The Third Eye - 9780822318347

The Third EyeRace, Cinema, and Ethnographic Spectacle\nAuthor(s): Fatimah Tobing Rony\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822318347, 978-0822318347\nSynopsis\nCharting the intersection of technology and ideology, cultural production and social science, Fatimah Tobing Rony explores early-twentieth-century representations of non-Western indigenous peoples in films ranging from the documentary to the spectacular to the scientific. Turning the gaze of the ethnographic camera back onto itself, bringing the perspective of a third eye to bear on the invention of the primitive other, Rony reveals the collaboration of anthropology and popular culture in Western constructions of race, gender, nation, and empire. Her work demonstrates the significance of these constructions-and, more generally, of ethnographic cinema-for understanding issues of identity.\nIn films as seemingly dissimilar as Nanook of the North, King Ko.