Fwd: CFP: Ethnography of the Eye

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

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From: ruby at acsworld.net (Jay Ruby)
CALL FOR PAPERS

Proposed panel for the 2000 AAA Meeting in San
Francisco

"Ethnography of the Eye: Theory in Visual Practice"

The use of performance, pictorial media and moving
images in ethnographic work has increased in
popularity in recent years. Simultaneously, the
Anthropology of Visual Communication is developing a
recognized body of theories concerning the systematic
analysis of visual culture.  At the same time, the
discipline has increasingly begun to emphasize the
ways in which theory can be put into practice.  The
aim of this panel is to explore how these three
pathways can intersect to create an anthropological
analysis of culture in a visual format. In other
words, the panel participants are invited to explore
the ways in which a visible, non-language based
understanding of anthropological theory can be
conveyed. Papers for this panel might address how this
has been or is currently being done by film and video
makers, performers, plastic-artists, photographers, or
those working in multi-media and computer-based forms
of communication.
Papers might also suggest ways that anthropological
theory could be explored visually or what the future
implications of a body of visible theories could
produce. Participants are encouraged to discuss how
such projects can or have benefited a public or
community-based understanding of anthropological work
and insights.

Please send a two hundred and fifty-word abstract,
along with your name, professional/school affiliation,
technical requirements, any(non-original) visual
materials, and a copy of your AAA registration form by
March 17 to:
Kendall Roark [kroark at unix.temple.edu], Visual Theory
Panel, Temple University, Department of Anthropology,
Gladfelter Hall 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19122, no
later than March 17, panelists will be notified by
March 27.

For further information, contact the panel organizers:
Sharon Kornelly and Kendall Roark
[skornell at astro.temple.edu, kroark at unix.temple.edu],
or
visit the panel website at
http://unix.temple.edu/~kroark/theorypanel.html
AAA advance registration forms are available at
http://www.ameranthassn.org/mtgs/call2000/advreg2000.htm
or in the January 2000 edition of Anthropology News.
Graduate students and beginning
researchers/faculty are strongly encouraged to submit
proposals.

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   JAY RUBY - Temple University -  PO Box 128,
Mifflintown, PA 17059
USA
                  NOTE NEW FAX NO. -240-209-7764
    voice -
717-436-9502

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My Web page is
http://www.temple.edu/anthro/ruby/jayruby.html

Link to a Call for Participation in The Futures of The
Anthropology of Visual Communication Conference,
November, 2000 -
http://astro.temple.edu/~ruby/aaa/

Link to an announcement of my new book - The World of
Francis Cooper:
19th
Century Pennsylvania Photographer -
http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~ruby/coop.html

Link to a description of my ethnographic study of Oak
Park, IL -
http://astro.ocis.temple.edu/~ruby/opp

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still in the
same
spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the
spot you were
standing in, and jump, and pray."  Renata Adler in
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