II Jornadas de Antropología e imagen
Organizadas por
Area de Antropología Visual
Centro de Estudios de la Imagen Sans Soleil
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Sponsors
Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas
Departamento de la Carrera de Ciencias Antropológicas
Museo Etnográfico Juan B. Ambrosetti
Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires
Libro de las II Jornadas de Antropología e imagen.
Antropología e imagen. Pensar lo visual
Carmen Guarini y Marina Gutiérrez De Angelis (Coords.)
Colección: Nanook
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Sinopsis del libro
This volume brings together the research papers presented within the framework of the II Anthropology and Image Conference, organized each year by the Visual Anthropology Area (AAV) of the Institute of Anthropological Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. The decision to convene this meeting annually responds to the need to advance in the development of approaches that propose updated perspectives for the study of the image, from anthropology and in open dialogue with other disciplines such as Art History.
The image has been and continues to be one of the most slippery terrains within the social sciences and humanities. The history of its conceptual confusions, marked by the dominant theories of each era or academic fashions, not to mention the extensive debate within the field of philosophy, have turned it into one of the great challenges for the humanities disciplines. Curiously, the difficulty of addressing it is accompanied by a growing use by the social disciplines as well as by its proliferation, boosted by digital media.
The book is organized in two parts. The first compiles a series of works that propose diverse approaches, both from the field of visual anthropology and image, and were presented in the framework of the II Jornadas de Antropología e Imagen (2nd Conference on Anthropology and Image) held in September 2013 at the Museo Etnográfico Juan B. Ambrosetti in the city of Buenos Aires, as well as in the Working Group coordinated by the AAV at the VII Jornadas Santiago Wallace de Investigación en Antropología Social (7th Santiago Wallace Conference on Social Anthropology), November 27-29, 2013.
The second part is based on a series of reflections on the documentary El etnógrafo (2012) by Ulises Rosell, through studies that address, from different perspectives, the critique of the representation of cultural stereotypes of otherness. The image is not independent of the conditions of production of knowledge, but rather forms part of processes that allow the construction of both an image and relationships involving researchers, filmed subjects and audiences. The image is a dimension of meaning that forces us to investigate its forms of production, its relationship with thought, reception, gaze, interaction with filmed subjects or the anthropologist's own experience.
This first volume seeks to initiate a path of reflection on the image, understood not only as a methodology but also as an experience whose definition cannot be other than anthropological.
