Critical Arts articles from November 2007

Critical Arts archives from November 2007

Introduction.(anthropological research)(Essay)
November 1, 2007... 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...

Documentary film matters: the steps for the future media advocacy project in Southern Africa.(Report)
November 1, 2007... 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...

Shooting Bokkie and the ethics of faking it.(Critical essay)
November 1, 2007... 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...

The ethnographic semiotics of a suburban moral panic.(Report)
November 1, 2007... 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...

Methodologies: silences, secrets, fragments.(Report)
November 1, 2007... 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...

The agency of eternal darkness: an approach to scientific images of deep sea exploration.(Report)
November 1, 2007... 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...

Cultural heritage, archives & citizenship: reflections on using Virtual Reality for presenting knowledge diversity in the public sphere (1).(Report)
November 1, 2007... 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...

Digital Oak Park: an experiment.(Essay)
November 1, 2007... 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,...