Visual Ethnography

Seen on the scale of millenia, human fashion fuse. Time neither adds to nor removes anything from the loves and hates felt by people, their involvement. their struggles and their hopes. They remain the same today as they were in the past. Randomly removing ten or twenty centuries of history would not affect. in a meaningful way, our knowledge of human nature.  Jakarta Kota Lama 2006 The only irreplaceable loss would be the works of art which these centuries gave rise to because humans only differ through their works, and even exist only through them. Just as a wooden statue attests to the prior existence of a tree, so waorks of art provide the proof that, throughout history, amongst people, something actually happened.    from: Claude Levi-Strauss, Regarder, ecouter,l ire                                                      ...

Heavy hung the canopy of blue Shade my eyes and I can see you Contemplation @Sendang Sumberjaya Gondanglegi Malang East Java White is the light that shines through the dress that you wore She lay in the shadow of the wave Hazy were the visions of her playing Green grass and my fish farm (tambak) @Lamongan East Java Sunlight on her eyes but moonshine beat her blind everytime Green is the colour of her kind Night before Kelud Eruption @Wates Kulon Progo Yogyakarta  Quickness of the eye deceives the mind Many is the bond between the hopefull and the damned  My best friend, My Motor Cycle @Magelang  (Courtesy of Pink Floyd's Song)

March 31, 2014 I visited tourism based forest (ecotourism) in Karanganyar Central Java. Grojogan Sewu Waterfall be an attraction visitors want traveled as well as sports. Any attraction another of tourism area is existence apes. Apes as if welcome the visitors and not get quite upset the inflow in the area of human life. Be the keeper of parking lot...  ...There is a story about what is called possession and privatization.... ..moving... ..monkey with plastic bottle. .."This is mine"... Many tailless monkeys long (Macaca Fascicularis) coming and feeds on refuse their food that is not be their natural food. Diet changed make always relies with food waste are directly or indirectly given by visitors through the junk produced.

...from Coffe Culture Local Experience, Global Connections by Catherine M. Tucker . She explores coffe as: a major commodity thet shapes lives of millons of peoples; a product with a checkered and dramatic history; a beverage with mutliple meanings and uses (energizer, comfort food addiction, flavoring and confection); an inspiration for humor and cultural critique; an agricultur crop that can help protect biodiversity yet also threaten the environment; a health risk and a health food; and a focus alternative trade efforts (fair trade and environment certification programs)  Coffe, Key of Communication My Coffe weekly Gathering  Reference: Catherine M. Tucker, Coffe Culture (Local Experience, Global Connections), 2011, Routledge

True friend on the journey when leaving or returning to teach to the island of salt (Madura). Delivery group Madura Java crackers (Paguyuban Delivery Roti dan Krupuk Jawa Madura/PDRKJM). Gather some coffee in coffee shop Mrs.Laili (near the t-junction suramadu-bangkalan) at noon (consolidated delivery area) and evening (gathering to return home along via suramadu bridge). After a year of observation, they are not simply an introduction to crackers but the introductory information (social issues until the latest mobile type). They connecting Java-madura (suramadu) bridge apart. Crossing The Bridge of Suramadu Aim of The Opportunities of The Market This is my amatuer video with 2mp Camera's Nokia E51, towards Surabaya crossed Suramadu bridge at night. 

A number of important anthropological question were first posed in modern form during the European Enlightement: what defines the human species in the abstract, what distinguishes human from animals, and what the natural condition of humankind. Carolus Linnaeus with his contemporaries human as three kind of human (homo) Such as Homo sylvestris ('forest man'), Homo troglodytes ('cave man') and Homo nocturnus ('night man').  1. Homo Sylvestris 

  Having thus laid before you the general lines on which I propose to deal with problems relating to race and nationality, I propose now that we should make a lightning trip round the world and cull, as we go, samples which will illustrate the kind of friction which arises wherever races or nationalities come into close contact. As I have already said, every country can yield us material for our study, but none on such a vast experimental scale as the United States of North America; we shall therefore commence our hurried survey in that country. Within the frontiers of the States is massed a population of 110 millions. When we look closely we see that over ten millions of these inhabitants are marked off from the rest by a frontier, a colour line, as sharply defined and jealously guarded as the frontiers of a kingdom. Across that racial frontier all legitimate social traffic is barred, the custodians of the frontier being those who stand on the white side of the line. Any at...

