텔레비전 다큐멘터리의 영상인류학과 식민주의 시선의 재현에 대한 문화 연구

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This study attempts to examine visual meaning of anthropological documentaries aired as TV programs, which are newly produced in South Korea. These TV programs try to demonstrate exotic lives of people who live in the hinterlands of the world. They present ‘primitiveness’ in as extreme a manner as possible. The motivations for emphasizing primitiveness in Korean television programs are related to social changes in Korea. In the recent past, multiculturalism was adopted as a cultural policy and Korean society has become more seriously committed to the acknowledgement of other ethnicities’ cultures; as a result, anthropological interests have been disseminated throughout the society accordingly. By applying the methods of visual anthropology to analyze a subset of television programs made during 2010 for a one year period time, this study found that Korean television programs bring back the perspectives employed by colonial anthropologists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The visual representation of ‘primitive lives’ shown in 19th century photography and 21th century Korean TV programs parallel each other, despite the geographical and technological differences.

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