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In Whose Name?
This series was solicited and composed by Sander Hölsgens, and went through an internal graduate student peer review process prior to publication. Hölsgens' res... More
What Is an Interruption? An Interview with Lisa Stevenson
Sander Hölsgens: “Looking Away” (Stevenson 2020) opens and ends with a narrative description of a portrait of a woman named Kautaq Joseph. What is it about imag... More
The Porosity of Film: A Review of Yi Cui’s Of Shadows
Distributor Icarus Films writes that Yi Cui's Of Shadows (2016) juxtaposes “the rural and the urban, the grassroot and the official, the state and the local, th... More
The Margins of a Home: A Review of Familienleben
Some bodies run toward loud noises. Others flee from such sounds, running away as fast as they can. Rosa Hannah Ziegler’s Familienleben (2018) incites attentio... More
Sketching Visual Anthropology: An Interview with Illustrator Judit Ferencz
In I Swear I Saw This, Michael Taussig (2011) chronicles his travels in Colombia through his mostly colorless drawings. He writes that he is “not much of a dr... More
Beyond the Either-Or: An Interview with Patrick Eisenlohr
Sander Hölsgens: What brought you to Mauritius, and how did you familiarize yourself with Muslim devotional practices? Patrick Eisenlohr: Mauritius is a most fa... More
Sonic Registers and Observational Techniques: A Review of Linefork
Sound precedes most imagery and all meaning: it causes trajectories and orientations to rebound, as though its resonance and timbre mark affective and atmosph... More
Deserts of Polyphonic Longing: A Review of El Mar La Mar
The world appears tranquil at its edges. There, on the radiating borders between this and that, there’s a slight fog, or the thinnest of desert dust: almost f... More
Where the Image Takes Us: An Interview with the Golden Snail Team
Sander Holsgens: “Golden Snail Opera” is visceral, affective, textural. You call it a more-than human performance. This ecological interest opens up to a layere... More
Screening Room: Griot
Last winter, Cultural Anthropology and the Visual and New Media Review had the opportunity to screen Collecting in the Collection: 46 Inuit Artifacts in the Ber... More