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

该奖项的纪录片教育资源（DER）将支持为期一天的圆桌会议上的民族志电影。会议将汇集来自领先的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）关于民族志电影数据库设计的建议（使用DER收集作为案例研究）; 2）关于民族志电影保存和可访问性的框架、优先事项和下一步措施的讨论。从民族志电影作为一种文化产品的概念开始，圆桌会议将评估描述人类学主题内容、电影制作实践和类型以及电影和录像制作中使用的技术的现有标准。进一步的讨论，导致一份白色文件的发展，将解决与现有收藏和新的人种学媒体的保存和使用有关的领域的关键问题和优先事项。 作为人种学研究和教学的一部分而创作的大量电影和录像构成了人类文化和社会的重要记录。该项目将改善个人获得这些材料的机会，包括有兴趣确定用于教学、博物馆展览、电影节和社区放映的电影的个人。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、电影作为记录媒介以及我们多样的人类遗产的理解。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。

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.