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Surrealist Sensibility in Ethnographic Documentaries
Author(s) -
RUOHONEN ILKKA
Publication year - 2007
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.2007.23.1.64
Subject(s) - sensibility , ethnography , representation (politics) , sociology , aesthetics , film theory , visual arts , art , epistemology , anthropology , literature , philosophy , political science , movie theater , law , politics
This article documents Ilkka Ruohonen's use of strands of interpretive and experimental anthropological theory to demonstrate to the Finnish academy that film as a form of ethnographic representation presents vivid cultural phenomena and contributes to constructively analyzing and interpreting theory, while contributing to the development of theory. She presents an image and process of “traumatic incompatibility” between the Finnish academy and ethnographic film.