Humanitarian knowledge in visual anthropology
In Jean Rouch’s film «Mad Masters» we see processes of disintegration of European colonies in West Africa. The French director shows a series of binary oppositions: cities and villages, Europeans and Africans, consciousness and the unconscious, power and the awareness of power. A broader understanding of social experience includes the denial of political rhetoric about a progress. The film not only shows the existing reality, but also it acts as the project, or pictorial manifesto of culture.