“世界憎恨真相”

IF 2 1区 社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY
Brian C. Smithson
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摘要

对于贝宁的电影制作人来说,虚假信息代表的是道德危机,而不是真相。根据我与贝宁共和国Nàgó (Yorùbá)合作伙伴制作电影的经验,我展示了他们如何采用技巧:制作视听媒体的实用技术,以推进创作者的议程。这些技术要求创造者将技术与道德技巧分离开来——他们的生产技巧必须服务于传达真理的道德要求,这是一种基于土著宗教逻辑的要求。贝宁的创作者模仿尼日利亚的诺莱坞电影,尽管他们抵制这些电影将土著宗教描绘成欺骗性的倾向。在这样做的过程中,他们采用了一种“表面主义”的视觉认识论,其中熟练的制造者专注于表面图像,以尊重和安全地展示土著宗教。这些技巧将电影制作变成了一种宗教赞美行为,一种促进土著宗教和传达道德真理的行为。
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“The world hates the truth”

“The world hates the truth”

“The world hates the truth”

“The world hates the truth”

For Beninese moviemakers, disinformation represents a crisis of morality, not truth. Drawing on my experience producing a movie with Nàgó (Yorùbá) partners in the Republic of Benin, I show how they embrace artifice: practical techniques for creating audiovisual media that advance their creators’ agenda. These techniques demand that creators separate technical from moral artifice—their production skills must serve the moral imperative to convey truth, an imperative grounded in Indigenous religious logics. Beninese creators emulate Nigeria's Nollywood movies, even as they resist those movies’ tendency to portray Indigenous religions as deceptive. In doing so, they adopt a visual epistemology of “surfacism,” wherein skilled fabricators concentrate on surface images to show Indigenous religions respectfully and safely. These techniques turn moviemaking into an act of religious praise, one that promotes Indigenous religions and conveys moral truths.

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American Ethnologist
American Ethnologist ANTHROPOLOGY-
CiteScore
2.40
自引率
8.70%
发文量
60
期刊介绍: American Ethnologist is a quarterly journal concerned with ethnology in the broadest sense of the term. Articles published in the American Ethnologist elucidate the connections between ethnographic specificity and theoretical originality, and convey the ongoing relevance of the ethnographic imagination to the contemporary world.
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