Title

Folkvine.Org: Ethnographic Storytelling In Folk Art Web Design

Keywords

Aesthetics; Collaborative ethnography; Ethnographic storytelling; Hypermedia; Reflexive approaches

Abstract

This article examines an innovative website documentary project about folk art called Folkvine.org, from the perspective of ethnographic storytelling. Folkvine.org explores ways to create in the navigation structure of the site itself an enactment of the ethnographic process, and the stories of various cultures. In this article we consider the ways in which the project employs contemporary techniques for effective ethnographic storytelling such as inventiveness, persuasiveness, enacting metaphor and ethnographic process, and immersion. The article concludes with a discussion of the way Folkvine.org reflects recent changes in the role of media in creating social meaning. © 2007 by the American Anthropological Association.

Publication Date

1-1-2007

Publication Title

Visual Anthropology Review

Volume

23

Issue

2

Number of Pages

151-161

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1525/var.2007.23.2.151

Socpus ID

51249144276 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/51249144276

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