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| Publications [#35200] of John L. Jackson, Jr.
Published Articles
- John L. Jackson, Jr.. "An Ethnographic FilmFlam: Giving gifts, Doing Rsearch, and Videotaping the Native Subject/Object." American Anthropologist vol. 106 no. 1 (March, 2004.): 32-42.
Abstract:
This article places Visual Anthropology (and
its important literatures) into critical
conversation with longstanding theoretical
arguments about the analytical limits of
Native Anthropology. Using the discussion
of self-reflexivity as an organizing
principle, I argue that mobilizing digital
video technology in “the field” (i) opens up
empirical and theoretical space for re-
conceptualizing the relationship between
anthropologists and informants, (ii)
demonstrates the flexibility of nativity as
an anthropological designation, and (iii)
provides tools for examining film’s
production process as a mechanism for
constructing filmmakers along with film
subjects. I highlight some of the ways in
which my own filmic and videographic
exploits in Harlem, New York, are predicated
on integral connections between seeing and
being the proverbial other.
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