Visualizing Anthropology

Anthropology starts with encounters with different cultures. That is, anthropologists begin their academic activities by encountering people living in different cultures. In this course, students will mainly watch documentary films in order to meet people living in different cultures. By encountering
various people through screens, we will think about how to understand others and live together.

Imaging, cultural anthropology, cross-cultural understanding

1) Guidance
2) Encounters with different cultures
3) Fieldwork
4) Questions
5) How to depict different cultures
6) Living "far away"
7) Listen
8) Conclusion
9) A world without sound
10) Tokyo in the 1980s
11) Listening to the thoughts of "others"
12) Remembrance or uncertainty of the self
13) Expressing "your own" thoughts
14) How to face the world
15) Conclusion, course survey

Syllabus (Japanese site only)