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From reviews of the first edition:
"Ethnographic Film can rightly be considered a film primer for anthropologists."
-Choice
"This is an interesting and useful book about what it means to be ethnographic and how this might affect ethnographic filmmaking for the better. It obviously belongs in all departments of anthropology, and most ethnographic filmmakers will want to read it."
-Ethnohistory
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 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.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Toward a Definition: The Nature of the Category "Ethnographic Film"
The Nature of Ethnography
The Differing Natures of Ethnography and Film
"Truth" in Film and Ethnography
2. A History of Ethnographic Film
Background Factors
Prehistory: The Explorers
Grass
Scripted Fictional Films
Bateson and Mead in Bali and New Guinea
Jean Rouch
John Marshall
Robert Gardner
Timothy Asch
University of California American Indian Series
The Netsilik Eskimo Project
Australia
The Natives' View
Institutionalization of Ethnographic Film
3. The Attributes of Ethnographic Film
The Attributes
Additional Principles
The Attributes as Dimensions
4. Making Ethnographic Film
The Ethics of Ethnographic Filmmaking
An Ethnographic Film Must Be Based on Ethnographic Understanding
An Ethnographic Film Must Exploit the Visual Potential of Film
Whole Bodies, Whole Interactions, and Whole People in Whole Acts
Division of Labor
The Meaning of Real Collaboration
An Ethnographic Film Cannot Stand by Itself
Ethnographic Films from Research Footage
Preservation of the Film Record
5. The Use of Ethnographic Films in Teaching
Films and Background Reading
Strategies
Appendix: A Brief Descriptive Catalog of Films
Bibliography
Index
