Temple University
at the 1998
American Anthropological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA


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Seeing Culture: The Anthropology of Visual Communication at Temple I

Wednesday, December 2 - 2:-5:45 PM

2:00 PM Denise O'Brien, Introduction

2:15PM Akinnaso, F. Niyi A Semiotic Perspective on the Relationship between Text and Image

2:30 PM Hanson, Natalie Electronic Communication: Implications for Human Interaction and Social Change

2:45 PM Musket. Jenna Aesthetic and Extra-Aesthetic Elements in Tibetan Poetry

3:00 PM Broce, R. Bruce Situating the Social

3:15 PM Chakravorty, Pallabi Beyond Nationalism: Classical Dance, Public Modernity, and Women's Identity in Contemporary India

3:30 PM Gross, Larry (Upenn) - Discussant

3:45 PM Break

4:00 PM Baker, Alex Public Art In Critical Perspective

4:15 PM Durington, Matthew Racial (Co)option: Visualizing Whiteness in Suburban Space

4:30 PM Million, Carey Psychedelic Posters and Art: But Is It Art?

4:45 PM Leonard, Catherine Reading, Riding and Resistence: Responses of Women Motorcyclists to Images of Women in the Motorcycle Press

5:00 PM Jones, Nora Science and Art: A Semiotic Problem in the Anthropology of Photographic Reception

5:15 PM Machuca, Milton Faces of Madness: Seeing mental illness through photography

5:30 PM Gross, Larry (Upenn) - Discussant

5:45 PM Session Ends


Seeing Culture: The Anthropology of Visual Communication at Temple II

Wednesday - December 2 - 6:00-7:45 PM


6:00 PM Kempf, Susanne Visual Recordings and Intellectual Property

6:15 PM Ruby, Jay The Death of Ethnographic Film

6:30 PM Jhala, Jayasinhji Contextualizing and Interpreting Videotaped Multi-Lingual Conversations

6:45 PM Pack, Sam Beauty and the Beast

7:00 PM Lazarski, Robert Deconstructing Krippendorf: Representations of Anthropology in Feature Films

7:15 PM Harald Prins Discussion

7:45 PM Session Ends


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