MRI Acquisition of Instruments for Advanced Research in Visual Anthropology

随着美国国家科学基金会的主要研究仪器拨款，加州州立大学奇科人类学系将获得一台4K数字电影摄像机和一个高性能计算机，服务器和外围设备的集成系统，以创建一个视觉人类学高级实验室。该设施将成为世界上最先进的人类学电影制作实验室。本科生，研究生，外部研究人员和教师在CSU，奇科的人类学系将在视觉人类学研究项目合作。 研究将包括民族志，考古学，生物和法医人类学和博物馆研究。数字电影技术的进步正在彻底改变电影制作，并有可能彻底改变视觉人类学领域。紧凑而坚固的相机系统可以承受人类学实地研究的严格要求，同时生成最高质量的图像。 数字格式便于传播、介绍和存档研究结果。学生将被纳入由教师和外部研究人员领导的研究团队，在那里他们将接受必要的培训，以构思和执行人类学文献研究项目。通过使研究人员能够发现只有在视听模式下才能观察到的文化方面，这种新技术对视觉人类学作为一门学科具有变革的潜力。为了促进视觉人类学的知识和理解，有必要制作尽可能高质量的电影。高生产价值是必不可少的视觉人类学的双重目标，生产视觉文件的科学分析和纪录片的广泛传播。数字电影技术将人类学家从摄制组的束缚中解放出来。视觉文件将由在传统人类学方法和电影制作方面都受过严格培训的研究人员制作。这些技术的使用有可能通过创造迄今为止无法达到的质量的数字纪录片来改变视觉人类学领域的研究。该项目通过将领先的研究工具交给学生和教师来促进知识和理解。人类学系的大部分学生是妇女和代表性不足的少数群体成员。该项目将为他们提供其他地方无法获得的前沿研究机会。 它通过建立一个视觉人类学高级教学和研究培训设施来促进研究和学习。它将代表人类学系和整个大学的研究和教育能力的显着提高。视觉人类学项目特别适合广泛传播，因为电影在世界各地的教室和会议上为大量观众放映。还将通过电视广播、数字图书馆、专业会议和互联网传播成果。这种广泛的传播使视觉人类学非常适合人类学的传统社会使命，即在全世界教导尊重和容忍文化多样性。在一个因缺乏文化间理解而产生冲突的世界里，这对社会是有益的。

With a Major Research Instrumentation grant from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Anthropology at California state University Chico will acquire a 4K digital cinema camera and an integrated system of high-powered computers, servers and peripheral devices to create an Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology. This facility will be the most advanced laboratory dedicated to anthropological cinema production in the world. Undergraduate students, graduate students, outside researchers and faculty at CSU, Chico's Department of Anthropology will collaborate on visual anthropological research projects. Research will encompass ethnography, archeology, biological and forensic anthropology and museum studies. Advances in digital cinema technology are revolutionizing motion picture production and hold the potential to revolutionize the field of visual anthropology. The compact and robust camera system can withstand the rigours of anthropological field research, while producing images of the highest quality. Digital formats facilitate the dissemination, presentation and archiving of the results of that research. Students will be integrated into research teams led by faculty and outside researchers where they will receive the training necessary to conceive and execute anthropological documentary research projects. By enabling researchers to discover those aspects of culture only observable in an audio-visual mode, this new technology holds transformative potential for visual anthropology as a discipline. In order to advance knowledge and understanding within visual anthropology, it is necessary to produce motion pictures of the highest possible quality. High production values are essential to visual anthropology's twin aims of producing visual documents for scientific analysis and documentaries for wide dissemination. Digital Cinema technology frees the anthropologists from the constraints imposed by the film crew. Visual documentation will be produced by researchers who have rigorous training both in traditional anthropological methods and in cinema production. The use of these technologies holds potential to transform research in the field of visual anthropology by creating digital documentaries of a hitherto unattainable quality.This project advances knowledge and understanding by putting a leading-edge research instrument in the hands of students and faculty. The majority of students in the Department of Anthropology are women and members of underrepresented minority groups. This project will open up leading-edge research opportunities to them that are not available elsewhere. It promotes research and learning by creating a facility for high-level teaching and research training in visual anthropology. It will represent a dramatic enhancement of the research and education abilities of the Department of Anthropology and the University as a whole. Visual anthropological projects are uniquely suited for wide dissemination, as films are screened for large audiences in classrooms and conferences throughout the world. Results will also be disseminated through television broadcast, digital libraries, professional conferences and the internet. This broad dissemination makes visual anthropology well-suited to anthropology's traditional social mission of teaching respect and tolerance for cultural diversity throughout the world. This represents a benefit to society in a world riven by conflict born of a lack of intercultural understanding.