Examines the emergence of as well as the contestations around the genre known as ethnographic film and its relationship to wider debates about documentary and non-fictional film practice. In addition to basic works by thinkers such as Durkheim, Malinowski, Mead, Benedict and Boas, we will read a selection of ethnographies of schooling from the United States, Africa and Japan. The development of anthropological thought in the West. Structural functionalism, culture and personality, structuralism, political and economic anthropology, ecological and material culture studies. 215b Cinema in India T. Ganti Details the history and development of cinema in India from the late 19th century to the present, focusing not only on films and filmmakers, but also on the complexities of production, circulation and consumption.
Attention is paid to key debates and obstacles in the study of cinema in India.
Examines the impact of cinema on other forms of popular culture in India as well as in the South Asian diaspora. This course explores issues of power and its operation through examining women and women's experience. Course readings combine theoretical materials on power and women's empowerment with ethnographic studies that will allow us to investigate theoretical questions in specific contexts. We consider the nature of power, the sources of social inequality, and the potential for powerful action on individual and collective levels. The study of Mediterranean societies and the problematics of ethnographic production.