Recording The Senses : Playing With Perceptions.Can An Anthropologist Learn Anything From Learning To Make A Film?
Journal: Durham e-Theses (Durham University)
Year: 2013

Abstract Participant observation forms the bedrock of social and cultural anthropology but how good are our observations when we participate? Whilst many may consider a baptism by fire approach to fieldwork and years of subsequent reflection the best way to address these questions, I argue there are benefits to be gained through undergoing specialist pre-fieldwork training. The training method I want to champion is filmmaking or more accurately digital video-filmmaking. With few departments offe