The 15th German (Göttingen) International Ethnographic Film Festival

2019/09/19 3455

The 15th German (Göttingen) International Ethnographic Film Festival will take place from 13 to 17 May 2020 WebSite The festival promotes documentary cinema with a special emphasis on new films, videos or interactive media (published after 1.1.2017) dealing with socio-cultural processes in a wide sense of the term.The festival is open to all filmmakers, but […]Continue Reading

Picturing Bushmen. The Denver African Expedition of 1925

2019/09/09 1649

Robert J. Gordon Picturing Bushmen. The Denver African Expedition of 1925 OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1997 https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Picturing+Bushmen The Denver African Expedition of 1925 sought “the cradle of Humanity.” The explorers returned claiming to have found the “Missing Link” in the Heikum bushmen of the Kalahari—and they proceeded to market this image. As Continue Reading

Agitating Images. Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia

2019/07/04 1672

Agitating Images Photography against History in Indigenous Siberia by Craig Campbell University of Minnesota Press, 2014 Website In Agitating Images, Craig Campbell draws a rich and unsettling cultural portrait of the encounter between indigenous Siberians and Russian communists and reveals how photographs from this period complicate our understanding of this history. Continue Reading

Vizantrop Festival 2019

2019/06/01 3431

Vizantrop Festival 2019 VAC’s 7th School of Visual Anthropology invites film-makers, anthropologists, photographers, social scientists and activists from all over the World to join us in Belgrade between the 10th and 20th of July 2019 and take the opportunity to learn, share knowledge, experience and be a part of our hub. VAC isn’t merely looking […]Continue Reading

Modernist Art in Ethiopia, by Elizabeth W. Giorgis

2019/05/16 1958

Modernist Art in Ethiopia Elizabeth W. Giorgis Ohio University Press, 2019 Web Site If modernism initially came to Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia’s inimitable historical condition—its independence save for five years under Italian occupation—mean for its own modernist tradition? In Modernist Art in Ethiopia—the first book-length study of the Continue Reading

Vizantrop Festival 2019

2019/05/07 3846

Vizantrop Festival 2019 – 14-16 June, 2019 Break the fence, share your movie! OPEN call untill 15th of May Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhwOzGjOTs4P0MN9rKslZGYpAG1o_VFl-P0EHJ4nkabo829A/viewform?usp=send_form Vizantrop, engaged ethnographic film festival in Serbia, is pleased to announce the opening submissions for the first edition of the Continue Reading

Merleau-Ponty Space, Place, Architecture Edited by Patricia M. Locke and Rachel McCann

2019/04/30 2119

Merleau-Ponty. Space, Place, Architecture Edited by Patricia M. Locke and Rachel McCann OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS https://www.ohioswallow.com/book/Merleau-Ponty Phenomenology has played a decisive role in the emergence of the discourse of place, now indispensable to many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, and the contribution of Merleau-Ponty’s thought to Continue Reading

Of Hairy Kings and Saintly Slaves

2019/04/10 1771

Of Hairy Kings and Saintly Slaves. An Ethiopian Travelogue Manuel Joao Ramos Sean Kingston Publishing A lost sketch book on a Portuguese castle rampart left Manuel João Ramos bereft, and the impulse to draw deserted him – but his first trip to Ethiopia reawakened this pleasure, so long denied. Drawing obsessively and free from care, […]Continue Reading

Freiburg Film forum 2019

2018/11/19 6395

Freiburg Film forum (28 May – 2 June 2019) Call for entries open! The students’ platform of the freiburg film forum (28 May – 2 June 2019) calls for first and final works such as documentaries, feature films and short films covering inter- and sociocultural issues. Debut films of filmmakers who are not studying are […]Continue Reading

Visual Anthropology Master at the Arctic University of Norway

2018/11/12 4681

Visual Anthropology Master at the Arctic University of Norway Are you interested in human culture and how to use the video camera in social scientific research? At Visual Anthropology you are given the opportunity to study ethnographic research methods, anthropological theory, and ethnographic film making in an international environment, culminating with the production of Continue Reading