A pedagogia de ensino do Centro Granada de Antropologia Visual: notas para um exercício comparativo Angela Torresan Universidade de Manchester, Inglaterra
I think that it is the responsibility of every generation of anthropologists to bear witness to the world as they find it at that particular time. Given that we have this wonderful technology to help us produce this testimony, we should think carefully how to use it. Not simply as a kind of slave to contemporary theoretical fashion, nor simply as a kind of medium for demonstrating our poetic virtuosity, and certainly not simply as a kind of banal recording instrument. Rather we should utilize it as a way of demonstrating a sensitivity to the cultural forms of the world as it is at the moment at which we’re living in it. That’s what I think the ambition of all anthropologists should be, textual or visual. Those armed with the skills and the awareness that comes with learning to use filmmaking technology are in a particularly privileged position, and they should make sure that they make the best use of it. (Henleyem Flores, 2009)
A criação do Centro Granada de Antropologia Visual (Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology – GCVA) da Universidade de Manchester, em 1987, foi fruto de uma relação especial entre a antropologia e a televisão inglesa que durou
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