Literature assignment

9. - 10.4. we will go through literature on the topic and visual approach everybody have chosen. For this you will need to:

1. Choose one article/ book that discusses the topic you have chosen - rituals, ghosts, sacred places etc.
2. Choose one article/ book that discusses the research approach you have chosen - use of video, use of photos, looking at urban space etc.

Please send me your choices by email (trajanti(at)gmail.com) by 18.3. I will draft a program for discussions after I get your suggestions.

3. Read the articles. Make notes.

4. For discussion think about these issues

a. topic articles:
- how does the article see the topic?
- what kind of concepts or conceptual settings are used?
- how does it connect the phenomenon with the beliefs and meanings people give it?
- if it involved an ethnographic research, how was that conducted? or, to what kind of ethnographic data does it refer to?
- do you feel you can apply the approach and the points in your own research?

b. research approach articles:
- what perspective does the article present on visual anthropology?
- what visual domain is it focusing on?
- what kind of approach does it have as its focus?
- what kind of concepts or conceptual settings are used?
- do you feel you get hints and tips you can apply in your own research?