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Principles of Visual Anthropology / ed. by Paul Hockings.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2009]Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 3rd ed. [with a new preface]Description: 1 online resource (562 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110179309
  • 9783110221138
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301/.078
LOC classification:
  • GN347 .P75 2003t
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words -- Ethnographic Filming and the Cinema -- The History of Ethnographic Film -- Feature Films as Cultural Documents -- McCarty’s Law and How to Break It -- Some Recent Approaches to Anthropological Film -- The Camera and Man -- Observational Cinema -- Beyond Observational Cinema -- Idea and Event in Urban Film -- Research Filming of Naturally Occurring Phenomena: Basic Strategies -- Visual Anthropology and the Past -- 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 -- Some Specialized Uses of Film and Videotape -- 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 -- The Presentation of Anthropological Information -- 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 Future of Visual Anthropology -- The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness -- Visual Records, Human Knowledge, and the Future -- Conclusion: Ethnographic Filming and Anthropological Theory -- Backmatter
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.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words -- Ethnographic Filming and the Cinema -- The History of Ethnographic Film -- Feature Films as Cultural Documents -- McCarty’s Law and How to Break It -- Some Recent Approaches to Anthropological Film -- The Camera and Man -- Observational Cinema -- Beyond Observational Cinema -- Idea and Event in Urban Film -- Research Filming of Naturally Occurring Phenomena: Basic Strategies -- Visual Anthropology and the Past -- 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 -- Some Specialized Uses of Film and Videotape -- 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 -- The Presentation of Anthropological Information -- 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 Future of Visual Anthropology -- The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness -- Visual Records, Human Knowledge, and the Future -- Conclusion: Ethnographic Filming and Anthropological Theory -- Backmatter

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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