scholarly journals Amazon-Jap, uma ficção etnográfica

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (39) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel O. Alvarez
Keyword(s):  
Amazon Region ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Japanese Character ◽  
The Status ◽  
Ethnographic Fiction ◽  
Ethnographic Narratives ◽  
Experimental Narrative

Este texto é uma ficção, escrita depois de dez anos de realizar pesquisas etnográficas na região Amazônica. Trata-se de um texto experimental, que reflete vivências, tensões, visões de mundo contrastantes. Um texto no qual o sexo é uma alegoria das paixões despertadas neste horizonte etnográfico no qual interatuam índios, caboclos, negros e um personagem japonês que costura antropologia e história. A ficção, ambientada na região de Óbidos, permitiu abordar episódios históricos invisibilizados, como a Comuna de Manaus, quando tenentes tomaram o poder. Um Brasil profundo, cujas tensões ainda ecoam a Cabanagem. Este texto experimental traz para o campo da escrita um conceito amplamente explorado na Antropologia Visual, a ficção etnográfica, e debate indiretamente o status das narrativas etnográficas como ficção, um tema que permeia a Antropologia nos escritos de Geertz, Clifford, Marcus e Fischer, mas também outros mais antigos como Castaneda, Lewis e porque não, o próprio Malinowski.Palavras-chave: Amazonas. Ficção Etnográfica. Narrativa experimental.Amazon-Jap: an ethnographic fictionAbstract This text is a fiction, written after ten years to conduct ethnographic research in the Amazon region. This is an experimental text that reflects experiences, tensions, contrasting worldviews. A text in which sex is an allegory of the aroused passions in ethnographic horizon in which interact indians, mestizos, afroamericans and a japanese character stitching anthropology and history. The fiction, set in Obidos region, allowed us to analyze historical episodes invisible, as the Commune of Manaus. A deep Brazil, whose tensions still echo the Cabanagem. This experimental text brings to the field of writing a widely explored concept in Visual Anthropology, ethnographic fiction, and debate indirectly the status of ethnographic narratives as fiction, a theme that permeates the writings of Anthropology Geertz, Clifford, Marcus and Fischer, but also others olders as Castaneda, Lewis and why not, Malinowski himself.Key words: Amazon. Ethnographic Fiction. Experimental narrative.

scholarly journals A Cidade de Manaus a partir da Etnografia do Circuito do “RAP AM”

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (54) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Branquinho Abdala Norberto
Keyword(s):  
Rap Music ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Urban Anthropology ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Slum Area ◽  
Urban Ethnography ◽  
The Common ◽  
Ethnographic Narratives ◽  
The City

Resumo: Levo a cabo neste artigo a proposta de apresentar a cidade de Manaus a partir da etnografia do circuito do “Rap AM” - como MCs/rappers, DJs, beatmakers e produtores musicais reconhecem o circuito da música Rap em Manaus -, trazendo interpretações e narrativas etnográficas fruto do encontro intersubjetivo com os colaboradores desta pesquisa de doutorado (2016-20) realizada em quase oito meses de trabalho de campo na referida metrópole amazônica. Parto do amparo teórico/teórico-metodológico interdisciplinar  (etnomusicologia/antropologia) através dos paradigmas da etnografia da música/etnografia urbana enfatizando três eixos centrais da pesquisa: 1. a cidade de Manaus a partir da lente do etnógrafo; 2. o olhar do “Rap de quebrada” e suas interpretações da cidade ao empregar as categorias “periferia”, “quebrada” e “favela”; 3. o olhar do “Rap regional” e a sua demanda por uma “Manaus étnica”. Ressalto as potencialidades desta etnografia ao propor outros olhares/escutas das/nas cidades amazônicas, ao passo que problematizo o imaginário comum em torno de uma Amazônia predominantemente “rural”.Palavras-chave: Música Rap. Manaus. Amazônia Urbana. Etnomusicologia. Antropologia Urbana. MANAUS (A METROPOLIS FROM AMAZON REGION, BRAZIL): PERSPECTIVES FROM THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF “RAP AM” CIRCUIT Abstract: I present on this paper Manaus (a metropolis from Amazon region, Brazil) from the ethnography of “Rap AM” circuit - how MCs/rappers, DJs, beatmakers, and music producers recognize the Rap music circuit in Manaus -, bringing to light both interpretations and ethnographic narratives from the intersubjective encounter with collaborators of this PhD research (2016-20) carried out in almost eight months of fieldwork. I based myself in the interdisciplinary encounter of ethnomusicology and anthropology through the paradigms of music ethnography and urban ethnography. I emphasize the following issues throughout the paper: 1. Manaus city from the lens of the ethnographer; 2. "Ghetto Rap" subgenre and its interpretations of the city through categories such as “periphery” and “favela” ("slum area"); 3. “Regional Rap” subgenre and its demand for an “ethnic Manaus”. I underline potentialities of this ethnographic research for proposing other views and points of listening of and in Amazonian cities, and for problematize the common imaginary around a predominantly “rural” Amazon.Keywords: Rap Music. Manaus City. Urban Amazon. Ethnomusicology. Urban Anthropology.

