The Color of the Ethno/Graphic

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2408412
AutoresAmy E Stich (0000-0002-1260-5088)
Ano2011
Volume11
Fascículo1
Páginas3-8
Data de publicação2011-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCulture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1532708610386452
OpenAlexW2147829066
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas11

Anthropologist Michael Taussig calls it a 'polymorphous magical substance.' This is how he 'prefers to think of color, something more than a spot of red or blue on a page. It affects all the senses, not just sight. It moves. It has depth and motion, and it connects such that it changes whatever it comes into contact with.' Color is elusive. The ethno/graphic then must reflect the elusive as it falls into the unavoidable trappings of social research. Color may not be route out of a long series of inescapable research traps, but this 'polymorphous magical substance' brings us into the montage of the everyday to reveal meanings otherwise left concealed. The purpose of this reflective essay is to demonstrate color's necessity within the trappings of social research that often remove color, and, as a result remove the soul, substance, and meaning, from the ethnographic

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Optics · Physics · Sight · Soul · Visual arts · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · Art Education and Development · Philosophy