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This course introduces MA students to more-than-textual, experimental, and inventive approaches to ethnographic knowledge. Centered on multimodality—its epistemic possibilities as well as its ethical and political implications—the course familiarizes students with key debates and ethnographic practices that shape multimodal work in anthropology.
The Module explores relational, collaborative, and inventive modes of knowledge production, encouraging students to move beyond text-based ethnography. Students will critically engage with the so-called “multimodal turn” in ethnographic practice, examining how diverse media and forms of representation challenge established understandings of ethnographic data, evidence, and the field itself.
Throughout the seminar, students will be guided in developing a holistic understanding of multimodality across all stages of ethnographic research. From reconfiguring research questions and designing reflexive fieldwork, to analysis and the production of multimodal outputs, the course emphasizes multimodality as an integrated methodological, analytical, ethical, and representational practice. |
| Literatur |
Ballestero, A., & Winthereik, B. R. (2021). Experimenting with ethnography: A companion to analysis (p. 313). Duke University Press.
Collins, S. G., & Durington, M. S. (2024). Multimodal methods in anthropology. Routledge.
Dattatreyan, E. G., & Marrero-Guillamón, I. (2019). Introduction: Multimodal anthropology and the politics of invention. American Anthropologist, 121(1), 220-228.
Smith, T. L., & Hennessy, K. (2020). Anarchival materiality in film archives: toward an anthropology of the multimodal. Visual Anthropology Review, 36(1), 113-136.
Takaragawa, S., Smith, T. L., Hennessy, K., Astacio, P. A., Chio, J., Nye, C., & Shankar, S. (2019). Bad habitus: Anthropology in the age of the multimodal. American Ant
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