In Algeria: Pierre Bourdieu's Photographic Fieldwork

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franz Schultheis ◽  
Patricia Holder ◽  
Constantin Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Visual Sociology ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Analytical Skills ◽  
Algerian Population ◽  
The Status ◽  
Insight Into

Today Pierre Bourdieu is well known as one of the most important social scientists of the 20th century. One of the outstanding qualities of his work has been his innovative combination of different methods and research strategies as well as his analytical skills in interpreting the obtained data (his ‘sociological gaze’). In this paper, we attempt to retrace the development of an extraordinary way of doing social research and show the benefit of Bourdieu's visual sociology for his empirical fieldwork and sociological theory. The article particularly stresses the significance of his photographic archive, which has long been ignored within the appreciation of Bourdieu's work. Studying Bourdieu's photography gives access to his æuvre in several new ways: not only can we understand how Bourdieu became an unconventional sociologist practicing his craft in the midst of a colonial war. Bourdieu's visual anthropology also offers an insight into the status nascendi of Bourdieu's sociology in all its elementary forms and contents. Through his photography Boudieu demonstrated the concepts of ‘ habitat and habitus’, the material and symbolic living conditions of the Algerian population.

scholarly journals Juventude, imagem e cidade: experiências de pesquisa etnográfica com jovens urbanos em Porto Alegre

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (44) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Stefano Rosa Gómez ◽  
Jose Luis Abalos Junior ◽  
Manoel Cláudio Mendes Gonçalves da Rocha
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
City Image ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Cultural Diffusion ◽  
Imaging Approach ◽  
The City

O presente artigo é resultado de um diálogo entre três experiências de produção coletiva de pesquisa etnográfica, que têm em comum os temas juventude, imagem e cidade. Um conjunto de nove etnografias visuais foi realizado a partir de uma parceria entre os pesquisadores associados ao Núcleo de Antropologia Visual (NAVISUAL/PPGAS/UFRGS) e os estudantes da disciplina de Antropologia Visual (2016/1) ministrada ao curso de Ciências Sociais da UFRGS sob a coordenação da antropóloga e professora Cornelia Eckert. As reflexões que aqui apresentamos percorrem um processo de ensino-aprendizagem implicado na experiência dos três autores enquanto estagiários docentes nesta disciplina. A proposta lançada consistiu em um exercício etnográfico a ser desenvolvido ao longo do semestre letivo, tendo como eixo temático as “intervenções artísticas urbanas”, no qual os discentes trabalhariam coletivamente no formato de grupos de trabalho, sob a orientação dos estagiários e pesquisadores do Navisual. Como desdobramento de tais experiências, foi produzida uma expografia compartilhada em parceria com o Departamento de Difusão Cultural (DDC/UFRGS) e o projeto UNIFOTO, que ficou exposta na galeria do Hall da Reitoria da UFRGS entre os meses de agosto e setembro de 2016. Destacamos neste trabalho o diálogo e convergências entre três abordagens que percorrem universos empíricos específicos na cidade de Porto Alegre - as Batalhas de MCs, os itinerários e trajetórias de jovens praticantes de skate, e o evento Feira do Hip Hop - propondo uma abordagem imagética em torno do tema das “intervenções artísticas urbanas”, tendo em vista compreender as formas sensíveis através das quais estes sujeitos experienciam, praticam e transformam o viver urbano.Palavras Chaves: Cidade; Imagem; Juventude; Antropologia Visual; Formas Sensíveis.Youth, Image and city: experiences of ethnographic research with urban youngs in Porto AlegreAbstract  This paper is a result of a dialogue between three experiences of collective ethnographic work which have in common the categories of image, youth and city. A group of nine visual ethnographies was carried departed of a partnership of researchers associated with the “Núcleo de Antropologia Visual (NAVISUAL/PPGAS/UFRGS) and the students of the course of Visual Anthropology assign in Social Science under the coordination of Cornelia Eckert. The reflection that we present here go through a process of learning and teaching, based on the experience of the three autors. The proposal launched consisted in a etnographic exercise to be developped alonge the semester, under the bow of a tematic pivot: "urban artistic intervention".As a result of these experiences, a shared exhibition was produced in partnership with the Department of Cultural Diffusion (DDC / UFRGS) and the UNIFOTO project, which was exhibited in the gallery of the Rectory Hall of UFRGS between August and September 2016. We highlight in this work the dialogue and convergences between three approaches that explore specific empirical universes in the city of Porto Alegre - the MCs Battles, the itineraries and trajectories of young skateboarders, and the Hip Hop Fair - proposing an imaging approach around (Sansot, 1983, Ledrut, 1984; Rocha, 1995) through which these subjects experience, practice and transform urban living.Key words: City. Image. Youth. Visual Anthropology. Sensible Forms.     

