[ Lehre Welche Filme? geeignete Lehrveranstaltungen Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaften Exploring Culture Through Film ]        

Week 1 – The Scope of Anthropology: Bringing the “Exotic” Home

• Film: “Do You Take This Man?” by Elise Fried

Week 2 - Race, Culture and Evolution:

• Theoretical and Social Foundations of Anthropology;
  
• Language, Culture and the Mind;
  
• Marriage as a “Life Crisis” Ritual
  Film
  

Week 3 - Fieldwork and Participant-Observation:

• Women in the Field;
  
• Fieldnotes
  

Week 4 - Colonialism and Exploitation:

• The Historical Roots of Anthropology: Exploration and “Culture Clash”;
  
• “First Contact”: Exploitation or Opportunity?;
  
• Lab Discussion of “First Contact”
  
• Film: “First Contact” (1983) by Bob Conolly
  

Week 5 - The Concept of the “Other”:

• Anthropology and Tourism: The western Fascination with the “Other”;
  
• Symbolism, Semiotics and Visual Metaphors;
  
• Lab Discussion of “Cannibal Tours” and readings
  
• Film: “Cannibal Tours” (1988) by Dennis O’Rourke
  

Week 6 - The History of Ethnographic Film:

• Anthropological Ancestors: Mead and Bateson;
  
• Margaret Mead and the Impact of “Coming of Age in Samoa”;
  
• Lab: Review for Quiz
  
• Film: “Coming of Age” by Margaret Mead