Publications [#35200] of John L. Jackson, Jr.

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Published Articles

  1. John L. Jackson, Jr.. "An Ethnographic FilmFlam: Giving gifts, Doing Rsearch, and Videotaping the Native Subject/Object." American Anthropologist 106.1 (March, 2004): 32-42.
    (last updated on 2005/04/11)

    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.

John L. Jackson, Jr.