Tension in the ethnographic field
the thought of Jorge Prelorán
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2019.151048Keywords:
Jorge Prelorán, ethnographic film, anthropology, politicsAbstract
Jorge Prelorán was an Argentinian filmmaker who made more than sixty films between the 1960s and the 1990s. But he also spread his thoughts on ethnographic film through essays and interviews throughout his career. His encounters with the most outstanding scholars and directors were the basis on which he was building his critical reflections on the place of anthropology, politics and the most appropriate methods for making films “at the service” of others. This article aims to analyze Prelorán’s thought through his articles and interviews.
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CAMPO, J. “Jorge Prelorán: un cineasta argentino entre la periferia y el centro de los estudios de cine”. Dixit, Montevideo, n. 16, p. 62-73, 2017.
CAMPO, J.; PÉREZ-BLANCO, H. (eds.). A trail of fire for a political cinema: the Hour of the Furnaces fifty years later. Bristol: Intellect, 2019.
CASTIÑEIRA DE DIOS, J. L. “De Hermógenes Cayo a Cochengo Miranda: Jorge Prelorán y las voces de la marginación. Entrevista”. Crisis, Buenos Aires, n. 25, p. 33-38, 1975.
DUNSKY, S.; PRELORÁN, J. “Le Chemin des Indiens Morts (The Way of the Dead Indians, 1983) Produced and directed by Michel Perrin and Jean Arlaud”. American Anthropologist, New Jersey, v. 88, n. 3, p. 772-773, 1986.
ENGLER, V. “Jorge Prelorán: el cine de la vida. Entrevista”. Exactamente, Buenas Aires, año 12, n. 34, p. 32-35, 2006.
HARRIS, M. Cultural materialism: the struggle for a science of culture. New York: Random House, 1980.
HEIDER, K. Ethnographic film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006.
HENLEY, P. “The authoring of observational cinema: conversations with Colin Young”. Visual Anthropology, Abingdon, v. 31, n. 3, p. 193-235, 2018.
HOCKINGS, P. (ed.). Principles of visual anthropology. Paris: Mouton, 1975.
LOIZOS, P. Innovation in ethnographic film: from innocence to self-consciousness (1955-1985). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
MACDOUGALL, D. Transcultural cinema. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998.
NAVARRO, J. “Prelorán explica su cine”. El diario de La Pampa, Santa Rosa, 10 abr. 1994.
PRELORÁN, J. “Documenting the human condition”. In: HOCKINGS, P. (ed.). Principles of visual anthropology. Paris: Mouton, 1975. p. 103-107.
PRELORÁN, J. “Nawi/Under the men’s tree”. Journal of American Folklore, Champaign, v. 97, n. 383, p. 118-120,1984.
PRELORÁN, J. “Conceptos éticos y estéticos en cine etnográfico”. In: ROSSI, J. J. (comp.). El cine documental etnobiográfico de Jorge Prelorán. Buenos Aires: Búsqueda, 1987a. p. 73-118.
PRELORÁN, J. “Diálogo con Teshome Gabriel”. In: ROSSI, J. J. (Comp.). El cine documental etnobiográfico de Jorge Prelorán. Buenos Aires: Búsqueda, 1987b. p. 119-130.
PRELORÁN, J. “Reflexiones de un documentalista sobre globalización y resistencia: el caso de la cultura otavaleña”. Realidad, Buenos Aires, n. 2-3, p. 135-148, 2002-2003.
PRELORÁN, J. El cine etnobiográfico. Buenos Aires: Catálogos, 2006.
RÍOS, H. “El cine no etnológico o el testimonio social de Jorge Prelorán”. In: COLOMBRES, A. (ed.). Cine, antropología y colonialismo. Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Sol, 2005. p. 107-119.
RUBY, J. Picturing Culture: explorations of film & anthropology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
SHERMAN, S. “From Romanticism to Reflexivity in the Films of Jorge Preloran”. In: ENGLEBRECHT, B. (ed.). Memories of the origins of ethnographic film. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2007. p. 279-291.
SUBER, H. “Jorge Prelorán. Interviewed by Howard Suber”. Film Comment, New York, v. 7, n. 1, p. 43-51, 1971.
YOUNG, C. “Observational Cinema”. In: HOCKINGS, P. (ed.). Principles of Visual Anthropology, Berlin, p. 99-114, 2003.
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Campo, J. (2019). Tension in the ethnographic field: the thought of Jorge Prelorán. Significação: Journal of Audiovisual Culture, 46(52). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-7114.sig.2019.151048
