Abstract Panel

Panel Details


 NameAffiliationCountry
Convenor Mrs. Mina Rad Member of research groupe on archive of Apresvaran Member of the group of groupe of visual anthropology of (AS) France
Co-convenor Dr. Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal professor-researcher at the Centro de Estudios Antropológicos in El Colegio de Michoacán. Mexico
Panel No : P115
Title : Audiovisual Ethnographic archives Restitution Issues
Sponsoring commission(s) :
Commission on: Anthropology and Education
Short Abstract : This roundtable aims to discuss ethical and methodological issues related to the restitution of Ethnographic audiovisual archives collected by photographers , anthropologists, filmmakers , … and brought back to their source, local community, indigenous in different forms of audiovisual films , virtual exhibition, museum collection
Long Abstract :

Nowadays, with the new technology there are a variety of ways to conduct the audiovisual archive, fieldwork research, ethnographic notes, the written memories, ...Many anthropologists carried out investigations in an earlier time, where digital technologies did not exist as they do today. Many young indigenous people, researchers, and the local community are interested in knowing the recorded interviews, notes, photos that were carried out by anthropologists with their families in the past.The audiovisual creation in its different form has brought the scientific research of past, to present and to the worldwide large public.This transmission of knowledge of the past to a larger public in the present can be seen as restitution that has accumulated over decades. It can be seen as processes of evolution from colonization to decolonization.The film on archive can become an infrastructural element of a national development. The audiovisual creation can bring the consciousness of culture and civilizations.In the process the restitution of knowledge can be developed by the relation between camera, archive and collector/anthropologists.It is known that some anthropologists have promoted the return of their research back from where they were collected in the form of film , virtual museum. This workshop aims to discuss all the issues that arise in the current situation with the restitution of ethnographic archives and the ways to put the collected files online so that they could be used by the new generation by indigenous and young local people according to their interests. These actions can also be seen within the framework of the production of a more collaborative anthropology. It is hoped in this workshop to be able to share diverse experiences of restitution of ethnographic archives and their methodological and ethical issues :  How can the Archive be a process from colonization to decolonization?