Seeing and Being Seen

Seeing and Being Seen
Author :
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 256
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0292779771
ISBN-13 : 9780292779778
Rating : 4/5 (778 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Seeing and Being Seen by : Hilary E. Kahn

Download or read book Seeing and Being Seen written by Hilary E. Kahn and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of morality and the formation of identity among an indigenous Latin American culture are framed in a pioneering ethnography of sight that attempts to reverse the trend of anthropological fieldwork and theory overshadowing one another. In this vital and richly detailed work, methodology and theory are treated as complementary partners as the author explores the dynamic Mayan customs of the Q'eqchi' people living in the cultural crossroads of Livingston, Guatemala. Here, Q'eqchi', Ladino, and Garifuna (Caribbean-coast Afro-Indians) societies interact among themselves and with others ranging from government officials to capitalists to contemporary tourists. The fieldwork explores the politics of sight and incorporates a video camera operated by multiple people—the author and the Q'eqchi' people themselves—to watch unobtrusively the traditions, rituals, and everyday actions that exemplify the long-standing moral concepts guiding the Q'eqchi' in their relationships and tribulations. Sharing the camera lens, as well as the lens of ethnographic authority, allows the author to slip into the world of the Q'eqchi' and capture their moral, social, political, economic, and spiritual constructs shaped by history, ancestry, external forces, and time itself. A comprehensive history of the Q'eqchi' illustrates how these former plantation laborers migrated to lands far from their Mayan ancestral homes to co-exist as one of several competing cultures, and what impact this had on maintaining continuity in their identities, moral codes of conduct, and perception of the changing outside world. With the innovative use of visual methods and theories, the author's reflexive, sensory-oriented ethnographic approach makes this a study that itself becomes a reflection of the complex set of social structures embodied in its subject.


Seeing and Being Seen Related Books

Seeing and Being Seen
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Hilary E. Kahn
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

GET EBOOK

The practice of morality and the formation of identity among an indigenous Latin American culture are framed in a pioneering ethnography of sight that attempts
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007: Tony Redmond's Guide to Successful Implementation
Language: en
Pages: 1055
Authors: Tony Redmond
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-08 - Publisher: Digital Press

GET EBOOK

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 marks the biggest advancement in the history of the Exchange Product group. The completely re-engineered server system will chang
Beginning Modern Unix
Language: en
Pages: 431
Authors: Manish Jain
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-10 - Publisher: Apress

GET EBOOK

Discover how to leverage modern Unix even if you’ve never worked with Unix before. This book presents everything in conceptual terms that you can understand,
Talk is Cheap
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: James E. Gaskin
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

GET EBOOK

Fed up with the high tolls charged by your ordinary telephone service? If you're itching to cut the copper cord with your costly, traditional phone service, you
Beyond the Cosmos, the Science of Man into the Path of the Cosmoian Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Rev. JT Phillips
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-14 - Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

GET EBOOK

For those who carry this book you shall always be protected from smoke, ash, fire and all from harm and evil. For this is the book of knowledge and wisdom. You