What is it about?
Collaborative art is a valuable ethnographic tool. Using the creation of a monoprint depicting memories of a Chilean exile, I show that the process entailed a dynamic and interactive series of events that triggered more memories and reflections on exile to both the exile and the artist/ethnographer.
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Why is it important?
This chapter matters because it presents the experience of long-term exile, a subject to which ethnographers have no access through traditional methods. Art making provides a venue and language to imagine the past and to share it. It also provides the unique perspective of the author--a trained visual artist, and anthropologist--who examines the subject from the prism of these disciplines.
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I wrote this chapter from my dual perspective as a visual artist and as an ethnographer. It was a creative and satisfying experience to present a study using my knowledge and training in the fields of visual art and cultural anthropology.
Lydia Nakashima Degarrod
California College of the Arts
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This page is a summary of: Exile, the sorrow of time and place, March 2016, Manchester University Press,
DOI: 10.7228/manchester/9780719085055.003.0004.
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