Some selected works by students, staff and alumni of the Granada Centre - continuously updated!
By Alanna Thorsson
Posted in - MA, Sound
This study explores an Islam envisioned by a specific reform movement that aims to refashion Islamic identity through aesthetic practice. Their hope is to encourage a sense of shared humanity that promotes integration and a British Muslim identity. Rather than…
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By Sarah Thomas
Posted in - MA, Video
I directed and edited After The Rains Came: Seven short stories about objects and lifeworlds as part of a period of my MA Visual Anthropology ethnographic research among the cow herding Samburu people of Northern Kenya. My original intention had…
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By Lorenzo Ferrarini
Posted in - PhD, Sound, Video
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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By Katrin Streicher
Posted in - MA, Photography
My photographic work explores identity and memory in areas that have been affected by major changes in the more distant past. In my degree project in the former German Democratic Republic I investigate how people today, 18 years after the…
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By Martha Dietrich
Posted in - MA, Photography, Sound, Video
This project is a phenomenological enquiry into the experience of imprisonment. Drawing on anthropologically informed theories of perception and imagination this film explores the relationship between the real and the unreal, the physical and the imagined, and the in- and…
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