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Film As Ethnography
from: Manchester University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800222
EAN: 9780719036835
ISBN: 0719036836
Label: Manchester University Press
Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: November 15, 1992
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Studio: Manchester University Press
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Editorial Review:
This work examines the reasons why anthropologists have not used the camera as a research instrument or film as a means of communicating ethnographic knowledge. It suggests that images and words in this discipline operate on different logical levels; that they are hierarchically related; that whereas writings may encompass the images produced by film, the inverse of this cannot be true. The author argues for this position further by suggesting that the visual is to the written mode as "thin description" (giving a record of the form of behaviour) is to "thick description" (giving an account of meaning).
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Rating:  - Interesting book with broad range of discussion
This is an edited volume with chapters by a number of different authors. There are a number of good articles in this book which are of use to those interested in the topic.
The topics covered in various chapters are (directly quoted from table of contents):
Part 1: "Authority, representation and anthropological knowledge"
Part 2: "Image, audience and aesthetics"
Part 3: "Politics, ethics and indigenous imagery"
Part 4: "Television and new technologies"
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Rating:  - A New Approach to Old Cultures: The Eye of the Camera
Visual Anthropology is a fast growing discipline within the domain of social sciences. Since the historical seminal book "Principles of Visual Anthropology" edited by Hockings in mid seventies, more and more writings in this area came to light to explain and put to discussion some theories and practices that both anthropologists and filmmakers did in aproaching various ethnic groups arround the world. "Film as Ethnography" is perhaps the best book ever published as a group of ... Read More
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