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Papers by Metje Postma

Social Anthropology, 2018

Data management in anthropology: the next phase in ethics governance? Recent demands for accounta... more Data management in anthropology: the next phase in ethics governance? Recent demands for accountability in 'data management' by funding agencies, universities, international journals and other academic institutions have worried many anthropologists and ethnographers. While their demands for transparency and integrity in opening up data for scrutiny seem to enhance scientific integrity, such principles do not always consider the way the social relationships of research are properly maintained. As a springboard, the present Forum, triggered by such recent demands to account for the use of 'data', discusses the present state of anthropological research and academic ethics/integrity in a broader perspective. It specifically gives voice to our disciplinary concerns and leads to a principled statement that clarifies a particularly ethnographic position. This position is then discussed by several commentators who treat its viability and necessity against the background of wider developments in anthropology-sustaining the original insight that in ethnography, research materials have been coproduced before they become commoditised into 'data'. Finally, in moving beyond such a position, the Forum broadens the issue to the point where other methodologies and forms of ownership of research materials will also need consideration.

Reflecting Visual Ethnography. Research School …, 2006

Published in: Postma & Crawford, 2006, Reflecting Visual Ethnography, using the camera in... more Published in: Postma & Crawford, 2006, Reflecting Visual Ethnography, using the camera in anthropological research, Leiden, CNWS & Hojberg, Intervention Press

Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography

Social Anthropology

uninhabitable.'' This is a point to which she does not return sufficiently in her analyses of eac... more uninhabitable.'' This is a point to which she does not return sufficiently in her analyses of each genre, so that when she returns to it in the conclusion, the reader is left as unclear as she seems to be. What are these other stereotypes? Do they not still exist on more retrograde programs? How does each kind of program render them uninhabitable? She does not address these questions clearly enough for each kind of program, perhaps because her analyses reveal an ambivalence toward these stereotypes in the various series. More time may be necessary in order to determine the impact these programs will have on media portrayals of women, some of which have only very recently ended.

Reflecting Visual Ethnography, 2006

In this chapter the autor reflects on the productionprocess of her documentary: Of Men and Mares,... more In this chapter the autor reflects on the productionprocess of her documentary: Of Men and Mares, which was published in 1998. The emphasis is on how ethnographic understanding and descriptive aims were translated into the narrative structure and selection-criteria during the editingprocess of the documentary.

Visual Anthropology, 2008

In the study of South African cinema, film history and the history of social processes of represe... more In the study of South African cinema, film history and the history of social processes of representation and their relation to existing identities should not be neglected if one wants to understand present-day South African relations with modernity. This statement does much ...