Cross-Cultural Filmmaking as a Process of Self-Reflection

Filming Native Americans within Central European Space’s Prevailing Imagery of the “Noble Savage

Bibliographic Data

ID8043576
AuthorsLívia Šavelková (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Pardubice, Pardubice , Czech Republic, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume17
Issue1
Pages133-154
Publication date2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnologia Actualis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1339-7834 • E-ISSN: 1339-7877
PublisherDe Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL)
DOI10.1515/eas-2017-0012
OpenAlexW2792927286
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited42

In Said ́s notion of “Orientalism” as a set of discursive practices through which the West structured the imagined East, the Czech Republic (or former Czechoslovakia) in particular, and so called Eastern Europe in general, has been viewed by “the West” as a space inhabited by “exotic other”. The former socialist countries (and the so called post-socialist countries) have been constructing their own “Orients” and “exotic others” as well including Noble Savage stereotype of Native Americans. This paper focuses on a visual (re)presentation of a meeting between people who might have mutually constructed each other as the “exotic other”. Based on filming of a visit of a Native American sport team competing in the Czech Republic, the paper would like to discuss who are the “exotic ones” and for whom and the methodological issues related to the creation of the cross-cultural ethnographic films

Cultural anthropology · Filmmaking · Orientalism · Culinary Culture and Tourism · European Cultural and National Identity · European history and politics