Ethnographic Film, Media, and Beyond (ANTH-0021)

Fall 2025 · ANTH 0021 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

History of ethnographic film and photography, including ongoing debates about colonialism, representation, aesthetics, knowledge production, the role of the ethnographer, and cross-cultural collaboration. Discussion of recent works of anthropological media, how they relate to written scholarship, and how they have been used to reach out to specific communities and new publics. Consideration of graphic ethnographies, infographics, animation, and audio works as media for representing and engaging societies and cultural practices.

Course codes: ANTH-0021, ANTH 0021, ANTH0021, ANTH-21, ANTH 21, ANTH21, FMS-0039, FMS 0039, FMS0039, FMS-39, FMS 39, FMS39

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