Rouch and His Gang on the Paths of Decolonization
Sławomir Sikora
slawomir.sikora@uw.edu.plUniversity of Warsaw (Poland)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2147-8543
Abstract
The author focuses on the asymmetry in the perspectives, approaches, and meanings inherent in discourses concerning race- and class-based social inequality and its inheritance or entanglement in historically shaped social hierarchies. Through an analysis of selected examples, including cinematic works, the author explores various aspects of this issue. An important thread of the discussion is a critical analysis of Jean Rouch’s attempt to create a ‘shared space’ within the realm of ethno-fiction, creating new figurations of social positions that reject the deterministic replication of identities marked by the historical experience of colonization. Rouch termed this approach “shared anthropology.” Despite the emergence of various contentious issues after the production of his film Moi, un Noir (1958), the work seems to question the validity of Gayatri Spivak’s remarks regarding the subaltern’s inability to articulate their own experiences. The article positions Rouch’s approach as a precursor to Homi Bhabha’s influential concept of the “third space.” (Non-reviewed material).
Keywords:
anthropological film, anthropology, Jean Rouch, race, inequality, decolonizationReferences
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Sławomir Sikoraslawomir.sikora@uw.edu.pl
University of Warsaw Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2147-8543
PhD, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw; his field of interest covers primarily visual and urban anthropology, and the anthropology of contemporary culture. Author of the books Fotografia. Między dokumentem a symbolem [Photography: Between a Document and a Symbol] (2004) and Film i paradoksy wizualności. Praktykowanie antropologii [Film and the Paradoxes of Visuality: Practicing Anthropology] (2012), as well as numerous scientific articles. Co-author of the film Żeby to było ciekawe [Making It Interesting] (2009) and co-editor of the book Zanikające granice. Antropologizacja nauki i jej dyskursów [Vanishing Boundaries: Anthropologization of Science and Its Discourses] (2009). Coordinator of several funded research projects, including “Oddolne tworzenie kultury” [“Bottom-up Culture”] and “Obrazy różnorodności kulturowej i dziedzictwa” [“Images of Cultural Diversity and Heritage”] (NAFA Film Festival, Warsaw 2015).
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