USC Center for Visual Anthropology

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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.

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Filmmaker, anthropologist, and photographer Tim Asch

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 CVA and e-lab now have the option to receive a certificate in visual anthropology.

For a number of years, CVA served as a local host for the Margaret Mead Film Festival [1].

1 Student Projects
2 References
3 See also
4 External links

Student Projects

Film

Bui Doi: Life Like Dust by Nick Rothenberg and Ahrin Mishan, 1994

Photography

Jeanne Fitzsimmons Photo Gallery, 1994

Early application of Mosaic, 1994

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. "Out of Sync: The Cinema of Tim Asch." In Picturing Culture: Essays on Film and Anthropology, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

External links

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