Principles of visual anthropology / / edited by Paul Hockings

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910822669803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2003
• ISBN: 1-283-42912-8; 9786613429124; 3-11-022113-6
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (582 p.)
• Classificazione: MR 3500
• Altri autori (Persone): HockingsPaul
• Disciplina: 301/.078; 301
• Soggetti: Visual anthropology; Anthropology - Study and teaching - Audio-visual aids; Motion pictures in ethnology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Includes filmographies.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.