[ecrea] call for paper: Creation and transmission in audiovisual anthropology

Creation and transmission in audiovisual anthropology

	Twenty years after the publication of a special section on visual
anthropology (47-48, 1992), the Journal des anthropologues is opening a new
chapter that presents the process of creation as an original approach in
this discipline. Since the transmission of knowledge through teaching and
the circulation of documents is a major stake for visual anthropology, we
would like to ask the recurrent question about this discipline’s place in
the world of research. There is a consensus in academia about how to see
visual anthropology, while placing its modes of expression outside the
realm of politics and aesthetics: audiovisual documents are seen only as
illustrations for texts.
	Directly concerned with the social, economic and political changes
affecting so many societies, visual anthropology is using the plastic
qualities offered by digital technology to explore new forms of narration.
Film-makers and ethnologists with their own view of our contemporary world
are conducting new, methodological, epistemological and aesthetic
experiments.
	Although the relation between art and anthropology has come under study
for several years now, little research has been undertaken on the specific
place of creativity in the way anthropologists collect information and then
reformulate and publish it. By considering creation to be a full-fledged
methodology, we raise, outright, questions about the scientific validation
of such an unusual approach by an academic discipline that is so reluctant
to recognize the epistemological value of images and of forms of expression
related to creativity. However the media used to record, reproduce and
diffuse our fieldwork are an argument in favor of redefining the stance and
methods of anthropological film-makers.
	We would like to set in a new light: the changing forms for investigating
“reality” through film; the diversity of the ways of looking at
realities that are now being infinitely “pixelized”; and the
“techniques of the objective” (to borrow François Niney’s phrase)
used to describe the plurality of situations, contexts and questions
whenever social scientists decide to describe the twisting paths they have
taken among the many forms of representation marking their itineraries.
	What are the relations between scientific research, technical skills and
creativity that digital publications, unlike written articles, require?

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Issue editors:Sophie Accolas (sophieaccolas at yahoo.fr) and Nadine Wanono
Gauthier (wanono at ivry.cnrs.fr).
Calender: A summary (5000 signs) of the proposal for an article should be
sent before 30 September 2011 to the issue editors. The full article
(maximum 40.000 signs) is to be received before 30 December 2011.
Publication is scheduled for the second semester 2012.




 Looking forward reading you soon,

Nadine Wanono

CEMAF-CNRS-ParisI
General Secretary of Ethnographic Film Committee


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