The Hong Kong Anthropological Society
in association with
The Hong Kong Museum of History*
Presents
Taking Pictures of Snakes at Midnight: An Anthropological Perspective
An anthropological lecture by Ryan Xin XIE
Friday, 22 August at 7:00 p.m. sharp
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui
All are welcome! Space, however, is limited to 139 seats.
The lecture is conducted in English.
The widespread availability of social media technology in Hong Kong enables both amateur and professional photographers engaging with nature to share their observations in visually
appealing ways. What do images of wild animals mean to achieve? Based on twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork among nature enthusiasts in Hong Kong, this talk places photographs of wild animals such as snakes at the centre of the complex relationships between humans and nature. It examines the cultural narratives of wildlife photographs in promoting
an ecological perspective of urban environments and fostering empathy for human-animal coexistence.
Ryan Xin Xie is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the intersections of urban wildness, power/knowledge, embodied cognition, and human-animal relations in urban China.
For more information, please contact
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* The Museum makes no representations on the content of this lecture.
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