The Third Figure

The Creation of Intersubjectivity in Ethnographic Drawing

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ID2262202
AuthorsJasamin Kashanipour (0000-0001-7221-4719, University of Vienna, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume46
Issue2
Pages266-278
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology & Humanism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1548-1409 • E-ISSN: 1559-9167
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/anhu.12339
OpenAlexW3182363434
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited15

In this article, I discuss ethnographic drawing by differentiating between the practice of drawing people and that of drawing objects. Unlike drawing architecture, landscapes, or cities, drawing people is not only a practice of seeing but also of being seen. I follow the epistemological question of what happens at the core of drawing people ethnographically by considering the perspective of the person drawn. I introduce the notion of the "third figure," which emerges from the anthropological study of the self and the other through drawing. The third figure is a distinctive state of mutual consciousness that incorporates the material and the intersubjective and immaterial dimension of the drawing process into ethnography

Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Dimension (graph theory · Epistemology · Ethnography · Intersubjectivity · Perspective (graphical · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Public Spaces through Art · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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