abdel hernández san juan rethinking urban anthropology

 El Mercado desde Aquí: Puesta en escena y etnografía experimental. © Por Abdel Hernandez San Juan Discussing the current general situation with visual displays in the field of anthropology in USA usually limited to the representation of culture without possibilities to mise in scenes fieldwork, this paper proposes a research which coming from constructivism in sociology, retheorize a new balance to get together mise scene of fieldwork and ways to unfold in a more evocative form the anthropological representations of the culture we research. Focused about discussing a visual display of anthropology I conceived and composed after two years of individual fieldwork alone in and on the popular markets of Venezuela, the paper discuss how my previous fieldwork alone which can be the basis to many of my works between which such a display is just one of the possible outcomes, was the basis to compose such a visual display both introducing it at text of the catalogue written in anticipation...

 El Film del Equinoxio: Incidentes de Viajes.  ©Por Abdel Hernandez San Juan This paper discusses the Quetzil Eugenio film on the event of que Equinox Incidents of Travel as a film that challenged the conservative and or traditional stereotypes on ethnography and ethnographic films. Discussing the film as the textual whole composed by relations between textual and visual forms defined by sequences to offer a representation of culture, the paper discusses how the film Instead of focusing by the massive codified, archives collected and or archaeologically recognized icons of visual culture around stereotypical etnographic motives such as near close ups of codices, icons, signs or symbols of ancient visual culture opened the frame to the surrounding environment around the equinox as an event itself defined by the meeting of tourism, streets markets vendors, museum agents, community member, the museum and the archaeology monumentary zone as well as himself as anthropologist around...

  El Mercado de la Cultura Maya: Arte Maya en la tradición antigua en el campus de la universidad de Houston.  ©Por Abdel Hernandez san Juan    Quisiera centrarme nuevamente en mi concepto de elicitacion y sus posibilidades en la antropología cultural discutiendo esta vez una práctica cuyo móvil fue elicitar un setting de comunicaciones interculturales.  En 1998 Quetzil Eugenio, entonces profesor en el departamento de antropología de la Universidad de Houston sorprendió ambas cosas la escena de la antropología y la escena del campus universitario con una exposición al aire libre de lo que él define como arte moderno maya en la tradición Antigua.      La idea de desplegar al aire libre en el campus universitario un mercado me sobrecogió de inmediato precisamente porque unos meses antes había yo expuesto en el sewall hall back yard en rice university mi obra The Market from Here: Mise in Scene and Experimental Etnography la cual, si bien no era un m...