Loyola Ethnographic Theatre (LET)
About LET
It is an alternative means of presenting scholarly results for an audience. Medium of ‘film’ as part of early ethnography. Use of visual technologies for collecting raw input for rating or coding – like the note-making in the field. In other words, it is an ensembling of technologies in recording & editing – for presentation.
Its advantages over note-making are:
Audiovisual inscriptions may be reviewed by multiple observers that were not present when the events transpired.
The inscriptions may be stored.
Event records may be re-analyzed and retrieved by future generations of researchers.
Ethnography is a qualitative method began in early 20th cent., in Social Anthropology. A reaction against positivism. Emphasis on interpretative methodology, in terms of meaning adequacy. Thorough description of a particular stratum of the social world.
Vision
LET seeks to generate Social awareness through short films, conduct Video ethnography workshop, creating socially relevant short films to make a video library.