Principles of Visual Anthropology: Third edition

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2003

Principles of Visual Anthropology

Edited by: Paul Hockings

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110221138

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Contents

About this book

This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and filmmakers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the field, and a new preface by the editor. 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.

Author / Editor information

Paul Hockings is Professor (emeritus) of Anthroplogy at the University of Illinois-Chicago, USA.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
Introduction
Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words Margaret Mead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Ethnographic Filming and the Cinema
The History of Ethnographic Film Emilie de Brigard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Feature Films as Cultural Documents John H. Weakland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
McCarty’s Law and How to Break It Mark McCarty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Some Recent Approaches to Anthropological Film
The Camera and Man Jean Rouch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Observational Cinema Colin Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Beyond Observational Cinema David MacDougall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
Idea and Event in Urban Film John Marshall and Emilie de Brigard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Research Filming of Naturally Occurring Phenomena: Basic Strategies E. Richard Sorenson and Allison Jablonko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Visual Anthropology and the Past
Ethnographic Film and History Jean-Dominique Lajoux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Reconstructing Cultures on Film Asen Balikci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
The Role of Film in Archaeology Stuart Struever Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Ethnographic Photography in Anthropological Research Joanna Cohan Scherer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Our Totemic Ancestors and Crazed Masters Jean Rouch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Some Specialized Uses of Film and Videotape
Photography and Visual Anthropology John Collier, Jr. Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Videotape: New Techniques of Observation and Analysis in Anthropology Joseph H. Schaeffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Filming Body Behavior J. H. Prost Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Audiovisual Tools for the Analysis of Culture Style Alan Lomax Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Film in Ethnographic Research Timothy Asch and Patsy Asch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
The Presentation of Anthropological Information
Ethnographies on the Airwaves: The Presentation of Anthropology on American, British, Belgian and Japanese Television Faye Ginsburg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
The First Videotheque Yasuhiro Omori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Funding Ethnographic Film and Video Productions in America Sabine Jell-Bahlsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Ethnographic Filmmakingfor Japanese Television Yasuko Ichioka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
Matters of Fact Roger Sandall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
The Future of Visual Anthropology
The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness Edmund Carpenter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Visual Records, Human Knowledge, and the Future E. Richard Sorenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
Conclusion: Ethnographic Filming and Anthropological Theory Paul Hockings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	507
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	531

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Edition: 3rd ed. [with a new preface]
Pages
- Front matter: 19
- Main content: 562
Keywords: Kulturanthropologie; Visuelle Medien

eBook

Published: December 23, 2009
ISBN: 9783110221138

Paperback

Published: August 13, 2003
ISBN: 9783110179309