- Title Pages
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the sense of the senses
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1. Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations1 -
2. Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography -
3. Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text -
4. Exile, the sorrow of time and place -
5. Boru-vedak (a work of lies): looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka -
6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing -
7. Transplant -
8. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong -
9. The Castaways Project -
10. Air Pressure: a sound film -
11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl -
12. Contest Behaviour -
13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography -
14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War -
15. Sweetgrass: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’ -
16. Cottonopolis: cinematography, ethnography, historiography and texture -
17. Christmas with Wawa: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics -
18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses -
19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy1 - Bibliography
- Index
- DVD contents
Sweetgrass: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’
Sweetgrass: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’
- Chapter:
- (p.148) 15. Sweetgrass: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’
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- Beyond text?
- Author(s):
Lucien Castaing-Taylor
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
This interview with Lucien Castaing-Taylor, director of the Sensory Ethnography at Harvard University reflects on the film ‘Sweetgrass’ he made in 2009 about the last migration of sheep through Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth mountain range. It is an unsentimental elegy at once to the American West and to the 10,000 years of uneasy accommodation between post-Paleolithic humans and animals. With its observational filmmaking style of long shots and minimal camera movements it offers a prescient example of observational filmmaking as ‘sensory ethnography’ that was initially roundly rejected by many anthropological film festivals before achieving artistic acclaim and theatrical releases in the United States, Canada, Latin America, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
Keywords: Sensory Ethnography, Montana, Sheep, Observational film, Trans-human
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- Title Pages
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the sense of the senses
-
1. Appropriations across disciplines: the future of art and anthropology collaborations1 -
2. Spiti: some notes on the practice of documentary photography -
3. Random Manhattan: thinking and moving beyond text -
4. Exile, the sorrow of time and place -
5. Boru-vedak (a work of lies): looking for Libeskind in Sri Lanka -
6. The saving face of death: anthropology and the scene of knowing -
7. Transplant -
8. Ochlophonic Study: Hong Kong -
9. The Castaways Project -
10. Air Pressure: a sound film -
11. Sounds from Dangerous Places: Chernobyl -
12. Contest Behaviour -
13. Films about ordinary people: the Japanese home drama and virtual ethnography -
14. Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War -
15. Sweetgrass: ‘Baaaaaaah. Bleeeeeeet’ -
16. Cottonopolis: cinematography, ethnography, historiography and texture -
17. Christmas with Wawa: a video experiment with Yolngu aesthetics -
18. Sensing cultures: cinema, ethnography and the senses -
19. After cultural theory: the power of images, the lure of immediacy1 - Bibliography
- Index
- DVD contents