  I now enter the third stage of my argument. In the first I cited and discussed the various forms in which racial and national feelings are manifested by various peoples abroad; in my second I dealt with the nature of the various national movements at home. We now set out in search of the root from which the flower of our complex modern civilization has sprung. In the world of to-day we see many peoples exhibiting every phase in the evolution of that organization which permits mankind to live in massed populations. Fortunately for us there yet survive, in outlandish parts of the earth, remnants of native races retaining the primitive organization which guided mankind through that great hinterland of time lying between the emergence from apedom and the dawn of the modern world. For the student of sociology the immense primitive first stage of man's history is by far the more important. In his _Voyage of the Beagle_, Darwin draws a picture of the Fuegians which gives us a real insi...

While many anthropologists in the early postwar years, especially in Britain, rejected attempts to turn anthropology into an accurate science, others went in the opposite direction. This was not only the case with the American cultural ecologists and the British methodological individualists, but also –perhaps surprisingly – with people working within the broad framework of American linguistic anthropology. Several of Sapir’s successors explored semantics and language structures in traditional societies in an accurate way. Some of these devised quantitative methods tailored to measure frequencies and connections between native terms, and worked closely with psychologists, linguists and others engaged in the emerging interdisciplinary field of cognitive science. Among the foremost of these were Harold Conklin, Charles Frake and Ward Goodenough, who all contributed to the development of ethnoscience in the 1950s. Ethnoscience was concerned with describing ‘cultural grammars’, through i...

Aming and Julia Peres On 19 January 2012 a musician who was well liked by teens and music lovers: Kety Perry. Ketty Perry held a concert at the SICC Bogor West Java. Various backgrounds come to see the appearance of the Ketty Perry although must pay dearly. Celebrities are a pretty figure gets spotlight in concert. Two celebrity person who saw the appearance of Indonesia costumes are unique and kontrversial. Aming a comedy with costumes from a straw to drink water and Julia peres with a unique dispenser-style costumes. Celebrity is a person who likes to find and create a sensation. Behavior and lifestyle celebrity somewhat different from other community members. Celebrities have much access to buy something he wants. Aming with plastic cloth Humans have a need for self-actualization. The need to express themselves and connect with your lifestyle. Lifestyle is about creativity and how does a person to be seen more striking and different. Aming is a celebrity ...

1. Once We Were Warriors (1995) This film, produced and set in modern New Zealand, follows the story of an urban Maori (native New Zealander) family struggling to overcome addictions and poverty, problems common to native people worldwide who have been moved from their ancestral lands to city environments. In the film, as in real life, one solution to these problems is a reconnection with traditional values and culture. The film’s scenes of grinding poverty and violence can be hard to watch, but they’re a reality. Directed by Lee Tamahori. 2. Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey (1988) This Hollywood film depicts part of the career of Dian Fossey, one of the three main women in living-ape studies. Fossey, played by Sigourney Weaver, diligently (or obsessively, depending on your perspective) studies gorillas in central Africa, eventually spending as much time trying to protect them from poachers as study them. Fossey was murdered in 1985, and the scene depicting this e...

As a study of folk literature of different races offers one way of understanding their mental attitude toward life and its problems, the folk literature of the Negro will reveal to us his inherent moral and intellectual bias and the natural trend of his philosophy. Let us therefore examine some phases of this subject, paying particular attention to that part which relates especially to the proverbs. The sources of such literature are abundant. A little research in a well-equipped library brings one into a curious and informing mass of knowledge, ever increasing in bulk, in the French, German and English languages, as well as in many strange and highly inflected African tongues. A cursory reading of this literature discloses at once that our general knowledge of Africa has been based in the past mainly on those external facts that strike the sense of sight, such as the physical appearance of the population, native dress and handiwork, musical instruments, implements of warfar...

