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Annie Tucker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • standing on the edge of a thorn stigmatization social violence and sex work in central java
    2021
    Co-Authors: Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker
    Abstract:

    The ethnographic film Standing on the Edge of a Thorn, which focuses on a central Javanese family, applies visual Psychological Anthropology methods to investigate ecological, cultural, and familial contexts for stigmatization and social violence. Over ten years in the making, the film explores how disparate but cascading vulnerabilities of mental illness, poverty, and gendered mores for courtship, marriage, and sexual behavior become intertwined with individual development and family dynamics over two generations. This leaves each individual member of the family, and the family as a unit, at risk. Mother, father, and daughter have different perspectives on the conundrums and contradictions they are faced with, including pregnancy out of wedlock, community marriage (nikah siri), involuntary sex work, vigilante justice and rape, parental abandonment, and the risk of sex trafficking.

  • visual Psychological Anthropology implications for teaching and the future
    2017
    Co-Authors: Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker
    Abstract:

    The book concludes with recommendations for the dissemination of visual Psychological Anthropology and its use in Psychological Anthropology pedagogy, public presentations for colleagues and specialists, and the wider digital public sphere. The chapter puts forth some potential directions and prospects for a visual Psychological Anthropology, gesturing toward the challenges and opportunities ahead for an ethnographic film that is resonant and integrated with the methods and insights of contemporary Psychological Anthropology.

  • visual Psychological Anthropology a vignette and prospectus
    2017
    Co-Authors: Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker
    Abstract:

    The chapter proposes that ethnographic film can be a meaningful method in Psychological Anthropology, specifically recommending adapting the technique of person-centered ethnography to visual Psychological Anthropology (VPA). VPA can be used to create films that are character-focused, affective, and experience near, rendering internal and intersubjective worlds in a culturally contextualized manner. VPA can faithfully depict the subjective experience of mental illness specifically by de-emphasizing diagnosis and symptomatology in favor of emotion and character development. Calling upon the six-part Afflictions series, the first documentary series about mental illness in the developing world, as an example of VPA, the chapter introduces the films to be discussed throughout the book: The Bird Dancer, Kites and Monsters, Family Victim, Ritual Burdens, Memory of My Face, and Shadows and Illuminations.

  • visual Psychological Anthropology and the lived experience of disability
    2017
    Co-Authors: Annie Tucker, Robert Lemelson
    Abstract:

    Ethnographic film is a powerful medium currently under-used and under-theorised in Psychological Anthropology and the cross-cultural study of disability. Using a process oriented analysis of The Bird Dancer, an ethnographic film about a Balinese woman with Tourette syndrome, this chapter provides a novel exploration of how anthropologists can render the lived experience of disability onscreen, capturing and communicating both the richness of the lives of people with disabilities and the sociocultural dynamics that limit them. A reflective consideration of the key narrative strategies used in the film illustrates how critical disability concepts can be applied in transnational contexts by combining visual and Psychological Anthropology methodologies. The insights offered have implications for educational and translational documentary film and the cross-cultural study of disability.

  • the process of visual Psychological Anthropology
    2017
    Co-Authors: Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker
    Abstract:

    Moving through the filmmaking phases of preproduction, production, and postproduction, this chapter answers “how to” questions from theoretical, practical, and personal perspectives, using the Afflictions films as examples. It covers risks and benefits of different filmmaking methodologies, proposes techniques that espouse Psychological Anthropology’s theories of culture, and details effective visual storytelling strategies. Topics covered include conceptualizing an “emergent” ethnographic film; practicalities in prepping and shooting; data management; adapting person-centered ethnography to get intimate material; evoking emotion across cultural differences in self-presentation; shooting B-roll and re-enactments; using diverse stylistic devices to evoke internal and cultural worlds; transcription and translation; the use of voice-over; sound design and soundtracks; seeking feedback and participation from film participants; and understanding film and writing as complementary modes of inquiry and analysis.

Robert Lemelson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • standing on the edge of a thorn stigmatization social violence and sex work in central java
    2021
    Co-Authors: Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker
    Abstract:

    The ethnographic film Standing on the Edge of a Thorn, which focuses on a central Javanese family, applies visual Psychological Anthropology methods to investigate ecological, cultural, and familial contexts for stigmatization and social violence. Over ten years in the making, the film explores how disparate but cascading vulnerabilities of mental illness, poverty, and gendered mores for courtship, marriage, and sexual behavior become intertwined with individual development and family dynamics over two generations. This leaves each individual member of the family, and the family as a unit, at risk. Mother, father, and daughter have different perspectives on the conundrums and contradictions they are faced with, including pregnancy out of wedlock, community marriage (nikah siri), involuntary sex work, vigilante justice and rape, parental abandonment, and the risk of sex trafficking.

