Arjang Omrani
Biographic Data
| ID | 6297697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arjang Omrani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arjang |
| FAMILY NAME | Omrani |
| SIGNATURE | OMRANI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Educational Sciences, University of Ghent, Ghent |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6289-4263 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Poetics of the Unfinished
Maya Deren’s engagement with Haitian Vodou (1947–1951) offers a vital case study for rethinking the embodied, aesthetic, and ethical dimensions of anthropological practice. Often cast as an unrealised ethnographic project or as a detour that interrupted her film trajectory, Deren’s decision to undergo initiation and participate in possession rituals marked a methodological reorientation. Rather than the collapse of an artistic project, her shift …
Shared Anthropology
The article explores the common ground between critical public anthropology and critical public pedagogy as critically conscious, engaged, and animating practices. Through intervention in the public domain, they engage with the contested role of culture in the production, distribution, and regulation of power. These affinities are envisioned within the framework of shared anthropology, which asserts the co-authored nature of knowledge through “sh…
Critical Review of Visual Anthropology
This article aims to develop a critical overview of visual anthropology by exploring the main obstacles and pivotal challenges throughout its evolution. It explores the ongoing representational and logocentric orientations of mainstream anthropology that have caused the rejection of acknowledging audio-visual anthropology as valid academic work. Furthermore, by singling out the ocular-centric and visual realist tendencies that exist in visual ant…
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Critical Review of Visual Anthropology
This article aims to develop a critical overview of visual anthropology by exploring the main obstacles and pivotal challenges throughout its evolution. It explores the ongoing representational and logocentric orientations of mainstream anthropology that have caused the rejection of acknowledging audio-visual anthropology as valid academic work. Furthermore, by singling out the ocular-centric and visual realist tendencies that exist in visual ant…
Shared Anthropology
The article explores the common ground between critical public anthropology and critical public pedagogy as critically conscious, engaged, and animating practices. Through intervention in the public domain, they engage with the contested role of culture in the production, distribution, and regulation of power. These affinities are envisioned within the framework of shared anthropology, which asserts the co-authored nature of knowledge through “sh…
Poetics of the Unfinished
Maya Deren’s engagement with Haitian Vodou (1947–1951) offers a vital case study for rethinking the embodied, aesthetic, and ethical dimensions of anthropological practice. Often cast as an unrealised ethnographic project or as a detour that interrupted her film trajectory, Deren’s decision to undergo initiation and participate in possession rituals marked a methodological reorientation. Rather than the collapse of an artistic project, her shift …
Anthropology (2 works) · Anthropology of art (2 works) · Applied anthropology (2 works) · Contemporary art (2 works) · Digital anthropology (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociocultural anthropology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological linguistics (1 work)