CONSTRUCTION OF THE WESTERN DISCOURSE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE OTHER IN THE ETHNOGRAPHIC FİLM: 1971 TO LIVE WITH THE HERDS
ETNOGRAFİK FİLMDE ÖTEKİNİN/YERLİNİN BAKIŞINDAN BATILI SÖYLEMİN İNŞASI: 1971 YAPIMI SÜRÜLERLE YAŞAMAK (TO LİVE WİTH THE HERDS) FİLMİ

Author : Serap DUMAN İNCE
Number of pages : 366-375

Abstract

In 1895, Felix Regnault's anthropological perspective in the field of ethnographic research; it underlines the necessity of understanding human behavior and changing the cultures of different cultures, tribes, the use of the camera despite the disappearance and the video recording of the cultural structures and behaviors in the field. From the end of the 19th century until the last quarter of the 20th century, Western anthropological/ethnographic field researchers, through ethnographic films, directly and indirectly attempted to construct the discourse of science, freedom, prosperity, happiness, and peace through primitive other/other images. These discourses were constructed from the point of view of Western researchers/subjects in the historical context (since 1895), and from the 1960s onwards, especially after the 1980s, it was found that the objects of the research objects (the other) were tried to be constructed. David and Judith MacDougall's 1971 production, To Live With The Herds, has been selected as a sample for the purposes of the ethnographic film literature, which is thought to represent the change of subject-object distances in the other and western discourses. The selected film is handled in the historical context and the dramatic narrative structure of the film is analyzed in terms of form and content. As a result, it has been seen in the film examined that in the colonialism culture, Western discourses have continued to be produced with new hierarchies in different forms.

Keywords

Ethnographic Film, Indigenous/Other Perspective, Western Discourse, To Live With The Herds

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