scholarly journals Interfaces entre literatura popular e antropologia visual: desafios etnográficos e epistemológicos ao pesquisador em letras

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (38) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Hofmeister de Aguiar
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Visual Performance ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Literary Historiography ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ethnographic Narratives

Este ensaio tem por objetivo levantar as possíveis contribuições da Antropologia Visual para os pesquisadores de Letras que se dedicam à literatura oral e popular. Para isso, o artigo foi dividido em três partes. A primeira faz uma reflexão acerca do lugar da poesia popular no campo das Letras, propondo uma inclusão das poéticas populares na historiografia literária. A segunda volta-se para a investigação da cantoria e do repente como performances. A terceira, por fim, tem por premissa ver como a Antropologia Visual pode contribuir para a composição de um corpus de manifestações literárias populares, bem como de coleção de imagens e de narrativas etnográficas. Entre os autores que dão suporte à reflexão, destacam-se Matos (1994; 1999), Zumthor (2010), Schafer (2001), Rocha e Eckert (2013a, 2013b) e Devos e Rocha (2009).Palavras-chave: Literatura popular. Antropologia Visual. Performance. Repente. Composição de corpus.Interfaces between popular literature and visual anthropology: ethnographics and epistemologicals challenges the researcher in lettersAbstractThis article aims to find the possible contributions of Visual Anthropology for researchers engaged in oral and popular literature. For this, the work was divided into three parts. The first one makes a reflection about the popular poetry’s place in the field of Literature, proposing an inclusion of popular poetry in literary historiography. The second one turns itself to the investigation of singing and “repente” as performances. The third, finally, aims to see how the Visual anthropology can contribute for the corpus composition of literature popular events, as well as images and ethnographic narratives collections. Among the authors who support the reflection, stand out Matos (1994; 1999), Zumthor (2010), Schafer (2001), Rock and Eckert (2013th, 2013b) and Devos and Rocha (2009). Key words: Popular Literature. Visual Antropology. Performing. Repente. Corpus Composition. 

scholarly journals Performances da cultura visual e de eventos no processo de revitalização urbana no “Distrito Criativo” de Porto Alegre

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Simon
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Urban Revitalization ◽  
Urban Transformation ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ritual Process ◽  
Video Makers

