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Different Kinds of Storytelling: Ethnographic Writing and Documentary Film-Making
Get PDFThis paper compares and contrasts ethnographic writing to ethnographic film-making as different ways of crafting a narrative. Films have the ability to reach larger audiences, including our own informants, and to make audiences feel connected to the central participants who seem to speak directly to them, but are less conducive to providing the broader context for those stories or showcasing stories that are less visually interesting. Film also seems more effective for making an intervention in policy or public opinion. Both modes of storytelling involve the selection of a few key incidents from a much larger set of footage or fieldnotes to tell a compelling story, shaped by emotion or theory, and the manipulation of the strongest elements available to construct that story. Documentary film-makers are more willing to discuss the construction of their product than ethnographic writers. Finally, the form of the final product, whether dissertation, monograph, or film, shapes the process of inquiry and discovery, affecting what is learnt and what is possible to tell. I came to documentary film-making as a result of my dissatisfactions with ethnographic writing, but I have realised that film does not replace writing; rather, they work in tandem, with different goals and possibilities. Based on my experiences of writing three monographs and making, in a less skilled fashion, two short documentaries on the same themes, this paper reflects on ethnographic storytelling through different media
SE01_1 Digital Infrastructures Suck: On the Digital Absorption of Sociality
No full textDer Beitrag verfolgt mithilfe der Interview-basierten Rekonstruktion von Selbstvermessungspraktiken die These, dass Digitalisierung als Radikalisierung der ›Reflexiven Moderne‹ zu verstehen ist: Letztere wird digital über sich selbst hinaus in überwachungskapitalistische Verhältnisse getrieben.My paper argues that digitization by radicalizing structural features of reflexive modernity pushes the latter beyond its own logic. To make my case I will reconstruct self-tracking practices from interviews and thus support the thesis that self-tracking continues and transforms reflexive modernity
S5_2 Tracing and Tracking Meat - Meat as a Ressource and Storage of (World-)Knowledge
No full textTierhaltung, Fleischproduktion und -konsum verweisen auf ein komplexes Wissen von Welt, welches sich in Prozessen der Verdinglichung des Lebendigen materiell einschreibt. Der Beitrag exploriert kulturelle Aushandlungen von Tier und Fleisch exemplarisch als globale Ressourcen.Meat production and consumption as well as livestock breeding refer to a complex knowledge of the world, which is inscribed materially in processes of reification of the living. This paper explores cultural negotiations of animals and meat as global resources
PG Branding Gamers\u27 Bodies. Ambivalent Economies at Gaming Events
No full textDiese Ethnographie auf Gaming Events folgt ambivalenten ökonomischen Prozessen in einem Feld technosozialer Verschränkungen. Zwischen Teilhabe und Konsum wird eine Community konstruiert, die in partizipativen Prozessen besondere Erfahrungen ko-produziert.This ethnography exemplifies the technosocial entanglements and multiple economic processes at Gaming Events. Ambivalent economies emerge and gamers construct a community that co-produces epic experiences in various participatory processes
PH The State That Won\u27t Listen. HIV/AIDS Prevention in Prisons and the Formatting of Activist Policies.
No full text›Pumpen in den Knast!‹ - Seit Beginn der Aids-Epidemie in (West-)Deutschland fordern HIV/Aids-Aktivist*innen die Bereitstellung von schadensminimierenden Maßnahmen für drogengebrauchende Inhaftierte. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert, wie Aktivist*innen ihre drogen- und gesundheitspolitischen Politiken formatieren, um den Staat zum Handeln zu bewegen. Während sie ihre Forderung zugleich als ›Best Practice‹ formatieren und mit Emotionsarbeit flankieren, rufen sie den Staat sowohl als rationale, bürokratische Einheit als auch als interpersonelles Beziehungsgefüge an.Since the beginning of the Aids epidemic in (West) Germany, HIV/Aids activists have been calling for the provision of harm-reducing measures for drug-using prisoners. This article discusses how activists format their drug and health policies to get the state to act. While formatting their demand as best practice and complementing it with emotional work, they call upon the state both as a rational, bureaucratic entity and as an sensitive network of individuals and relationships
PS Curating the Digital in Everyday Life - A Workshop Report
No full textDas Studienprojekt ›Curating the Digital in Everyday Life‹ des Instituts für Europäische Ethnologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin beschäftigte sich in einer einjährigen Forschung mit den Verflechtungen von Menschen, Medien und Alltag. Den Rahmen und Ausgangspunkt der einzelnen Fallstudien bildete die Annahme, dass neue digitale Praktiken unseren Alltag tiefgreifend verändern und Alltagsakteur*innen im Umgang mit der digitalen Fülle an Artefakten eigenständige Praktiken des Kuratierens entwickeln und umsetzen. Sie wählen Objekte aus, ordnen und stellen zusammen, um die Welt auf eine bestimmte Art und Weise darzustellen, Geschichten zu erzählen, Wert zu generieren oder Normen in Frage zu stellen. Auch Algorithmen und Infrastrukturen sind an diesen Prozessen aktiv beteiligt, denn die verschiedenen ›Ausstellungsräume‹ im Internet entstehen erst im Umgang mit den spezifischen Affordanzen der Plattformen.The student research project ›Curating the Digital in Everyday Life‹ by the Institute for European Ethnology at the Humboldt-University of Berlin dealt with the entanglements between people, media and everyday life. The framework and starting point of the individual case studies is based on the assumption that new digital practices profoundly change our everyday life and everyday actors develop and implement independent curating practices in dealing with the digital wealth of artifacts. They select objects, arrange and put them together to present the world in a certain way, to tell stories, to generate value or to question norms. Algorithms and infrastructures are also actively involved in these processes. These various online ›exhibition spaces‹ only arise when dealing with the platform\u27s specific affordances.
