USC Center for Visual Anthropology
- USC Center for Visual Anthropology
The "USC Center for Visual Anthropology" or CVA, is a part of the department of Anthropology at the University of Southern California. It was created by anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff and was directed by ethnographic filmmaker Tim Asch from 1983 until his death in 1994.
CVA offered a master of arts in visual anthropology or M.A.V.A. to graduate students up until 2001. Currently, doctoral students affiliated with the [http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/anth/department.html#Anchor_new2 CVA] and [http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/anth/department.html#Anchor_new3 e-lab] now have the option to receive a [http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/anth/programs.html#Anchor_resource3 certificate in visual anthropology] .
For a number of years, CVA served as a local host for the Margaret Mead Film Festival [http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/mead/aboutmm.html] .
tudent Projects
"Film"
*" [http://asianamericanmedia.org/rf_cms/index.php?cmd=showPage&page_id=1.4.1.2.27§ion=1.4 Bui Doi: Life Like Dust by Nick Rothenberg and Ahrin Mishan, 1994] ""Photography"
* [http://cwis.usc.edu/dept/elab/oconnell/ Jeanne Fitzsimmons Photo Gallery, 1994] "Early application of Mosaic, 1994"
* " [http://www.usc.edu/dept/raiders/paper/ Beyond the Web: Excavating the Real World Via Mosaic, Nick Rothenberg] "
References
* Barbash, Ilisa and Lucien Taylor. "Cross-cultural Filmmaking: A Handbook for Making Documentary and Ethnographic Films and Videos." Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
* Ruby, Jay. " [http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/ruby/sync.html Out of Sync: The Cinema of Tim Asch] ." In "Picturing Culture: Essays on Film and Anthropology," Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
ee also
*USC Jane Goodall Research Center
External links
*" [http://www.usc.edu/dept/elab/welcome/kaleid.html Kaleidoscope of Cultures] "
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