Mind the Gap

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  • Karen Lisa Salamon
The bookchapter engages with the lack of continuity existing between different people’s experiences, and how it may be acknowledged in ethnographic forms of representation involving montage. My discussion was triggered by a concern, which author Daniel Mendelsohn has encapsulated thus: “It has become a cliché in modern culture that you can recreate other people’s experience. I’m very suspicious of that kind of simulacra” (Tetzlaff 2012: 8). Mendelsohn’s suspicion resonates with historian James Clifford’s discussions about “ethnographic authority,” in which he noted that “it becomes necessary to conceive of ethnography not as the experience and interpretation of a circumscribed ‘other’ reality, but rather as a constructive negotiation involving at least two, and usually more, conscious, politically significant subjects. Paradigms of experience and interpretation are yielding to discursive paradigms of dialogue and polyphony” (1988: 41). In my discussion, I unfold how a certain use of montage may fit into such polyphonic discursive paradigms.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTranscultural Montage
EditorsChristian Suhr, Rane Willerslev
Number of pages12
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherBerghahn Books
Publication date2013
Pages145-157
Chapter8
ISBN (Print)978-0-85745-964-0
ISBN (Electronic)978-0-85745-965-7
Publication statusPublished - 2013
EventTranscultural Montage: Focus on the topic of montage and its possibilities and limitations for moving beyond realist forms of representation in anthropology. - Moesgaard Estate, Århus, Denmark
Duration: 24 Aug 200926 Aug 2009

Conference

ConferenceTranscultural Montage
LocationMoesgaard Estate
LandDenmark
ByÅrhus
Periode24/08/200926/08/2009

    Research areas

  • Faculty of Social Sciences - Ethnography, textual formats, montage in writing, Cultural Analysis, Cultural Sampling, Otherness, Ethnographic writing, Ethnographic polyphony, Cultural Property Rights, De-signification, Ouaknin, M-A. , Lévinas, E., Estrangement, Benjamin, W., Montage, cultural studies

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