Visual Anthropology (Cultural and Social Anthropology)
What happens to anthropology when it uses film and not written text as a principal medium to explore and convey human experience in diverse cultural and social settings? And what happens to filmmaking when it incorporates anthropological approaches? The Visual Anthropology track allows you to explore the possibilities of camera-based research. In addition to reading and writing, you become familiar with the intellectual endeavour of filmmaking as ethnographic practice.
Language of instruction
English
Mode
Full-time
Location
🎓 Camera-based research
Nov02
Master's Week: 2-6 Nov
Feb08
Master's Week 8 -11 Feb
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Here's why you want to study Visual Anthropology
Camera-based research
In this master you learn how to conduct research through film.
Topic of your own choice
We allow you to choose your research topic and site as freely as possible.
Close-knit community
Through peer work and activities the programme invests in building a cohort.
Visual editing lab
The department has a lab dedicated to editing visual materials.
Is Visual Anthropology right for you?
- Do you enjoy becoming acquainted with contemporary theory, methods and debates in visual anthropology?
- Are you interested in engaging with anthropological debates through filmmaking?
- Do you want to spend a year doing camera-based research on a topic of your choosing?
- Do you have a solid knowledge of the technical know-how in filmmaking?
- Do you have the ambition to become an ethnographic filmmaker?
Then Visual Anthropology is the right track for you!
Discover other tracks in this Master's programme
The Master's programme Cultural and Social Anthropology offers three tracks. Visual Anthropology is one of them. The other tracks are:
Facts & Figures
- Degree programme
- MSc Cultural and Social Anthropology
- Mode
- Full-time
- Credits
- 60 ECTS, 12 months
- Language of instruction
- English
- Starts in
- September
- RIO code
- 66614
- Location
- Roeterseiland campus