| Description |
xi, 562 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface / Sol Tax -- Foreword / Paul Hockings -- Introduction: Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words / Margaret Mead -- The History of Ethnographic Film / Emilie de Brigard -- Feature Films as Cultural Documents / John H. Weakland -- McCarty's Law and How to Break it / Mark McCarty -- The Camera and Man / Jean Rouch -- Observational Cinema / Colin Young -- Beyond Observational Cinema / David MacDougall -- Idea and Event in Urban Film / John Marshall and Emilie de Brigard -- Research Filming of Naturally Occurring Phenomena: Basic Strategies / E. Richard Sorenson and Allison Jablonko -- Ethnographic Film and History / Jean-Dominique Lajoux -- Reconstructing Cultures on Film / Asen Balikci -- The Role of Film in Archaeology / Stuart Struever -- Ethnographic Photography in Anthropological Research / Joanna Cohan Scherer -- Our Totemic Ancestors and Crazed Masters / Jean Rouch -- Photography and Visual Anthropology / John Collier, Jr |
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Videotape: New Techniques of Observation and Analysis in Anthropology / Joseph H. Schaeffer -- Filming Body Behavior / J. H. Prost -- Audiovisual Tools for the Analysis of Culture Style / Alan Lomax -- Film in Ethnographic Research / Timothy Asch and Patsy Asch -- Ethnographies on the Airwaves: The Presentation of Anthropology on American, British, Belgian and Japanese Television / Faye Ginsburg -- The First Videotheque / Yasuhiro Omori -- Funding Ethnographic Film and Video Productions in America / Sabine Jell-Bahlsen -- Ethnographic Filmmaking for Japanese Television / Yasuko Ichioka -- Matters of Fact / Roger Sandall -- The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness / Edmund Carpenter -- Visual Records, Human Knowledge, and the Future / E. Richard Sorenson -- Conclusion: Ethnographic Filming and Anthropological Theory / Paul Hockings -- Resolution on Visual Anthropology -- Note on Filmography |
| Summary |
Collection of essays from international anthropologists; chapters include ethographic filming and the cinema; recent approaches to anthropological film preservation of anthropological information and future of visual anthropological theory; two articles with Australian references annotated separately |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Study and teaching -- Audio-visual aids.
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Motion pictures in ethnology.
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Visual anthropology.
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| Author |
Hockings, Paul.
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| LC no. |
95009003 |
| ISBN |
3110126273 (acid-free paper) |
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3110142287 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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