Looking Away
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2435650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Stevenson (0000-0003-0705-9307, McGill University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360 |
| Publisher | American Anthropological Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.14506/ca35.1.02 |
| OpenAlex | W4230581613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 2 |
This essay turns to Roland Barthes's concept of the punctum and John Berger's writing on portraiture to describe the care involved in both anthropological encounters and ethnographic writing. It addresses how images-whether, photographic, painted, or written-may come to be seen as "just." The essay considers the possibility that it might be necessary to look away from our interlocutors, or the images we have of them, in order to be able to sense, and then communicate to others, their singularity. The traces they leave behind in our memories can allow us to register an aliveness that exceeds our existing labels, categories, and styles of thinking
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Linguistics · Order (exchange · Register (sociolinguistics · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Visual Culture and Art Theory
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| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |