Mind the Gap
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Mind the Gap. / Salamon, Karen Lisa.
Transcultural Montage. ed. / Christian Suhr; Rane Willerslev. New York : Berghahn Books, 2013. p. 145-157.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Mind the Gap
AU - Salamon, Karen Lisa
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Ethnography
KW - textual formats
KW - montage in writing
KW - Cultural Analysis
KW - Cultural Sampling
KW - Otherness
KW - Ethnographic writing
KW - Ethnographic polyphony
KW - Cultural Property Rights
KW - De-signification
KW - Ouaknin, M-A.
KW - Lévinas, E.
KW - Estrangement
KW - Benjamin, W.
KW - Montage
KW - cultural studies
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-0-85745-964-0
SP - 145
EP - 157
BT - Transcultural Montage
A2 - Suhr, Christian
A2 - Willerslev, Rane
PB - Berghahn Books
CY - New York
T2 - Transcultural Montage
Y2 - 24 August 2009 through 26 August 2009
ER -
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