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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College College of Tourism
Course Code other registration
Theme・Subtitle
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Niiza
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Thu.2・N433
Credit 2
Course Number TRM2003
Language Others
Class Registration Method "Other" Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes
Text Code HB613

【Course Objectives】

The objective is to “know and understand others", and for this purpose to cultivate empathy in accordance with cultural anthropology and folkloristic methods. Fieldwork has been conducted in these disciplines (participant observation, life history, and interviews) for the purpose of knowing others. But to know others, language by itself is not always sufficient. Language is suitable for logical constructs, but human life is difficult to express in words alone. Focusing on anthropological practice primarily dealing with video and visual expressions, we will learn how to understand these kind of aspects.

【Course Contents】

What are ‘these kind of aspects’? The discipline of anthropology, since its beginnings, has focused on the fact that there are aspects of people’s lives that cannot be counted, measured or verbalized. Feelings, fear, joy, atmosphere, air, setting, emotions, relationships, forms, dreams, space, existence of the supernatural and so on. Here, the “unquantifiable” appearing in such lives is provisionally called an “image” by the Anthropologist Tadashi Yanai. At present, in the world of Anthropological research, attempts to capture images on film of people in various expression of everyday life are becoming popular. This is boosted by the widespread use of media that appeals to the senses (sensory media), such as video cameras, mobile phones and video sharing sites. This discipline does not study video production itself, but as an expressive technique of “cultural exchange” ( ≒ fluidity of culture) in the Department of Culture and Tourism Studies, we learn the methods and perspectives of visual ethnography in anthropology and folklore studies as the complexity of modern society is increasingly difficult to grasp using logic and static tools.

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