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The making of the Pentecostal melodrama
How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion narratives, Christian songs, sermons, testimonies, and deliverance rituals to produce commentaries on what it means to be an inhabitant of Kinshasa.
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Imágenes indígenas del bosque chaqueño
Dans l’univers visuel des Wichís, peuple d’anciens chasseurs-cueilleurs du Gran Chaco, les animaux et les plantes occupent une place prépondérante. Cet article décrit l’histoire culturelle, les stratégies figuratives, les caractéristiques plastiques et le contexte de production, circulation et consommation des quatre formes visuelles wichís les plus importantes – les figures des jeux de ficelle, les motifs tressés, les sculptures en bois et les graphismes – afin de pouvoir discuter certaines interprétations de leurs significations. L’analyse met en valeur que non seulement les Wichís ont une relation intime – économique et symbolique – et une connaissance approfondie de la forêt du Chaco mais aussi que leur « représentations » zoomorphes et phytomorphes servent, de différentes manières, à construire et à reconstruire une façon de penser et d’établir des liens entre soi, avec les autres et avec le monde.
En el universo visual de los wichís, un pueblo de antiguos cazadores-recolectores del Gran Chaco, los animales y las plantas tienen un lugar preponderante. En este artículo, se describe la historia cultural, las estrategias figurativas, las características plásticas y el contexto de producción, circulación y consumo de las cuatro formas visuales wichís más importantes - las figuras de hilo, los diseños enlazados, las tallas de madera y los grafismos - a fin de poder discutir algunas interpretaciones de sus significados. El análisis pone de manifiesto que los wichís no sólo mantienen una relación íntima - económica y simbólica - y un conocimiento minucioso del bosque chaqueño, sino que sus « representaciones » zoo y fitomorfas sirven, de diversos modos, para construir y reconstruir un modo de pensar y relacionarse entre sí, con los otros y con el mundo.
In the visual universe of the wichís, an ancient nation of hunter-gatherers in the Gran Chaco, animals and plants occupy an outstanding place. This article describes cultural history, figurative strategies, plastic features and the context of production, circulation and comsuption of the four main wichís’ visual forms - string figures, braided patterns, wood carvings and graphics - in order to be able to discuss some of the interpretations of their meanings. The analysis highlights that wichís not only maintain an intimate relation - economical and symbolical - and a thorough knowlege of the Chaco’s forest, but that their animal and plant-like «figures» serve in different ways to build and rebuild a way of thinking, creating relations with themselves, the others and the world.
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Anthropology of our times : an edited anthology in public anthropology
This anthology provides fresh and original insights into the lives and work of some of the world's leading anthropologists today. The work looks at theoretical reflections over what public anthropology in our time may be, the audiences it may address, and how to put a program of public anthropology into actual practice. It features conversations with anthropologists such as Didier Fassin, John L. and Jean Comaroff, Claudio Lomnitz, David Price, Magnus Marsden, Richard Ashby Wilson, John R. Bowen and Matti Bunzl.
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Working Images
Visual methods such as drawing, painting, video, photography and hypermedia offer increasingly accessible and popular resources for ethnographic research. In Working Images , prominent visual anthropologists and artists explore how old and new visual media can be integrated into contemporary forms of research and representation. Drawing upon projects undertaken both 'at home' in their native countries and abroad in locations such as Ethopia and Venezuela, the book's contributors demonstrate how visual methods are used in the field, and how these methods can produce and communicate knowledge about our own and other cultures. As well as focusing on key issues such as ethics and the relationship between word and image, they emphasize the huge range of visual methods currently opening up new possibilities for field research, from cartoons and graphic art to new media such as digital video and online technologies.
1. Introduction: Situating Visual Research Section 1: Visual Fieldwork Methods 2. Video and Ethnographic Knowledge: Skilled Vision in the Practice of Breeding 3. Photography in the Field: Word and Image in Ethnographic Research 4. Picture Perfect: Community and Commemoration in Photographs 5. New Graphics for Old Stories Representation of Local Memories Through Drawings 6. Imagework in Ethnographic Research Section 2: Representing Visual Knowledge 7. Putting Film to Work: Observational Cinema as Practical Ethnography 8. Revealing the Hidden: Making Anthropological Documentaries 9. Drawing the Lines: The Limitations of Intercultural Ekphrasis 10. In the Net: Ethnographic Photography 11. Conversing with Anthropology: Words, Images and Hypermedia Text 12. The Representation of Cultures in Digital Media Epilogue 13. Working Images
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Sovereign Screens
While Indigenous media have gained increasing prominence around the world, the vibrant Aboriginal media world on the Canadian West Coast has received little scholarly attention. As the first ethnography of the Aboriginal media community in Vancouver,Sovereign Screensreveals the various social forces shaping Aboriginal media production including community media organizations and avant-garde art centers, as well as the national spaces of cultural policy and media institutions.
Kristin L. Dowell uses the concept of visual sovereignty to examine the practices, forms, and meanings through which Aboriginal filmmakers tell their individual stories and those of their Aboriginal nations and the intertribal urban communities in which they work. She explores the ongoing debates within the community about what constitutes Aboriginal media, how this work intervenes in the national Canadian mediascape, and how filmmakers use technology in a wide range of genres-including experimental media-to recuperate cultural traditions and reimagine Aboriginal kinship and sociality. Analyzing the interactive relations between this social community and the media forms it produces,Sovereign Screensoffers new insights into the on-screen and off-screen impacts of Aboriginal media.
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Selling Pain to the Saturated Self
How can we comprehend people who pay for an experience marketed as painful? On one hand, consumers spend billions of dollars every year to alleviate different kinds of pain. On the other hand, millions of individuals participate in extremely painful leisure pursuits. In trying to understand this conundrum, we ethnographically study a popular adventure challenge where participants subject themselves to electric shocks, fire, and freezing water. Through sensory intensification, pain brings the body into sharp focus, allowing individuals to rediscover their corporeality. In addition, painful extraordinary experiences operate as regenerative escapes from the self. By flooding the consciousness with gnawing unpleasantness, pain provides a temporary relief from the burdens of self-awareness. Finally, when leaving marks and wounds, pain helps consumers create the story of a fulfilled life. In a context of decreased physicality, market operators play a major role in selling pain to the saturated selves of knowledge workers, who use pain as a way to simultaneously escape reflexivity and craft their life narrative.
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