The Digital Revolution and Anthropological Film
Reblogged from Savage Minds: [The following is an invited post by Jay Ruby. Jay has been exploring the relationship between cultures and pictures for the…
December, 2013
Refusing to Look Away: ‘The Act of Killing’ and the Indonesian Genocide of 1965
The following film review of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing (2013) originally appeared on Anthropology Now. In the mid 1990s I was conducting transcultural psychiatric…
Theyyam: When Gods Dance Among Men
According to Indian mythology, Parshurama, a Priest-Warrior and the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu, following a bloody campaign to annihilate the ruling Kshatriyas, flung…