ANTHR 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Skimmed Milk, Code-Switching, Latte
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Many and the one- the film that he made about his grandmother, he filmed it in the last year of her life. We aim to focus on the gestures, the pauses, the things that are being said. The one and the many, many is the one but one is also the many. The gestures are bringing her back to the past, she thinks over her memories. This movie is about self, and this relates to the one. The relationship that is the most special is between the grandchild and the grandparents. It is crazy how there is an intergenerational leap- there is a huge difference between us and them, the times that we are experiencing. True ethnographic listening- form of attention, making a connection. She is reliving her past; she associates the smell of that perfume with that memory still. as well technology that externalizes it.
