Abstract Panel

Panel Details


 NameAffiliationCountry
Convenor Prof. Jiang Bao Chinese Academy of Social Sciences China
Co-convenor Prof. Metje Postma Leiden University Netherlands
Panel No : P009
Title : Filmmaking and Multimodal Ethnography Making in Visual Anthropology
Sponsoring commission(s) :
Commission on Visual Anthropology
Short Abstract : Visual anthropology uses film, sound text, social media, installation exhibitions and websites as infrastructures for ontological constructions for the knowledge of anthropology beyond writing while it uses them as media, means and modalities for the knowledge production of anthropology beyond writing. This panel aims at theoretical and methodological exploration of these forms based on long-term fieldwork cases.
Long Abstract :

Visual anthropology uses film, sound text, social media, installation exhibitions and websites as infrastructures for ontological constructions for the knowledge of anthropology beyond writing while it uses them as media, means and modalities for the knowledge production of anthropology beyond writing. This panel aims at theoretical and methodological exploration of these forms based on long-term fieldwork cases. The pioneering research in these fields of ethnographic filmmaking and multimodal ethnography making in visual anthropology also has experimental value in how film, sound text, social media, installation exhibitions and websites, might be integrated with other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.