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Ethnography and Photography Today: New Perspectives, Technologies and Narratives. Introduction in Scardozzi C., Berardi M. (edited by), Ethnography and Photography Today: New Perspectives, Technologies and Narratives
No full textEthnography and photography are relational practices configured as two forms of writing with their own specificities that intersect. Considering the profound technological changes in the recent decades and the crisis
of ethnographic authority and photographic representation, the attempt of this special issue is to generate an overview of the plurality of theoretical and methodological approaches relating to the use and production of images in social research
Yuyos
No full text"Yuyos" è un'opera composta da trenta cianotipi elaborati a partire da piante che crescono a Huichaira, nella Quebrada de Humahuaca (Jujuy, Argentina). Sono state raccolte durante una residenza offerta dal Museo en Los Cerros -MEC, museo di fotografia e arte contemporanea, svolta tra ottobre e novembre del 2022. Yuyos viene dalla parola Quechua "yuyo" e indica le piante che crescono spontanee e vengono utilizzate come alimento, nelle pratiche di cura e nelle cerimonie religiose. La raccolta delle piante è stata condotta a partire da una ricerca etnografica in collaborazione con le donne delle comunità locali, con l'obiettivo di esplorare la trasmissione della conoscenza etnobotanica e la relazione di genere nel sapere legato alle specie vegetali locali, con un'attenzione specifica rivolta alle trasformazioni del territorio. L'opera è attualmente esposta nella Sala del Silenzio del MEC
Yuyos
No full textYuyos son las hierbas que crecen espontáneas, que se adaptan y resisten. Yuyo es alimento, medicina, maleza, ornamento. Nutre, sana, limpia, bendice, maldice, engualicha. Como raíces que hilvanan un tejido de relaciones, la historia de un legado familiar florece junto con otras vivencias, en geográficas enlazadas. Yuyos es un homenaje a la fuerza y a la delicadeza de lo que se encuentra en la tierra y una celebración del conocimiento que atraviesa tiempos y espacios y se transmite de generación en generación, de boca en boca; de raíces y ramas, hojas y flores, tallos y semillas que, imprevisiblemente, brotan
Still bodies in traveling images: anthropological reflections on ambiguous postcards from Argentina
No full textWell before the digital age of today, when images have specific characteristics in terms of intangibility, immediacy, pervasiveness and diffusion, postcards constituted visual messages that portrayed something in the long-distance conversation between people in different parts of the world. This paper critically investigates the ambiguity of postcards depicting indigenous subjects in Argentina, which traveled to Europe and were produced from photographs that show native peoples mostly as ‘docile’ and exotic bodies, immobilized at a time of irreversible transformations in their way of life. In fact, the photographs were taken between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a historical moment when the geographical and identity definition of nation-state was formed through military campaigns, which aimed at the extermination or domination of native groups present on national territories. Paradoxically, photography visibilizes subjects at the moment of their physical or symbolic invisibilization.
Photography is an inherently mobile medium: by its very nature it changes context; as it migrates, its meaning changes along with its functions. In this sense, what kind of historical memory do these images evoke and what role do they play within the complex construction of ‘exported’ national identity? What is the role of these ‘traveling' images in the formation of knowledge related to indigenous societies in the permanent tension between the shown and hidden, the near and far?
This paper is based on ongoing research that combines archival ethnography with fieldwork and conceives of the digital as a space in which images can be put back into circulation, shared and discussed, also with source communities
From Tierra del Fuego to Post-Unification Italy: Fuegian Collections and the Making of a Nation
No full textThe contribution offers an anthropological reflection starting from the Italian ethnological museum collections originating from Tierra del Fuego. These objects are examined as artefacts capable of speaking not only about the past but also about tensions, claims, and possibilities of the present. The aim is to observe how the histories connected to these objects reflect – and at times help to shape – the historical memory of a nation-state in search of legitimation and identity, as well as to explore how they might be re-signified today through participatory and dialogical practices with source communities.Il contributo offre una riflessione di carattere antropologico a partire dalle collezioni museali italiane di interesse etnologico provenienti dalla Terra del Fuoco, interrogandole come oggetti in grado di parlare non solo del passato, ma anche delle tensioni, rivendicazioni e possibilità del presente. L’obiettivo è osservare in che modo le storie connesse a questi oggetti riflettano, e a volte contribuiscano a costruire, la memoria storica di uno Stato nazionale in cerca di legittimazione e identità, ma anche come possano oggi essere risignificati attraverso pratiche partecipative e dialogiche con le comunità di interesse
Oltre le parole: etnografia e ricerca visuale
No full textIl capitolo invita a riflettere sul versante “visivo” della ricerca etnografica, con l’obiettivo di generare una maggiore consapevolezza rispetto alla produzione e all’uso delle immagini, considerando gli attuali dibattiti relativi al ruolo che hanno nella produzione e diffusione della conoscenza antropologica. Concentrandosi specificamente sulle immagini fotografiche, l’autrice delinea alcuni passaggi della storia che connette antropologia e fotografia, per ragionare sulla necessità di allontanarsi dal paradigma realista della documentazione oggettivante e “praticare la visualità” in modo critico e creativo. La fotografia non è qui pensata soltanto come strumento per la registrazione della realtà e la rilevazione di “dati”, ma come possibilità narrativa autonoma e strategia di intervento nelle prassi applicative e collaborative che caratterizzano la ricerca sociale e visuale nella contemporaneità. Il contributo si sofferma inoltre sulle responsabilità della rappresentazione fotografica dal punto di vista dell’etica e della deontologia professionale, alla luce delle innovazioni tecnologiche, dei cambiamenti in materia di privacy e consenso e dell’importanza della condivisione e restituzione del materiale visuale con le comunità e i soggetti coinvolti nella ricerca
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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