Anthropology 310s - Visualizing Culture

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Mount Holyoke College

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In this course we go behind the scenes and behind the screens of anthropological films, television, museum exhibitions, and publications such as National Geographic Magazine, to explore the social contexts of their production, distribution, and interpretation.We consider how popular images of cultural "others" reveal the lives and times that producethem, and how, as sites of cultural exchange and political debate, such images shape and are shaped by relations of power. Further, we consider the diversity of local responses to images of cultural identity and begin to explore the complexities of "picturing cultures" from different subject positions across the global mediascape. Meets multicultural requirement; does not meet a distribution requirement D. Battaglia Prereq. 8 credits in department or permission of instructor; 4 credits

Credits:

8.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.mtholyoke.edu

Phone Number:

(413) 538-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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