Principles of Visual Anthropology

Author: Hockings, Paul

The arts

Published on 1 January 2001 by De Gruyter (De Gruyter Mouton).

Paperback / softback | 562 pages, 19 plates
157 x 236 x 33 | 896g

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.