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An anthropologist´s view of filming in a local community
Authors: Horáková Hana
Year: 2006
Type of publication: článek ve sborníku
Name of source: Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations. Sborník příspěvků z konference
Publisher name: Russian Academy of Sciences
Place: Moskva
Page from-to: 6 - 6
Titles:
Language Name Abstract Keywords
cze Pohled antropologa na filmování místního společenství V letech 2002-4 se stala vesnice Dolní Roveň ve východních Čechách předmětem antropologické restudie, na kterou navázal projekt vizuální antropologie v rámci NM2. Výsledkem byl dokumentární film vycházející z antropologického výzkumu. Příspěvek analyzuje roli antropologa v procesu vzniku tohoto filmu. místní společenství, antropologická restudie, film
eng An anthropologist´s view of filming in a local community Between 2002 ? 2004, the village community of Dolní Roveň (DR) in eastern Bohemia (Czech Republic) became a focus of a three-year anthropological and sociological restudy called ?Dolní Roveň: Social Anthropology and Sociology of a Czech Commune at the Turn of the Third Millenium.? The selection of the site for filming has been determined by opportunity as it is commonplace in anthropology. The practicality is underlined by the previous sociological research going back to the 1930s and the recent restudy of the village. DR, exposed to a continuing transformation from a peasant-type society, into a modern semi-autonomous social formation, is anything than a self-contained social unit. The NM2 documentary is based upon existing ethnographic fieldwork. However, the influence is far from being straightforward: the experiment alters the traditional ethnographic account and thus different approaches and procedures of the representation of reality arise. There are three levels of representation: that of the ´native point of view´, the anthropologists´ and that of the film makers. Any cross-cultural dialogue and cultural transmission cannot take place without mediation or interpretation. An anthropologist emerges as a mediator between the film maker and the ´natives.´ The documentary video based upon anthropological fieldwork retains different perspectives on cultural reality. The representation of multiple voices results from the assumption of culture as alterable and contestable that enables the registering of different points of view. The researchers operate both within and beyond anthropology striving for novel ways of representation and expanding the existing boundaries. The ´marriage´ between anthropological insight and film-making procedures is enriching as it offers to explore the multiple points of view. It is experimental in what it provokes: creativity among the viewers limited by the set of possibilities within the social reality: it is no virtual world, ther local community, anthropological study, film-making

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