The Color of the Ethno/Graphic

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2408412
AutoresAmy E Stich (0000-0002-1260-5088)
Año2011
Volumen11
Número1
Páginas3-8
Fecha de publicación2011-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708610386452
OpenAlexW2147829066
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas11

Anthropologist Michael Taussig calls it a 'polymorphous magical substance.' This is how he 'prefers to think of color, something more than a spot of red or blue on a page. It affects all the senses, not just sight. It moves. It has depth and motion, and it connects such that it changes whatever it comes into contact with.' Color is elusive. The ethno/graphic then must reflect the elusive as it falls into the unavoidable trappings of social research. Color may not be route out of a long series of inescapable research traps, but this 'polymorphous magical substance' brings us into the montage of the everyday to reveal meanings otherwise left concealed. The purpose of this reflective essay is to demonstrate color's necessity within the trappings of social research that often remove color, and, as a result remove the soul, substance, and meaning, from the ethnographic

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Optics · Physics · Sight · Soul · Visual arts · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Art Education and Development · Philosophy