TITLE:
Cross-Cultural Knowledge Construction: A Case Study of a Mini Field Work in Breivang High School (Northern Norway)
AUTHORS:
Richard Atimniraye Nyelade, Dunfu Zhang
KEYWORDS:
Shared Anthropology, Knowledge Construction, Fieldwork, Camera, Na-tive
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.8 No.4,
April
14,
2020
ABSTRACT: Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology which aims at
getting insights into people’s lives through interaction and collaboration
between the researcher and the researched mediated by a camera. This study
which is based on document analysis and a two-week fieldwork in a high school,
tries to retrace the evolution of shared anthropology from the fore fathers to
its current developments and implementations. First of all, the founding
principles of anthropology contributed to the underestimation of the camera in
scientific research. Then, in the 1950s, contrary to the reifying perspectives
of the first anthropologists influenced by positivism and structuralism, Jean
Rouch orients anthropology towards a new approach by introducing the concept of
shared anthropology.