Retro Nuosu
Reclaiming the Past, Present, and Future through Participatory Portraits in Southwest China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8080641 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kaitlin Banfill (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 296-318 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Anthropology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1058-7187 • E-ISSN: 1548-7458 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/var.12220 |
| OpenAlex | W3119389540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 25 |
This article explores visual and ethnic representation among Nuosu Yi youth in contemporary China, where photographic subjects’ desires and agency compete with mainstream visual regimes. I argue that Nuosu Yi university students used self‐fashioning and photography to create a new yet radically retro narrative—one that asserts their political and cultural modernity in the Chinese national imagination. “Art photo” studios have recently inspired youth to express themselves through a markedly retro Nuosu aesthetic. In this project, I replicated an art photo studio and photographed fourteen individuals, revealing their individual desires and agency in the broader context of Chinese ethnic representation
Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · China · Chinese art · Citizen journalism · Context (archaeology · Ethnic group · Literature · Mainstream · Modernity · Narrative · Photo-essay · Photography · Political science · Politics · Portrait · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Studio · Visual arts · Anthropology · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Gender Studies · History
Objects of Affect
Provincializing Europe
Visibly Muslim
Visualizing Anthropology
Refracted Visions
From the stadium to the screen
The Self in Self Decoration
Doing the Snap
If You Were in My Sneakers
Coming to Terms with the Nation
Anthropology with a Paintbrush
Self and Accessory in Gambian Studio Photography
How I See the Yoruba See Themselves
Promiscuous Things
Representations of ethnic minorities in China's university media
The Corporeal Image
The Affective Lens
Selfie Love
Framing Globalization
Geographies of Style
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2023 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |