Cross-Cultural Filmmaking as a Process of Self-Reflection

Filming Native Americans within Central European Space’s Prevailing Imagery of the “Noble Savage

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8043576
AutoresLívia Šavelková (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology University of Pardubice, Pardubice , Czech Republic, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen17
Número1
Páginas133-154
Fecha de publicación2016-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnologia Actualis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1339-7834 • E-ISSN: 1339-7877
EditorialDe Gruyter Open (PUBLISHER • PL)
DOI10.1515/eas-2017-0012
OpenAlexW2792927286
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas42

In Said ́s notion of “Orientalism” as a set of discursive practices through which the West structured the imagined East, the Czech Republic (or former Czechoslovakia) in particular, and so called Eastern Europe in general, has been viewed by “the West” as a space inhabited by “exotic other”. The former socialist countries (and the so called post-socialist countries) have been constructing their own “Orients” and “exotic others” as well including Noble Savage stereotype of Native Americans. This paper focuses on a visual (re)presentation of a meeting between people who might have mutually constructed each other as the “exotic other”. Based on filming of a visit of a Native American sport team competing in the Czech Republic, the paper would like to discuss who are the “exotic ones” and for whom and the methodological issues related to the creation of the cross-cultural ethnographic films

Cultural anthropology · Filmmaking · Orientalism · Culinary Culture and Tourism · European Cultural and National Identity · European history and politics