The Third Figure: The Creation of Intersubjectivity in Ethnographic Drawing

Author(s)

Jasamin Kashanipour

Abstract

In this article, I discuss ethnographic drawing by differentiating between the practice of drawing people from that of drawing objects. Unlike drawing architecture, landscapes, or cities, drawing people is not only a practice of seeing but also of being seen. I follow the epistemological question of what happens at the core of drawing people ethnographically by considering the perspective of the person drawn. I introduce the notion of the “third figure,” which emerges from the anthropological study of the self and the other through drawing. The third figure is a distinctive state of mutual consciousness that incorporates the material and the intersubjective and immaterial dimension of the drawing process into ethnography.

Organisation(s)

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Journal

Anthropology and Humanism

Volume

46

Pages

266-278

ISSN

1559-9167

Publication date

07-2021

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504008 Ethnography, 504009 Ethnology

Keywords

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/the-third-figure-the-creation-of-intersubjectivity-in-ethnographic-drawing(806eb55d-6865-473d-886d-0fa1b4673999).html