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Visual Anthropology Syllabus

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一個獨立學者如我--VII如何經營學術生活與社群 http://aboaenglishstudio.blogspot.com/2021/04/vii.html?dt_platform=other&dt_dapp=1

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https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/yO0wscS_sGZ4zCt8TDqnzA

Artist Ge Yulu experienced the work of museum staff for 9 days last year and made this exhibition. He intended to show the meaningless of office works. By doing so, I think, he looks posted an ideal setting about work / an imagination of "not aliented": everyone works like an artist, independently and self motivated.

His interpretation and way of displaying inspired me by exemplifying how to visually present the "work" and to make use of daily sensory record. "Nobody knows how work works" (so that alienation, exploit, etc, happens). While this exhibition put this question to the public, as a doscourse, as a topic.

(Or take a netural perspective, can I say that is the materiality of artistic fantacy? What attitide should be address upon this materiality?- the answer could also be: by filling these forms, I know I am contributed to art. → in this way, the question looks turned to "alienation is being far from the final outcome".

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https://m.allnow.com/post/5ff418296bd48323f3b02dfa?platform=wechat&userid=1428196

A tiktok vlogger who shooted lots of short videos of factories in Dongguan, Guangdong province, CN. In the comments, memories were triggered from his peers. How they entered the city, how they fall in love with someone there, which restaurant they like, where they met someone betrayed them....

Some factories are abandoned, like how these "outsider workers" are usually ignored by the city. But stories are so alive.

Affective, empirical experiences demonstrated the agency.

Search 侯国安 in tiktok for more

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Here’s a show for you… 非虚构写作：生活的面孔、小说的眼睛和天真的心 | 袁凌&金理 episode of 跳岛FM

A very inspiring podcast about non foction writing from the perspective of literature.

How to distinguish writing about real social life as literature, as social science, as media text, and as "the project" (visit a place just for writing it)? Guests of this episode praised ethnographic works and the sensitivity of anthropology.

Taking the recently very popular media report about take away food delivery rider, who are bounded by the strict request om delivery time thus are more likely to break traffic rules and exposed to the risk of accidence, one of the highlight point is the sense of space mentioned in the article. The highlight point is pointed out by Dan Bao, an anthropologist AND novel author. By followring experienced riders going in wrong dorection on the road, a new rider come from rural area feels he "got the sense of controlling" in the urban space.

The meaning of ethnography is to care people, juat like literatures, in this sense.

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collecting sources:

visual ethnography course provided by universities in Taiwan.

Also the student film: https://vimeo.com/5383136  maisahoro什麼！原來不只是跑步

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https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/yJoRuwK1YsdTjgoaBm_L3Q

How to write work class, how to imagine the writing for the work class.

See Fan Yusu's writing and her current life.

The discussion is not about how literatual can bring you brilliant future, but on why we need "a brilliant future".

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https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/t6Cv1j_jz11zlKNrnZF2EA

Video by G. Matthews, professor at CHKU, department of anthropology. Anthropology should be "a listening" and then to understanding (The logic of ordinary people and society)

-I am over eager to say something in my research!