Elsewhere in the Belgian Congo ca. 1953: Luc de Heusch Films the Tetela-Hamba
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Publication Date
1-2014
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Visual Anthropology
Abstract
This article analyzes Luc de Heusch's 1954 “ethnographic” film Fête chez les Hamba as an ambiguous, and no longer quite colonial, visual and narrative text. Fête is considered in several ways: as a collaboration between “customary” Tetela colonial subjects and an earnest anticolonial ethnographer; as a many-layered late colonial visual artifact; and in terms of the various rituals it portrays, and in which it participated. By considering this film in relation to undisciplined filmic spaces, “excess,” and as a site of multiple inscriptions, this article shows possibilities for Tetela-Hamba self-fashioning and subject formation within Luc de Heusch's colonial/anticolonial visual and ethnographic “conversation.”
Recommended Citation
de Rezende, Isabelle. " Elsewhere in the Belgian Congo ca. 1953: Luc de Heusch Films the Tetela-Hamba." Visual Anthropology 27, no. 1-2 (2014): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/08949468.2014.852050
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