Kalanda - The Knowledge of the Bush
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
: B - Social Anthropology
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies : B - Social Anthropology
- Output identifier
- 185711700
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- A collection of critical work
- Open access status
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- Month
- March
- Year
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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https://vimeo.com/62063224/7fce37e981
- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SoSS
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is a multi-component output comprising a film and an article. The documentary Kalanda premiered in March 2015 at the World Film Festival, Estonia (http://worldfilm.ee/screenings-1-2015). It is on apprenticeship among initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso. The research issue inspiring the film was identifying the constituents of the hunters' knowledge from the perspective of an apprentice, and representing their embodied components without relying exclusively on discursive means. The film was produced during a year of fieldwork through a collaborative process that involved the filmmaker in the role of student and the hunters in the roles of teachers. The film contributes to debates on sensuous knowledge and embodied ways of knowing. Among its findings are the role of skills, in particular perceptual and kinaesthetic ones, in the formation of the group identity of initiated hunters. Kalanda also represents a methodological contribution to a reflexive approach to films that puts the researcher’s experience at the centre but stresses interaction and intersubjectivity. This is explored in the article submitted with the film, “Enactive Filmmaking”. Inspired by Feld's dialogic editing (1987) and Rouch's shared anthropology (1979), the film is structured in three layers, each connected by a process of screening and feedback. Dialogic editing was used to evoke the skilled perception of the hunters in the bush, while a collaborative process was indispensable to put in place a narrative structure that makes extended use of enactments. The result is a unique mix of reflexivity, sensory ethnography and narrative, which was acknowledged by reviewers, film festival juries and audiences. The film has been screened since 2015 at many events, including international academic conferences and film festivals, and is distributed online through video-on-demand, in addition to being included in the RAI film collection and distributed to institutions by Alexander Street (a Proquest company).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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