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Jean Rouch: The semiotics of ethnographic film
Sign Systems Studies, 2013 Jean Rouch (1917–2004) is considered to be the greatest ethnographic filmmaker in the world. His films, which focus primarily on the Songhay of the Upper Niger in Africa, have fundamentally changed the spirit, goals, and methods of ethnographic ...
Irene Portis-Winner
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Manthia Diawara’s Strategic Ruminations on Migration and the Conundrums of Cinematic Autoethnography
Cinergie, 2019 Manthia Diawara’s films often situate his autobiographical presentation within an ethnosurround linking francophone West African cultural histories to issues of diasporic subjectivity in Europe and North America.
Julia Watson
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“MAKING AND PRESENTING“ ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS: PRACTICAL AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
EtnoAntropoZum, 2016 In the following essay the authors discuss visual anthropology based upon their own experiences with ethnographic films. Through the analysis of their work they are thinking about visual representations that are created through the process of making and ...
Manca Filak, Žiga Gorišek
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The Others and My Image: Debate on Indigenous Representation with Martu and Pankararu Filmmakers
eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2015 What interests us in this paper is to explore some issues related to the genre of documentary that we usually call the "ethnographic film" focused on the experience of two indigenous filmmakers on a residence project during the 5th International ...
Renato Athias
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Sonorous materiality of analogue film
NECSUS, 2022 In this article, I represent film materiality’s sensory and ecological aspects through the sounds I recorded during my ethnographic fieldwork on contemporary analogue film practices.
Işıl Karataş
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EthnoFilm: cinema-school and ethno-laboratory
EtnoAntropologia, 2017 The paper is dedicated to the EthnoFilm educational project in the historical and modern context of visual anthropology. The EthnoFilm project intended as the educational ethnocultural initiative, aimed to attraction of interested youth to ethnographic ...
Ivan Golovnev
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David Lamelas’s The Desert People: An Odyssey for Authentic Representation
Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, 2016 In The Desert People (1974) by Argentine artist David Lamelas, screened at the UCLA Hammer Museum (January-June 2016), five travelers contribute to an ethnographic documentary about the southeastern Arizonan Papago tribe. However, the travelers’ untimely
Loretta Ramirez
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Journal of Anthropological Films, 2017 Fifty years ago Lake Chad was one of the largest inland lakes of Africa. It was also extraordinarily well stocked with fish. Neither is the case anymore.
Bjørn Arntsen
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Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2021 This paper is an attempt, based on many years of following the International Festival of Ethnological Film, organized by the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, to provide insight into the way in which it has so far fulfilled its purpose, while at the same ...
Slobodan Naumović
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Journal of Anthropological Films, 2023 This observational anthrozoological ethnographic film documents the lives of Nepal's working mules. The film finds a closeness with the mules; their sale in India, their journey to Nepal and their work in the huge brick factories of the Kathmandu valley
Michael Brown
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