Framing the Other Film Worksheet #1
ANTH 1150
Student’s Name: Indigo Petty
(1) In 4-6 sentences, summarize the film, Framing the Other
. Framing the Other follows a European tourist group, specifically a couple Holland, through their holiday in Ethiopia. The film takes the perspective of the Mursi tribe that gets paid to be photographed by the tourists. It details what their day-to-day actually
looks like, and what they do to “play it up” for the tourists to pay more money. Because of the combined natural and socioeconomic issues, the Mursi have started to become very dependent on the tourists’ money for basic resources, and even dehumanizing themselves by making them an attraction to look at and pay for souvenirs.
(2) Define, in your terms, the meaning of ethnocentrism and cultural relativism. Ethnocentrism is the idea of looking at other cultures through ONLY the lens of their own culture. Cultural relativism is looking at other cultures without preset standards on which to judge. Like for instance, hypothetically, thinking “In ___’s culture, they eat bugs, that’s so gross.” But on the other hand, cultural relativism would be like “I think it’s really cool that in ____’s culture, insets are used in many ceremonial delicacies,” and respecting other cultures even if they’re really different than our own. (3) Identify a scene/event from the film which best exemplifies ethnocentrism. (a)
Make sure to add quotations, names of people involved, context of the scene, and a timestamp (at what minute it happened in the film). 00:02:40 – 00:04:11
Nadoni is describing a little bit about what she does in her daily life and some of the things they observe, or don’t observe, and then we cut to Nell talking about what (not who) she hopes to photograph at the village and what she wants to do with the print. Either this scene or the three minutes of screen time of Nell just whistling and cooing at the Mursi like they’re animals at a petting zoo.
