Audio-visual media are a powerful vehicle of globalization engaged in the creation of widespread mediascapes shaping the imagination and the feelings of the people all around the world. As a consequence the audio-visual media are not only a means of anthropological research but a constituent part of the ethnographic field as well.It was in this perspective that in 2009 I asked the Italian artistic collective of Alterazioni Video to accompany me to the Bamileke chiefdom of Bandjoun (Cameroon), where I usually conduct my research. The main topic of our work was fear, an emotion we investigated by filming some traditional masquerades of secret societies (which also made use of some Hollywood-inspired masks) and by making a horror movie with a ...
Despite some passionate advocates for film as a medium of musical ethnography and some recent schola...
Este texto presenta algunas reflexiones alrededor de la incorporación de prácticas cinematográficas ...
This paper is the result of an extended research (2-year) in ethnographic representation and the enl...
Audio-visual media are a powerful vehicle of globalization engaged in the creation of widespread med...
The article explores three consecutive periods in which the disciplines of anthropology and film eth...
This paper offers a theoretical analysis of Supereverything *, a live cinematicperformance in the ...
Pondering on the power of cultural preconceptions, this article examines the tension between self-re...
In order to deepen our knowledge of traditional music, both European and of any origin, it is essent...
In 1973, the most renowned researchers in Visual Anthropology met at the ninth International Congre...
The present paper constitutes an exploration of the role of form and (visual) aesthetics in the cons...
This article proposes a conjunction of acoustic, literary and archival approaches to fieldwork and a...
The production project of a fictional film through the collaboration between an ethnographer and a t...
This dissertation is an epistemological reflection of practice-based media anthropology with an aim ...
Media anthropology is a new and interdisciplinary field of research with very different subjects and...
By looking at ethnography as a multi-sited and evolving field in the tradition of George Marcus and ...
Despite some passionate advocates for film as a medium of musical ethnography and some recent schola...
Este texto presenta algunas reflexiones alrededor de la incorporación de prácticas cinematográficas ...
This paper is the result of an extended research (2-year) in ethnographic representation and the enl...
Audio-visual media are a powerful vehicle of globalization engaged in the creation of widespread med...
The article explores three consecutive periods in which the disciplines of anthropology and film eth...
This paper offers a theoretical analysis of Supereverything *, a live cinematicperformance in the ...
Pondering on the power of cultural preconceptions, this article examines the tension between self-re...
In order to deepen our knowledge of traditional music, both European and of any origin, it is essent...
In 1973, the most renowned researchers in Visual Anthropology met at the ninth International Congre...
The present paper constitutes an exploration of the role of form and (visual) aesthetics in the cons...
This article proposes a conjunction of acoustic, literary and archival approaches to fieldwork and a...
The production project of a fictional film through the collaboration between an ethnographer and a t...
This dissertation is an epistemological reflection of practice-based media anthropology with an aim ...
Media anthropology is a new and interdisciplinary field of research with very different subjects and...
By looking at ethnography as a multi-sited and evolving field in the tradition of George Marcus and ...
Despite some passionate advocates for film as a medium of musical ethnography and some recent schola...
Este texto presenta algunas reflexiones alrededor de la incorporación de prácticas cinematográficas ...
This paper is the result of an extended research (2-year) in ethnographic representation and the enl...