Chistyakova, V. O. Scientific Knowledge in the Format of a Festival: Experience of the Ethnographic Cinema Days in Moscow

Abstract: The article casts light on the major results of a so far short experience of the festival of audio visual anthropology called The Ethnographic Cinema Days, as well as the tasks it solves. The world science has accumulated plenty of audio visual methodological and theoretical materials which is actively used in teaching and researching. However, visual anthropology performs an auxiliary function, at its best, in the Russian academic environment. It prompted in 2009 the Russian Institute of Cultural Studies to come forward with an initiative to arrange an annual cinematographic festival of audio visual anthropology The Ethnographic Cinema Days aimed at solving important tasks in theory and practice.

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