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Visual Anthropology

Video materials used in class illustrate many topics covered in this course. Consider these presentations similar to lab sessions, that is, watch them carefully and critically rather than simply watch another movie or video. The exams will include these materials, and it will be assumed that you have paid critical attention to them.


It is generally best to watch the videos after you have looked at the slides and reading material(s).


Dates and videos/films may change.

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Week 1
10 - 13 January 2024
     
  Many Ways to See the World:
A Thirty-minute Tour of World Map Images
(30 min., 2005, CC)
(UMD exp 10/25/22)

On-line Access
click  here

Other resources

course viewing guide

Maps Of America That Will Make You See Things Differently -- OceanDraw (16 November 2020)

Course Maps and Atlases WebPage

(UM Duluth Library Multimedia - DVD GA105.3 .M35 2006)
 
     
     

Many Ways to See the World:
Selective Attention

One of the five main characteristics of American Anthropology is fieldwork, "a primary research technique, involving “participant observation," which usually means living among the people one is interested in learning from and about. And fieldwork, almost above everything else, requires attentive observation and recording of information.

Much of what we are going to do for the rest of the semester is "fieldwork" via video materials from around the world. Before we get into the video-intensive part of the course (towards the middle and end), take the Selective Attention Test (below) developed by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. This should give you a little insight into the nature of observing—which lies at the very heart of anthropological fieldwork.

See also "An Important Note on Videos and Visual Anthropology".

 

First, take the . . .

Selective Attention Test

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo>

Read and follow the directions carefully.
(Be sure to also count the bounce passes.)


 Selective Attention Test


Be sure to try your very best to follow the instructions.

(It's short, less than a minute and a half).

 

When you are finished with the Selective Attention Test, watch . . .

The Monkey Business Illusion
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGQmdoK_ZfY>

(It too is short: 1:42)

Again, read and follow the directions carefully.

(And as with THe Selective Attention Test, be sure to also count the bounce passes.)

 The Monkey Business Illusion

 

(4) After you have taken Simon and Chabris' tests, think about how what you learned from them about perception might be applied as you view the videos for the rest of the semester as well as the cultural behaviors in real life as you roam the world thereafter


The main purpose of this exercise is to sensitize you to the fact that everyone views things selectively—”quite naturally, and maybe even by necessity. And one's culture plays a huge role in what one "sees" and focuses on (and what one doesn't see and focus on). American men, for e.g., most often do not "see" many details of clothing, color, and personal stylistic adornment (read hair styles, nail treatment, cosmetic adornments and the like).

To view things as a trained observer as anthropologists must do when they're in the field "doing" anthropology one must almost constantly be aware of this natural / cultural tendency to perceive things selectively, and try to compensate for it by paying attention to items not otherwise selected for, while at the same time being careful "not to miss anything".

Hopefully, this exercise will make you just a little more critical in the way you look at things—”and especially the class videos—”for the rest of the semester (and maybe even for the rest of your life, for that matter).

You are not expected anything to submit anything—no reaction, or report, or forum posting. This is a "re-vision" activity, and it should benefit you in performing well in the exams and overall for the course. And hopefully it will also help on your way to having a genuine anthropological perspective on life in general.

 

Other Materials from Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons . . .

"Demonstrations, videos from our research, videos of us speaking, etc. Dan's YouTube Channel includes most of these videos as well as favorites from around the web that are related to or mentioned in our book. You can view more videos on his personal website."

Other Videos --  the invisible gorilla

 

The Book . . .

 The Invisible Gorilla Book


. . . discusses six "everyday illusions" . . .

1. The Illusion of Attention
("Inattentional Blindness")
2. The Illusion of Memory
3. The Illusion of Confidence
4. The Illusion of Knowledge
5. The Illusion of Cause
6. The Illusion of Potential

Wilipedia

 Christopher Chabris

  Daniel Simons

 Inattentional blindness

 

Other Works of Interest

  • Optical Illusions WebPage

  • Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking Fast and Slow. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

  • Macknik, Stephen L., Susana Martinez-Conde, and Sandra Blakeslee. Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2010.

  • Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    • Incerto -- an investigation of luck, uncertainty, probability, opacity, human error, risk, disorder, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand

      • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets. 2nd Ed. NY: Random House, 2008.

      • The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable: With a new section: "On Robustness and Fragility". NY: Random House, 2010.

      • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. NY: Random House, 2014.

