Ethnographic Experiences and Intercultural Research Using Photo Chronologies and Ethno Photographs in the Central Market of Montes Claros-MG

Abstract

This article seeks to highlight the anthropological experiments carried out by students who took the subject “Ethnographic Experiences and Intercultural Research”, taught by professors Felisa Cançado Anaya, Alexsânder Nakaóka Elias and Fábio Dias dos Santos, together with “ Postgraduate Program in Social Development” (PPGDS) at the State University of Montes Claros (Unimontes-MG). The course's syllabus included immersion in classic ethnographic research and also bibliographies focused on the field of Audiovisual Anthropology and Image, focusing debates on intercultural practices and dialogues, dealing with ways of life, knowledge, traditional agroecological agricultural systems, environmental threats and conflicts. We present the construction of a visual photographic narrative, based on the periodical “Fotocronografias” (PPGAS/UFRGS) and other proposals verbal-visual theoretical-methodological (Bateson and Mead, 1942; Warburg, 1929; etc.), based on an ethnographic experimentation (field experience) carried out via a collective outing held at the Municipal Market of Montes Claros-MG. This article will present some works resulting from these ethnographic experiments in the market. It brings, in a more systematic way, reflections on the images of the ethnographic essay, captured by Natália whose title was O Observador e o Observado.