Sam Pack
Biographic Data
| ID | 3615237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Pack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Pack |
| SIGNATURE | PACK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kenyon College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Oral History Reimagined
“Fucking Koreans!”
Drawn by the tropical weather and pristine beaches, significantly lower cost of living, and proximity, South Koreans are now the top tourists in the Philippines. Besides the short-term tourists, more than 100,000 South Koreans have chosen to permanently reside in the Philippines, making them the largest immigrant population in the country. Recently, a tenuous relationship between these two groups has emerged marked by mutual antipathy. I have ove…
‘If It’s Korean, It Must Be Good’- The Nation Branding of South Korean Popular Culture in the Philippines
Filipinos are avid consumers of exported South Korean media products. Teenagers and young adults know the lyrics and dance moves of their favorite K-Pop performers while older viewers are engrossed in the weekly Korean television dramas (known in the Philippines as ‘Koreanovelas’). There exists, however, a fundamental disconnect between the idealised images disseminated in the media and their everyday lived experiences that are characterised by m…
Digital Repatriation in Vietnam
The objective in this collaborative project was to return a series of government-made films about the ancient tradition of water puppetry to the village of Bao Ha in the Red River Delta where they were originally shot in order to make this invaluable cultural heritage available to the very community of which they are records. Beyond simply expressing their opinions about these films, five villagers were selected and trained to make films of their…
Collaborative Filmmaking in the Digital Age
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSam PackSam Pack is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kenyon College. His research interests address the relationship between media and culture and specifically focus on an anthropological approach to the production and reception of television, film, photographs, and new media. His ethnographic film, Celebrating Semana Santa: Change, Conflict, and Continuity in Rural Honduras, has been s…
What is a Real Indian
This article is less an attempt to answer the question of what it means to be a "real" Indian than an examination of the question itself. The complex process of separating the genuine from the spurious has been necessitated by the federal government's continued employment of a blood quantum to determine who is and who is not Indian, the increasing numbers of people who are claiming Indian descent because of the popularity of Indian culture and, m…
Global Transmission and Local Consumption
A common assumption maintains that the global outreach of mass media inevitably leads to deleterious consequences for native communities. Indeed, different scholars have argued that awareness of the outside world from television results in the homogenization of local cultures. However, images viewed through the electronic peephole radically transform not only an understanding of the outside world, but the way indigenes define themselves and their…
"I Hate White People!"-Subverting the Televisual Gaze
I have previously argued that the other viewing the Self highlights the ramifications of the question “Who are they?” vis-à-vis notions of “Who are we?” and that the answer to the former directly shapes and informs the latter, as Fourth World people are forced to negotiate their identity upon exposure to First World television. In this article, I examine a particular group of subaltern viewers who reassign the roles of self and Other in order to …
The Best of Both Worlds
In many respects, Thunderheart 1 (1992) is a refreshing departure from its predecessors in the Native American film genre. While seemingly enlightened, I will argue that the film still relies upon too many Hollywood crutches in depicting Native Americans, which is particularly evident in its utilization of three tropes: the construction of the "other," the appropriation of native spirituality, and the formation of identity. I will also analyze se…
Television's unintended audience
Jayasinhji Jhala introduced the idea of the “unintended audience” in his 1994 article of the same title in which he explored the impact of ethnographic films on those viewers who are generally not considered by the filmmaker as being included in his or her intended audience.1 I borrow this concept here in discussing subaltern audiences2 of First World television. The “other” viewing the “self” highlights the ramifications of the question “Who are…
Film Review
Through Women's Eyes. video by Mayfair Yang. 1997, 52 minutes, color, subtitled. Distributed by Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway 5 th Floor, New York, NY 10013
Why Krippendorfs Tribe Is Good For Teaching Anthropology
Krippendorfs Tribe (1998); Director: Todd Holland, Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Lily Tomlin, Rachel Winfree; Screenplay: Charlie Peters; 100 min.; US Distribution: Touchstone Pictures; Rated PG‐13
Political Correctness Unplugged
In a pedagogical climate of racial and socioeconomic homogeneity, I have often found it difficult to explore issues of race and class with students openly and honestly. In response, I have developed an interactive class activity that utilises popular culture and mass media to juxtapose real events with hypothetical scenarios in order to address the ethics of representation experientially
Admiral Lord Anson
What is a Real Indian
This article is less an attempt to answer the question of what it means to be a "real" Indian than an examination of the question itself. The complex process of separating the genuine from the spurious has been necessitated by the federal government's continued employment of a blood quantum to determine who is and who is not Indian, the increasing numbers of people who are claiming Indian descent because of the popularity of Indian culture and, m…
Television's unintended audience
Jayasinhji Jhala introduced the idea of the “unintended audience” in his 1994 article of the same title in which he explored the impact of ethnographic films on those viewers who are generally not considered by the filmmaker as being included in his or her intended audience.1 I borrow this concept here in discussing subaltern audiences2 of First World television. The “other” viewing the “self” highlights the ramifications of the question “Who are…
Global Transmission and Local Consumption
