The Domestic Life of Buyi Videos

The 'Home Mode' in Ethnic Rural Southwest China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2143245
AutoresYu Luo (0000-0001-6450-9410, University of Puget Sound, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume89
Fascículo4
Páginas634-656
Data de publicação2024-08-07
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2022.2081237
OpenAlexW4281555648
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas36

Cheap amateur videodiscs are a common household object in Buyi (Bouyei) villages in Guizhou, southwest China. Buyi videographers are hired to record and edit footage of local life-cycle rituals and household banquets, and copied videodiscs are distributed informally to, and repeatedly viewed by, relatives, neighbours, and fellow villagers-mostly middle-aged women. Attentive to on-demand, vernacular video products as such that are underexplored in media anthropology, I examine the Buyi domestic videos as straddling the private and public realms of cultural production. While playing a significant role in the construction of 'home' as mediated spaces and bodily practices, these domestic videos thrive on an intimate public, which emerges out of an on-demand economy based on kinship-based and place-based networks. This video sociality involves a milieu of relationality for those that enter into its sphere, binding shared objects, aesthetics, emotions, and experiences together

Amateur · Archaeology · China · Ethnic group · Geography · Kinship · Media studies · Political science · Popularity · Sociality · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Chinese history and philosophy · Gender Studies · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics