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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.
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.
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anthropological cinema, researchable data, ethnographic film, filmed data, research footage, shared anthropology, film realism, written anthropology, professional filmmakers, visual anthropology, visual anthropologists, indigenous media, written ethnography, performance scholars, nonfiction film, pictorial media, reflexive anthropology, research film, being reflexive, motor habits, doing anthropology, teaching anthropology, most filmmakers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dead Birds, United States, Margaret Mead, Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, Robert Gardner, The Hunters, Eric Michaels, Sol Worth, Tim Asch, Van Veen, Rivers of Sand, Dziga Vertov, John Marshall, Forest of Bliss, New Guinea, Franziska Boas, Karl Heider, Deep Hearts, North American, African Americans, Barbara Myerhoff, Burton Holmes, Frances Flaherty, Gregory Bateson New!
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anthropological cinema, researchable data, ethnographic film, filmed data, research footage, shared anthropology, film realism, written anthropology, professional filmmakers, visual anthropology, visual anthropologists, indigenous media, written ethnography, performance scholars, nonfiction film, pictorial media, reflexive anthropology, research film, being reflexive, motor habits, doing anthropology, teaching anthropology, most filmmakers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dead Birds, United States, Margaret Mead, Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty, Robert Gardner, The Hunters, Eric Michaels, Sol Worth, Tim Asch, Van Veen, Rivers of Sand, Dziga Vertov, John Marshall, Forest of Bliss, New Guinea, Franziska Boas, Karl Heider, Deep Hearts, North American, African Americans, Barbara Myerhoff, Burton Holmes, Frances Flaherty, Gregory Bateson New!
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- Working Images: Visual Research and Representation in Ethnography by Sarah Pink on page 89, page 146, and page 196
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