Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xxiii
5. 1. Initiation 1
6. 2. The Surrealist Encounter 16
7. Part I. The Camera and a Man in Africa
8. 3. Nothing but Cinema 35
9. 4. Encounters with Spirits 50
10. 5. Heroes of the Modern World 67
11. 6. Dreams of Black and White 82
12. 7. Images of Power 101
13. Part II. Between Paris and the Land of Nowhere
14. Introduction: New Technologies, New Methods 136
15. 8. Chronicle of a Violent Game 145
16. 9. New Wave Experiments 176
17. 10. Between Paris and the Land of Nowhere 196
18. 11. A Struggle Waged Against Corruption 218
19. Part III. The Craft of Ethnographic Cinema
20. Introduction: Totemic Ancestors 244
21. 12. Inspired Performance 255
22. 13. The Harsh Dialogue 278
23. 14. The Fixing of the Truth 292
24. 15. Shared Anthropology 310
25. 16. The Legacy of Jean Rouch 338
26. Appendixes
27. 1. The Films of Jean Rouch 363
28. 2. Jean Rouch’s Films by Year and Category, 1946– 2002 421
29. 3. Films about Jean Rouch and His Nigerien Associates 431
30. Notes 433
31. Reference List 465
32. Index 481