When I watched Leviathan and Sweetgrass, I was bored at first, and I felt physically and mentally uncomfortable while I was forcing myself to watch them. I only watched Leviathan at home on my laptop. The film showed at the Edinburgh International Film Festival in 2013. It was about ten years ago, and that’s when […]

The film Workers! I watch the film Workers, which focuses on the experiences of a collective of sex workers in Scotland, their fight for labor rights and their relationship to work. The film records the appearance of sex workers doing things, without too much conversation. The natural lens makes sex workers more real as human […]

The purpose of ethnography is to provide, through writing, film, or other graphic medium, an account of life as it was actually lived and felt by a group of people somewhere and at a certain time. Good ethnographic research is emotionally nuanced, contextually aware, rich in detail, and above all, faithful to what it portrays. […]

Art has come to occupy a space long associated with anthropology, becoming one of the main sites for tracking, representing, and performing the effects of difference in contemporary life. People have been growing interest in anthropology for contemporary art that started from a problematisation of the different possible ways to communicate ethnographic findings and insights. […]

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