Principles of Visual Anthropology / / ed. by Paul Hockings.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Medicine and Life Sciences 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: ASCH, PATSY,; ASCH, TIMOTHY,; BALIKCI, ASEN,; BRIGARD, EMILIE DE,; CARPENTER, EDMUND,; COLLIER, JOHN,; GINSBURG, FAYE,; HOCKINGS, PAUL,; ICHIOKA, YASUKO,; JABLONKO, ALLISON,; JELL-BAHLSEN, SABINE,; LAJOUX, JEAN-DOMINIQUE,; LOMAX, ALAN,; MACDOUGALL, DAVID,; MARSHALL, JOHN,; MEAD, MARGARET,; McCARTY, MARK,; OMORI, YASUHIRO,; PROST, J. H.,; ROUCH, JEAN,; SANDALL, ROGER,; SCHAEFFER, JOSEPH H.,; SCHERER, JOANNA COHAN,; SORENSON, E. RICHARD,; STRUEVER, STUART,; Tax, Sol,; WEAKLAND, JOHN H.,; YOUNG, COLIN,
• HerausgeberIn: Hockings, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1995
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (562 p.) :; 19 plates

This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and film makers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the filed. 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Foreword -- 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 -- Ethnographie 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 Filmmaking for 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 -- Appendices -- Resolution on Visual Anthropology -- Note on Filmography -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Films -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects