Principles of visual anthropology / / edited by Paul Hockings.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hockings, Paul.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, New York : : Mouton de Gruyter,, 1995.
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Edition: Second edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; illustrations

Table of 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.