PIEF Newsletter
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Motion pictures in ethnology
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Newsletter
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Motion pictures in ethnology
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Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association
Author : American Anthropological Association
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Anthropology
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Film Festivals and Anthropology
Author : María-Paz Peirano
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 144387471X
Book Description
This collection explores the intersections between anthropology and film festival studies. Film and anthropology scholars map ethnographic film festivals and ethnographic approaches to festivals worldwide. The book provides a historical reconstruction of most of the main festivals exhibiting ethnographic film, considering the parallel evolution of programming and organisational practices across the globe. It also addresses the great value and challenges of ethnographic research tools for studying the wide-ranging field of film festivals. This volume is the first to collect long-term experiences of curating and exhibiting ethnographic film, as well as new approaches to the understanding of film festival practices. Its contributions reflect on curatorial practices within visual anthropology and their implications for ethnographic filmmaking, and they shed light on problems of cultural translation, funding, festival audiences and the institutionalisation of ethnographic cinema. The book offers a novel perspective on film festivals as showcases for cinema, socio-cultural hubs and distribution nodes. Aimed at anthropologists, media scholars, festival organisers and documentary film professionals, it offers a starting point for the study of ethnographic film exhibition within its cultural and social contexts.
Picturing Culture
Author : Jay Ruby
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780226730998
Book Description
Here, Jay Ruby—a founder of visual anthropology—distills his thirty-year exploration of the relationship of film and anthropology. Spurred by a conviction that the ideal of an anthropological cinema has not even remotely begun to be realized, Ruby argues that ethnographic filmmakers should generate a set of critical standards analogous to those for written ethnographies. Cinematic artistry and the desire to entertain, he argues, can eclipse the original intention, which is to provide an anthropological representation of the subjects. The book begins with analyses of key filmmakers (Robert Flaherty, Robert Garner, and Tim Asch) who have striven to generate profound statements about human behavior on film. Ruby then discusses the idea of research film, Eric Michaels and indigenous media, the ethics of representation, the nature of ethnography, anthropological knowledge, and film and lays the groundwork for a critical approach to the field that borrows selectively from film, communication, media, and cultural studies. Witty and original, yet intensely theoretical, this collection is a major contribution to the field of visual anthropology.
Visual Anthropology
Author : Fadwa El Guindi
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 16,74 MB
Release : 2004-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759115168
Book Description
El Guindi provides a comprehensive guide to the methods of visual anthropology and the use of film in cross-cultural research and ethnography. She shows how visual media — photographic, filmic, interactive — is now an accepted part of the anthropological process, a vital tool that reflects and produces knowledge about the range of cultures and about culture itself. It preserves the integrity of people, objects, and events in their cultural context, and expands our horizons beyond the reach of memory culture. El Guindi places visual anthropology within an empirically-based, analytic framework, built on systematic observation, identifying the research cycle that begins with data gathering and leads to visual ethnographic construction that is anthropological in method, process, and product. She explains how indigenous, professional, and amateur forms of pictorial/auditory materials are grounded in personal, social, cultural, and ideological contexts, and describes the non-Western critique of the Western traditions of visual anthropology. Her book is an excellent guide for ethnographic research, and for film and other media instruction concerned with cross-cultural representation.
A Bibliography of Ethnographic Films
Author : Rolf Husmann
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783894733520
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Anthropology Newsletter
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Anthropological linguistics
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Indigenous Aesthetics
Author : Steven Leuthold
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 28,51 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0292788347
Book Description
What happens when a Native or indigenous person turns a video camera on his or her own culture? Are the resulting images different from what a Westernized filmmaker would create, and, if so, in what ways? How does the use of a non-Native art-making medium, specifically video or film, affect the aesthetics of the Native culture? These are some of the questions that underlie this rich study of Native American aesthetics, art, media, and identity. Steven Leuthold opens with a theoretically informed discussion of the core concepts of aesthetics and indigenous culture and then turns to detailed examination of the work of American Indian documentary filmmakers, including George Burdeau and Victor Masayesva, Jr. He shows how Native filmmaking incorporates traditional concepts such as the connection to place, to the sacred, and to the cycles of nature. While these concepts now find expression through Westernized media, they also maintain continuity with earlier aesthetic productions. In this way, Native filmmaking serves to create and preserve a sense of identity for indigenous people.
Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film
Author : E.D Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113433687X
Book Description
Timothy Asch (1932-1994) was probably the greatest ethnographic filmmaker of the latter twentieth century, and one of the best-known anthropologists of his generation. He worked with Margaret Mead, John Marshall and Napoleon Chagnon, lived and filmed on every continent except Antarctica, and won numerous international prizes. His work, which includes 'The Ax Fight' and more than 50 other films of the Yanomamö Indians of Venezuela, comprises the most widely used resource in the teaching of anthropology today. Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film combines a biographical overview of Asch's life with theoretical and critical perspectives, giving a definitive guide to his background, aims and ideas, methodology and major projects. Beautifully illustrated with 60 photos, and featuring articles from many of Asch's friends, colleagues and collaborators as well as an important interview with Asch himself, it is an ideal introduction to his work and to a range of key issues in ethnographic film.
