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AUTHOR
Ivo Strecker
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Filming among the Hamar
1988
I've often been asked how I came to take part in Robert Gardner's films in Hamar. What do I think of his film Rivers of Sand and how has working with him influenced the concept of ethnography in my films, Der Sprung uber die Rinder (The Leap Across the Cattle), Der Herr der Ziegen (The Father of the Goats), and Gesang der Hamar Hirten (The Hamar Herdsman and his Music). I've tried to answer these questions and to explain how Jean Rouch and the cinema verite have also influenced me. My films were shot in strict collaboration with the Hamar, determining the choice of themes, collective efforts in the production of the films, and in their analysis.
The turbulence of images: On imagery, media and ethnographic discourse
1997
As the anthropological theory of politeness has put it, people have universally two kinds of social want. They wish to be close to others, liked and accepted, but they also want some distance, freedom from imposition and respect of mutual difference. These wants, which one may also call basic human rights, are however often violated, and images play an important role in this. Images are ultimately generated in the human mind and may find verbal as well as written and pictorial representation. Tyler [1978] has proposed a typology of mental images based on criteria of conscious control, completeness, abstraction, media and autonomy. These criteria also prove useful when probing into prototypi…
Glories and agonies of the Ethiopian past
2007
A history of modern Ethiopia, 1855–1974. By Bahru Zewde The invention of Ethiopia. The making of a dependent colonial state of Northeast Africa. By Bonny K. Holcomb and Sisai Ibssa