Faye Ginsburg
Biographic Data
| ID | 81126 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Faye Ginsburg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Faye |
| FAMILY NAME | Ginsburg |
| SIGNATURE | GINSBURG F |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2844-1185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1007 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
The Oka crisis: The power of a woman with a movie camera
An Introduction
Dedicated to the life and memory of Samantha Louise Ginsburg Myers (February 8, 1989–September 25, 2022)This dossier has been inspired by an unprecedented and exciting surge in New Disability Media, a movement in which disabled filmmakers are at the forefront of the repositioning of figurations of disability, acting as both creators and subjects while deploying new aesthetic strategies. The following essays take up films, videos, online media, an…
Disability in the digital age
This chapter discusses several cases that illustrate how, in the 21st century, people with disabilities are developing emergent forms of digital media practices that enable their own self-representation in ways that slowly but surely are expanding our collective sense of personhood and publics. The battles that were fought for ramps, elevators, Braille signage, and visual signals for the hearing impaired, to name a few of the more well-known effo…
Translations, an autoethnography: Migration, colonial Australia and the creative encounter
Translations is a personal history written at the intersection of colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography. Renowned postcolonial scholar, public artist and radio maker, UK-born Paul Carter documents and discusses a prodigiously varied and original trajectory of writing, sound installation and public space dramaturgy produced in Australia to present the phenomenon of contemporary migration in an entirely new light. Rejecti…
Disability in the Digital Age
The rise of the global movement for disability rights since the 1980s and the simultaneous emergence of enabling digital technologies for people with disabilities have created a modest but nonetheless transformative effect. The festival has shown outstanding films—almost all of them made on digital media—from all over the world dealing with topics such as brain injury, autism, mental illness and Down syndrome. The emerging literature on the impac…
We are all in the image of God’: Reproductive imaginaries and prenatal genetic testing in American Jewish communities
How are we to understand the complexities of prenatal genetic testing across social and cultural worlds? Availability and uptake of this biotechnology is variable, deeply influenced not only by national frameworks but also by local regimes of value. We argue that these intersections of genetic testing and local cultural worlds must be understood as part of broader 'reproductive imaginaries', including everything from kinship, pregnancy and gender…
Sonic ethnography: Identity, heritage and creative research practice in Basilicata, southern Italy
Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tr…
Disability/Anthropology: Rethinking the Parameters of the Human
As an analytic and an object of study, disability provides a powerful lens to refocus and potentially transform thinking about new and enduring concerns shaping contemporary anthropology. At its most basic, the recognition of disability as a universal social fact helps us to understand the cultural specificities of personhood and to reconsider the unstable boundaries of the category of the human. This special issue of Current Anthropology is base…
Reproductive Politics in the Age of Trump and Brexit
Indigenous Media from U-Matic to YouTube: Media Sovereignty in the Digital Age
In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalization
O]ne positive force that encourages an emancipatory politics of globalization is the role of the imagination in social life
The Indigenous Uncanny: Accounting For Ghosts in Recent Indigenous Australian Experimental Media
This essay departs from Freud's 1919 essay, Das Unheimliche (The Uncanny), exploring the Indigenous uncanny instantiated in recent works that traffic in ghostly encounters, by well‐known Australian Indigenous artists: (1) Tracey Moffatt's Night Spirits photographs from her 2013 show, Spirit Landscapes , and The White Ghosts Sailed In, from her solo show, My Horizon (2017 Venice Biennale); (2) Warwick Thornton's 2013 experimental documentary, The …
Cognitive Disability
This afterword to this special issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, entitled ‘For an Anthropology of Cognitive Disability’, explores the intersections of disability studies and ethnographic research on cognitive difference. We offer a brief scholarly genealogy, discuss how these articles provide recognition for ‘the disarticulate’, and consider how anthropologists working on this subject might contribute to an ethics of possibility
The Road Forward
In this bleak political and cultural moment for so many-especially for Indigenous communities who are increasingly besieged by extractive industries, state violence, environmental assaults, and ongoing racism-the vitality and urgency of the writing gathered in this Openings and Retrospectives collection help us remember an important lesson: however desolate the circumstances, it is nearly always possible to mobilize creativity and community from …
Social Media in Rural China
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Indigenous Media From U-Matic to Youtube: Media Sovereignty in the Digital Age
This article covers a wide range of projects from the earliest epistemological challenges posed by video experiments in remote Central Australia in the 1980s to the emergence of indigenous filmmaking as an intervention into both the Australian national imaginary and the idea of world cinema. It also addresses the political activism that led to the creation of four national indigenous television stations in the early 21st century: Aboriginal Peopl…
Calling the Shots: Aboriginal Photographies
The phrase ‘calling the shots’, the title of this remarkable collection, indicates who is in charge of a situation, and it highlights an intellectually refreshing approach: the decolonising of phot
Chronicles of the Ephemeral: Some Thoughts onDelhi At Eleven
What a privilege it is to watch four short films made by eleven-year-old students. Since the late 1990s, when David MacDougall began his first project looking at the lives of children in India, beg...
