Recently added articles from Critical Arts:
Introduction.(anthropological research)(Essay)
Nov 01, 2007; Durington, Matthew ... In the 21st, century the relationship between media and anthropology is becoming more comprehensive, if not more complex. This is partly due to the number of media that now exist, but it also speaks of the willingness of researchers to engage these myriad forms and ask a variety of ...
Documentary film matters: the steps for the future media advocacy project in Southern Africa.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; Levine, Susan ... Abstract Interpretive frameworks in visual media studies suggest that audiences are active agents in the construction of meaning. As a discipline that emphasizes the value of an interpretive approach, visual anthropology has much to offer by way of informing media advocacy ...
Shooting Bokkie and the ethics of faking it.(Critical essay)
Nov 01, 2007; van der Vliet, Emma ... Abstract Shooting Bokkie presents itself as a documentary about a juvenile assassin or bokkie as he executes a series of victims in the ganglands outside Cape Town, South Africa. Director Rob de Mezieres uses numerous signifiers of documentary authenticity, such as shaky ...
The ethnographic semiotics of a suburban moral panic.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; Durington, Matthew ... Abstract This article describes Worth's notion of ethnographic semiotics as part of an overall strategy employing the anthropology of visual communication in ethnographic research focused on media portrayals of a suburban community during a moral panic over a concentrated ...
Methodologies: silences, secrets, fragments.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; Baderoon, Gabeba ... Abstract The idea of archive crucially informs my thesis on images of Islam in South African media and culture. In repositories of authoritative texts the thesis tracked the dynamics that render Islam visible in South Africa. I examined official and parallel archives, finding ...
The agency of eternal darkness: an approach to scientific images of deep sea exploration.(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; Hafsteinsson, Sigurjon Baldur ... Abstract The interest in visual images conveyed by various disciplinary fields within the natural sciences, like deep sea exploration, is generally not depicted in its social or cultural context. Nor are visual images granted social agency that influences the formation of social ...
Cultural heritage, archives & citizenship: reflections on using Virtual Reality for presenting knowledge diversity in the public sphere (1).(Report)
Nov 01, 2007; Green, Lesley J.F. ... Abstract This article reports on an effort to apply to an oral history archive design the findings of ethnographic research regarding the visualisation of space and the organisation of knowledge among contemporary Palikur speakers in Arukwa, in northern Brazil. Central to the ...
Digital Oak Park: an experiment.(Essay)
Nov 01, 2007; Ruby, Jay ... Abstract This essay describes an attempt to convey anthropological knowledge by an innovative means. Combining text, photographs, and video clips in a nonlinear fashion, these four ethnographic portraits explore aspects of Oak Park, Illinois, an upper-middle-class suburb of ...