La Mirada Erótica. Cuerpo Y Performance En La Antropología Visual.

As Bill Nichols proposed (1991: 209), the ethnographer´s emotions in the field are normally kept within what he called the ¨anthropological unconscious¨. In the present article I refer to the relationship between the body –that of the ethnographer and the ones of his/her subjects–, the performance o...

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Main Author: Elisa Lipkau.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) 2009-07-01
Series:Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
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Online Access:http://antipoda.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/143/1.php
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description As Bill Nichols proposed (1991: 209), the ethnographer´s emotions in the field are normally kept within what he called the ¨anthropological unconscious¨. In the present article I refer to the relationship between the body –that of the ethnographer and the ones of his/her subjects–, the performance of all of them, and visual anthropology as a vast field of study about social representation. In this sense, I analyze the possibility of reaching something Nichols called an “erotics of the gaze”, which conceives film as the inscription of an experience of cultural interaction between human and sensitive beings. This gaze may help us overcome the distance and hierarchy that have been traditionally established in some ethnographic and anthropological practices, in order to help us build new types of relationships with our subjects and, as Jean Rouch said in 1974: “help us share anthropology”.
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spelling doaj.art-41f3aa15168a4b2a8b8350fb23f7756e2022-12-21T18:26:38ZengUniversidad de los Andes (Bogotá)Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología1900-54072009-07-019231261La Mirada Erótica. Cuerpo Y Performance En La Antropología Visual.Elisa Lipkau.As Bill Nichols proposed (1991: 209), the ethnographer´s emotions in the field are normally kept within what he called the ¨anthropological unconscious¨. In the present article I refer to the relationship between the body –that of the ethnographer and the ones of his/her subjects–, the performance of all of them, and visual anthropology as a vast field of study about social representation. In this sense, I analyze the possibility of reaching something Nichols called an “erotics of the gaze”, which conceives film as the inscription of an experience of cultural interaction between human and sensitive beings. This gaze may help us overcome the distance and hierarchy that have been traditionally established in some ethnographic and anthropological practices, in order to help us build new types of relationships with our subjects and, as Jean Rouch said in 1974: “help us share anthropology”.http://antipoda.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/143/1.phpAnthropologyethnographic filmbodyrepresentation and performance.
spellingShingle Elisa Lipkau.
La Mirada Erótica. Cuerpo Y Performance En La Antropología Visual.
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
Anthropology
ethnographic film
body
representation and performance.
title La Mirada Erótica. Cuerpo Y Performance En La Antropología Visual.
title_full La Mirada Erótica. Cuerpo Y Performance En La Antropología Visual.
title_fullStr La Mirada Erótica. Cuerpo Y Performance En La Antropología Visual.
title_full_unstemmed La Mirada Erótica. Cuerpo Y Performance En La Antropología Visual.
title_short La Mirada Erótica. Cuerpo Y Performance En La Antropología Visual.
title_sort la mirada erotica cuerpo y performance en la antropologia visual
topic Anthropology
ethnographic film
body
representation and performance.
url http://antipoda.uniandes.edu.co/view.php/143/1.php
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