Naturalism? Siamack, what are you talking about?

Mike Yorke is senior course tutor at The Department of Anthropology at University College London. He is starting a new Masters Degree module in PRACTICAL ETHNOGRAPHIC AND DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING. My hidden motivation for meeting Mike was to see if I had found someone who supported my views that ethnographic research should be ring fenced from other types of research (observational and non-observational). As it turned out - and please watch all five clips - he made me fundamentally re-think what I did and what I thought I was doing. I am still reeling from this interview.

Oh and what a lovely guy.

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[cayeyatole]

Have you considered Dr. Donna Haraway's statement of the situatedness of knowledge. And the improbability of objectiveness. Every "vision" comes from someplace and that the camera is not a omnipresent eye of God, Foucault argues this. In addition one must be cognizant of how cameras if used incorrectly silence our interlocutors

[Ethnosnacker]

Hence use of perspectives during analysis and interpretation. Subjectivity or 'vision' isn't only a visual anthropology challenge.

[seedtofruit]

No indeed, all knowledge implies subject positions, if only because it is situated in its reproduction by humans with viewpoints and wills.

Indeed knowledge tends to be a frozen impression of an activity, and thus has implied actors, actions and relationships with externality frozen within it.