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CHAPTER 2
RECONCEPTUALIZATION BEFORE PRODUCTION
My anticipated outcome for this thesis -a short film under the umbrella of
anthropological cinema is contingent on multiple theoretical processes that I have combined to
create the conditions necessary for such an outcome. The combination of these theoretical
processes has been synthesized into a method coined meta-anthrochaomediacy, which
encapsulates my approach to Part I. Before I arrived at a synthesis that provided appropriate
conditions for Part I, I had to shift my original approach which misinterpreted how I would
understand these conditions as quantitative data instead of as qualitative data.
This original misinterpretation was the result of an oversight I had as a researcher. At the
time, I had an inherent bias towards the quantitative research method that prevented me from
recognizing the value of my own voice. I incorrectly assumed that I was outside of the overall
process that was being documented the hypermediated installation transmitting my rendering of
shared memories I have with the table. My initial expectation as someone trying to distance
themselves from the process to observe the installation as a process outside of my influence lead
me to attempt designing and interpreting an approach that conformed to standards of quantitative
data. This created a convoluted, soulless process that did not create the appropriate conditions to
facilitate Part II. Ultimately, this quantitative bias prevented the application of the self-reflexiveapproach I sought to achieve.
My first step at reconceptualizing my theoretical approach occurred through the practice
of decolonizing anthropology. Anthropology is understood as a field of research spanning
various methods of studying people and cultures. Ethnography is the primary method of
social/cultural anthropology that is utilized to document, represent, and interpret social bonds26
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Hensley, Dylan. Thank You Parts I and II, thesis, December 2023; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2256302/m1/32/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .