| Description |
x, 318 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Alexander Street anthropology |
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Anthropology online |
| Contents |
Introduction / Lucien Taylor -- 1. The Fate of the Cinema Subject -- 2. Visual Anthropology and the Ways of Knowing -- 3. The Subjective Voice in Ethnographic Film -- 4. Beyond Observational Cinema -- 5. Complicities of Style -- 6. Whose Story Is It? -- 7. Subtitling Ethnographic Films -- 8. Ethnographic Film: Failure and Promise -- 9. Unprivileged Camera Style -- 10. When Less is Less -- 11. Film Teaching and the State of Documentary -- 12. Films of Memory -- 13. Transcultural Cinema |
| Summary |
"Sherpas are portrayed by Westerners as heroic mountain guides, or "tigers of the snow," as Buddhist adepts, and as a people in touch with intimate ways of life that seem no longer available in the Western world. In this book, Vincanne Adams explores how attempts to characterize an "authentic" Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. Noting that diplomatic aides at world summit meetings go by the name "Sherpa," as do a van in the U.K. built for rough terrain and a software product from Silicon Valley, Adams examines the "authenticating" effects of this mobile signifier on a community of Himalayan Sherpas who live at the base of Mount Everest, Nepal, and its "deauthenticating" effects on anthropological representation." "This book speaks not only to anthropologists concerned with ethnographic portrayals of Otherness but also to those working in cultural studies who are concerned with ethnographically grounded analyses of representations. Throughout Adams illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of "virtual" identities. In a manner informed by both Buddhism and shamanism, virtual Sherpas are always both real and distilled reflections of the desires that produce them. Book jacket."--Jacket |
| Analysis |
ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CINEMA |
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DOCUMENTARIES |
| Notes |
Filmography: p. 293-302 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index |
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Introduction / Lucien Taylor -- 1. The Fate of the Cinema Subject -- 2. Visual Anthropology and the Ways of Knowing -- 3. The Subjective Voice in Ethnographic Film -- 4. Beyond Observational Cinema -- 5. Complicities of Style -- 6. Whose Story Is It? -- 7. Subtitling Ethnographic Films -- 8. Ethnographic Film: Failure and Promise -- 9. Unprivileged Camera Style -- 10. When Less is Less -- 11. Film Teaching and the State of Documentary -- 12. Films of Memory -- 13. Transcultural Cinema |
| Bibliography |
Filmography: pages 293-302 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [279]-292) and index |
| Subject |
Documentary films -- History and criticism.
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Ethnographic films -- History and criticism.
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Documentary films.
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Motion pictures in ethnology.
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| Author |
Castaing-Taylor, Lucien.
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Anthropology Online
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| LC no. |
98021197 |
| ISBN |
0691012342 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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0691012350 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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