The Third Figure: The Creation of Intersubjectivity in Ethnographic Drawing

Autor(en)

Jasamin Kashanipour

Abstrakt

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 follows 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(en)

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

Journal

Anthropology and Humanism

Band

46

Seiten

266-278

ISSN

1559-9167

Publikationsdatum

07-2021

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504008 Ethnographie, 504009 Ethnologie

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/806eb55d-6865-473d-886d-0fa1b4673999