<p>This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and filmmakers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the field, and a new preface by the editor. 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 videotape; subdisciplinary applications in ethnography, archeology, bio-anthropology, museology and ethnohistory; and overcoming the funding problems of film production.</p>
<p>INTRODUCTION<br>Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words Margaret Mead</p>
<p>ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMING AND THE CINEMA<br>The History of Ethnographic Film Emilie de Brigard<br> Feature Films as Cultural Documents John H. Weakland<br> McCarty’s Law and How to Break it Mark Mc Carty</p>
<p>SOME RECENT APPROACHES TO ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM<br>The Camera and Man Jean Rouch<br> Observational Cinema Colin Young<br> Beyond Observational Cinema David MacDougall<br> Idea and Event in Urban Film John Marshall and Emile de Brigard<br>Research Filming of Naturally Occuring Phenomena: Basic Strategies E. Richard Sorenson and Allison Jablonko</p>
<p>VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE PAST<br>Ethnographic Film and History Jean Dominique Lajoux<br> Reconstructing Cultures on Film Asen Balikci<br>The Role of Film in Archeology Stuart Struever<br>Ethnographic Photography in Anthropological Research Joanna Cohan Scherer<br>Our Totemic Ancestors and Crazed Masters Jean Rouch</p>
<p>SOME SPECIALIZED USES OF FILM AND VIDEOTAPE<br>Photography and Visual Anthropology John Collier Jr.<br>Videotape: New Techniques of Observation and Analysis in Anthropology Joseph H. Schaeffer<br>Filming Body Behavior J. H. Prost<br>Audiovisual Tools for the Analysis of Culture Style Alan Lomax<br>Film in Ethnographic Research Timothy Asch and Patsy Asch</p>
<p>THE PRESENTATION OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL INFORMATION<br>Ethnographies on the Airwaves: The Presentation of Anthropology on American, British, Belgian and Japanese Television Faye Ginsburg<br>The First Videotheque Yasuhiro Omori<br>Funding Ethnographic Film and Video Productions in America Sabine Jell-Bahlsen<br> Ethnographic Filmmaking for Japanese Television Yasuko Ichioka<br>Matters of Fact Roger Sandall</p>
<p>THE FUTURE OF VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY<br>The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness Edmund Carpenter<br>Visual Record, Human Knowledge, and the Future E. Richard Sorenson<br>Conclusion: Ethnographic Filming and Anthropological Theory Paul Hockings</p>