Brief course description | Steadily increasing interest in visuality among anthropologists might be due to a fact that this aspect of culture was neglected for some time. Still the changes of the scope of sub-discipline are the main reason why visuality is recently gaining the ground among researchers. Visual anthropology (photography and film) ceased to be considered only as an auxiliary method of ethnography but become a field of reflection in its own right - reflection on visual categories in different cultures including our own. Therefore it is inscribed in transformations that whole discipline of anthropology undergoes. The course is thought as a prolegomena to ANTHROPOLOGY OF FILM - ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM. Various films, photographs and some theoretical texts will serve as material for research and a base for discussions.

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1 & 2 Visual Anthropology. Anthropology of film and photography.

3 Parallel histories of photography and anthropology. Early anthropological photography (B. Malinowski, K. Zagórski)

4 & 5 On photography.

6. R. Flaherty, Nanook of the North

7. A brief history of polish ethnographic film

8. What makes a documentary? Photography and Film: documentary and theories of realism and convention

9. Photography in the traditional peasant culture

9. Andrzej Różycki, Nieskończoność dalekich dróg and the phenomenon of Zofia Rydet