Designing Anthropological interventions Flashcards
What Bronislaw Malinowski’s goal in ethnography?
“to grasp the native’s point of view, to realise his vision of his world”
What are parallax perspectives as described by Faye Ginsburg?
Different perspectives that overlap
What is the ‘third eye’ described by Fatimah Tobing Rony (1996)?
Experience of seeing oneself as an object
What is the “second eye”?
“peculiar sensation […] of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others”
-> being the object of world view
What does the work of Worth and Adair (1997) ‘Through Navajo Eyes’ consist of?
- Teaching people to use cameras
- Observe what narratives they would build, which perspectives
What did Worth and Adair (1997) observe in their ethnography ‘Through Navajo Eyes’?
“Navajo filmic language”, common patterns of filming and storytelling
What characterises the “Navajo filmic language” observed by Worth and Adair (1997)?
- Walking as narrative device, not lived reality
- Lack of close ups, avoid eye contact
- Family relations as subject matter
What does Salvage Anthropology refer to?
- Salvaging cultures as if they’re frozen in time
- Not considering an evolutionary perspective
What is the place of multimodality in the divide of art and science?
Multimodality embraces the entailments of art and anthropology
What is the role of the Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) at Harvard?
Promotes innovative combinations of aesthetics and ethnography
What did the Visual Anthropology Review of the film Leviathan by Lucian Taylor show?
Reviewer’s analyses all can back to one scene of the film: the only scene with conventional framing
-> We’re not always ready for experimental visuals and storytelling
