An Ethnographic Filmflam: Giving Gifts, Doing Research, and Videotaping the Native Subject/Object
An Ethnographic Filmflam: Giving Gifts, Doing Research, and Videotaping the Native Subject/Object
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民族志电影火焰：赠送礼物、做研究和录像原住民主体/物体
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10.1525/aa.2004.106.1.32
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2004
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John L. Jackson
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作者：
John L. Jackson
本文以自我反思性为组织原则，探讨了在田野调查中使用数字视频技术如何为重新定义人类学家和信息者之间的关系开辟了经验和理论空间。我将视觉人类学领域与关于土著人类学家的客观主义局限性的长期理论争论置于批判性对话中，我认为，作为人类学名称的诞生地有助于提供分析工具，用于检查作为土著民族志电影人与其电影主题之间礼物赠送过程的电影制作。本文重点介绍了我自己在纽约哈莱姆区拍摄的电影和录像的一些方法，这些方法标志着观察和成为众所周知的他者之间的整体联系，探讨了基于低成本数字技术的有用性的社会交流，作为一种促进政治和认识论上有价值的民族志合作的手段。
Using the discussion of self-reflexivity as an organizing principle, this article examines how mobilizing digital video technology during fieldwork opens up empirical and theoretical space for reconceptualizing the relationship between anthropologists and informants. Placing the field of visual anthropology into critical conversation with long-standing theoretical arguments about the objectivist limitations of native anthropologists, I argue that the slipperiness of nativity as an anthropological designation helps to provide analytical tools for examining filmmaking as a kind of gift-giving process between native ethnographic filmmakers and the subjects of their films. This article highlights some of the ways in which my own filmic and videographic exploits in Harlem, New York, mark integral connections between seeing and being the proverbial other, probing social exchanges predicated on the usefulness of low-budget digital technology as a means of fostering politically and epistemologically valuable ethnographic collaborations.