Busco com este artigo refletir sobre as formas como o processo de revitalização urbana em uma região de Porto Alegre se constrói por meio da cultura visual e de eventos específicos. Com aporte da antropologia urbana e visual, a pesquisa etnográfica foi realizada no Quarto Distrito de Porto Alegre/RS/Brasil, principalmente no bairro Floresta, o qual passou por um processo de desindustrialização e hoje recebe olhares atentos de alguns atores interessados em sua revitalização. Junto a este contexto de transformação urbana, compreendemos a importância da cultura visual como um agente fundamental, pois cria uma nova cartografia imagética urbana, que sobrepõe imagens do passado com as do presente, contribui para o registro e a disseminação dos projetos de inovação social. As performances desempenhadas pelos fotógrafos, vídeo makers e participantes dos eventos atuam de forma significativa para uma reconfiguração imagética e estética do território criativo. Os eventos reúnem práticas de sociabilidades, narrativas permeados de emoção com resgates de memórias e com projeções para o futuro. O próprio evento se mostra como um processo estético e ritual. Este artigo compõe parte da pesquisa desenvolvida no Núcleo de Antropologia Visual, da UFRGS.Palavras-chave: Bairro Floresta. Cultura visual. Eventos. Revitalização urbana.Performances of visual culture and events in the urban revitalization process in the "Creative District" of Porto AlegreThis paper aims to reflect upon the ways in which the process of urban revitalization in a region of Porto Alegre is built by visual culture and specific events. Following the contribution of urban and visual anthropology, the ethnographic research was conducted in the Forth District, Porto Alegre/RS/Brazil, mainly in the Floresta neighborhood, which went through a process of deindustrialization and today receives watchful eyes of some actors interested in its revitalization. Near this context of urban transformation, we understand the importance of visual culture as a key player, because it creates a new urban imagery cartography, which overlays images of the past with the present, contributes to register and disseminate the projects of social innovation. The performances of photographers, video makers, and the participants of the events act significantly for a reconfiguration of the imagery and the aesthetics of the creative territory. The events assemble sociability practices, emotional narratives with memories rescue and projections for the future. The event itself performs as an aesthetic and ritual process. This paper is a research developed within the Visual Anthropology Center, at UFRGS.Keywords: Floresta neighbourhood. Visual culture. Events. Urban revitalization.  

scholarly journals “In the name(s) of the moon!”: ‘Japaneseness’ & Reader Identity in Two Translations of Sailor Moon

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 121-154
Author(s):  
Morgan Sleeper ◽  
Daphne Iskos
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Reader Identity ◽  
Japanese Character ◽  
English Translations ◽  
The Status ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The U.S

Manga has become increasingly popular in the United States since the 1990s, and over time, the strategies employed in translating these texts for English-speaking audiences have shifted. As translation practices have changed, so too has the status of the sociocultural construct of 'Japaneseness' – a commodified branding of Japanese elements – in translated manga. A striking example of this shift can be seen in two English translations of Naoko Takeuchi's 1991 manga Bishôjo Senshi Sêrâ Mûn (Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon) for the U.S. market, released 13 years apart: the 1998 Mixx/TokyoPop translation and the 2011 Kodansha translation. In this paper, we examine the use of four linguistic features – loanwords, honorifics, onomatopoeia, and iconicity – in both translations, and find that each version broadly employs a different strategy to either erase (in the case of the earlier translation) or amplify and actively create (in the case of the later translation) 'Japaneseness' within the text. These strategies in turn afford two different ways for readers to engage with Sailor Moon, so following our analysis of the texts themselves, we then examine fan discourse to show how readers construct distinct identities by drawing on salient linguistic features of each translation. The shift from a preference for domesticated reading experiences to a desire for translations to retain as much Japanese character as possible reveals the construct of 'Japaneseness' as central to the commodification of Japanese language and culture in both manga publishing and Anglophone fandom more broadly.

scholarly journals Imagining Citizens as More than Data Subjects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisca Grommé ◽  
Evelyn Ruppert
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Official Statistics ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Academic Researchers ◽  
Design Workshop ◽  
Ethnographic Narratives ◽  
Opening Up

The article presents a methodography of a collaborative design workshop conducted with national and international statisticians. The workshop was part of an ethnographic research project on innovation in European official statistics. It aimed to bring academic researchers and statisticians together to collaborate on the design of app prototypes that imagine citizens as co-producers of official statistics rather than only data subjects. However, the objective was not to settle on an end product but to see if relations to citizens could be re-imagined. Through a methodography composed of two ethnographic narratives, we analyse whether and how a collaborative design workshop brought about imaginings of citizens as co-producers. To retrospectively analyse the workshop, we draw on feminist and material-semiotic takes on ‘friction’ as characteristic of collaboration. ‘Friction’, we suggest, can enlarge the repertoire of collaborative speculative practice beyond notions of rupture or consensus. Finally, we suggest that this analysis demonstrates the potential of methodography for opening up and reflecting on method in STS through eliciting the possibilities of collaboration.

