DELHI INTERNATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
Submission Deadline 30 July 2008
Fuente: University of Delhi
In the last few decades, analytical and empirically informed ethnographic studies and field-based research are increasingly supported by various media. An intrinsic and structural relationship between the media and contemporary ways of carrying out ethnographic research seems to have emerged. This relationship enables an understanding of the ways in which socio-cultural formations (of class, ethnicity, religiosity and identity) are represented and practiced, including in the social sciences. This link between media and ethnography is providing crucial theoretical and practical inputs to our understanding of the construction and diffusion of ideas and practices of particularism and universality, locality and globalization, diversity and uniformity. It is also leading to a re-evaluation of the category of experience itself, with media playing a significant role in social life. Continuar Leyendo »

























