The Living Camera in the Ritual Landscape: The Teachers of the Tatuutsi Maxakwaxi School, the Wixárika Ancestors, and the <i>Teiwari</i> Negotiate Videography
In this article, we outline the meanings modern Wixárika institutions, such as the school and the museum, may receive as parts of ritual landscape and how the community-based videos shot in the context of these institutions may increase our understanding of ritual landscapes in general. We discuss h...
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| description | In this article, we outline the meanings modern Wixárika institutions, such as the school and the museum, may receive as parts of ritual landscape and how the community-based videos shot in the context of these institutions may increase our understanding of ritual landscapes in general. We discuss how ritual landscape can be researched using community-based documentary video art in a way that takes the ontological conceptions of the human and non-human relations of the community seriously. In this case, we understand community-based video art as artistic research in which the work is produced with the community for the community. The making of art, discussed in this article, is a bodily activity as it includes walking with a camera in the Wixárika ritual landscape, interviewing people for the camera, and documenting the work and rituals of the pupils, teachers, and the mara’akate (shaman-priests) planning the community-based museum. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-93ebc4be4da441b187cbd90cbd63afc02025-02-02T00:08:11ZengSciendoJournal of Ethnology and Folkloristics1736-65182228-09872017-06-01111396410.1515/jef-2017-0004158The Living Camera in the Ritual Landscape: The Teachers of the Tatuutsi Maxakwaxi School, the Wixárika Ancestors, and the <i>Teiwari</i> Negotiate VideographyLea Kantonen0Pekka Kantonen1University of the Arts HelsinkiUniversity of the Arts HelsinkiIn this article, we outline the meanings modern Wixárika institutions, such as the school and the museum, may receive as parts of ritual landscape and how the community-based videos shot in the context of these institutions may increase our understanding of ritual landscapes in general. We discuss how ritual landscape can be researched using community-based documentary video art in a way that takes the ontological conceptions of the human and non-human relations of the community seriously. In this case, we understand community-based video art as artistic research in which the work is produced with the community for the community. The making of art, discussed in this article, is a bodily activity as it includes walking with a camera in the Wixárika ritual landscape, interviewing people for the camera, and documenting the work and rituals of the pupils, teachers, and the mara’akate (shaman-priests) planning the community-based museum.https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/244Wixárikadeified ancestorscommunity museumcommunity-based artvideography |
| spellingShingle | Lea Kantonen Pekka Kantonen The Living Camera in the Ritual Landscape: The Teachers of the Tatuutsi Maxakwaxi School, the Wixárika Ancestors, and the <i>Teiwari</i> Negotiate Videography Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics Wixárika deified ancestors community museum community-based art videography |
| title | The Living Camera in the Ritual Landscape: The Teachers of the Tatuutsi Maxakwaxi School, the Wixárika Ancestors, and the <i>Teiwari</i> Negotiate Videography |
| title_full | The Living Camera in the Ritual Landscape: The Teachers of the Tatuutsi Maxakwaxi School, the Wixárika Ancestors, and the <i>Teiwari</i> Negotiate Videography |
| title_fullStr | The Living Camera in the Ritual Landscape: The Teachers of the Tatuutsi Maxakwaxi School, the Wixárika Ancestors, and the <i>Teiwari</i> Negotiate Videography |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Living Camera in the Ritual Landscape: The Teachers of the Tatuutsi Maxakwaxi School, the Wixárika Ancestors, and the <i>Teiwari</i> Negotiate Videography |
| title_short | The Living Camera in the Ritual Landscape: The Teachers of the Tatuutsi Maxakwaxi School, the Wixárika Ancestors, and the <i>Teiwari</i> Negotiate Videography |
| title_sort | living camera in the ritual landscape the teachers of the tatuutsi maxakwaxi school the wixarika ancestors and the i teiwari i negotiate videography |
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