Roundtable: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice
Laura Briggs, Faye Ginsburg, Elena R. Gutiérrez, Rosalind Petchesky, Rayna Rapp, Andrea Smith, Chikako Takeshita, Roundtable: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, Special Issue: Reproductive Technologies and Reproductive Justice (2013), pp. 102-125
Entangled ethnography: Imagining a future for young adults with learning disabilities
Disability Worlds
Disability is a profoundly relational category, shaped by social conditions that exclude full participation in society. What counts as an impairment in different sociocultural settings is highly variable. Recently, new approaches by disability scholars and activists show that disability is not simply lodged in the body, but created by the social and material conditions that "dis-able" the full participation of those considered atypical. Historica…
Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds
A history of Indigenous futures: Accounting for Indigenous art and media
The burgeoning of interventions by Indigenous artists and filmmakers into Australia's narrative of its history is addressed. An examination of the significance of this work in changing the cultural landscape of the continent and the paradox of the persistence, growth, and increasing circulation of such work in Indigenous cultural production, despite the alarming political turn against gains made by Indigenous Australians not only by right-wing po…
Reverberations: Disability and the New Kinship Imaginary
The concept of Learning Disabilities (LD) didn't exist until 1963. Now, LDs are the most commonly diagnosed category for American children in special education. Based on long-term fieldwork and focused interviews in NYC with parents of "atypical" children, the authors analyze how experiences of family life with a disability reverberate through the life cycle as well as the domestic cycle. Our findings show that families are reimagining kinship na…
On Nature and the Human
A major contribution of anthropological work has been to challenge a unitary theory of the human. In thisAmerican Anthropologistvital topics forum, a range of prominent anthropologists contribute to this challenge and provide musings on the human. The essays in this forum reflect diversity and unity of anthropological thought on human nature. Some note humans' connection to other primates, and others emphasize our distinction from ancestral patte…
Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village
Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media
Disability Worlds
Disability is a profoundly relational category, shaped by social conditions that exclude full participation in society. What counts as an impairment in different sociocultural settings is highly variable. Recently, new approaches by disability scholars and activists show that disability is not simply lodged in the body, but created by the social and material conditions that "dis-able" the full participation of those considered atypical. Historica…
Aboriginal Media and the Australian Imaginary
Research Article| September 01 1993 Aboriginal Media and the Australian Imaginary Faye Ginsburg Faye Ginsburg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 557-578. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-557 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Faye Ginsburg; Aboriginal Media and the Australian Imaginary. Public Culture 1 September 1993; 5 (3): 557…
Culture/Media: A (Mild) Polemic
Les medias audiovisuels se developpant, les indigenes se sont mis a faire leurs propres films afin de mieux maitriser leur image (exemple de l'Unite des Programmes Aborigenes en Australie). L'A. s'interroge sur la place de ces films en anthropologie, sur les avantages et les inconvenients de ces « outils » (en sont-ils ?) et sur la pratique du film ethnographique
Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship
Public Culture - Volume 13, Number 3, Fall 2001
The Parallax Effect: The Impact of Aboriginal Media on Ethnographic Film
Reverberations: Disability and the New Kinship Imaginary
The concept of Learning Disabilities (LD) didn't exist until 1963. Now, LDs are the most commonly diagnosed category for American children in special education. Based on long-term fieldwork and focused interviews in NYC with parents of "atypical" children, the authors analyze how experiences of family life with a disability reverberate through the life cycle as well as the domestic cycle. Our findings show that families are reimagining kinship na…
Disability/Anthropology: Rethinking the Parameters of the Human
As an analytic and an object of study, disability provides a powerful lens to refocus and potentially transform thinking about new and enduring concerns shaping contemporary anthropology. At its most basic, the recognition of disability as a universal social fact helps us to understand the cultural specificities of personhood and to reconsider the unstable boundaries of the category of the human. This special issue of Current Anthropology is base…
Reproductive Politics in the Age of Trump and Brexit
Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and Procreation in Life Narratives of Abortion Activists
Since the late 1960s, abortion has become a contested domain in American culture, one in which control over the relationships between reproduction, nurturance, sex, and gender is the object of struggle. Life stories of grassroots pro-choice and pro-life women reveal their activism, in part, as a process of creating new collective narrative forms for interpreting female life-cycle transitions. This activity is marked by distinctive generational ex…
