Roundtable on Ethnographic Film Archiving as a Tool for Research in Contemporary Visual Anthropology

民族志电影档案作为当代视觉人类学研究工具的圆桌会议

• 批准号: 1341858
• 负责人: Alice Apley
• 金额: $ 1.05万
• 依托单位: Documentary Educational Resources
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-15 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1341858&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Roundtable; Ethnographic; Film; Archiving; Tool

This award to Documentary Educational Resources (DER) will support a one-day Roundtable on Archiving Ethnographic Films. The meeting will bring together anthropologists, archivists and ethnographic media producers from leading Visual Anthropology programs, and institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress, to strategize about how ethnographic film archives can best support contemporary research in visual anthropology. Roundtable outcomes include 1) recommendations for the design of Ethnographic Film databases (using the DER collection as a case study) and 2) discussion of frameworks, priorities, and next steps for the preservation and accessibility of ethnographic films. Beginning from a notion of ethnographic film as a cultural product, the Roundtable will assess existing standards for describing anthropological subject matter content, filmmaking practices and genres, and technologies used in the production of film and video recordings. Further discussion, leading to development of a white paper, will address key concerns and priorities for the field related to the preservation and access of both existing collections and new ethnographic media. The extensive body of films and footage that have been created as part of ethnographic research and teaching constitute a significant record of human cultures and societies. The project will improve access to these materials for individuals ranging from individuals interested in identifying films for teaching, museum exhibitions, film festivals and community screenings. An improved infrastructure for the preservation and accessibility of ethnographic films will help to extend understanding of the anthropological project, of film as a medium of documentation, and of our diverse human heritage. Further, the consideration of archiving practices for film materials understood as texts rather than as recorded data has significance for the broader field of archiving.

这项授予纪录片教育资源(DER)的奖项将支持为期一天的民族志电影存档圆桌会议。会议将汇集主要视觉人类学项目的人类学家、档案学家和民族志媒体制作人，以及史密森学会和国会图书馆等机构，就民族志电影档案如何最好地支持当代视觉人类学研究制定战略。圆桌会议的成果包括：1)就民族志电影数据库的设计提出建议(以DER收集为个案研究)；2)讨论保存和获取民族志电影的框架、优先事项和下一步工作。圆桌会议将从将民族志电影作为一种文化产品的概念开始，评估描述人类学题材内容、电影制作实践和流派以及电影和视频记录制作中使用的技术的现有标准。为编写一份白皮书而进行的进一步讨论将涉及该领域在保存和利用现有收藏和新的人种学媒体方面的主要关切和优先事项。作为人种学研究和教学的一部分而创作的大量电影和镜头构成了人类文化和社会的重要记录。该项目将改善个人获取这些材料的机会，包括对识别用于教学、博物馆展览、电影节和社区放映的电影感兴趣的个人。改善保存和获取民族志电影的基础设施将有助于扩大对人类学项目、作为记录媒介的电影以及我们多样化的人类遗产的了解。此外，考虑将电影材料理解为文本而不是记录数据的存档做法，对更广泛的存档领域具有重要意义。