Offers an anthropological approach to understanding relationships between cultural constructs, visual codes, and social/cultural contexts. Themes and perspectives from visual anthropology will be applied to visual sign systems of everyday life (writing, bodies, food, etc.), and to the prevalence and influences of popular culture emphasizing mass mediated forms such as comic books, photos, television, advertisements, etc. Students will understand better how a visual anthropologist would seek to study and 'know' another culture - what would be looked at and what methods would be most suitable to see what has been 'made to be seen'.