Pikisi kwaiyai! (pictures tonight!): The screening and reception of ethnographic film in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea

Ethnographic films hold great historical value for the communities in which they were filmed, yet people in source communities often lack access to them. Visitors engaging in ‘visual repatriation’ of ethnographic film can enrich both sides of the ethnographic exchange. I review my experiences screen...

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Auteur principal: Connelly, Andrew J (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publié: 2016
Dans: The Australian journal of anthropology
Année: 2016, Volume: 27, Numéro: 1, Pages: 3-29
Sujets non-standardisés:B Fieldwork
B Trobriand Islands
B ethnographic film
B Papua New Guinea history
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Résumé:Ethnographic films hold great historical value for the communities in which they were filmed, yet people in source communities often lack access to them. Visitors engaging in ‘visual repatriation’ of ethnographic film can enrich both sides of the ethnographic exchange. I review my experiences screening ethnographic films with Trobriand Islanders, their reactions, and the various ways in which local communities regain ownership of these films, including re-narration and renaming. My findings reiterate how source communities' reception of, and uses for, ethnographic film can sharply differ from the filmmakers' original agenda.
ISSN:1757-6547
Contient:Enthalten in: The Australian journal of anthropology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/taja.12144