Mumiani季节:视觉方面的南海岸肯尼亚谣言

IF 0.4 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY

Visual Anthropology Pub Date : 2023-05-19 DOI:10.1080/08949468.2023.2203295

Zebulon Dingley

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本文分析了另一种语言交际类型:谣言的视觉方面。焦点是2013年发生在肯尼亚南部沿海地区的一起公众恐慌事件，起因是“mumiani”——一群与政治有关联的团伙，据说为了获取儿童的眼睛而谋杀儿童。我认为，恐慌期间对公共形象的广泛破坏，表达了在口头谣言传播中没有说出来的mumiani想象的维度。这些被污损的图像——眼睛被划掉了——也唤起了与权力、价值和雨水有关的地域文化主题，以一种视觉形式表达了当代mumiani恐惧的内容和使这些谣言可信的历史联系。

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Mumiani Season: Visual Aspects of a South Coast Kenyan Rumor

This article analyzes visual aspects of an otherwise verbal communicative genre: rumor. The focus is an episode of public panic in southern coastal Kenya in 2013, about “mumiani”—politically connected gangs said to murder children for their eyes. I argue that widespread defacement of public images during the panic expressed dimensions of mumiani imaginaries that went unspoken in the verbal spread of rumors about them. These defaced images—the eyes of which were scratched out—also evoked regional cultural motifs relating to power, value and rain, expressing in a visual modality both the content of contemporary mumiani fears and the historical associations that make such rumors plausible.

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Visual Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Visual Anthropology is a scholarly journal presenting original articles, commentary, discussions, film reviews, and book reviews on anthropological and ethnographic topics. The journal focuses on the study of human behavior through visual means. Experts in the field also examine visual symbolic forms from a cultural-historical framework and provide a cross-cultural study of art and artifacts. Visual Anthropology also promotes the study, use, and production of anthropological and ethnographic films, videos, and photographs for research and teaching.