Ethnographic Documentary Production

Anthropology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harjant S. Gill
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Visual Anthropology ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Ethnographic Film ◽  
Scholarly Output ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Ethnographic Cinema ◽  
Definition Of

The term “documentary production” within anthropology characterizes the making and circulation of ethnographic research and scholarship which includes film and video as the primary medium of storytelling and communicating cultural knowledge. These categories evolve frequently and what constitutes a film as “ethnographic” cinema is a topic of lengthy ongoing debates. In his Oxford Bibliographies in Anthropology entry “Ethnographic Film,” Matthew Durington provides an overview of some of these debates in attempting to narrow down theoretical frameworks and parameters of filmic ethnography. Ginsburg’s 1998 essay “Institutionalizing the Unruly: Charting a Future for Visual Anthropology” (cited under Foundations) charts the lineage of visual anthropology on the development of the subfield as “born of a union between anthropology and documentary film” (p. 173). From its earliest application within ethnographic research, some scholars have approached filmmaking as a methodological and analytical tool that privileges scientific rigor while others regard it primarily as a medium for storytelling and scholarly output. Early adopters of using film within anthropological research, including Mead and Bateson in their 1977 article “On the Use of Camera in Anthropology” (cited under Foundations), have openly quibbled about the role of the camera and the filmmaker in capturing culture on film. These disagreements have been useful in broadening the boundaries of ethnographic cinema, inspiring filmmakers to experiment with different ways of making meaning, as it has been customary from the genre’s inception led by pioneering figures like Jean Rouch, Robert Gardner, and Trinh T. Minh-ha. For a threshold for what constitutes “ethnographic film and media productions,” we can turn to Jean Rouch, who in his essay “The Camera and Man” (cited under Foundations) insists that ethnographic filmmakers must apply the same anthropological rigor—“spend a long time in the field before beginning to shoot (at least a year),” and thereby possessing an intimate understanding of the communities among whom they work while mastering essential “film and sound recording skills” (p. 40). Building on insights offered by Rouch and by drawing on scholarship from documentary and media studies, the goal of this entry is to outline the fundamentals of non-fiction filmmaking geared toward anthropologists who are already trained in ethnographic research. This entry also insists upon a more inclusive definition of ethnographic cinema, one that does not rely on the filmmaker’s academic pedigree as the primary criteria for inclusion into what has historically been a rather insular enterprise. Instead, a section of this entry is devoted to highlighting voices and perspectives from historically marginalized communities—queer, feminist, people of color, immigrants, indigenous filmmakers, who have been sidelined within the discipline of anthropology with its vestiges of colonialism. Another section of this entry highlights the need to decenter the hegemony of North American and European gaze when telling cross-cultural stories by focusing on transnational ethnographic and documentary production, specifically from countries in the Global South.

scholarly journals Migrant Workers and COVID-19: Listening to the Unheard Voices of Invisible India

2020 ◽  
pp. 2277436X2096898
Author(s):  
Sangeeta Yadav ◽  
Kumar Ravi Priya
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Internal Migrant ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
The Status

The internal migrant workers in India, despite being highly vulnerable in terms of physical and mental health, have remained the backbone of the Indian economy. However, the recent lockdown situation created by pandemic has put them in a more precarious condition. On one hand, they have lost their jobs and earnings, while on the other, they did not have enough resources to survive at the place of migration. As a result, the nation witnessed mass exodus, where men, women, children were seen returning to their native places on foot. This article, through a critical review of interdisciplinary and ethnographic research, focuses on the status of migrant workers in India amidst lockdown and strategies that may help to mitigate the situation. This article also explores the future course of action that can improve migrant workers’ condition.

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