Conventional state-ethnicity models have emphasized the negative side of ethnicity, where it merely distracts state integrity and efficiency. The presenter demonstrates how huge ethnic organizations in Jakarta provide the poor with social welfare that the state cannot provide. In so doing, he attempts to shed light on the positive side of ethnicity where it can complement state function along with the will of the poor.
It will be argued in this paper that exploring the material consequences of comparison is one way to bridge the gap between objects and methods of ethnographic research. Through a case study of the Hungarian clinical trial center, it shows how researchers, physicians and patients try to deal with the effects of comparing pills and diseases.
In cultural anthropology, the visual image came to be utilized in a variety of ways, and this trend will spread further in the future. The aim of this section meeting is that discussing the way of sharing the visual image, we open up the possibility of the visual image in visual anthropology and cultural anthropology.
First documentary film-maker Robert J. Flaherty made masterpiece documentary films around world. In this presentation, I read his films from a standpoint of sharing, and present what the concept of sharing raise to visual anthropology and cultural anthropology.
In order to attain more clarified discussions and add new analytical ideas regarding the currently important issue on the intrinsic nature of feedback processes in visual anthropological production during and after fieldwork among native peoples, this study casts a new light on the visual methods and feedback/dialogic co-working processes underlying the then epoch-making visual and cultural anthropological endeavors of Bateson/ Mead's 1936-38 Bali research.
Jean Rouch fulfilled very important role in establishing visual anthropology, and set up the framework of shared visual anthropology. The framework ranges from shooting, editing, and screening to the way anthropologist share film-making with people filmed, and has the new possibility for visual anthropology and cultural anthropology.