 
Nathalie Sarrautes Portrait d’un Inconnu (1948) - Satire oder Weiterentwicklung eines Kriminalromans? Narratologische Analyse der discours-Ebene mit Fokus auf der Funktion des Lesers und des Erzählers im Kontext des Nouveau Roman
Get PDFIn dem vorliegenden Artikel wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob Nathalie Sarrautes erster Roman Portrait d’un Inconnu (1948) als Satire oder als Weiterentwicklung des Kriminalromans im Kontext des Nouveau Roman verstanden werden kann. Diese Fragestellung wird insbesondere aus der Perspektive des Lesers betrachtet. Im ersten Teil erfolgt eine kurze Vorstellung der Rolle des Lesers sowie der Hauptmerkmale des Kriminalromans. Im Mittelpunkt des zweiten Teils steht die Analyse der histoire- und der discours-Ebene, die schließlich zeigen soll, dass Nathalie Sarraute die Tradition des Kriminalromans nutzt, um ihren eigenen Roman zu schaffen. Trotz der Banalität der Handlung und der Unzuverlässigkeit des Erzählers ist Portrait d’un Inconnu nicht als Satire zu betrachten, sondern eher als Lob oder Weiterentwicklung des Kriminalgenres.This article examines the relationship between Nathalie Sarraute’s first novel Portrait d’un Inconnu (1948) and crime literature. The aim is to find out whether the author’s work is a satire or a further development of the crime novel. This question will be considered especially from the reader’s perspective. The first part briefly introduces the role of the reader as well as the main characteristics of the detective novel and the Nouveau Roman, creating a context that allows a better understanding of the novel under study. In the second part, the content and structure of the work will be analysed, which will finally show that Nathalie Sarraute uses the tradition of the detective novel to create her own work. Despite the banality of the plot and the unreliability of the narrator Portrait d’un Inconnu should not be considered a satire but rather a praise or development of the detective genre
Jon Abbink, A Decade of Ethiopia: Politics, Economy and Society 2004–2016
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A Rock-Hewn Yǝmrǝḥannä Krǝstos? An Investigation into Possible ‘Northern’ Zagwe Churches near ʿAddigrat, Tǝgray
Get PDFRulers of the short-lived Zagwe dynasty have long been lauded for their role as builderkings, producing several churches in the Lalibäla complex in Lasta in addition to the nearby church of Yǝmrǝḥannä Krǝstos. Despite some textual evidence linking this group to Tǝgray, scholars have not hitherto identified any particularly ‘Zagwe’ buildings therein. This paper proposes that several rock-hewn churches near ʿAddigrat in Tǝgray may be the product of thirteenth-century Zagwe church building. My hypothesis is anchored by my identification of the church of Gwaḥgot Iyäsus as a hewn copy of Yǝmrǝḥannä Krǝstos in both form and measurements. This church, which replicates the dimensions of this famous free-standing church almost exactly, also has wood elements within that were seemingly imported from Lasta. Furthermore, I connect the painted decorations to other churches in the cluster: Maryam Qiʿat and even Maryam Qorqor in Gärʿalta. By expanding our view of the Zagwe dynasty towards Tǝgray, we may better understand this little-known period of Ethiopian history
Words that Burn: On the Manners and Implications of Oath-Taking Practices in Ethiopian Amhara Customary Law, Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries
Get PDFBetween the spoken word, ritual action, and legal processes, the studies of oath-taking practices have developed a broad literature. This article provides an additional layer of materials and analysis on speech acts and ritual procedures involved in the manners of taking an oath in the Christian societies of Ethiopia, as recorded from the midnineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Some samples of Amharic discourse specific to the manners of oath-taking in the customary legal system of Christian Ethiopia are presented here through extracts from unpublished field notes recorded in the 1840s by the French traveller Arnauld d’Abbadie. This source is then compared to other ethnographic observations of oath-taking statements and rituals in the context of Ethiopian Christian societies. The implications of swearing an oath in Ethiopian customary law lead to the critical re-examination of the history of Ethiopian law in a comparative outlook, particularly with the canonical laws of Eastern and Western Europe