  • visual Psychological Anthropology implications for teaching and the future
    2017
    Co-Authors: Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker
    Abstract:

    The book concludes with recommendations for the dissemination of visual Psychological Anthropology and its use in Psychological Anthropology pedagogy, public presentations for colleagues and specialists, and the wider digital public sphere. The chapter puts forth some potential directions and prospects for a visual Psychological Anthropology, gesturing toward the challenges and opportunities ahead for an ethnographic film that is resonant and integrated with the methods and insights of contemporary Psychological Anthropology.

  • visual Psychological Anthropology a vignette and prospectus
    2017
    Co-Authors: Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker
    Abstract:

    The chapter proposes that ethnographic film can be a meaningful method in Psychological Anthropology, specifically recommending adapting the technique of person-centered ethnography to visual Psychological Anthropology (VPA). VPA can be used to create films that are character-focused, affective, and experience near, rendering internal and intersubjective worlds in a culturally contextualized manner. VPA can faithfully depict the subjective experience of mental illness specifically by de-emphasizing diagnosis and symptomatology in favor of emotion and character development. Calling upon the six-part Afflictions series, the first documentary series about mental illness in the developing world, as an example of VPA, the chapter introduces the films to be discussed throughout the book: The Bird Dancer, Kites and Monsters, Family Victim, Ritual Burdens, Memory of My Face, and Shadows and Illuminations.

  • visual Psychological Anthropology and the lived experience of disability
    2017
    Co-Authors: Annie Tucker, Robert Lemelson
    Abstract:

    Ethnographic film is a powerful medium currently under-used and under-theorised in Psychological Anthropology and the cross-cultural study of disability. Using a process oriented analysis of The Bird Dancer, an ethnographic film about a Balinese woman with Tourette syndrome, this chapter provides a novel exploration of how anthropologists can render the lived experience of disability onscreen, capturing and communicating both the richness of the lives of people with disabilities and the sociocultural dynamics that limit them. A reflective consideration of the key narrative strategies used in the film illustrates how critical disability concepts can be applied in transnational contexts by combining visual and Psychological Anthropology methodologies. The insights offered have implications for educational and translational documentary film and the cross-cultural study of disability.

  • the process of visual Psychological Anthropology
    2017
    Co-Authors: Robert Lemelson, Annie Tucker
    Abstract:

    Moving through the filmmaking phases of preproduction, production, and postproduction, this chapter answers “how to” questions from theoretical, practical, and personal perspectives, using the Afflictions films as examples. It covers risks and benefits of different filmmaking methodologies, proposes techniques that espouse Psychological Anthropology’s theories of culture, and details effective visual storytelling strategies. Topics covered include conceptualizing an “emergent” ethnographic film; practicalities in prepping and shooting; data management; adapting person-centered ethnography to get intimate material; evoking emotion across cultural differences in self-presentation; shooting B-roll and re-enactments; using diverse stylistic devices to evoke internal and cultural worlds; transcription and translation; the use of voice-over; sound design and soundtracks; seeking feedback and participation from film participants; and understanding film and writing as complementary modes of inquiry and analysis.

Lesley Jo Weaver - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • culture bound syndromes idioms of distress and cultural concepts of distress new directions for an old concept in Psychological Anthropology
    Transcultural Psychiatry, 2019
    Co-Authors: Bonnie N Kaiser, Lesley Jo Weaver
    Abstract:

    This issue of Transcultural Psychiatry showcases some recent work on idioms of distress – the latest in a long line of anthropological research concerned with cross-cultural concepts and experiences of distress. Mark Nichter’s (1981) seminal paper introducing idioms of distress has become a cynosure for Psychological Anthropology and transcultural psychiatry. A growing body of work has since accumulated; however, the last time a collection of such research was brought together was the 2010 publication of a special issue in the journal Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry organized by Devon Hinton and Roberto Lewis-Fernandez. In the decade since, new questions have arisen about the boundaries and applications of idioms of distress research. In this introduction, we provide a brief history of work on idioms of distress and related concepts. Then, we introduce several major themes explored by the papers in this special issue.

Bonnie N Kaiser - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • culture bound syndromes idioms of distress and cultural concepts of distress new directions for an old concept in Psychological Anthropology
    Transcultural Psychiatry, 2019
    Co-Authors: Bonnie N Kaiser, Lesley Jo Weaver
    Abstract:

    This issue of Transcultural Psychiatry showcases some recent work on idioms of distress – the latest in a long line of anthropological research concerned with cross-cultural concepts and experiences of distress. Mark Nichter’s (1981) seminal paper introducing idioms of distress has become a cynosure for Psychological Anthropology and transcultural psychiatry. A growing body of work has since accumulated; however, the last time a collection of such research was brought together was the 2010 publication of a special issue in the journal Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry organized by Devon Hinton and Roberto Lewis-Fernandez. In the decade since, new questions have arisen about the boundaries and applications of idioms of distress research. In this introduction, we provide a brief history of work on idioms of distress and related concepts. Then, we introduce several major themes explored by the papers in this special issue.

Senécal-lirette Véronique - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.