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I arrived in the island of Chiloé with the idea of making a fictional film about the 1880 Chilean State trial against a powerful organisation of sorcerers. Based on the experiences and encounters that emerged from my attempt to develop the film …

Visual Anthropology From Latin America: An Introduction

Carlos Y. Flores Published: 2019-08-28 Categories: English · French · Italian · Multilingual · Spanish

The idea of Latin America as an unified geopolitical entity has been called into question (Mignolo 2005), exposing claims for a specific aesthetics and epistemological modality as romantic fetishism in face of the diverse histories of economic, …

Guto and Graça

Angela Torresan Published: 2019-08-28 Categories: English · French · Italian · Multilingual · Spanish

It may be tautological to claim that ethnographic films are a form of storytelling; one that combines concomitance and linearity between images and words to show and tell particular stories. However, drawing on Guto and Graça, a 9-minute film on…

Counter Narratives

Martha-Cecilia Dietrich Published: 2019-08-28 Categories: English · French · Italian · Multilingual · Spanish

In recent years, Peruvian social anthropology has seen a rising production of audio-visual and artistic works within the discipline, ranging from written analyses that incorporate arts and crafts (Bernedo 2011; González 2011; Ulfe 2014; Del Pino…

Elaborate Versionings: Characteristics of Emergent Performance in Three Print/Oral/ Aural Poets

journal.oraltradition.org Published: 2019-08-23 Categories: English

Literary studies regards the “poetry reading” as a marginal phenomenon. By resituating the published poems of Amiri Baraka, Kamau Brathwaite, and Cecilia Vicuña in performance contexts, this essay proposes that each reading has the dimensions of an emergent performance, with distinguishable oral dynamics. The poet-performers break through into performativity by means of elaboration and versioning. […]

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Performance and Text in the Italian Carolingian Tradition

journal.oraltradition.org Published: 2019-08-23 Categories: English

The Italian chivalric-epic tradition is based primarily on medieval Carolingian lore from France. Oral and written manifestations of this tradition influenced and enriched each other across the centuries. This essay explores the dialectic between oral and written Carolingian epic in Italy. It focuses on the medieval cantari poems and on the Sicilian cunto, which was […]

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