Indigenous Film Flashcards
1
Q
What is Salvage Ethnography?
A
It is an attempt to document the practices of cultures facing extinction of a factor such as assimilation.
2
Q
How does the Other fit in Salvage Ethnography film
A
It often portrays subjects as the exoticized Other, and the Other can be understood as disempowered through this opposition
3
Q
What are stereotypes in Nanook of the North?
A
The “happy-go-lucky Eskimo” or the “noble savage”
4
Q
Who is the Other in Nanook for the North?
A
the Inuit are rendered as the Other
