Visual and Media Anthropology

Undergraduate | 2026

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Area/Catalogue
ANTH 3003
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Course ID
200871
Level of study
Level of study
Undergraduate
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Unit value
6
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Course level
3
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Inbound study abroad and exchange
Inbound study abroad and exchange
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Course data is interim and subject to change

Course overview

This course is about ethical visual representations of culture and cultural difference. It looks at a wide variety of visual media (including art, photography, film, video, and digital technologies) to explore the ways in which these shape both the perception, and the experience, of socio-cultural change. Throughout the course, an emphasis is placed on the inherent power of images: Their ability to shape our own cultural experiences, to cast cultural 'others' in particular ways, and to act as a mode of resisting other people's stereotypes. A particular focus is placed on the production and circulation of visual narratives which, when paired with written narratives, mediate our cultural contact zones. It is in these moments of contact - in postcolonial encounters, in ethnographic research, and in the algorithmic mediations of cyberspace - that people construct ideas about themselves and others.

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