Even before Robert Flaherty released "Nanook of the North" in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and teaching. "Ethnographic Film" (1976) was one of the first books to provide a comprehensive introduction to this field of visual anthropology, and it quickly became the standard reference.
In this new edition, Karl. G. Heider thoroughly updates "Ethnographic Film" to reflect developments in the field over the three decades since its publication, focusing on the work of four seminal filmmakers - Jean Rouch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Asch. He begins with an introduction to the ethnographic film and a history of the medium. He then considers many attributes of ethnographic film, including the crucial need to present "whole acts", "whole bodies", "whole interactions", and "whole people" to preserve the integrity of the cultural context. Heider also discusses numerous aspects of making ethnographic films, from ethics and finances to technical considerations such as film versus video and preserving the filmed record. He concludes with a look at using ethnographic film in teaching. (Verlagstext)
/ AUS DEM INHALT: / / /
PREFACE | ix /
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | xv /
1INTRODUCTION | 1 / Toward a Definition: The Nature of the Category "Ethnographic Film" | 1
The Nature of Ethnography | 4
The Differing Natures of Ethnography and Film | 8
"Truth" in Film and Ethnography | 10 /
2A HISTORY OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM | 15 / Background Factors | 16
Prehistory: The Explorers | 18
Grass | 24
Scripted Fictional Films | 25
Bateson and Mead in Bali and New Guinea | 28
Jean Rouch | 31
John Marshall | 34
Robert Gardner | 38
Timothy Asch | 42
University of California American Indian Series | 45
The Netsilik Eskimo Project | 45
Australia | 46
The Natives' View | 47
Institutionalization of Ethnographic Film | 49 /
3THE ATTRIBUTES OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 50 / The Attributes | 51
Additional Principles | 102
The Attributes as Dimensions | 108
/ 4MAKING ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM | 110 / The Ethics of Ethnographic Filmmaking | 110
An Ethnographic Film Must Be Based on Ethnographic Understanding | 112
An Ethnographic Film Must Exploit the Visual Potential of Film 113
Whole Bodies, Whole Interactions, and Whole People in Whole Acts | 114
Division of Labor | 114
The Meaning of Real Collaboration | 115
An Ethnographic Film Cannot Stand by Itself | 116
Ethnographic Films from Research Footage | 116
Preservation of the Film Record | 117 /
5THE USE OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS IN TEACHING | 118 / Films and Background Reading | 119
Strategies | 121 /
APPENDIX: A BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE CATALOG OF FILMS | 123 / BIBLIOGRAPHY | 143 / INDEX | 155
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Karl G. Heider
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2007
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Austin, University of Texas Press
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