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Photoethnography Blog and Blogging Asia

(via delicious)Karen Nakamura is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on disability and minority identity issues in contemporary Japan, currently in Kyoto for fieldwork. While you’ll find many camera reviews on her blog, her homepage lists many links related to photoethnography and discusses some techniques. There’s also a very interesting photo gallery. Nakamura is also mentioned in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on Asian Blogging.

(via delicious)Karen Nakamura is a cultural anthropologist who focuses on disability and minority identity issues in contemporary Japan, currently in Kyoto for fieldwork. While you'll find many camera reviews on her blog, her homepage lists many links related to photoethnography…

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Anthropological film: How technology helps men with physical handicaps

One more film to be viewed on the website of Visual Anthropology in Tromsø/Norway – Independent by Espen Marius Foss:

“This story is about two young Norwegian men with physical handicaps who seek the good life in a technological world. Dagfinn runs his own computer-enterprise, but dreams about a job in a bigger company. Geir Ove has a sound assistance-system, but lacks necessary aids to write another novel.

The film addresses the new possibilities and limits for participation and creative existence within the “Information Society”. It also questions our craving for individual independency.” >> continue and watch the video (Broadband only)

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One more film to be viewed on the website of Visual Anthropology in Tromsø/Norway - Independent by Espen Marius Foss:

"This story is about two young Norwegian men with physical handicaps who seek the good life in a technological world. Dagfinn…

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maitres-fous.net – a Website devoted to ethnographer Jean Rouch’s films

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The filmmaker and ethnographer Jean Rouch died in northern Niger on February 19, 2004. He was 86 years old. He left behind a legacy of over 120 films – the bulk of which were recorded in West Africa.

Rouch’s work in Africa is characterized by what is referred to as “shared anthropology” and “ethno-fiction.” Rouch’s films illustrate a keen rethinking of the practice of both ethnography and filmmaking. Rouch’s practices blur the distinctions between subject and observer, reality and fiction.

Rouch elaborated a style of filming through which he not only recorded events, but also participated in their creation. According to Rouch, the relationship between the filmmaker and his subject reaches its creative zenith when the filmmaker “can really get into the subject”- when he slips into what Rouch called a ciné-trance. >> continue

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The filmmaker and ethnographer Jean Rouch died in northern Niger on February 19, 2004. He was 86 years old. He left behind a legacy of over 120 films - the bulk of which were recorded in West Africa.

Rouch's work in…

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Upcoming Ethnographic Filmfestivals

There are at least 12 ethnographic film festivals somewhere on this planet until the end of the year. Check the August Newsletter of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association >> continue or use the direct link to the rtf-document

Check also the overview at Visualanthropology.net

There are at least 12 ethnographic film festivals somewhere on this planet until the end of the year. Check the August Newsletter of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association >> continue or use the direct link to the rtf-document

Check also the…

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Anthropological Films online

For those of you with a fast broadband connection: On the website of the Visual Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Tromsø, you can download / view several anthropological films:

Conversation with the Weyto (by Zerihun Abebe):
This film is about a small group of people, found in northwest Ethiopia and categorized as Weyto. In the conversation, which my friend and I made with some members of the group, I tried to convey the voices of the Weyto and also the virtual experience of being Weyto. >> continue

Boys Will Be Boys (by Brigt Dale):
A film shot during student fieldwork in social and visual anthropology, “Boys Will Be Boys” tells the story of the inexperienced fieldworker, trying to master a foreign environment, and how his appearance and behaviour produce knowledge. >> continue

Across troubled Water (by Petia Mankova):
The film is about the everyday life in Krasnoschelye, an isolated village in the heart of the tundra on Kola peninsula (North-West Russia) and how the local eople experience the political and economic reforms of the last ten years. >> continue

UPDATE: The Nordic Anthropological Film Association has listed around 110 films that you can watch online (broadband)

For those of you with a fast broadband connection: On the website of the Visual Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Tromsø, you can download / view several anthropological films:

Conversation with the Weyto (by Zerihun Abebe):
This…

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