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Some Thoughts on Culture/Media
Author(s) -
Ginsburg Faye
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
visual anthropology review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.346
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1548-7458
pISSN - 1058-7187
DOI - 10.1525/var.1994.10.1.136
Subject(s) - citation , library science , sociology , visual media , media studies , computer science , anthropology , multimedia
When I was asked to develop a program in ethnographic film in 1986,1 was determined to develop a curriculum or, more ambitiously, expand the paradigm in a way that would not reproduce the reified dualisms of gemienschafiJgesellschaft that have had a striking and depressing resilience in the field of ethnographic film, visual anthropology, and communications research. Despite the early and important work of people such as Jean Rouch that broke down these barriers, notions of "us" as high-tech and post-industrial and "them" as pretech and underdeveloped still persist. Myriad versions could be summarized and parodied along the following lines: