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Title Principles of visual anthropology / edited by Paul Hockings
Edition 2nd ed
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 562 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents 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 Balikei -- 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. -- 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
Summary This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and film makers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the filed. The book covers ethnographic filming and its relations to the cinema and television; applications of filming to anthropological research, the uses of still photography, archives, and videotape; subdisciplinary applications in ethnography, archeology, bio-anthropology, museology and ethnohistory; and overcoming the funding problems of film production
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Visual anthropology.
Anthropology -- Study and teaching -- Audio-visual aids
Motion pictures in ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Anthropology -- Study and teaching -- Audio-visual aids
Motion pictures in ethnology
Visual anthropology
Kulturanthropologie
Visuelle Medien
Etnografische films.
Genre/Form Visual anthropology.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Hockings, Paul
ISBN 9783110290691
3110290693