Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method

188 Pages·2016·4.069 MB·English

by  Andrew Causey

DRAWN TO SEE
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D R AW N
TO S E E
Drawing as an
Ethnographic Method
Andrew Causey
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To My Partner in Life, Michael D. Arnold
In Memoriam: Op. Sabrina Doli Marpaung and
Op. Sabrina boru br. Sinaga, my friends “Partoho” and “Ito.”
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CONTENTS
List of Figures ...................................................................................................ix
List of Etudes .................................................................................................xiii
Acknowledgments .............................................................................................xv
1 INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................1
2 CAN’T SEE? ...............................................................................................25
3 DARE TO SEE AND DARE TO DRAW .............................................................49
4 SEEING EDGES AS LINES ............................................................................73
5 SEEING INSIDE EDGES ...............................................................................95
6 SEEING MOVEMENT ..................................................................................115
7 SEEING ABSENCE .....................................................................................133
8 FINAL WORDS..........................................................................................151
Appendix .......................................................................................................153
References ......................................................................................................155
Index ............................................................................................................165
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FIGURES
CHAPTER 1
1.1 Drawing of the marketplace at Tiga Raja ............................................7
1.2 Fieldwork photograph of the marketplace at Tiga Raja .......................8
1.3 An example of my college class notes from the 1980s ..........................9
CHAPTER 2
2.1 Nineteenth-century drawing of traditional costumes
of Hungary ......................................................................................32
2.2 Image of a New Guinea woman with pet pig ....................................33
2.3 My field excursion drawing of houses in Kurima Village,
Papua Province, Indonesia .................................................................37
2.4 Upside-down drawing ......................................................................40
2.5 Numbers ..........................................................................................45
2.6 Letters ..............................................................................................45
2.7 Finding number-letter shapes in a photograph ..................................46
2.8 Drawing number-letter shapes freehand on blank paper ....................46
2.9 Quick drawing of a Balinese seated figure .........................................47
CHAPTER 3
3.1 Genre scene of the souvenir marketplace at Siallagan..........................51
3.2 Tourist “type” drawings ....................................................................52
3.3 Image from a medieval house-book ..................................................54
3.4 Student drawing of an imagined ostrich .............................................55
3.5 Calligraphic drawings of an imagined ostrich ....................................57
3.6 Halakhalak in looping pencil lines. ....................................................62
3.7 Halakhalak in firm pen lines ..............................................................63