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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College College of Tourism
Course Code automatic registration
Theme・Subtitle
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Niiza
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Thu.2・N433
Credit 2
Course Number TRM2003
Language Others
Class Registration Method Automatic 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 HB614

【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】

While such aspects are tentatively called "images" [see Seminar A, Year 2], they are not easily expressed with video. In anthropological fieldwork where there is a common understanding of others, it is difficult to observe scenes where the “image” appears without having lived with others for a long time. As we learned in the second year seminars, this is because it is virtually impossible within the limitations of time, technology and basic knowledge. Therefore, in order to handle the techniques of visual anthropology and ethnography in this discipline by ourselves, we will focus on “movement in the city”, the fluidity of countless people constantly changing and the vernacular (non-mainstream = people's local culture and way of life), as well trying aspects of basic video work. Of course, this is a small part of the activity, and the same as in the spring semester classes, we will continue to read and critique visual works including circular reading, and documentary and film related to visual expressions in anthropology and folklore studies.

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