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MASTER’S DEGREE PROGRAMME IN INFORMATION STUDIES – THE DIGITAL LIVING TRACK Aarhus University, Department of Aesthetics & Communication, Faculty of Arts Web Site WORK AND SOCIAL LIFE IN AN ERA OF SMART MACHINES & SOCIAL MEDIA How do social media influence us? How do digital technologies constrain or liberate social practices, influence communities, or transform…
The Camera as Witness. A Social History of Mizoram, Northeast India by Joy L. K. Pachuau & Willem van Schendel Cambridge University Press, 2015 The Camera as Witness lifts the veil off the little known world of Mizoram and challenges – through unpublished photographs – core assumptions in the writing of India’s national history. The…
The 2015 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival is coming on 2-6 October 2015, to be held at the Wonderful Theatre in Taipei.
Entry submission deadline: 20 May 2015
TIEFF is organized by the Taiwan Association of Visual Ethnography (TAVE), a non-profit organization dedicated to greater public awareness of documentary and ethnographic films.
The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival continues the exploration of the anthropological world through the image and, for its 6th edition, is looking for films made by anthropologists (or related background), including students’ works, either as dissertations or as assignments.
The Society for Visual Anthropology’s Film Festival screens work by students, professional anthropologists, and professional filmmakers at the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference.
Designed for photographers, artists and ethnographers whose work address notions of urban space and culture, the international Urban Photography Summer School provides a highly intensive two-week practical and theoretical training in key aspects of urban visual practice. The course aims to offer participants a wide range of relevant skills resulting in the production of a photography portfolio drawn from London’s urban environments along with a collective final exhibition.
The Finnish Anthropological Society invites documentary film submissions to be screened during its Biennial Conference in Helsinki from the 21st to the 22nd October 2015. The theme of the conference is Landscapes, Sociality, & Materiality.
The Film Programme aims to investigate different ways in which objects, landscapes, material properties of various resources, infrastructures, and environments enable and restrict certain forms of creativity.
Submissions have closed for the 2015 festival Paris, France, 8-12 April 2015
Digital ethnography can be understood as a method for representing real-life cultures through storytelling in digital media. Enabling audiences to go beyond absorbing facts, computer-based storytelling allows for immersion in the experience of another culture.
The 2015 Jean Rouch International Film Festival is now open for entries.
The deadline to submit a film is 15th April 2015.
Visual Anthropology in Sardinia explores the technique, style and methodology of documentary films about Sardinia, investigating how such films construct different experiences and identities, and reflecting on the advantages of the medium of documentary film over written ethnographic texts.
The new issue of VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY is online at www.vejournal.org
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
Irene Salerno
Sharing Memories and “Telling” Heritage through Audio-Visual Devices. Participatory Ethnography and New Patterns for Cultural Heritage Interpretation and Valorisation
Jonathan Ventura, Ariela Popper-Giveon, Atef abu Rabia
Materialized Beliefs: ‘Industrialized’ Islamic Amulets
Fabio Ciaravella
Parafiction in un quartiere di Matera. Su un possibile contributo dell’arte contemporanea come metodo d’analisi della città
REPORTS
Felice Tiragallo
Il cinema etnografico transculturale. I film e la riflessione teorica di David MacDougall
PHOTO ESSAYS, VIDEO, REPORTS, FILM, REVIEWS, BOOKS RECEIVED
The 2015 Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival is coming on 2-6 October 2015, to be held at the Wonderful Theatre in Taipei.
Entry submission deadline: 20 May 2015
TIEFF is organized by the Taiwan Association of Visual Ethnography (TAVE), a non-profit organization dedicated to greater public awareness of documentary and ethnographic films.
The Athens Ethnographic Film Festival continues the exploration of the anthropological world through the image and, for its 6th edition, is looking for films made by anthropologists (or related background), including students’ works, either as dissertations or as assignments.
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The Society for Visual Anthropology’s Film Festival screens work by students, professional anthropologists, and professional filmmakers at the American Anthropological Association’s annual conference.
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The Finnish Anthropological Society invites documentary film submissions to be screened during its Biennial Conference in Helsinki from the 21st to the 22nd October 2015. The theme of the conference is Landscapes, Sociality, & Materiality.
The Film Programme aims to investigate different ways in which objects, landscapes, material properties of various resources, infrastructures, and environments enable and restrict certain forms of creativity.
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The new issue of VISUAL ETHNOGRAPHY is online at www.vejournal.org
Table of Contents
ARTICLES
Irene Salerno
Sharing Memories and “Telling” Heritage through Audio-Visual Devices. Participatory Ethnography and New Patterns for Cultural Heritage Interpretation and Valorisation
Jonathan Ventura, Ariela Popper-Giveon, Atef abu Rabia
Materialized Beliefs: ‘Industrialized’ Islamic Amulets
Fabio Ciaravella
Parafiction in un quartiere di Matera. Su un possibile contributo dell’arte contemporanea come metodo d’analisi della città
REPORTS
Felice Tiragallo
Il cinema etnografico transculturale. I film e la riflessione teorica di David MacDougall
PHOTO ESSAYS, VIDEO, REPORTS, FILM, REVIEWS, BOOKS RECEIVED
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Anthrovision, vol. 2, n. 2 is online at http://anthrovision.revues.org/1077 Tweet #visualanthropology
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Journal of Video Ethnography Call for Reviewers The newly launched Journal of Video Ethnography (JVE) is a venture of DePaul University’s Social Science Research Center. JVE is the first ever peer-reviewed journal of ethnographic films and videos. The aim of this journal is to advance the social scientific use of video/film as a method for…
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DOC ONLINE – Revista Digital ed Cinema Documentario http://www.doc.ubi.pt/ n. 15 (12/2013) DOCUMENTÁRIO E HISTÓRIA Tweet #visualanthropology
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Visual Anthropology, Vol. 27, n. 5 Summary ARTICLES Who Has the Last Laugh? Nanook of the North and Some New Thoughts on an Old Classic Anna Grimshaw pages 421-435 Where Is the Theory in Visual Anthropology? Paul Hockings, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Jay Ruby, David MacDougall, Drid Williams, Albert Piette, Maureen T. Schwarz & Silvio Carta…
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Visual Anthropology, Vol. 27, n. 4 Summary Beyond the “African” Archive Paradigm Erin Haney & Jürg Schneider pages 307-315 Demand and Supply: Francis W. Joaque, an Early African Photographer in an Emerging Market Jürg Schneider pages 316-338 Bonnevide: Photographie des Colonies: Early Studio Photography in Senegal Patricia Hickling pages 339-361 Going to Sea: Photographic Publics…
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