By Lucien Taylor
Visualizing Theory is a lavishly illustrated choice of provocative essays, occasional items, and dialogues that first seemed in Visual Anthropology Review among 1990 and 1994. It comprises contributions from anthropologists, from cultural, literary and movie critics and from picture makers themselves. Reclaiming visible anthropology as an area for the severe illustration of visible tradition from the naive realist and exoticist tendencies that experience beleaguered practitioners' efforts thus far, Visualizing Theory is a huge intervention into this becoming box.
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These worldssometimesexert contradictoryand disturbing gravitationalforces on the ethnographicmaterials we create. Photographsand films, perhapsmore than written descriptions,seemliable to distortion in this way, becauseof the continuity they sharewith the physical and sensory life of their referents. Such ties to another existence,at once subversiveand at oddswith the intentionsof the maker,and yet also frequentlyin collusion with them, can becomethe strengthor the demiseof many an ethnographicfilm.
Surrealismmoreoverintroducedan aestheticbasedon chance,improvisation,and the found object-an aestheticwhich would seem tailored to the actual conditions of a E. Westernermaking an ethnographicfilm. Yet the genre has had only one surrealist: Weinberger ironically, the founder of cinemaverite, JeanRouch. ) Jaguar (shot in the 1950sand releasedin 1967), to briefly take one examplefrom a massiveamountof work, has the improvisatoryexuberanceof the 1960sFrenchNew Wave-it even includes clips from other Rouchfilms.
No other li ving city existsso purely in mythiC time. Similarly, the city itself is an iconographic representationof the passage from this world to the next: a labyrinth of bazaars, temples and houses for the dying opensout onto stepsthat lead down to the river (at one section of steps the dead are burned); the wide river itself, cleansing all, and beyond, distantly visible, the other shore. These are universally recognizablesymbols,from whichwith a host of others: the kite perched between heaven and earth, the scavenging dogs, the boats that carry the dead to "Boatman with deadchild; Benares,India," Forest ofBli55, the other side, the purifying RobertGardner.