WORKSHOP - ETHNOFICTION
UK, 2013, 45 min
Johannes Sjoberg
27.01.2013 11:00
Johannes Sjoberg will present ethnofiction which is used as a complementary approach to anthropological research and representation. Ethnographer´s informants improvise their cultural knowledge in front of camera, revealing aspects of culture that would be hard to uncover and represent with traditional anthropological research methods.
The language of communication is English.
This film focuses how people share a collective sense of history through the auditory experience. dehong Tai people embrace Theravada Budhism. In ordes to live better in this world and the next, they perform dignified rituals and acquire "merit". For the rituals they spend years and save money, then they do a good deed like contribution of Budhist statues and building the bridges. chief donators commission an intellectual to write historical scriptures to hand down the good deed to posterity. It is called "Lik Yaat" in Tai and written with beautiful words and rhyme. After the cultural revolution, only a few intellectuals can create and chant "Lik Yaat" now. There is a woman, Wan Xiand-ya, who strives for the tradition of "Lik Yaat". She should be their first and last female intellectual who can write "Lik Yaat" in Tai history.
