Two kinds of bioscope

Practical community concerns and ethnographic film in Namibia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2163115
AutoresMegan Biesele (University of Cape Town, autor de correspondencia), R K Hitchcock (0000-0001-8110-0289, University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Año1999
Volumen12
Número2-3
Páginas137-151
Fecha de publicación1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaVisual Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0894-9468 • E-ISSN: 1545-5920
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/08949468.1999.9966772
OpenAlexW2094627197
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas7

A quote from a Namibian Ju/'hoan political leader introduces the topic of community concerns about the practical implications of various styles of ethnographic filmmaking. The main issues addressed include communication, leadership, and decision‐making processes internal to the community being filmed; development planning and self‐presentation in state and international contexts; community participation in design of, and remuneration from, film projects; images produced and their relevance to governmental and international funding; and dialogue within both the local and the anthropological communities on the consequences of filmic decisions. Examples from six film projects in Nyae Nyae, Namibia, over the last decade are used to illustrate how complex land rights, natural resource rights, development planning, and external political issues may be more (or less) effectively dealt with depending on community involvement, presentational choices and activist goals

Aesthetics · Ethnography · Filmmaking · Geography · Media studies · Movie theater · Natural (archaeology · Natural resource · Political science · Politics · Presentation (obstetrics · Presentational and representational acting · Public relations · Relevance (law · Remuneration · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Law