Multimodal Interrogations of Anthropologically Unintended Media

Presented by PROF. SAMUEL COLLINS +

PROF. MATTHEW DURINGTON

TOWSON University

ZOOM WEBINAR

Date: March 25, 2025 12-1pm PST (1 hour)

OVERVIEW

Join Professors Samuel Collins and Matthew Durington, co-authors of Multimodal Methods in Anthropology (Routledge 2024) for an informed talk that looks at how anthropology has always been about engaging with various media, from drawings, photographs and film to the digital platforms that support ethnographic work today. Much of that work, however, has been effectively invisible, with only the written monograph or the ethnographic film surviving as the “official” record of anthropological research. But what happens when we work in collaborative ways to create media? Things become a lot more complex, blurring the edges of anthropologist and community, and raising questions about what anthropology has been and what it can be.