A History of Aboriginal Futures
This article addresses the paradox of the persistence, growth, and increasing circulation of work in indigenous media and acrylic painting in Aboriginal Australia, despite the alarming political turn against gains made by indigenous Australians over the last decade, not only by right-wing politicians but intellectuals as well. Indigenous people in settler nation-states have faced a range of dilemmas in imagining their futures. In Australia, debat…
Institutionalizing the unruly: Charting a future for visual anthropology
This essay explores the history of visual anthropology as a field that straddles the academy and the world. I argue for sustaining the links between theory and practice, connecting the production and study of ethnographic documentary work on the one hand, and research on the social practice of media on the other, with particular attention to the spread of film and electronic media throughout the world, especially in indigenous and subaltern commu…
Indigenous Media From U-Matic to Youtube: Media Sovereignty in the Digital Age
This article covers a wide range of projects from the earliest epistemological challenges posed by video experiments in remote Central Australia in the 1980s to the emergence of indigenous filmmaking as an intervention into both the Australian national imaginary and the idea of world cinema. It also addresses the political activism that led to the creation of four national indigenous television stations in the early 21st century: Aboriginal Peopl…
Entangled ethnography: Imagining a future for young adults with learning disabilities
Atanarjuat Off-Screen: From "Media Reservations" to the World Stage
The Indigenous Uncanny: Accounting For Ghosts in Recent Indigenous Australian Experimental Media
This essay departs from Freud's 1919 essay, Das Unheimliche (The Uncanny), exploring the Indigenous uncanny instantiated in recent works that traffic in ghostly encounters, by well‐known Australian Indigenous artists: (1) Tracey Moffatt's Night Spirits photographs from her 2013 show, Spirit Landscapes , and The White Ghosts Sailed In, from her solo show, My Horizon (2017 Venice Biennale); (2) Warwick Thornton's 2013 experimental documentary, The …
On Nature and the Human
A major contribution of anthropological work has been to challenge a unitary theory of the human. In thisAmerican Anthropologistvital topics forum, a range of prominent anthropologists contribute to this challenge and provide musings on the human. The essays in this forum reflect diversity and unity of anthropological thought on human nature. Some note humans' connection to other primates, and others emphasize our distinction from ancestral patte…
Some Thoughts on Culture/Media
ethnographic film in 1986,1 was determined to develop a curriculum or, more ambitiously, expand the paradigm in a way that would not reproduce the reified dualisms of gemienschafiJgesellschaft that have had a striking and depressing resilience in the field of ethnographic film, visual anthropology, and communications research. Despite the early and important work of people such as Jean Rouch that broke down these barriers, notions of "us " as hig…
Calling the Shots: Aboriginal Photographies
The phrase ‘calling the shots’, the title of this remarkable collection, indicates who is in charge of a situation, and it highlights an intellectually refreshing approach: the decolonising of phot
Station Identification: The Aboriginal Programs Unit of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Sonic ethnography: Identity, heritage and creative research practice in Basilicata, southern Italy
Sonic ethnography explores the role of sound-making and listening practices in the formation of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. The book uses a combination of text, photography and sound recording to investigate soundful cultural performances such as tree rituals, carnivals, pilgrimages, events promoting cultural heritage and more informal musical performances. Its approach demonstrates how in the acoustic domain tr…
What Do Women Want: Feminist Anthropology Confronts Clitoridectomy
Ethnography and American Studies
Rethinking American Culture" was a forum featuring the work of George Lipsitz in a dialogue between American Studies and anthropology about the ways in which "new forms of commercial patterns and practices, new movements of people and products, and new communications technologies are producing new ways of studying culture." This dialogue addresses the struggles over the social warrants of U.S. culture in the 21st century and how historians and an…
Dans le bain avec Rouch: A Reminiscence
This issue's Visual Anthropology Section is a tribute to anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch (1917-2004). In nine brief articles, authors discuss the impact of Rouch's pathbreaking career on ethnographic and documentary filmmaking and his contributions to our knowledge of postcolonial Africa. The authors demonstrate the significance of his work for the larger discipline of anthropology, and commemorate Rouch with personal reflect…
Film Reviews
Book reviewed in this article: The Jews of Djerba. Pilgrimage to Ghriba. About the Jews of India: Cochin. About the Jews of India: Shanwar Telis or Bene Israel. Sosua. Religion in Suburbia. Brighton Beach
When the Subject Is Women: Encounters with Syrian Jewish Women
