Master Program: Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices

2020/05/13 4677

Deadline for applications extended until 31 May 2020! Because of the difficulties experienced by applicants due to the coronavirus outbreak, the deadline for the submission of applications for the master course starting in November 2020 has beend extended until 31 May 2020! In these days we receive a lot of questions from students all over […]Continue Reading

RAI FILM FESTIVAL 2021

2020/04/27 2598

The RAI FILM FESTIVAL celebrates documentaries from around the globe that engage with themes of culture & society. It has a special focus on anthropological and ethnographic films. First held in 1985, and one of the longest-established in its field, the RAI FILM FESTIVAL serves as a leading forum for exploring the multiple relationships between […]Continue Reading

VIZANTROP Engaged ethnographic film festival

2020/03/08 3174

OPEN CALL FOR SECOND EDITION OF VIZANTROP FESTIVAL Vizantrop, engaged ethnographic film festival in Serbia, is pleased to announce the opening submissions for the second edition of festival. The Festival will be held in the city of Belgrade, from May 20th – 24th 2020 and organized by collective “Vizantrop” from Belgrade. If yoz want to apply with […]Continue Reading

Hacia el giro corporal en la antropología visual: imágenes, sentidos y corporalidades en la Colombia contemporánea

2020/02/19 2907

Hacia el giro corporal en la antropología visual: imágenes, sentidos y corporalidades en la Colombia contemporánea by Catalina Cortés Severino Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2019 Publisher link El libro presenta algunas reflexiones sobre el campo contemporáneo de la antropología visual, derivadas de la experiencia investigativa de la autora en los últimos años. Si bien Continue Reading

Visual Ethnography. New issue published!

2020/01/30 2973

The latest issue of the journal Visual Ethnography is published at www.vejournal.org. Subscribe the journal at only 15 € (individual) or 150 € (institutional). Require the subscription to your institutional library and will receive a book as a gift. More info here. Call for articles always open. Tweet #visualanthropologyContinue Reading

Muddied Waters. The Fictionalisation of Ethnographic Film

2020/01/15 4544

Toni de Bromhead Muddied Waters. The Fictionalisation of Ethnographic Film 2019, Intervention Press Website Visual anthropologists and ethnographic film-makers continue to disagree on what is and what is not ethnographic film. Meanwhile the situation becomes ever more unclear, possibly to the detriment of ethnographic film. Toni de Bromhead now tackles this problem from Continue Reading

Visual Methods in the Field: Photography for the Social Sciences

2019/12/13 3853

Terence Heng Visual Methods in the Field: Photography for the Social Sciences 2016, Taylor and Francis book website The use of images, particularly photography, has been steadily gaining popularity in academia, but there has not yet been a book that deals with the act and process of photo-taking in the field. Drawing upon 21 years […]Continue Reading

Fictionalizing Anthropology Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human

2019/12/13 2889

Stuart McLean Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human 2017, Minnesota University Press > book website On anthropology, creativity, and becoming other Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature. He insists that experiments with language and form are a performative means of exploring alternative possibilities of Continue Reading

African Video Movies and Gobal Desires. A Ghanaian History

2019/09/25 2611

Carmela Garritano African Video Movies and Global Desires. A Ghanaian History 2015, Ohio University Press Website African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana’s commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural […]Continue Reading

Nigerian Video Films

2019/09/25 3162

Jonathan Haynes (ed) Nigerian Video Films 2000, Ohio University Press Website Nigerian video films—dramatic features shot on video and sold as cassettes—are being produced at the rate of nearly one a day, making them the major contemporary art form in Nigeria. The history of African film offers no precedent for such a huge, popularly based […]Continue Reading