Re-framing the Ethnographic Encounter
Les Maîtres fous
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14770451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Meyer (0000-0002-4253-0064, University of Koblenz and Landau, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 87-1/2 |
| Pages | 198-220 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal des africanistes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0399-0346 • E-ISSN: 1957-7850 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/africanistes.5553 |
| OpenAlex | W2952281763 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The controversy provoked by Rouch’s Les Maîtres fous resulted both from the ambiguity of the unfamiliar Hauka ritual at the center of the film, and from the complexity of Rouch’s verbal and visual framing of the event. The dialogic framing does not hedge interpretation, but rather multiplies the ritual’s potential meanings in Rouch’s contradictory views of both the ethnographer’s position and the object of observation in essays, in interviews, in his voice-over commentary, and in his editing of the footage
Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Archaeology · Art · Dialogic · Ethnography · Framing (construction · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |