Reading Animation through the Eyes of Anthropology: A Case Study of sub-Saharan African Animation
- 24 February 2012
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Animation
- Vol. 7 (2), 113-130
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1746847712439281
Abstract
This article aims to present an argument for why anthropology could provide animation studies with a new set of critical models that move away from the dominant paradigms that currently circulate in Western academic discourse. The author discusses how these models can be drawn upon when reading animation and she utilizes supporting examples of sub-Saharan animations to promote the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to reading animation. This approach is bidirectional, flowing from anthropology to animation studies and the reverse. Where this article shows how animation theory stands to gain from anthropology, it will also illustrate how one can include animation in the visual anthropologist’s methodology.Keywords
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