Abstract
In a Roma village of Transylvania (Romania), Western ways of distinguishing visual products in categories such as fiction, ethnographic documentary, and scientific image do not make any sense. Far from being trivial, this dissolution of Western visual categories reveals the particular way Roma conceive of the ontological categories of person, person‐image (actor), and person‐skeleton (phantom), rooted in a strong ambiguity between “being oneself” and “playing a role.” This is an ambiguity that may fade away in some ephemeral moments, when the “true” person manifests.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 361-378 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Visual Anthropology Review |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2020 |
Keywords
- Roma
- Transylvania
- filming emotions
- Ethnomusicology
- Motion capture