Asian Studies, Memoried Eyes, and the Human Scale

Asian Studies, Memoried Eyes, and the Human Scale

David Plath - Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, November 6, 2008 - 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Room 105, Department of Anthropology See map
10 Sachem Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Having stumbled into a project that has me doing a video ethnography of a colleague doing field-note ethnography – a project in ethnography squared – I keep tripping over issues of awareness. Do life course convoys act differently when they include an ethnographer? How should we reconcile the cold-eyed recordings of the camcorder with the warm-eyed memories of participants? And how do we preserve ethnography’s human scale while we widen its reach with digital technology – and avoid drowning in information overload? With words and film clips I raise these issues for discussion.

Region: 
Japan