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<FONT COLOR="#000080"><FONT SIZE="7"><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:28.0px'>Stories to Tell, Stories to Sell: Hidden Transcripts, Negotiating Texts<BR>
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Keyan Tomaselli<BR>
University of Natal<BR>
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EH2.21, Murdoch University
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'>The paper develops an argument for ‘reverse cultural studies’, discussing problems in fieldwork, academic access and research accountability. It reflexively analyses tensions and contradictions set in motion by writing on observer-observed relations within both San Bushmen communities themselves and between myself and development and other agencies working in one of these areas. Questions addressed relate to ownership of information, the relationship between the local/particular and the national/policy, and on how to ensure campfire dissemination/involvement of, and popular access to, the written product by a-literate and non-English-speaking communities. <BR>
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</SPAN><FONT SIZE="5"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:16.0px'><B>Keyan G Tomaselli </B>is Senior Professor, School of Literary Studies, Media and Creative Arts at the University of Natal at Durban. He is author of Where Global Contradictions are Sharpest: Research Stories from the Kalahari (Rozenberg, 2005), Writing in the San/d (Altamira, forthcoming), and Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation (Intervention, 1999). This presentation is based on his 12 year Kalahari San field research project, "The Semotics of the Encounter", in which he and his students are researching issues of participatory methodology, development communication, cultural tourism, representation and community-Lodge partnerships. Tomaselli is editor of Critical Arts: a Journal of South-North Cultural and Media Studies. His other books include Encountering Modernity: 20th Century South African Cinema (Rozenbeg, 2006) and he was series editer of Critical Studies in African Media and Culture (International Academic Publishers). He is a Fellow of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and also of the International Communicological Institute. Tomaselli is in Australia at the invitation of the Film and History Conference where he is delivering a keynote address entitled, "Indigenous Film Making: From Amateur Adventurism to Advocacy - John Marshall". Tomaselli has consulted for a variety of state bodies: he was media expert on the Minister of Health Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS, and drew up a national media and education campaign applied in the late 1990s; he co-wrote the Film White Paper, and is a founder member of the KwaZulu-Natal Film Commission. He has consulted for UNESCO, UNDP, the Durban Metro, the National Research Foundation and the Human Sciences Research Council.</SPAN></FONT></FONT>
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