Mind the Gap
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The bookchapter engages with the lack of continuity existing between different people’s experiences, and how it may be acknowledged in ethnographic forms of representation involving montage. My discussion was triggered by a concern, which author Daniel Mendelsohn has encapsulated thus: “It has become a cliché in modern culture that you can recreate other people’s experience. I’m very suspicious of that kind of simulacra” (Tetzlaff 2012: 8). Mendelsohn’s suspicion resonates with historian James Clifford’s discussions about “ethnographic authority,” in which he noted that “it becomes necessary to conceive of ethnography not as the experience and interpretation of a circumscribed ‘other’ reality, but rather as a constructive negotiation involving at least two, and usually more, conscious, politically significant subjects. Paradigms of experience and interpretation are yielding to discursive paradigms of dialogue and polyphony” (1988: 41). In my discussion, I unfold how a certain use of montage may fit into such polyphonic discursive paradigms.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Transcultural Montage |
Editors | Christian Suhr, Rane Willerslev |
Number of pages | 12 |
Place of Publication | New York |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Publication date | 2013 |
Pages | 145-157 |
Chapter | 8 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-85745-964-0 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-85745-965-7 |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Event | Transcultural Montage: Focus on the topic of montage and its possibilities and limitations for moving beyond realist forms of representation in anthropology. - Moesgaard Estate, Århus, Denmark Duration: 24 Aug 2009 → 26 Aug 2009 |
Conference
Conference | Transcultural Montage |
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Location | Moesgaard Estate |
Land | Denmark |
By | Århus |
Periode | 24/08/2009 → 26/08/2009 |
- Faculty of Social Sciences - Ethnography, textual formats, montage in writing, Cultural Analysis, Cultural Sampling, Otherness, Ethnographic writing, Ethnographic polyphony, Cultural Property Rights, De-signification, Ouaknin, M-A. , Lévinas, E., Estrangement, Benjamin, W., Montage, cultural studies
Research areas
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