What is it about?
Based on research using ethnographic film this article explores how cultural critique is triggered and documents how local notions of traditional culture, known as kastom in Solomon Pijin, are contested.
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Why is it important?
The article shows both how film may be used to trigger cultural critique and how the local concepts of traditional culture or custom are contested, underlining that these are not fixed categories but undergo constant change and discussion.
Perspectives
With this article I hope to contribute to further developing ideas about how ethnographic film may be used in anthropological research .I also hope that it contributes to a form of cultural critique that essentialist tendencies to treat social phenomena as fixed and unchanging.
Professor Peter Ian Crawford
UiT Norges arktiske universitet
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This page is a summary of: Contesting Kastom: Moments of Cultural Critique in the Reef Islands Ethnographic Film Project, Visual Anthropology, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/08949468.2018.1497336.
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