Abstracts
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Abstracts |
Visual anthropology has reached a turning point. Interactive DVD now permits an hour of high-resolution video and copious text to appear together on a single computer screen. With DVD, anthropologists who are interactive mediamakers, and those who study their work, can recursively explore video that is linked, with frame accuracy, to analytical texts. Elsewhere, I have argued that multimedia linkages are unprecedentedly affective in allowing the apparatus of print-based scholarship to enhance video's academic contribution. The present essay considers the reverse effect, the unprecedented sense of intimacy, the visceral lessons and emotional wisdom that interactive video, when carefully deployed, can bring to ethnographic text.