The memory is the great storehouse of artistic material, the treasures of which the artist may know little about until a chance association lights up some of its dark recesses. From early years the mind of the young artist has been storing up impressions in these mysterious chambers, collected from nature's aspects, works of art, and anything that comes within the field of vision. It is from this store that the imagination draws its material, however fantastic and remote from natural appearances the forms it may assume. How much our memory of pictures colours the impressions of nature we receive is probably not suspected by us, but who could say how a scene would appear to him, had he never looked at a picture? So sensitive is the vision to the influence of memory that, after seeing the pictures of some painter whose work has deeply impressed us, we are apt, while the memory of it is still fresh in our minds, to see things as he would paint them. On different occasions after leavi...

Motion path of struggle (Napak Tilas) Mojokerto - Surabaya is a tradition held to commemorate the heroes. Momentum of the day is a struggle hero of the people of Surabaya and East Java in the war against the allies in 1945. Battle in Surabaya, known as the event occurred 10 November 1945 when the Allies issued an ultimatum to the people of Surabaya surrender their weapons, put your hands above your head and forced to sign a declaration of unconditional surrender.This ultimatum came out after the assassination of Brigadier AWS Mallaby AFNEI squad leader from the 49th British Brigade. The ultimatum was not met by the people of Surabaya, then there is a battle between the people of Surabaya against the allied forces. Battle from various fields have led to personal limitations to Surabaya, logistics and weapons. Finally, with a sense of brotherhood and nationalism are high, help came from the west than the city of Mojokerto. To honor the service and perjungan past this race is held on a r...

Camera is 'weapon' Visual Ethnography Above I described our video tours of my informants’ sensory homes. I encouraged   my informants to discuss and show what most interested them. However, our interviews were structured by my research objectives and, unlike observational cinema, a checklist scripted each tour. We had just one hour of tape and rather than waiting for events to unfold we consciously used this technology within a constrained time period to explore and represent each informant’s home and to discuss human and material relationships, sensations, identities, emotions, memories, creativity and activity associated with this domestic space and its material and other agencies.

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Affandi Koesoema (Cirebon, West Java, 1907 - May 23 1990) was a painter known as Maestro Painting Indonesia, probably Indonesia's most famous painters in the international world, thanks to a distinctive him style. In the 1950s he held many solo exhibitions in India, UK, Europe and the United States. A prolific painter, Affandi had painted more than two thousand artwork. Biography Affandi was born in Cirebon in 1907, the son of R. Koesoema, an orderly measuring the sugar factory in Tangerang, Cirebon. In terms of education, it includes a formal education is quite high. For people his generation, his education, MULO, and subsequently graduated from the AMS, including the education obtained only by a handful of country boy. However, his art talent is very strong beat other disciplines in life, and indeed has made his name famous the same as the figures or leaders of other fields. At the age of 26 years, in 1933, Affandi was married to Maryati, a girl born in Bogor. Affandi and M...

Throughout his career, Barthes had an interest in photography and its potential to communicate actual events. Many of his monthly myth articles in the 50s had attempted to show how a photographic image could represent implied meanings and thus be used by bourgeois culture to infer ‘naturalistic truths’. But he still considered the photograph to have a unique potential for presenting a completely real representation of the world. When his mother, Henriette Barthes, died in 1977 he began writing  Camera Lucida  as an attempt to explain the unique significance a picture of her as a child carried for him. Reflecting on the relationship between the obvious symbolic meaning of a photograph (which he called the studium) and that which is purely personal and dependent on the individual, that which ‘pierces the viewer’ (which he called the punctum), Barthes was troubled by the fact that such distinctions collapse when personal significance is communicated to others and can have its s...

Visual anthropology is a subfield of cultural anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media. While the term is sometimes used interchangeably with ethnographic film, visual anthropology also encompasses the anthropological study of visual representation, including areas such as performance, museums, art, and the production and reception of mass media. Visual representations from all cultures, such as sandpaintings, tattoos, sculptures and reliefs, cave paintings, scrimshaw, jewelry, hieroglyphics, paintings and photographs are included in the focus of visual anthropology. Human vision, its physiology, the properties of various media, the relationship of form to function, the evolution of visual representations within a culture are all within the province of visual anthropology. Since anthropology is a holistic science, the ways in which visual representation are connected to the rest of cultu...

Prepare to Start sign Water Devil cross age and gender from very far place Paralayang acrobatic amitaba.. Balong bendo Street Diponegoro Street - Surabaya Bubutan Street with The Mask of Zorro, Ponorogo Warior dan Naruto's Figure TP pagi then Finish Point