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.

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

Inhalt
INTRODUCTIONVisual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words Margaret Mead ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMING AND THE CINEMAThe History of Ethnographic Film Emilie de Brigard Feature Films as Cultural Documents John H. Weakland McCarty's Law and How to Break it Mark Mc Carty SOME RECENT APPROACHES TO ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILMThe Camera and Man Jean Rouch Observational Cinema Colin Young Beyond Observational Cinema David MacDougall Idea and Event in Urban Film John Marshall and Emile de BrigardResearch Filming of Naturally Occuring Phenomena: Basic Strategies E. Richard Sorenson and Allison Jablonko VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE PASTEthnographic Film and History Jean Dominique Lajoux Reconstructing Cultures on Film Asen BalikciThe Role of Film in Archeology Stuart StrueverEthnographic Photography in Anthropological Research Joanna Cohan SchererOur Totemic Ancestors and Crazed Masters Jean Rouch SOME SPECIALIZED USES OF FILM AND VIDEOTAPEPhotography and Visual Anthropology John Collier Jr.Videotape: New Techniques of Observation and Analysis in Anthropology Joseph H. SchaefferFilming Body Behavior J. H. ProstAudiovisual Tools for the Analysis of Culture Style Alan LomaxFilm in Ethnographic Research Timothy Asch and Patsy Asch THE PRESENTATION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INFORMATIONEthnographies on the Airwaves: The Presentation of Anthropology on American, British, Belgian and Japanese Television Faye GinsburgThe First Videotheque Yasuhiro OmoriFunding Ethnographic Film and Video Productions in America Sabine Jell-Bahlsen Ethnographic Filmmaking for Japanese Television Yasuko IchiokaMatters of Fact Roger Sandall THE FUTURE OF VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGYThe Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness Edmund CarpenterVisual Record, Human Knowledge, and the Future E. Richard SorensonConclusion: Ethnographic Filming and Anthropological Theory Paul Hockings