Fatimah Tobing Rony
Biographic Data
| ID | 233400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fatimah Tobing Rony |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fatimah Tobing |
| FAMILY NAME | Rony |
| SIGNATURE | RONY F T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Do We Look: Resisting Visual Biopolitics
In How Do We Look? Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on transnational images of Indonesian women as a way to theorize what she calls visual biopolitics—the ways visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others. Rony outlines the mechanisms of visual biopolitics by examining Paul Gauguin’s 1893 portrait of Annah la Javanaise—a trafficked thirteen-year-old girl found wandering the streets of Paris—as well as US ethnographic …
Le troisième œil
Ce texte se compose de trois extraits de l'ouvrage de Fatimah Tobing Rony, The Third Eye. Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle , dans lequel l'auteure explore les représentations des « indigènes » non occidentaux au début du XX e siècle, entre cinéma, culture populaire et ethnographie. Elle met en évidence le rôle des images dans la perception de l'altérité à travers la notion de « troisième œil », soit l'expérience consistant à regarder tout…
The Photogenic Cannot Be Tamed: Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson's Trance and Dance in Bali
I watch the bodies in trance in Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead's ethnographic film Trance and Dance in Bali projected on a screen in a dormitory at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. It is 1982. The film is a vision of extreme otherness: young bare-breasted women with rippling black hair and slim young men in loincloths gyrate as they stab themselves in trance with the jagged swords of the Balinese kris. Astonishingly no blood is drawn. Funded b…
The Quick and the Dead: Surrealism and the Found Ethnographic Footage Films of Bontoc Eulogy and Mother Dao: The Turtlelike
The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle
Image Sovereignty
Review| February 01 1994 Image Sovereignty Indigenous Voices In Film Hosted by the Hawai‘i International Film Festival and Pacific Islanders in Communication, Hilo, Hawai‘i, November 15-17, 1993Images, Identities and [Mis]representations: Producing the Pacific Hosted by Pacific Islanders in Communication, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, November 20, 1993 Fatimah Tobing Rony Fatimah Tobing Rony Fatimah Tobing Rony is an art and film historian, and is currently…
Those Who Squat and Those Who Sit: The Iconography of Race in the 1895 Films of Felix-Louis Regnault
The Photogenic Cannot Be Tamed: Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson's Trance and Dance in Bali
I watch the bodies in trance in Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead's ethnographic film Trance and Dance in Bali projected on a screen in a dormitory at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. It is 1982. The film is a vision of extreme otherness: young bare-breasted women with rippling black hair and slim young men in loincloths gyrate as they stab themselves in trance with the jagged swords of the Balinese kris. Astonishingly no blood is drawn. Funded b…
The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle
Those Who Squat and Those Who Sit: The Iconography of Race in the 1895 Films of Felix-Louis Regnault
The Quick and the Dead: Surrealism and the Found Ethnographic Footage Films of Bontoc Eulogy and Mother Dao: The Turtlelike
Those Who Squat and Those Who Sit: The Iconography of Race in the 1895 Films of Felix-Louis Regnault
Image Sovereignty
Review| February 01 1994 Image Sovereignty Indigenous Voices In Film Hosted by the Hawai‘i International Film Festival and Pacific Islanders in Communication, Hilo, Hawai‘i, November 15-17, 1993Images, Identities and [Mis]representations: Producing the Pacific Hosted by Pacific Islanders in Communication, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, November 20, 1993 Fatimah Tobing Rony Fatimah Tobing Rony Fatimah Tobing Rony is an art and film historian, and is currently…
The Third Eye: Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle
The Quick and the Dead: Surrealism and the Found Ethnographic Footage Films of Bontoc Eulogy and Mother Dao: The Turtlelike
The Photogenic Cannot Be Tamed: Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson's Trance and Dance in Bali
I watch the bodies in trance in Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead's ethnographic film Trance and Dance in Bali projected on a screen in a dormitory at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. It is 1982. The film is a vision of extreme otherness: young bare-breasted women with rippling black hair and slim young men in loincloths gyrate as they stab themselves in trance with the jagged swords of the Balinese kris. Astonishingly no blood is drawn. Funded b…
Le troisième œil
Ce texte se compose de trois extraits de l'ouvrage de Fatimah Tobing Rony, The Third Eye. Race, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle , dans lequel l'auteure explore les représentations des « indigènes » non occidentaux au début du XX e siècle, entre cinéma, culture populaire et ethnographie. Elle met en évidence le rôle des images dans la perception de l'altérité à travers la notion de « troisième œil », soit l'expérience consistant à regarder tout…
How Do We Look: Resisting Visual Biopolitics
In How Do We Look? Fatimah Tobing Rony draws on transnational images of Indonesian women as a way to theorize what she calls visual biopolitics—the ways visual representation determines which lives are made to matter more than others. Rony outlines the mechanisms of visual biopolitics by examining Paul Gauguin’s 1893 portrait of Annah la Javanaise—a trafficked thirteen-year-old girl found wandering the streets of Paris—as well as US ethnographic …
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Asian Studies and History (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works)