Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.