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What is the role of an ethnographic filmmaker as an outsider and student of a culture?Is it about representing, demonstrating, and reflecting or exposing, participating, and transposing?Although these are not binary terms of the historic discussions in anthropology, they share a lot to be experimented through shared cine-anthropology and sensory multimodal ethnography.
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What is the role of an ethnographic filmmaker as an outsider and student of a culture? Is it about representing, demonstrating, and reflecting or exposing, participating, and transposing? Although these are not binary terms of the historic discussions in anthropology, they share a lot to be experimented through shared cine-anthropology and sensory multimodal ethnography.
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- Release date
- Aug 31, 2024
- Runtime
- 0h 39m
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- Language
- English, French
- Country
- Germany, Togo
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