Yoeme Indian Lutu Pahko (Sorrow Ritual) Film Project

许多土著组织已经开始利用互联网作为一种展示文化生存的手段：网站和数字档案项目提供了向社区外来者和内部人士讲述部落历史、身份和语言的手段。人类学家也开始创建人种学网站，将他们的文化分析跨越数字鸿沟：从印刷品来源到数字出版物。该项目通过探索人类学家和社区成员如何在一个不仅提供文化历史和分析，而且还为文化和语言振兴提供音频和视频档案的网站上如何利用实地记录，特别是数字视频，在这两个平行的技术转变之间架起了桥梁。前往波塔姆(墨西哥索诺拉)的Yoeme Pueblo，这位调查员将拍摄一场名为“Lutu pahko”的家庭仪式，即悲伤仪式。在四天的时间里，这一仪式将家人从亲属去世后的哀悼中解脱出来。在家人的要求下，这位调查员将拍摄仪式的准备和完成过程，明确的目的是将数字记录的仪式和合作者的采访存档在一个现有的关于约姆文化和语言的民族志网站上。经过编辑的录音将为人类学家提供一个罕见的约姆家庭仪式的例子，可以在万维网上的任何地方(包括教室)访问。此外，电影还可以复制成各种格式，用于社区保护和振兴，即盒式磁带、VHS、DVD和CD-Rom。预期的研究结果有两方面：1)探索数字技术在促进和代表定性研究方面可以发挥的作用；2)开发一种方法模型，使经济上处于不利地位的社区受益于与社会科学家相同的数据收集和记录过程。

Many indigenous organizations have begun utilizing the internet as a means to demonstrate cultural survival: websites and digital archive projects provide means by which to tell community outsiders and insiders about tribal history, identity and language. Anthropologists have also begun to create ethnographic websites, moving their cultural analyses across the digital divide: from print sources to digital publications. This project bridges these two parallel technological shifts by exploring how field recordings, particularly digital video, can be used by both anthropologists and community members in a website that not only offers cultural history and analysis, but also an audio and video archive for cultural and linguistic revitalization. Traveling to the Yoeme Pueblo of Potam (Sonora, Mexico), this investigator will film a family ceremony called the "lutu pahko," or sorrow ritual. Performed over four days, this ceremony releases the family members from their year of mourning following the death of their kin. At the family's request, this investigator will film the preparations and completion of the ritual for the explicit purpose of archiving the digitally recorded ritual and collaborators' interviews in an already existing ethnographic website about Yoeme culture and language. The edited recording will provide anthropologists a rare example of Yoeme family rituals, accessible from anywhere (including classrooms) on the World Wide Web. Additionally, the film can be duplicated onto a variety of formats for community preservation and revitalization, i.e., cassette, VHS, DVD, and CD-Rom. The expected research results are two-fold: 1) exploring the roles that digital technology can play within the contexts of furthering and representing qualitative research; and 2) developing a methodological model by which economically disadvantaged communities benefit from the same data collection and documentary processes as social scientists.