Here is another sample of the work my students are producing for Beyond Observational Cinema, the course I just finished teaching for the MA in Visual Anthropology. Siôn Marshall-Waters and Jan-Holger Hennies went to the Scottish island of Skye and…
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Part of the documentary course Beyond Observational Cinema, which I teach in the second semester of the MA in Visual Anthropology, is a lecture on essay films. Students can then choose this form, among many others, for their assessed film…
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The documentary project I am currently working on is called The Sambla Baan, and it was filmed during my fieldwork in Burkina Faso in 2011-2012. The film will take its name from the baan, which is one of…
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Kalanda – The Knowledge of the Bush is the main outcome of my audiovisual work on donso hunters in Burkina Faso. The project was conceived during a year of fieldwork for my PhD in Social Anthropology with Visual Media. In…
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Part of my research on hunting in Burkina Faso was necessarily centred on the relationship of the people I studied with their environment. I found myself to understand the importance of agriculture, the fundamental source of subsistence for most villagers…
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