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Principles of Visual Anthropology (Paperback)

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This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and filmmakers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the field. The book covers ethnographic filming and its relations to the cinema and television; applications of filming to anthropological research, the uses of still photography, archives, and video-tape; subdisciplinary applications in ethnography, archaeology, bio-anthropology, museology and ethnohistory; and overcoming the funding problems of film production.

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Paperback: 562 pages
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter; 2nd edition (July 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3110142287
ISBN-13: 978-3110142280
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
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digressive search, research film program, most ethnographic films, representational films, videotape coverage, observational cinema, film ethnographique, angles between the foot, observational film, sequence filming, filmed documents, research filming, people being filmed, intersubjective reliability, anthropological film, participant camera, videotape techniques, ethnographic filmmakers, visual anthropology, anthropological teaching, reality graphics, audiovisual records, urban film, hippopotamus hunt, audiovisual tools

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New York, New Guinea, Disappearing World, United States, Jean Rouch, Paul Hockings, The Hague, World War, John Marshall, Columbia University, University of California, Margaret Mead, University of Chicago Press, Our Wonderful World, Netsilik Eskimo, Robert Flaherty, Timothy Asch, North American, National Museum of Ethnology, Royal Anthropological Institute, Yasuko Ichioka, Alan Lomax, Granada Television, Hitlerjunge Quex, Marcel Griaule

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