In the spring of 2003, a Glamorgan Anthropology Field School visited some of the terra incognita of Southern California to explore local history and cultural politics as well as trends in cultural heritage interpretation and preservation. The core project for participants was the creation of a s documentary film on the subject that took in the places we visited. Directed by Felicia Hughes-Freeland, and produced by Teri Brewer, the students served as film crew and the final film was edited by Alan Williams, Jenn Hughes, and Katie Tuite-Dalton.
As a group particularly interested in all aspects of visual ethnography, the students and staff also made a careful photographic record of the places and people and vernacular imagery we encountered.
A selection of pages from the original project website, are being re-posted as an informal record of that field school, a watershed for many of the participants, several of whom went on to further work in film, anthropology, cultural landscape interoperation and related areas. incorporating a gallery of thumbnail photographs, some background on our key cultural landscapes with links to further information on each area.
– Teri Brewer