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The rapid development of technologies for documenting culture begs ques- tions for ethnographers and community scholars alike. Scholars in the social sciences and the humanities have pointed to the lack of theorization on the subject of video documentation. Noting how ethnography has long been engaged with technology, folklorist Robert Baron argues recording technologies are too often viewed only as devices for the mechanical transcription of social life, rather than as representational media with their own “logics” of practice (Baron 1999,187-203).1
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Zinni, C.F. (2009). Cantastorie. In: Giudice, L.D. (eds) Oral History, Oral Culture, and Italian Americans. Italian and Italian American Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101395_7
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