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The image in anthropology: ethnographic film

The text indicates possibilities to create circumstances which allow anthropologists to see their ethnographic material differently than they did before. The focus of the text is the ethnographic film which seeks to create such circumstances under which is possible to show (or evoke) things that would be otherwise left unreachable. The creation of such circumstances is the main goal of ontological turn in mainstream anthropology because when these circumstances are created, the epistemological problem of „how one sees things“ changes into ontological question „what there is to be seen, “ which in turn helps the researcher to create new conceptualizations and knowledge. On the example of film Cannibal Tours is shown how ethnographic films can develop new conceptualizations mainly because of the ability of the shown (material) image to evoke the conceptual image (which in this film questions our current idea about cannibalism, and develops a new one).

Ethnographic film, material and conceptual image, relations, production of new knowledge

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