Visual Research and Indonesian Ethnography: Beyond Description

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Series editors' foreword
Note
Introduction: the place of visuals in anthropological research
Some principles of visual anthropology
The scope of visual anthropology
Locating the visual data
Part I: Visual research projects
1. Microcultural incidents in Minangkabau children's emotion behavior
Kilek jo bayang—the Minangkabau pattern of indirection
Engagement
Videotaping versus pencil and notebook records
Choosing the children
The goal of naturalistic observation
Return to Eva, the first girl
Eva's emotion world
The second older girl: Reni
Nasrul, a naughty boy
Reni's emotion world
Summary after two children: naughty stupid children
Older girl #3: Derwita
The fourth older girl: Murni
The first older boy: Indra
Conclusions
Addendum: the subjects and the schedule of visits
The visits
Microcultural incidents embedded in ethnographic films
2. Dead Birds revisited: rethinking emotion in a New Guinea Dani funeral
The boy's funeral
3. Comparing styles of teaching and learning in some South Carolina and West Sumatra kindergartens: video-cued multivocalic ethnography (by Karl G. Heider and Louise Jennings)
Introduction
Tobin et al.
The research schedule
The year 2000
The year 2000–2001
The year 2001
Multivocalic analysis: comparing US and Indonesian kindergartens
The researchers' view
From Heider, the anthropologist
From Jennings, the school ethnographer
The University of South Carolina students react to the Indonesian tapes
Department of Anthropology
School of Education
The two American kindergarten teachers react to the Indonesian tapes
Indonesian teachers from each of the three schools react to the American tapes
The two focus groups of Indonesian kindergarten teachers from Padang react to the Indonesian tapes
The American tapes
Discussion
Individualism and groupism
4. Three styles of play: New Guinea Dani, Central Java, and Micronesia
The rules of the game: a formal description
Variation 1
Variation 2
Variation 3
The translation
Competition
Quantification
Casualness
Discussion
The Javanese game
The Micronesian game
5. Nonverbal studies of Dani anger and sexual expression: experimental method in videotape ethnography
The expression of anger
The elicitations
The results
The expression of sexual anxiety
The Facial Expression Reaction Test
The stimuli
The subjects
The test administration
Analysis of the videotape record
The results
Appendix 1. Eliciting phrases for six basic emotions in Grand Valley and Western Dani
Appendix 2. The Facial Expression Reaction Test stimuli. (N = neutral, E = erotic. The neutral A set alternated with the neutral B set in first and third positions in the testing.)
Notes
Part II: Exploring Indonesian cinema
6. National cinema, national culture
Salah Asuhan: the Minangkabau who are not Minangkabau
Putri Giok: The Chinese Indonesian who are not Chinese
Note
7. Analyzing emotion in scenes from Indonesian cinema
The ethnography of emotion
Methodology
Analysis
Choosing the scenes
National culture, national emotion?
SCENE 1 The father hears his son praised
Rethinking the emotions of the drama
SCENE 2 The ex-girlfriend confronts the present girlfriend
The analysis
Discussion
Rethinking the emotions of the drama
SCENE 3. The lovers are interrupted by her little brother
Analysis
Rethinking the emotions of the drama
SCENE 4. The young man rejects his cousin
The analysis
Discussion
Rethinking the emotions of this scene
SCENE 5. The bridegroom explodes at the wedding
Analysis
Rethinking the emotions of the drama
SCENE 6. Raphia and Ibu read Hanafi's letter
Analysis
Rethinking the emotions of this drama
SCENE 7. Hanafi abases himself before his mother
Analysis
SCENE 8. The servant sends the mistress to her death
Analysis
Rethinking the emotion of the drama
SCENE 9. Fitria announces her engagement
Analysis
Rethinking the emotions of the drama
SCENE 10. The mother unjustly punishes her son
Analysis
Rethinking the emotions of the drama
Conclusions
8. Culture and cinema in Indonesia: Teguh Karya's Doea Tanda Mata
Indonesian cinema
Film as an agent of change
Film as history
Film as art
Film as cultural text
Structure
Theme
Motifs
9. Banana peels: visual conventions in Indonesian movies
10. Anger in Indonesian cinema
Anger and political discourse
Anger in Indonesian movies
11. Order and disorder in Indonesian genre films and national politics
Appendix: Other uses of visuals: fragments and suggestions
Excerpt one
Above the fold: early 20th century front page anger
Visualizing anger above the fold
Excerpt two
Still photographs
Minangkabau houses, Minangkabau identity
The grand Valley Dani pig feast
Visualizing emotions in Minangkabau figurative speech
Excerpt three
Life story: Dr Mochtar Naim
Excerpt four
Ethnographic shorts
Combining ethnographic shorts: embodied styles of learning and teaching in Java and Bali
Bibliography
Index