Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Foreword vii
4. Table of Contents ix
5. Introduction
6. Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words 3
7. Ethnographic Filming and the Cinema
8. The History of Ethnographic Film 13
9. Feature Films as Cultural Documents 45
10. McCarty’s Law and How to Break It 69
11. Some Recent Approaches to Anthropological Film
12. The Camera and Man 79
13. Observational Cinema 99
14. Beyond Observational Cinema 115
15. Idea and Event in Urban Film 133
16. Research Filming of Naturally Occurring Phenomena: Basic Strategies 147
17. Visual Anthropology and the Past
18. Ethnographic Film and History 163
19. Reconstructing Cultures on Film 181
20. The Role of Film in Archaeology 193
21. Ethnographie Photography in Anthropological Research 201
22. Our Totemic Ancestors and Crazed Masters 217
23. Some Specialized Uses of Film and Videotape
24. Photography and Visual Anthropology 235
25. Videotape: New Techniques of Observation and Analysis in Anthropology 255
26. Filming Body Behavior 285
27. Audiovisual Tools for the Analysis of Culture Style 315
28. Film in Ethnographic Research 335
29. The Presentation of Anthropological Information
30. Ethnographies on the Airwaves: The Presentation of Anthropology on American, British, Belgian and Japanese Television 363
31. The First Videotheque 399
32. Funding Ethnographic Film and Video Productions in America 413
33. Ethnographic Filmmaking for Japanese Television 441
34. Matters of Fact 457
35. The Future of Visual Anthropology
36. The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness 481
37. Visual Records, Human Knowledge, and the Future 493
38. Conclusion: Ethnographic Filming and Anthropological Theory 507
39. Appendices
40. Resolution on Visual Anthropology 533
41. Note on Filmography 535
42. Biographical Notes 539
43. Index of Films 545
44. Index of Names 548
45. Index of Subjects 554