Drawing with a camera? Ethnographic film and transformative anthropology

Tradução de Tatiana Lotierzo e Luís Felipe Kojima Hirano

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2021.178546

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Desenho, Antropologia, Filme

Abstract

Drawing has emerged as a recent focus of anthropological attention. Writers such as Ingold and Taussig have argued for its significance as a special kind of knowledge practice, linking it to a broader re‐imagining of the anthropological project itself. Underpinning their approach is an opposition between the pencil and the camera, between ‘making’ and ‘taking’, between restrictive and generative modes of inquiry. This essay challenges this assumption, arguing that these elements in drawing and filmmaking exist in a dialectical rather than a polarized relationship. It highlights particular insights that follow from a dialogue between written and film‐based anthropologies and links them to broader debates within the discipline – for example, debates about ways of knowing, skilled practice, improvisation and the imagination, and anthropology as a form of image‐making practice.

Original: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 21, 255-27. Available: https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9655.12161

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Author Biographies

  • Anna Grimshaw, Emory University

    Tem formação como antropóloga e cineasta. Ela é professora no Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, na Emory University. Ela é autora de The ethnographer’s eye: ways of seeing in modern anthropology (Cambridge University Press, 2001) e, com Amanda Ravetz, de Observational cinema: anthropology, film and the exploration of social life (Indiana University Press, 2009). Sua série de filmes em quatro partes, Mr Coperthwaite: a life in the Maine Woods (2014) é distribuída pela Berkeley Media. Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University, 537 Kilgo Circle, S415-Callaway Center, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA. E-mail: agrimsh@emory.edu

  • Amanda Ravetz, Manchester Metropolitan University

    É formada em pintura na Central School of Art and Design e, posteriormente, completou um doutorado em Antropologia Social com Mídia Visual na University de Manchester. Ela é pesquisadora sênior no MIRIAD (Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design), da Manchester Metropolitan University. Ela é editora, com Anna Grimshaw, de Visualizing anthropology (Intellect Books, 2005) e, com Alice Kettle e Helen Felcey, de Collaboration through Craft (Bloomsbury, 2013). Manchester Metropolitan University, Cavendish Street, Manchester M15 6BG, UK. E-mail: a.ravetz@mmu.ac.uk

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2021-01-21

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Grimshaw, Anna, and Amanda Ravetz. 2021. “Drawing With a Camera? Ethnographic Film and Transformative Anthropology: Tradução De Tatiana Lotierzo E Luís Felipe Kojima Hirano”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 6 (1): e-178546. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2021.178546.