8/3/13 Re:Discussion peace for Forum on developing guidelines for the evaluation of non-literary forms of representation

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Re:Discussion peace for Forum on developing guidelines for theevaluation of non­literary forms of representation鲍÷  [baojiang@cass.org.cn]Sent:Saturday, August 03, 2013 5:38 AMTo: Postma, M.A.

    Dear Metje,

Thank you for your hard work for the community of visual anthropologists. I learned a lot from you. I'dlike to share with you my personal horizon of visual anthropology and social-cultural anthropology.The theme of the congress Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds set light to the horizon of what therecent evolution of social-cultural anthropology is. There are three explicit lines:1. The shift of fieldwork from observation to collaboration.2. The shift of ethnography from representation of the other to representation of the encounter betweensubjectivities.3. The shift of knowledge embodiment of social-cultural anthropology from literary work to literary andnon-literary work.In the horizon visual anthropology is the evolving form of social-cultural anthropology, but not a boughof the tree of social-cultural anthropology. Perhaps there has been a boundary between so calledmainstream anthropology and visual anthropology in Europe. Anyway I recently made a review studyof visual anthropology in China since the 1950s, and I found such a boundary is not clear. In theestablishing period of the discipline from the 1950s to the 1980s, there’s a close collaboration betweenliterary scholars and filmmakers. Since the 1990s, there appeared important scholars who made films aswell as wrote books, such as Zhuang Kongshao, Guo Jing, Cai Hua, Zhu Xiaoyang, Bao Jiang, etc.Therefore I’d like to propose several points for the discussion:1. The discussion of representation forms demands the discussion of what social-cultural anthropology isas the foundation.2. The big issue as what social-cultural anthropology is, of course, is beyond the time and opportunity ofour gathering for the IUAES congress.3. What might be more practical and productive is to discuss the possibility of making a publicationseries of multi-media work collection of anthropology, with the authority of leading visualanthropologists on multi-media work as committee. Multi-media work refers to the work of social-cultural anthropology with literary and non-literary media. (Actually the non-literary film pure as Forestof Bliss is also literary, in the form of title and subtitles of the film, in the book form of Reading Forest ofBliss.)My best!See you soon!Baojiang

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8/3/13 Re:Discussion peace for Forum on developing guidelines for the evaluation of non-literary forms of representation

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Dear Colleagues,

You have indicated in the past that you were interested to think along with us (CVA) about the 'Manifesto' thatwe intend to write as a conclusion of the Forum discussion that will be held on 09 August, 14 PM, at theIUAES2013 Conference in Mancheseter, on guidelines for the evaluation of non­literary forms of representationin anthropology. I have here designed a first draft of a discussion peace in which I included 8 propositions that should form theskeleton of the Manifesto. I added texts that have been previously published by yourselves and others, that aredealing with the same topic.

This is a very first draft, and needs your input. Especially the last section on publication, has been little workedon.

Please use the Mark Changes­option in Word, in case you add or improve text.

Do not feel obliged to work on the text if you have no time to do so, however any input is welcome andappreciated.Do you think this could be a useful format to discuss this issue (propositions?) I want to divide the public in smallgroups so that each can discuss one or two propositions.

with my warm regards

MetjeCVA