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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/806eb55d-6865-473d-886d-0fa1b4673999