{"title":"Seeing, being seen, and the semiotics of perspective","authors":"Constantine V. Nakassis","doi":"10.1111/etho.12386","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Building upon work in visual studies and art history on symbolic perspective, film studies on structures of looking, and linguistic anthropology on entextualization and ideology, this article explores the semiotics of vision/visibility and perspective. In particular, I focus on ethnographic data from the cinema of Tamil Nadu, India, wherein (being seen) seeing a film image and being seen in a film image emerge as pragmatically problematic for those party to the image. In doing so, the article asks: what does it mean and do to <i>see</i> and <i>be seen by</i>, <i>look away from</i> and be <i>effaced by</i> the film image and, further, <i>see</i> or <i>be seen</i> vis-à-vis the above (seeing someone being seen in a film image, be seen looking away, etc.)?</p>","PeriodicalId":51532,"journal":{"name":"Ethos","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ethos","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/etho.12386","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ANTHROPOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Building upon work in visual studies and art history on symbolic perspective, film studies on structures of looking, and linguistic anthropology on entextualization and ideology, this article explores the semiotics of vision/visibility and perspective. In particular, I focus on ethnographic data from the cinema of Tamil Nadu, India, wherein (being seen) seeing a film image and being seen in a film image emerge as pragmatically problematic for those party to the image. In doing so, the article asks: what does it mean and do to see and be seen by, look away from and be effaced by the film image and, further, see or be seen vis-à-vis the above (seeing someone being seen in a film image, be seen looking away, etc.)?
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Ethos is an interdisciplinary and international quarterly journal devoted to scholarly articles dealing with the interrelationships between the individual and the sociocultural milieu, between the psychological disciplines and the social disciplines. The journal publishes work from a wide spectrum of research perspectives. Recent issues, for example, include papers on religion and ritual, medical practice, child development, family relationships, interactional dynamics, history and subjectivity, feminist approaches, emotion, cognitive modeling and cultural belief systems. Methodologies range from analyses of language and discourse, to ethnographic and historical interpretations, to experimental treatments and cross-cultural comparisons.
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