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DESCRIPTION:"Exploring Ethnographic Filmmaking" is a four-part film series 
 that explores anthropology’s longstanding\, complex engagement with visu
 al media\, asking how film has been used not only to document and render s
 ocial life\, but to categorize\, analyze\, theorize\, and intervene in the
  world.\n\nProgram 4: Sensory Ethnography\n\nSwim Lesson (2018\, Melissa L
 efkowitz\, 8 min)\nMonsoon Reflections (2008\, Stephanie Spray\, 23 min)\n
 Leviathan (2012\, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel\, 87 min)\n\
 nTotal runtime: 1 hr 58 min\n\nThe final program explores sensory ethnogra
 phy\, an approach that shifts attention from representation toward immersi
 on\, embodiment\, and perception. These films prioritize sound\, movement\
 , texture\, and duration\, inviting viewers to encounter social worlds thr
 ough affective and corporeal experience rather than explanatory narration.
  In doing so\, they push ethnographic film beyond description toward an en
 gagement with how life is lived\, felt\, and sensed. \n\nWorks such as Lev
 iathan exemplify how film can theorize through sensation\, unsettling conv
 entional distinctions between subject and object\, observer and observed. 
 This program closes the series by foregrounding ethnographic film as an ar
 gumentative and analytical practice - one that approaches anthropology not
  through distance\, but through attunement\, responsiveness\, and being-wi
 th. Together\, the films ask what new forms of anthropological insight bec
 ome possible when the senses are treated not as supplementary to knowledge
 \, but as central to its production.\n\nThe screening will be introduced b
 y Natasha Raheja\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Performing & Me
 dia Arts.\n\nFree admission! Supported by the Department of Anthropology\,
  the Nazaara Media Lab\, a Visual Anthropology Research Lab at Cornell Uni
 versity\, the Department of Performing & Media Arts\, Cornell Media Studie
 s\, the South Asia Program\, and the Southeast Asia Program.
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LOCATION:Cornell Cinema
SUMMARY:Sensory Ethnography
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/sensory-ethnography
CATEGORIES:Film
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