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El arte de la Etnografía en tiempos turbulentos
Author(s) -
Paul Stoller
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
aibr revista de antropologia iberoamericana
Language(s) - Spanish
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1695-9752
pISSN - 1578-9705
DOI - 10.11156/aibr.160102
Subject(s) - art , sociology
espanolMuchos de nuestros metodos clasicos y de las convenciones de representacion han quedado desfasados con la situacion disfuncional social, politica, ambiental y economica de nuestros tiempos. ?Como podemos crear una representacion que vaya mas alla de la comunicacion academica en un mundo turbulento? ?Como podemos crear las «historias», lo que mantiene unida a la gente, para poder conectar con ella? Esta es la pregunta de partida en El arte de la Etnografia, una idea que comienza con el texto Eye and Mind, de Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Este ensayo sugiere que la obra de arte es una manera de alcanzar una forma ilustrada de aquello que Michael Jackson llamo «el arte de la vida». Nos llega a traves de la combinacion de varios aspectos. Por ejemplo, del espacio y el tiempo, que estan vivos en la memoria de las cosas, o el dialogo, que es una ventana a la personalidad de los personajes y les hace ser especiales. Vivimos tiempos turbulentos, pero tambien tiempos de adaptacion en nuestros modos de representacion, y esto supone una oportunidad de desarrollar el arte de la Etnografia. EnglishMany of our longstanding set of methods and denotative conventions of representation are no longer in harmony with the state of contemporary social, political, environmental and economic dysfunction. How can we create a representation that goes beyond the academic communication in a troubled world? How can we create “stories”, which work as the glue that holds people together, in order to connect with them? This is the basic question in the Art of Ethnography, an idea that begins with Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s, in his essay Eye and Mind. This piece suggests that the work of art is a pathway to an embodied enlightenment that can enable us to practice what Michael Jackson has called “the art of life”. It is the result of several aspects. For example, space and place, which are alive with memory, or dialogue, which is a window into personality of the characters, since it defines the people we study and makes them particular. This is a moment of troubled times, but also a moment of adaptation to our modes of representation, and an opportunity to develop the Art of Ethnography.

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