A common assumption maintains that the global outreach of mass media inevitably leads to deleterious consequences for native communities. Indeed, different scholars have argued that awareness of the outside world from television results in the homogenization of local cultures. However, images viewed through the electronic peephole radically transform not only an understanding of the outside world, but the way indigenes define themselves and their…
"I Hate White People!"-Subverting the Televisual Gaze
I have previously argued that the other viewing the Self highlights the ramifications of the question “Who are they?” vis-à-vis notions of “Who are we?” and that the answer to the former directly shapes and informs the latter, as Fourth World people are forced to negotiate their identity upon exposure to First World television. In this article, I examine a particular group of subaltern viewers who reassign the roles of self and Other in order to …
The Best of Both Worlds
In many respects, Thunderheart 1 (1992) is a refreshing departure from its predecessors in the Native American film genre. While seemingly enlightened, I will argue that the film still relies upon too many Hollywood crutches in depicting Native Americans, which is particularly evident in its utilization of three tropes: the construction of the "other," the appropriation of native spirituality, and the formation of identity. I will also analyze se…
Admiral Lord Anson
Political Correctness Unplugged
In a pedagogical climate of racial and socioeconomic homogeneity, I have often found it difficult to explore issues of race and class with students openly and honestly. In response, I have developed an interactive class activity that utilises popular culture and mass media to juxtapose real events with hypothetical scenarios in order to address the ethics of representation experientially
Why Krippendorfs Tribe Is Good For Teaching Anthropology
Krippendorfs Tribe (1998); Director: Todd Holland, Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Lily Tomlin, Rachel Winfree; Screenplay: Charlie Peters; 100 min.; US Distribution: Touchstone Pictures; Rated PG‐13
Film Review
Through Women's Eyes. video by Mayfair Yang. 1997, 52 minutes, color, subtitled. Distributed by Women Make Movies, 462 Broadway 5 th Floor, New York, NY 10013
The Best of Both Worlds
In many respects, Thunderheart 1 (1992) is a refreshing departure from its predecessors in the Native American film genre. While seemingly enlightened, I will argue that the film still relies upon too many Hollywood crutches in depicting Native Americans, which is particularly evident in its utilization of three tropes: the construction of the "other," the appropriation of native spirituality, and the formation of identity. I will also analyze se…
Television's unintended audience
Jayasinhji Jhala introduced the idea of the “unintended audience” in his 1994 article of the same title in which he explored the impact of ethnographic films on those viewers who are generally not considered by the filmmaker as being included in his or her intended audience.1 I borrow this concept here in discussing subaltern audiences2 of First World television. The “other” viewing the “self” highlights the ramifications of the question “Who are…
"I Hate White People!"-Subverting the Televisual Gaze
I have previously argued that the other viewing the Self highlights the ramifications of the question “Who are they?” vis-à-vis notions of “Who are we?” and that the answer to the former directly shapes and informs the latter, as Fourth World people are forced to negotiate their identity upon exposure to First World television. In this article, I examine a particular group of subaltern viewers who reassign the roles of self and Other in order to …
Global Transmission and Local Consumption
A common assumption maintains that the global outreach of mass media inevitably leads to deleterious consequences for native communities. Indeed, different scholars have argued that awareness of the outside world from television results in the homogenization of local cultures. However, images viewed through the electronic peephole radically transform not only an understanding of the outside world, but the way indigenes define themselves and their…
Collaborative Filmmaking in the Digital Age
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSam PackSam Pack is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kenyon College. His research interests address the relationship between media and culture and specifically focus on an anthropological approach to the production and reception of television, film, photographs, and new media. His ethnographic film, Celebrating Semana Santa: Change, Conflict, and Continuity in Rural Honduras, has been s…
What is a Real Indian
This article is less an attempt to answer the question of what it means to be a "real" Indian than an examination of the question itself. The complex process of separating the genuine from the spurious has been necessitated by the federal government's continued employment of a blood quantum to determine who is and who is not Indian, the increasing numbers of people who are claiming Indian descent because of the popularity of Indian culture and, m…
Digital Repatriation in Vietnam
The objective in this collaborative project was to return a series of government-made films about the ancient tradition of water puppetry to the village of Bao Ha in the Red River Delta where they were originally shot in order to make this invaluable cultural heritage available to the very community of which they are records. Beyond simply expressing their opinions about these films, five villagers were selected and trained to make films of their…
‘If It’s Korean, It Must Be Good’- The Nation Branding of South Korean Popular Culture in the Philippines
Filipinos are avid consumers of exported South Korean media products. Teenagers and young adults know the lyrics and dance moves of their favorite K-Pop performers while older viewers are engrossed in the weekly Korean television dramas (known in the Philippines as ‘Koreanovelas’). There exists, however, a fundamental disconnect between the idealised images disseminated in the media and their everyday lived experiences that are characterised by m…
Oral History Reimagined
“Fucking Koreans!”
Drawn by the tropical weather and pristine beaches, significantly lower cost of living, and proximity, South Koreans are now the top tourists in the Philippines. Besides the short-term tourists, more than 100,000 South Koreans have chosen to permanently reside in the Philippines, making them the largest immigrant population in the country. Recently, a tenuous relationship between these two groups has emerged marked by mutual antipathy. I have ove…
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