For feminist ethnographers studying women engaged in orthodox religious practice, there is a tension between feminist notion of correct relations between sexes and need to represent the native's point of view. This issue is discussed in relation to research with Syrian Jewish women engaged in reviving menstrual rituals (mikve and nidda), considered by many feminists to be among most sexist ofJewish traditions
Procreation Stories: Reproduction, Nurturance, and Procreation in Life Narratives of Abortion Activists
Since the late 1960s, abortion has become a contested domain in American culture, one in which control over the relationships between reproduction, nurturance, sex, and gender is the object of struggle. Life stories of grassroots pro-choice and pro-life women reveal their activism, in part, as a process of creating new collective narrative forms for interpreting female life-cycle transitions. This activity is marked by distinctive generational ex…
In Her Own Time . 1985. A film directed by Lynne Littman
The Future of Abortion Politics
La représentation de la fonction maternelle (nurturance) dans les mouvements féministes américains
Les féministes emploient constamment à leur avantage des concepts bien définis qu'elles essaient de modifier. Cette étude a pour but d'explorer les positions contradictoires vis-à-vis de la notion de nurturance qu'ont adoptées les féministes au cours des deux derniers siècles. Revendiquée comme source de l'autorité morale des femmes, cette notion est toutefois rejetée comme un cadre culturel qui placerait les femmes dans une position socialement,…
Le foyer des 'sans famille
Este artigo, baseado em pesquisa etnográfica, examina a instituição do 'foyer' para crianças 'sem família' na França. Sayad e Sigaud analisam como a categorização de 'sem família' opera, não como uma descrição factual, mas como uma construção social que justifica a intervenção estatal na vida dessas crianças. O 'foyer' é apresentado como um espaço ambíguo, que ao mesmo tempo oferece proteção e reproduz a marginalização, impondo uma identidade de …
The Politics of Reproduction
The topic of human reproduction encompasses events throughout the human and especially female life-cycle as well as ideas and practices surrounding fertility, birth, and child care. Most of the scholarship on the subject, up through the 1960s, was based on cross-cultural surveys focused on the beliefs, norms, and values surrounding reproductive behaviors. Multiple methodologies and subspecialties, and fields like social history, human biology, an…
Uncertain terms: Negotiating gender in American culture
What Do Women Want: Feminist Anthropology Confronts Clitoridectomy
Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in an American Community
Based on the struggle over a Fargo, North Dakota, abortion clinic, Contested Lives explores one of the central social conflicts of our time. Both wide-ranging and rich in detail, it speaks not simply to the abortion issue but also to the critical role of women s political activism
Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village
Indigenous Media: Faustian Contract or Global Village?
Television and the Mediation of Culture: Issues In British Ethnographic Film
Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture
Social/Cultural Anthropology: Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture . Dorothy C. Holland and Margaret A. Eisenhart
Quand les indigènes sont nos voisins
Ginsburg Faye. Quand les indigènes sont nos voisins. In: L'Homme, 1992, tome 32 n°121. Anthropologie du proche. pp. 129-142
Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture
Journal Article Uncertain Terms: Negotiating Gender in American Culture. Ed. by Paye Ginsburg and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. (Boston: Beacon, 1990. viii + 338 pp. Cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-8070-4612-4. Paper, $16.00, ISBN 0-8070-7915-4.) Get access Kathy Peiss Kathy Peiss University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1…
Station Identification: The Aboriginal Programs Unit of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Aboriginal Media and the Australian Imaginary
Research Article| September 01 1993 Aboriginal Media and the Australian Imaginary Faye Ginsburg Faye Ginsburg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 557-578. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-557 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Faye Ginsburg; Aboriginal Media and the Australian Imaginary. Public Culture 1 September 1993; 5 (3): 557…
Some Thoughts on Culture/Media
ethnographic film in 1986,1 was determined to develop a curriculum or, more ambitiously, expand the paradigm in a way that would not reproduce the reified dualisms of gemienschafiJgesellschaft that have had a striking and depressing resilience in the field of ethnographic film, visual anthropology, and communications research. Despite the early and important work of people such as Jean Rouch that broke down these barriers, notions of "us " as hig…
Culture/Media: A (Mild) Polemic
Les medias audiovisuels se developpant, les indigenes se sont mis a faire leurs propres films afin de mieux maitriser leur image (exemple de l'Unite des Programmes Aborigenes en Australie). L'A. s'interroge sur la place de ces films en anthropologie, sur les avantages et les inconvenients de ces « outils » (en sont-ils ?) et sur la pratique du film ethnographique
Embedded Aesthetics: Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media
Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media, Ethnographic Film, and the Production of Identity
The Parallax Effect: The Impact of Aboriginal Media on Ethnographic Film
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