LABORATORY OF AUDIOVISUAL TOOLS FOR ANTHROPOLOGY
GRADO EN ANTROPOLOGÍA
Curso 2024/2025
1. Datos de la asignatura
(Fecha última modificación: 20-05-24 9:59)- Código
- 109819
- Plan
- 2020
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Carácter
- OBLIGATORIA
- Curso
- 2
- Periodicidad
- Segundo Semestre
- Idioma
- ESPAÑOL
- Área
- SOCIOLOGÍA
- Departamento
- Sociología y Comunicación
- Plataforma Virtual
Datos del profesorado
- Profesor/Profesora
- Milagros García Gajate
- Grupo/s
- Único
- Centro
- Fac. Ciencias Sociales
- Departamento
- Sociología y Comunicación
- Área
- Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad
- Despacho
- 422
- Horario de tutorías
- Online or face to face. Apointment request by email.
- URL Web
- https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/56841/detalle
- gajate@usal.es
- Teléfono
- 923 29 44 00 ext.6796
2. Recomendaciones previas
3. Objetivos
GENERAL OBJECTIVES
- Knowledge of Anthropology of Communication.
- Knowledge of useful audiovisual tools for anthropology.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
- Acquisition of knowledge that allows critical reflection on the use of audiovisual tools and their possible innovations in anthropological work.
- Acquisition of knowledge and skills for the management of audiovisual technologies applied to anthropological practice and research, in all data collection, analysis and presentation processes.
- Development of the ability to use audiovisual tools in theoretical and practical research.
4. Competencias a adquirir | Resultados de Aprendizaje
5. Contenidos
Teoría.
THEORY
- Anthropology of communication. Analysis of the different media, technologies, and platforms: Anthropology of communication, Visual anthropology, Sound antropology, Antrhopological cinema.
PRACTICE
Tools for anthropology:
- Three steps or funtions:
- Recording / colecting
- Photography. Tools and strategies.
- Sound recording. Tools and strategies.
- Website. Tools and strategies.
- Analysing examples.
- Knowledge dissemination / difusion in different media and platforms.
- Recording / colecting
- Some media, some examples:
- MORE TRADITIONAL
- NEW FORMS
6. Metodologías Docentes
7. Distribución de las Metodologías Docentes

8. Recursos
Libros de consulta para el alumno.
- Ardévolo, E. (1995) La mirada antropológica o la antropología de la mirada: De la representación audiovisual de las culturas a la investigación etnográfica con una cámara de video. Tesis doctoral. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Ardevolo, E. (2004) Cyberculture: Anthropological perspectives of the Internet. En Contemporary issues in socio-cultural anthropology, Perspectives and research activities from Australia. S. Khittel, B. Plankensteiner and M. Six-Hohenbalken (Eds). Págs. 213 – 226
- Carvalho, C. (2011) Audiovisual Instruments in Ethnographic Research. In Readings in Methodology: African Perspectives. Ed. African Books Collective Pags. 163-172
- Lisón Tolosana, C. (1992). Individuo, estructura y creatividad: etopeyas desde la antropología cultural. Ediciones Akal.
- Lisón Tolosana, C., & Novajra, A. M. (Eds.). (2007). Introducción a la antropología social y cultural: teoría, método y práctica. Tres Cantos (Madrid): Akal.
- Montes, S. y Muñoz Carrión, A. (1978) Modelo comunicacional para el análisis antropológico. En Reis: Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas (3). Págs. 111-120
- Muñoz Carrión, A. (2007) Tácticas de comunicación juvenil: intervenciones estéticas. En Revista de estudios de Juventud (78). Págs. 11-24
- Muñoz Carrión, A. (2008) El patrimonio cultural material y el inmaterial: buenas prácticas para su preservación. En Mediaciones sociales (3) Págs. 495-534
- Muñoz Carrión, A. y Timón Tiemblo, M.P. (2018) La imposibilidad de separar lo inmaterial de lo material en las manifestaciones cuturales. En Erebea: Revista de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. Págs. 45-60
- Peterson, M.A. (2003) Anthropology and Mass Communication: Media and Myth in the New Millennium. Berghahm Books.
- Velasco Gutiérrez, M.J. (2010) Las imágenes del patrimonio cultural inmaterial en España, 1940-2010. Tesis doctoral.
Otras referencias bibliográficas, electrónicas o cualquier otro tipo de recurso.
Further bibliografy will be available in Studium.
9. Evaluación
Criterios de evaluación.
The evaluation of the subject is based on the concept of co-evaluation, applicable to part of the tasks or jobs to be performed. This system combines the evaluation carried out by the teacher with the application of a rubric, and the self-assessment carried out by each student and the peer evaluation carried out on the work of their classmates, with the application of questionnaires managed in EvalCOMIX.
The criteria that cannot be quantified with the application of a rubric are evaluated based on the teacher's observation.
As general criteria, the following are considered:
Adaptation of the work to what was requested by the teacher.
Delivery of assignments according to the standards set by the teacher.
Compliance with the tasks assigned in each of the group works.
Creativity and inventiveness
Capacity for effort and overcoming difficulties.
Originality, etc.
Present the works following the corresponding indications.
Theoretical knowledge
Analytical skills
Soft skills
Capacity for effort and improvement
Creativity and originality
Works presented out of the platform or out of time are not going to be considered.
Sistemas de evaluación.
- Positive participation
- Theoretical commentaries
- Weekly practices
- Final project
Recomendaciones para la evaluación.
EVALUATION
This subject has a practical character, that is why a continuous evaluation has been proposed.
Collaborative and participatory methodologies, student-centered learning and Service based Learning are used.
ORDINARY
Minimum 80% attendance required
- Positive participation 15 %
- Theoretical commentaries 15 %
- Weekly practices 30 %
- Final project 40 %
Some of the tasks will be groupal. In these cases, the grade will have a groupa part and an individual weitghting.
The fraudulent use of bibliographic citations is considered illegal; therefore, the student will have a score of 0 point as final grade in the corresponding call. In case it is a groupal work, each student will have 0 points.
NON-FACE-TO-FACE
The students that choose a non-face-to-face evaluation must present the same work and within the same deadlines. Items related to face-to-face assistance will not be considered.
It is needed to pass every and any part of the evaluation system.
EXTRAORDINARY
The details will be specified according to the evaluation modalities and the peculiarities of each case.
Recomendaciones para la recuperación:
Each student will have their own specific recommendations.