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Principles of visual anthropology / edited by Paul Hockings.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual anthropology.
- Anthropology--Study and teaching--Audio-visual aids.
- Anthropology.
- Motion pictures in ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (582 p.)
- Edition:
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words
- The History of Ethnographic Film
- Feature Films as Cultural Documents
- McCarty’s Law and How to Break It
- The Camera and Man
- Observational Cinema
- Beyond Observational Cinema
- Idea and Event in Urban Film
- Research Filming of Naturally Occurring Phenomena: Basic Strategies
- Ethnographic Film and History
- Reconstructing Cultures on Film
- The Role of Film in Archaeology
- Ethnographic Photography in Anthropological Research
- Our Totemic Ancestors and Crazed Masters
- Photography and Visual Anthropology
- Videotape: New Techniques of Observation and Analysis in Anthropology
- Filming Body Behavior
- Audiovisual Tools for the Analysis of Culture Style
- Film in Ethnographic Research
- Ethnographies on the Airwaves: The Presentation of Anthropology on American, British, Belgian and Japanese Television
- The First Videotheque
- Funding Ethnographic Film and Video Productions in America
- Ethnographic Filmmakingfor Japanese Television
- Matters of Fact
- The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness
- Visual Records, Human Knowledge, and the Future
- Conclusion: Ethnographic Filming and Anthropological Theory
- Backmatter
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes filmographies.
- ISBN:
- 9786613429124
- 9781283429122
- 1283429128
- 9783110221138
- 3110221136
- OCLC:
- 753480620
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