The presentation "Audio-Visual Documentation and Preservation of Ethnographic Data" was made at National Workshop on Techniques of Documentation and Preservation in Anthropological Museum sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology under the DBT, Star College Scheme on 25th and 26th September,2019 at Department of Anthropology of Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati.

1. Audio-Visual Documentation and
Preservation of Ethnographic Data
ANKURAN DUTTA
Associate Prof. & Head, DCJ, Gauhati University
Managing Trustee, Dr Anamika Ray Memorial Trust

2. This presentation is dedicated to
Dr. Anamika Ray

3. Characteristics of Ethnographic Data
 Carried out and collect in a
natural setting
 Data reflects on participants’
perspectives
 Uses the concept of culture
as a lens to interpret data
 Investigates a small number
of cases, in detail
 Offers a representation of a
person’s life and behaviour
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4. Understanding Media
Media: The Extension of
Man
Medium is the Message
Media Hot and Cold
Journey from Folk media
to New media
Media reach and target
audience
Media critic
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5. Audio Visual Media
An electronic media
possessing both a sound and
a visual component
Multimedia - a combination of
different content forms such
as text, audio, images,
animations, video and
interactive content
Blended approach
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6. Audio Documentation
 Feel the silence
 Speed of Sound
 Sound makes Pictures
Sound has a rhythm
 Radio as a potent tool
 It speaks to individual
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7. Role of Community Radio
 Community radio matters:
Voices of the voiceless
 Most vibrant tool for
ethnographic data
preservation and
dissemination
 Beauty of Community Radio
 It reaches the unreached
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8. Visual Documentation
 Visual documentation about an
ethnographic data may include historic
photographs, photo features, process
documentation, footages, moving images
etc.
 Process documentation is documenting of
materials that show the steps and tools
used to complete a task
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9. Ethnographic Documentary
 Ethnographic film is the visual
manifestation of anthropological practice
organized into a lineal and moving
media
 Robert J. Flaherty is considered to be
the forefather of ethnographic film.
 He is most famous for his 1922 film
Nanook of the North.
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10. Audio Visual Documentation Process
Pre
production
Production
Post
production
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11. Digital Preservation
 Social Media
 Photo Storage Sites-
 SmugMug.
 Amazon Prime Photos.
 Pixpa.
 Flickr.
 500px.
 Photobucket.
 Canon Irista.
 Dropbox.
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 Video Storage Sites-
 YouTube
 Vimeo
 Break
 Dailymotion
 Facebook
 Liveleak
 Twitch
 Cloud Storage Providers