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SEL offers intensive training in ethnographic media and
hypermedia production. At its core is an
intensive year-long course in "Sensory Ethnography." Over a
calendar year, students receive
instruction in ethnographic media practices, producing a variety
of original digital video, still
photographic, hypermedia, and sound works. Advanced graduate
students are also provided with
training and equipment to produce substantial media
ethnographies in conjunction with their written
doctoral dissertations. Harvard graduate students specializing
in media anthropology may elect to
declare a Secondary Field in Film & Visual Studies. This
requires taking four graduate-level media
courses, of which one may be either Sensory Ethnography I (Anth
2835) or Sensory Ethnography II
(Anth 2836).
Anthropology 1836aar: Sensory Ethnography I
Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Vrna Paravel
First half of a year-long sequence in which students apply media
anthropological theory and conduct
ethnography using film, video, sound, and/or still photography.
Note: Students must also attend all VES
158ar classes. Emphasis is on pre-production and production in
the spring, and on post-production in the
fall. Interview with instructor and teaching assistant required
for admission.
Anthropology 2722: Sonic Ethnography
Ernst Karel
This is a graduate-level, practice-based course in which
students will record, edit, and produce
anthropologically-informed audio works. Through intensive
recording, listening, and discussion, this
course will consider the use of location recording and
composition as a means of conveying
ethnographic knowledge. Students will also gain a familiarity
with existing genres and uses of
nonfiction audio in anthropology and related fields, and of
possibilities for creative use of the
medium going forward. Projects will be situated in relationship
to cognate fields, including the
anthropology of the senses, interdisciplinary sound studies,
ethnomusicology, ethnographic
cinema, sound art, sound mapping, soundscape composition, and
experimental nonfiction media
practices which involve location recording.
Anthropology 2835r: Sensory Ethnography I
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
First half of a year-long sequence in which students apply media
anthropological theory and
conduct ethnography using film, video, sound, and/or still
photography.
Note: Limited to graduate students, who must also attend all VES
157a classes. Emphasis is on
pre-production and production in the spring, and on
post-production in the fall.
Anthropology 2836r: Sensory Ethnography II
Studio Course
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Second half of a year-long sequence in which students apply
media anthropological theory and
conduct ethnography using film, video, sound, still photography,
and/or hypermedia.
Note: Limited to graduate students, who must also attend all VES
158 classes. Emphasis is on pre-production and production in the
spring, and on post-production in the fall.
Anthropology 2837: Media Archaeology of Place
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Ernst Karel
Jesse Shapins
Combining media art practice with critical inquiry and
ethnographic research, Boston and other
sites serve as laboratories for exploring different modes of
representing place. Films, maps, sound
recordings, and other media artifacts are treated as
archeaological objects and are re-interpreted
for exhibition.
Anthropology 2845: Media Anthropology Theory
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