The best way to... understand, enliven,
investigate, get in touch with, outwit, contend
with, defend oneself against, love...others,
other cultures, the elusive and intimate "Ithou," the other in oneself, the other opposed
to oneself, the feared, hated, envied, different
other... is to perform and to study
performances and performative behaviours in
all their various forms, contexts, expressions,
and historical processes. What the book was,
the performance has become: index and
symbol, multiple truths and lies, arena of
struggle (Schechner, 1993:1.)
The postmodernist turn
highlighted four important points
• the emphasis to epistemological concerns (ways
that unable us to know) as opposed to ontological
concerns (ways that unable us to find and name
things)
• the emphasis on process rather than end-results
• the consideration of performance and process as
contingent
• the emphasis on process as open-ended
• experimentation with form
Anointing the World
By Elysee Nouvet (2001)
• Western Nicaragua
• 1979 to 1990: socialist (Sandinista) revolution
• religiosity and healing
• Different points of view
Can we consider this
ethnographic film Post-modern?
Why?
Was the author successful in
presenting her interpretation of
events and her informant’s view
in the ethnographic film? How?