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AbstractThis research note explores the issue of the restitution of the object in visual anthropology, and how the people featured in ethnographic films avail themselves of the film-object. The use of very small digital cameras throws a new light on visual anthropology, prompting a reflection on the position and responsibility of the person filming, and on how videos may be used as interpretations of other cultures.
Keywords: Pourchez, anthropologie visuelle, anthropologie appliquée, savoirs autochtones, restitution, muséographie, Pourchez, visual anthropology, applied anthropology, native knowledge, restitution, museography, Pourchez, antropología visual, responsabilidad, objeto de investigación
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AbstractCorning to Terms with Modernity. Ethnography and Everyday Life on a Japanese Rice PlainAnthropology's insistence on the necessary mutualism of cultural analysis and historical understanding is an essential, countervailing voice to the unpalatable choice we are given between Modernism, which tlatly rejects the past as a ground for inspiration and Post-modernism, which blithely scavenges the past for its fabrications. This essay shows how people of a small region of northern Japan have wrestled against these same powerful tendencies. By sketching, first, the convoluted process by which its local rice agriculture has been thoroughly mechanized and, second, the motivated politics by which local festival culture has been strategically sentimentalized, I show how the enticements and entrapments of modernity are phrased, in this place and by its people, in the idioms of rationality and nostalgia. A language of rationality has allowed them to transform their daily lives without flatly denying thé contours of the region's past. And they hâve struggled to keep alive certain of their traditions without falling prey to a cloying sentimentality.Key words : Kelly, modernity, tradition, rationalization, nostalgia, Japan