      • The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms. NY: Random House, 2016.

  • Malcolm Gladwell

     
     
 
Week 2
14 - 20 January 2024
     
Extranjeras
(Foreign Women [in Spain])
(74 min., 2005, CC)
(UMD exp 09/09/24)

On-line Access
click  here
course viewing guide
REM: Turn on the Closed Caption (CC)
(UM Duluth Library Multimedia -- DVD HD8588.5.A2 E987 2003)
 
     
 
Week 3
21 - 27 January 2024
     
 Why Finland And Denmark Are Happier Than The U.S.
[And actually, the happiest people in the world]
-- CNBC Make
(25.44 min., 9 January 2020)


terms:
hygge
stuga

On-line Access
click  here
transcript available on-line
REM: Turn on the Closed Caption (CC)
 
     
 
Week 4 
28 January - 3 February 2024
     

Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys 
(Reindeer Herders of Finnish Lapland)
(84 min., 2014)
(UMD exp perpetual)

On-line Access
click  here

"Trigger Alert"

Warning:
This Film Contains Graphic Images

of animals being harvested


course viewing guide
 
     

Week 5 
4 - 10 February 2024
     
Babakiueria narrator.
 Michele Torres
Babakiueria
(30 min., 1986)
[Australia]

YouTube linkAccess
click  here
course viewing guide
 
     
 
Week 6
11 - 17 February 2024
     
     
Hmong shaman.

Paja and Yer Vang Thao
 

 

 

 The Split Horn:
Life of a Hmong Shaman in America
(58 min., 2001)
(UMD exp 07/10/22)

On-line Access
(link updated 2022.08.08)
click  here
course viewing guide
DVD BL2370.S5 S65 2001b
Good Supplementary Film: Hmong Shaman in America
(28 min., 1993 [1985], UM DULUTH Martin Library Video Cassette VC 2148)
 
     
 
Week 7 
18 - 24 February 2024
     

s2024 Global Cultures Midterm Exam will be available Week 7, 19 - 24 February 2024 (up to 400 points)
NOTE: There will be at least one question in the pool from each of the assigned videos from Weeks 1-6, so be sure not to miss watching them.
Video Listings: <https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1095/fsvideo_schedule.html#week01>

     
 
After the Midterm Exam

Great Gatherings
(Rituals (natural history). 2, Great gatherings)
(55 min., 2018)
(UMD exp 07/21/32 AVON)
[Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Peru, U.S.A.]

On-line Access
(link updated 2022.08.08)
click  here

Open University, & British Broadcasting Corporation (Producers), & Harrison, N. (Director). (2018). Great gatherings. [Video/DVD] BBC Worldwide.

Abstract

"The greatest gatherings on Earth are rituals. They bind us together and keep communities alive. In Siena rival districts battle for supremacy in a 700 year-old horse race. In Japan, two thousand men perform a chaotic fire ritual to be renewed; while in Malaysia, one devotee joins millions to fulfill a grueling vow to god. At the world's highest mass ritual in the Peruvian Andes, men are initiated into their ancient clan; and in the desert, Burning Man's new rituals fulfill our desire to belong."
 
     
 
Week 8 
25 February - 2 March 2024
     
I Named Her Angel
(29 min., 2008)
(UMD exp perpetual)
[Türkiye, fka Turkey]

On-line Access
click  here
(Turkey; Mevlevis, are also known as Whirling Dervishes)
course viewing guide
 
     
 

Spring Break
4 - 8 March 2024

 
     
 
Week 9 
10 - 16 March 2024
     
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The Pig Commandments
(72 min., 2005)
(UMD exp perpetual)
[Chinese and Malay in Malaysia]

NOTICE: The UMD disk for The Pig Commandments is damaged and does not circulate from the Library. Please use on-line streaming.

