Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
| Master in anthropology (120 ECTS) | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Introduction to a school of thought embodied in France by Marc Augé, Michèle de la Pradelle and others. The basic tenet is that all cultures are time-wise identical; they all belong to "contemporaneity". A long exotic journey is no reverse time machine anymore. Visual anthropology belongs to that perspective.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
The idea is to sensitize students to the very notion of "contemporaneity", and to the questions addressed by J. Fabian in /Time and the Other/. While the old opposition* *ethnology vs.
anthropology seems to be back institutionaly, there is a conceptual necessity to get rid of the oppositions endotic vs. exotic, in vs. out, near vs. far.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
A good command of the history of Anglo-Saxon and French anthropologies, as well as a good command of written English.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
None
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Three 10-hour modules are the backbone of the course; a module every month and ten hours on a two-day blocked period. Epitomes of contemporary visual anthropology are presented in each period.
Recommended or required readings
A reader is offered and readings are suggested
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination based on a written document, which is an answer to a general question presented by the teacher at the beginning of the course.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course is offered during the first semester, at the request of students who need a second semester fully devoted to their fieldwork and their memoir.
Contacts
Yves Winkin yves.winkin@ulg.ac.be