The Weaver's House

Ethnography, Translation, and Video in the Highlands of Mindanao

Bibliographic Data

ID12410352
AuthorsCherubim Quizon (0000-0003-1669-7618, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume35
Issue2
Pages148-161
Publication date2019-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueVisual Anthropology Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1058-7187 • E-ISSN: 1548-7458
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/var.12189
OpenAlexW2985223341
LanguageEN
References cited25

When short video embedded in museum exhibitions aims to present the voice of Indigenous artists, what constrains desired outcomes? This ethnographic study examines the processes behind one such video that focused on Lang Dúlay, a T'boli weaver from Mindanao, the Philippines. Written from the perspective of the researcher/director/producer newly using video in the field, it examines overlaps in ethnographic and visual anthropological theory and uses them to analyze video‐mediated events in the field. The failure to tell the story that the weaver cared most about along with responses and modes of resistance by filmed Indigenous interlocutors is also presented and analyzed

Art · Ethnography · Exhibition · Field (mathematics · Field research · Indigenous · Media studies · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Diverse Musicological Studies · History · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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