Anthropologie et cinéma: Passage ŕ l'image, passage par l'image by Marc Henri Piault
Transcultural Cinema by David MacDougall
Ever since the invention of the first moving-image camera, there has been a feeling among anthropologists that film-making should form part of their ethnographic work. But exactly what this should entail has remained strangely uncertain, and concern has been expressed that it’s simply not possible to identify a form of film practice peculiar to anthropologists.
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Paul Henley is a professor of visual anthropology at the Granada Centre, University of Manchester. He is currently writing a study of ethnographic documentary-making.
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