SV-fak. - Doktorgrad

Syllabus will be provided.

Below are some of the background publications:
Grasseni, C. (2007) Skilled Visions: Between Apprenticeship and Standards Oxford: Berghahn.

Grasseni, C. (2007) (ed) "Communities of practice and forms of life: towards a rehabilitation of vision?" in Harris, M. Ways of knowing: Anthropological Approaches to Crafting Experience and Knowledge. Oxford: Berghahn.

Grasseni, C. "Video and ethnographic knowledge: skilled vision in the practice of breeding", in A.I. Alfonso, L. Kurti, S. Pink (eds) (2004) Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography. London: Routledge, pp. 15-30.

Grasseni, C. on analytical camerawork in Grassenis analysis on cattle breeding: (2005) " Disciplining vision in animal biotechnology", Anthropology in Action 12 (2): 44-55.

Grasseni, C. (2005) "Designer Cows: the practice of cattle breeding between skill and standardization", in Society and Animals, 13 (1), numero monografico a cura di G. Marvin, E. Fudge Ways of seeing animals, pp. 33-50.

Grasseni, C. (2004) "Skilled vision. An apprenticeship in breeding aesthetics", Social Anthropology. Journal of the EASA, 12(1): 1-15.

Grasseni will also show her PhD film entitled "Those who don't work don't make love", as an example of observational cinema or participant observation.

Additional Readings:
Gullestad, M. (2007) Misjonsbilder: bidrag til norsk selvforståelse : om bruk av foto og film i tverrkulturell kommunikasjon. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget
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Gullestad, M. (2007) Picturing Pity: Pitfalls and Pleasures in Cross-Cultural Communication: Image and Word in a North Cameroon Mission. Oxford: Berghahn.

McDougall, D. (2006): The Corporeal Image (appr. 300 pages).

Sacks, O. (2005) “The Mind's Eye. What the Blind See” in Howes, D.(ed.)Empire of the Senses. The sensual culture reader. London: Berg (25 -42)

MMcLuhan, M. (2005) “Inside the Five Sense Sensorium” in Howes, D. (ed.) Empire of the Senses. The sensual culture reader. London: Berg (43 - 54).