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Sparks of Otherness

Author(s)
Giorgio Brocco
Abstract

My analysis here examines three of these documentary films – Zeru Zeru the Ghosts (2009), Black Man White Skin (2015) and The Boy from Geita (2014) – produced by media companies from the North. The present chapter sets out to highlight how these media productions represent the social, political and individual aspects of living with albinism, and the phenomenon of the violence against persons with the condition in Tanzania and other African countries.5 On the one hand, I outline how these documentary films portray humanitarian activities carried out by international NGOs and other humanitarian agencies from the global North (e.g. the United Nations). On the other hand, my examination reveals in which symbolic ways these media productions seek to illustrate Tanzanian and African social and political contexts.

Organisation(s)
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Volume
2
Pages
115-132
No. of pages
17
Publication date
2022
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
504017 Cultural anthropology
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/58901ff6-0965-4b9f-8ad7-c60e01d68836