"The context of presenting "others

The Construction of Meaning and the Potential of Communication in Ethnographic Film

Bibliographic Data

ID3088667
AuthorsXun Xiong (Sun Yat-sen University), Jing Li (0000-0001-7792-4322, Sun Yat-sen University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume5
Issue1
Publication date2021-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2366-1003 • E-ISSN: 2366-1003
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/s41257-021-00047-4
OpenAlexW3168453343
LanguageEN
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How can images be used as an expressive, yet clearly limited, tool to represent "the other" in ethnographic films? Based on the objectives of visual anthropology and visual communication, this article analyzes the four presentational traditions of meaning construction. These traditions have been incorporated into the audio-visual communication context to illustrate the similarities or differences between ethnographic films and ethnographic texts in terms of traditions, structures, features, and limitations. Through the analysis of the four traditions, the relationships between visual presentation and text writing, visual patterns and communication concepts, and visual potentials and ethnographic films have been fully examined. In the context of Chinese ethnographic films, the four presentational traditions have been well showcased and developed. These works, in their different contexts, have constituted a meaningful visual text system of contemporary Chinese anthropology

Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Ethnography · Linguistics · Presentational and representational acting · Sociology · Visual anthropology · Visual arts · Visual Communication · Anthropology · Communication · History · Philosophy · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media

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