, no. 17: B12-B13. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost.
  • read for: Monday, January 12
• Jay, Martin (1991) The disenchantment of the eye: Surrealism and the crisis of occularcentrism. Visual Anthropology Review. Vol. 7, No. 1, p. 15-38.
  • read for: Wednesday, January 14
  • Download the article here
• Kracauer, Siegfried (1975) The Mass Ornament. New German Critique, No. 5 (Spring, 1975), pp. 67-76.
  • read for: Monday, January 19
• Bourdieu, Pierre. 1991. Towards a sociology of photography. Visual Anthropology Review. Vol. 7, No.1, p. 129-133
• read for: Monday, January 26
• note that you need to go to the ‘anthrosource’ database in the UofA library to find this article.  The link for Visual Anthropology Review does not work.