Mirco Göpfert

Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University, Frankfurt
 

Dissonance. Cartooning in Iran, humour and the study of things that don’t match

Drawing on my research with cartoonists in Iran and the Iranian diaspora since 2015,  this talk describes cartooning – and by extension: humour – as an epistemic practice of dissonance combining modes of perception, composition and amplification. Bringing this description into dialogue with anthropology’s own experience of embracing dissonance, even if it wasn't aware of doing it, this talk attempts to generate yet unaddressed leads to further think about the possibilities (and limits, as it may be the case) of humour and cartooning to perceive, render and amplify dissonance – to think about how anthropologists can embrace dissonances with humour, humility, and critique.

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