Bosquejo de una teoría de antropología de las imágenes: para una nueva “imagen del pensamiento” antropológica

En este articulo nos proponemos repensar la antropologia a partir del concepto de “imagen” elaborado por Bergson, Deleuze e Iwaki. La “imagen” asi concebida abarcaria tanto las experiencias mismas (por ejemplo las del trabajo de campo etnografico) como las imagenes (audio)visuales, y tambien las imagenes suscitadas por palabras, dichas o escritas. Comentando las fotografias etnograficas de Malinowski, Bateson y Levi-Strauss, asi como el etnocine de Flaherty, Rouch, Gardner y Video nas aldeias, tratamos de comprender la practica antropologica como un trabajo con las “imagenes” en su “ser” y en su “devenir”. La antropologia de las imagenes seria una maquina conceptual para facilitar el continuo transito entre la palabra y la imagen, entre la teoria y la practica y entre la ciencia y el arte, transito que nos parece fundamental para la antropologia de hoy y de manana. Palabras clave: imagen, devenir, afecto, teoria, fotografia, etnocine Abstract In this article I propose to rethink anthropology through the concept of “image” developed by Bergson, Deleuze and Iwaki. The “image” conceived in this way would include our experiences (for example, those of ethnographic fieldwork) as well as (audio)visual images, and images aroused by spoken or written words. Commenting on ethnographic photographs by Malinowski, Bateson and Levi-Strauss, as well as “ethno-cinema” by Flaherty, Rouch, Gardner and Video nas aldeias, I consider that doing anthropology is to work with “images” in their “being” and in their “becoming”. The anthropology of images would be a conceptual machine to facilitate the continuous movement between words and images, between theory and practice, and between science and art—movement which seems to me to be crucial for the anthropology of today and of tomorrow. Keywords: image, becoming, affect, theory, photography, ethno-cinema