「映像編集を通してフィールドワークを学ぼう」の方法──フィールドの映像内的な理解の追求のために

This article proposes a workshop method designed to guide participants in learning the process of anthropological thinking based on the authors’ experience in conducting workshops titled “Let’s Learn Fieldwork through Video Editing” hosted by the TUFS Field Science Commons of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. The workshop aims to help participants develop anthropological thinking by editing the footage shot during fieldwork by a cultural anthropologist. The article begins by identifying problems associated with the conventional learning of anthropological fieldwork, which requires long-term experience. Thereafter, it situates the workshop proposed by the authors as a way to learn it in a short period. To introduce the particular style of the films made there, we then describe two films produced in the workshop, namely, Dynamics of Nature and Human (Hasegawa 2023) and The Swaying Ones (Ide 2024). The style of film proposed here, “evocative image,” is tentatively defined as a way of editing videos taken during anthropological fieldwork to evoke specific relationships between these images, thereby providing an understanding of the field insofar as it is recorded on video. The article then continues to explain the significance of the film-editing workshop based on this style for the purpose of learning fieldwork. The flow of the workshop is then presented in three stages—lecture, production, and critique. In particular, the critique phase is further elaborated on, as the comments made therein will influence the way new ethnographic understandings of the footage appear, whereby new understandings are developed from the fieldwork-based footage. The last section, summarizing the paper, describes that the value of this workshop lies in learning how to handle the instability of knowledge inherent in fieldwork appropriately.