On-line Access
click  here
course viewing guide
transcript

DVD BP184.9.D5 P54 2006
 
     
     
     
The Global Banquet: Politics of Food.
 Taste of China, Part 2,
"Food for Body and Spirit"

(29 min., 1984, VC 714)
(UMD exp 08/23/24)
[China]
[second copy with Closed Captioning available]

On-line Access
click  here
course viewing guide
(DVD TX724.5.C5 F66 1984)
 
     
 
Week 10 
17 - 23 March 2024
     
Ganges: River to Heaven
(52 min., 2003)
(UMD exp perpetual)
[India]

On-line Access
click  here

"Trigger Alert"

Warning:
This Film Contains Graphic Images

of humans and death rituals


course viewing guide
(DVD BL1243.76.V382 G35 2003)
(REM: Check Disk for Problems)
 
     
 
Week 11 
24 - 30 March 2024
     
A little "Romantic Love" from Strange Relations
From the series Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World, by David Maybury-Lewis
(60 min., 1992, VC 1974, pt. 2)
(UMD exp 01/27/2025)

On-line Access
(link updated 2022.08.08)
click  here

YouTube linkAccess
click  here
course viewing guide
 
     
 
Week 12
31 March - 6 April 2024
     
Après l'hiver, le printemps
(After Winter, Spring)
(74 min., 2013 [US Release Date: 2015])
(UMD exp perpetual)

On-line Access
click  here
Use this link for the film to get to the library catalog where you can click on Docuseek2 Streaming Videos.
Bullfrog Film's viewing guide
After Winter, Spring -- Wikipedia
(UM DULUTH Martin Library DVD DC33.L68 A38 2013)

  Docuseek 3rd Ed.
 
     
 
Week 13 
7 - 13 April 2024
     
Tejiendo Relatos
"Weaving Stories"
(56:56 min., 2015
(UMD exp 07/31/22 AVON)
 [Aymara; Bolivia]

 Directed by Clara Calvet, produced by Sebastián Riveaud, and Quechua Films. Quechua Films, 2015. Alexander Street.

On-line Access
click  here
course viewing guide
 Film WebPage

  Best Ethnographic Film Award
at the XXVI International Festival of Ethnological Film Belgrade 2017

IAMS Award
at the ESPIELLO International Ethnographic Documentary Festival 2017 and the

"El vídeo participativo es más que un proceso de realización,
Es una herramienta para cambiar el mundo que nos rodea.
"

["Participatory video is more than a process of realization;
It is a tool to change the world around us".
]

Tejiendo Relatos is a documentary that reflects the role of weaving women in the Andean communities of Bolivia. The purpose of this work is to make the world of these women known, expressed through ancestral textile techniques.”

“. . . The objective of this project is to publicize their work, in order to revalue an art that unfortunately is on the way to extinction.”

 

     
 
Week 14
14 - 20 April 2024
     
 
Video
Watch at least one of the three
full-length presentations on the Caribbean . . .


Caribbean . . . “Episode 1”
[The island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico]
Episode 1:
preview
(02:54 min., 2015)
Full feature Episode 1:
On-line Access
(59:22 min., 2015)
click  here
(UMD AVON link updated 2022.08.08)

Caribbean . . . “Episode 2”
[Barbados, St. Vincent, Venezuela, Colombia]
Episode 2:
preview
(02:37 min., 2015)
Full feature Episode 2:
On-line Access
(59:37 min., 2015)
click  here
(UMD AVON link updated 2022.08.08)

Caribbean . . . “Episode 3”
[Nicaragua, Honduras (mainland and Roatan Island), Jamaica]
Episode 3:
preview
(02:49 min., 2015)
Full feature Episode 3:
On-line Access
(59:53 min., 2015)
click  here
(UMD AVON link updated 2022.08.08)

course viewing guide

BBC Caribbean with Simon Reeve Homepage
Q&A with Simon Reeve
How well do you know the Caribbean?
(Take the Quiz)

 
     
 
Week 15
21 - 27 April 2024
     
 
Bill Gates, The Great Toilet Battle

This week we're going to talk about
a topic tabooed to talk about worldwide . . . S###

Pay attention to the impact of the unspeakable on
global water resources . . .

The Great [Global] Toilet Battle
Deutsche Welle (DW) Documentary

(42:25 min., 2022, CC, Transcript)

 Top Documentary Link
click  here
or
  On-line Access
click  here
(skip ads)

course viewing guide

Top Documentary Film's viewing guide

 Class Water Resources WebPage
 
 
     
 
Week 16
28 April - 3 May 2024

Final Exams Week
     
 

s2024 The Global Cultures Final Exam is scheduled for Monday - Wednesday, 29 April - 1 May 2024 (up to 400 points)
NOTE: There will be at least one question in the pool from each of the assigned videos from Weeks 7-15, so be sure not to miss watching them.

Video Listings: <https://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/troufs/anth1095/fsvideo_schedule.html#week07>


 
 
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