“土著影像”与后殖民时代的影像民族志

Aboriginal Images and the Documentary Ethnography in Post-colonial Era

以自传式纪录片为载体的"土著影像",是20世纪60年代由美国人类学者索尔·沃斯和约翰·阿代尔进行"纳瓦霍人电影计划"之后,在世界范围内蓬勃发展起来的土著文化自我表述和"影像赋权"。土著族群自我表达、自我呈现的"影像民族志",根本性地改写了民族志电影作者与被拍摄对象之间的关系,在一定程度上消除了影像创作的文化殖民霸权,产生了更为深入、具有丰富阐释价值的影像文本,在当代视觉人类学的发展过程中占有无可替代的重要地位。

Navaha Film Project initiated by American Anthropologist Sol Worth promotecl the idea and the practice of Bio-Documentary among the American native people. It helps the aboriginals to produce their own images to reach the goal of empowerment via filming and created a new pattern of de-colonization in the field of discourse in the post-colonial era.