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Author(s): Jasamin Kashanipour
Abstract: Nourished by my research’s theoretical and ethnographic resources,
this article explores the act of ethnographic drawing and its potential. I introduce a
concept of gaze that I call “the gradual gaze.” I suggest that drawing, which can transform
the gaze into the gradual gaze, is a creative and heuristic way of attentive thinking
and a process involving both unlearning and learning. The mimetic quality of drawing
strengthens the fieldworker’s eye and entails a search for connectedness with the environment
and people. The fieldworker’s domain of experience offers insight for understanding
the mimetic practice in drawing. However, this mimetic practice goes beyond
duality, imitation, and representation. This article explores the triangular relationship
between the fieldworker, the subject drawn, and the drawing.
Organisation(s): Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Journal: Anthropology and Humanism
Volume: 46
Pages: 81-94
No. of pages: 14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12325
Publication date: 2021
Peer reviewed: Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012: 504008 Ethnography, 504009 Ethnology
Keywords
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Anthropology, Philosophy, Literature and Literary Theory
Portal url: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/a891eb59-2a18-4235-844f-b738fa30e154