Transcending the"Presence"for Memory"Representation"in the Ethnographic Animation:Reflection on the Video-making Practice of Xian Niang Rituals of the Miao People in Western Hunan
Cultural memory is a core element for the cohesion of ethnic groups and the realization of cultural identity.Ethnic ritual,a specific cultural behavior deeply embedded in a specific social setting or scenario,plays a key role in the construction of collective memory and cultural memory as an important topic in anthropological research.Ethnographic animation provides knowledge production and meaning presentation through a system of special visual media symbols,which can transcend the space-time barriers of"presence"in expressing abstract experience such as memory and experiences,thus providing new paradigm experiments and modal possibilities for film and television anthropology in the new era.Based on the video-making of"Xian Niang"rituals of the Miao people in western Hunan province in China,we conducted mutual subjective cooperation and reflexive dialogues with cultural holders,finally producing an animated video full of true feelings of the indigenous people,which realizes the"representation"of ritual memory and the expression of ethnic culture memory through video ethnography.
ethnographic animationritual imagecultural memoryfilm and television anthropologymulti modes
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