Visual Research and Indonesian Ethnography: Beyond Description

ISBN-13: 9780367764814 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 174 str.

Karl Heider

Opis

This book focuses on how visual records – mainly on film or video – can provide data for research and presents a variety of visual projects drawn from ethnographic fieldwork in Indonesia.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Place of Visuals in Anthropological Research; Part I: Visual Research Projects; 1 Microcultural Incidents in Minangkabau Children’s Emotion Behavior; 2 Dead Birds Revisited: Rethinking Emotion in a New Guinea Dani Funeral; 3 Comparing Styles of Teaching and Learning in Some South Carolina and West Sumatra Kindergartens: Video-Cued Multivocalic Ethnography (with Louise Jennings); 4 Three Styles of Play: New Guinea Dani, Central Java, and Micronesia; 5 Nonverbal Studies of Dani Anger and Sexual Expression: Experimental Method in Videotape Ethnography; Part II: Exploring Indonesian Cinema; 6 National Cinema, National Culture; 7 Analyzing Emotion in Scenes from Indonesian Cinema; 8 Culture and Cinema in Indonesia: Teguh Karya’s Doea Tanda Mata; 9 Banana Peels: Visual Conventions in Indonesian Movies; 10 Anger in Indonesian Cinema; 11 Order and Disorder in Indonesian Genre Films and National Politics; Appendix; Other Uses of Visuals, Fragments and Suggestions; Excerpt One: Above the Fold: Early Twentieth Century Front Page Anger; Excerpt Two: Still Photographs; Excerpt Three: Life Story: Dr. Mochtar Naim; Excerpt Four: Ethnographic Shorts

O autorze

Karl G. Heider is Carolina Distinguished Professor of Anthropology (Emeritus) at the University of South Carolina, USA.