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Uncanny strangers.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Ethnographic video online, volume 2.
- Ethnographic video online, volume 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marine resources conservation--Madagascar.
- Ancestor worship--Madagascar.
- Hospitality industry--Madagascar.
- Tourism--Madagascar.
- Village communities--Madagascar.
- Social conditions.
- Village communities.
- Tourism.
- Hospitality industry.
- Ancestor worship.
- Marine resources conservation.
- Madagascar--Social life and customs.
- Madagascar.
- Manners and customs.
- Madagascar--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (46 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2009.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- Summary:
- Uncanny Strangers is a 46 min non-fiction film shot in a fishing village in South Western Madagascar. The film follows different relations between the villagers and various human and non-human strangers - ancestor and tromba spirits, Western NGO workers, ecotourists, fish collectors, cattle rustlers and the ethnographic filmmaker. Through a series of everyday life episodes, it provides insights into the ontology of these relationships and the strategies employed by the villagers to make them work for their economic and political purposes. Through its specific ethnographic focus on the 'uncanny' qualities of such relations, the film points towards more generic issues related to hospitality practice, the constitution of selves through webs of relationships with others, and forms of collaboration in emerging transnational social field such as - here - environmental action.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed Feb. 27, 2013).
- Recorded in 2006.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
- OCLC:
- 849668811
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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