AAA is pleased to share the following entries for the “Process” category in the 2011 AAA Photo Contest. Voting by AAA members begins the October 6 and will be open through October 14. Directions for voting (along with login information) will be emailed to current AAA members. Voters will see thumbnails of the photos in the ballot and will vote for their top choices in each category.
To get a better look at the Process photos, please peruse this gallery. To see a photo in its entirety, just click on the photo you wish to view. Be sure to also check out the People, Place and Practice entrants too.
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- Caption: Tsimane’ men construct and load rafts, bi-monthly, to transport and sell plantains. Demand for plantains in the Beni region has impacted the growth of Tsimane’ suppliers, as traders now regularly target Tsimane’ agriculturalists by sending weekly messages over the radio, traveling up and down the river, and bringing large trucks to the central river port. Tsimane’ now spend more time and area cultivating plantains for sale and household consumption. The development of the plantain industry has created a steadier cash flow for Tsimane’, who are becoming increasingly more reliant on marketplace commodities as forest resources are depleted and interactions with outsiders are more frequent. Title: “Hay Un Comprador” (Beni, Bolivia 11/2010). Photo courtesy Ariela Zycherman
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- Caption: The Indian woman talks on her cellular phone on the steps of the Sri Vadapathira Kaliamman Temple in Singapore. Anthropologist stays anthropologist in everyday situations. The picture was taken during the break from international scientific conference in Singapore, during the walk in Little India, the Indian part of the city. Used to the practice of not disturbing sacred places, I took the picture through the opening in the fence as I was taken by the colors, the grace of the Indian woman, the highly traditional surroundings and the very modern technology in use. The picture shows how all of this can coexist and complete each other. Title: Changing times. Photo courtesy Aleksandra Wierucka
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- Caption: A young man at a village rubber depot in Delta state Nigeria receives and records rubber from a rubber tapper. The background shows how the rubber will look once dried. This was taken as I followed a rubber baron on his daily schedule from the depot to his office and manufacturing facilities. Title: Fresh from the Source. Photo courtesy U. Ejiro O. Onomake
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- Caption: Museum visitors in the Kurdish Textile Museum, Erbil Citadel, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. Kurdistan is undergoing a dramatic process of modernization. Museum founder Lolan Sipan wrote in an email that his intention is to militate against a “a raw model of ‘modernization-westernization’” that is now the ideal of the Kurdistani elite. The museum is popular with local schoolchildren and international tourists alike, and offers classes in weaving and other traditional Kurdish art forms. To learn more, visit http://www.kurdishtextilemuseum.com. Title: Pondering the Past and Future in the Kurdish Textile Museum, Erbil, Kurdistan, Iraq, 16 December 2010. Photo courtesy Diane E King
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- Caption: As police and delinquents turn Guayaquil into a zone of low-intensity urban warfare, municipal technocrats scout for potential spaces that might anchor urban renewal. Great success! The city’s defunct prison, abandoned since the ’60s, is identified as a site for “rehabilitation”. Here a young technocrat is photographed in the act of digitally archiving its cellblock spaces. This image highlights a key facet of my research on the relationship between economic privatization and mass incarceration. The composition’s emphasis on light and dark spaces—and the bureaucrat’s digital reproduction of them—allegorizes the fraught process of identifying unproductive urban areas and subjects alike. Title: “Prisoners of Urban Renewal” (August 6th, 2011, Guayaquil, Ecuador). Photo courtesy Chris Garces
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- Caption: During the summer of 2010 I had the opportunity to be a visiting professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. The summer in Frankfurt was filled with various festivals complete with beer and sausage, yet I felt the most comfortable at the 2010 Thai Culture Festival. Looking beyond the obvious beautiful Asian performance I was able to witness a process of globalization, glocalization and a re-invention (or re-interpretation) of tradition. In the spirit of friendship between Germany and Thailand, a German version of Thai culture was presented in terms of food, drink and performance. This photo represents traditional Thai dancers performing for an enthusiastic German audience. Title: “I am an Orientalist,” Thai Culture Festival in Frankfurt Germany, June 6, 2010. Photo courtesy Steven Fedorowicz
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- Caption: Sitting on the esplanade of the Trocadero in Paris after the disappointment of discovering that the Musee de l’Homme had been closed for over two years and would not reopen till 2014, we settle to have lunch with Eiffel Tower in view. Our son plays where Hitler had posed decades ago. Observe on the right side of the picture the foundations of the monument to French ethnography that recently has been superseded by the museum of the Quai Branly. The photograph evokes the ethnographic mode of idle waiting in public spaces. We were reflecting on what to do now that our comparative project had been frustrated. Title: Living Ethnographic Dead Time (Paris, July 29, 2011). Photo courtesy Laurence Cuelenaere
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- Caption: In the summer of 2011, under the leadership of the Institute of Exploration, several partner institutions undertook a deep-water remote-sensing survey in the Aegean and Black Seas in search of archaeological sites and geologic formations. Over twenty ancient and modern shipwrecks were discovered, forming a corpus of data that can be used to study trade routes, ship construction, site formation processes, colonization and inter-cultural contact. Targets identified via side-scan sonar surveys were explored and documented through the use of an advanced remotely operated vehicle named Hercules. The image illustrates the team launching Hercules in preparation for a dive off Eregli, Turkey. Title: The remotely operated vehicle Hercules, as it is lowered into the water in preparation for a dive on an ancient shipwreck (Turkey, August 2011). Photo courtesy Alexis Catsambis
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