Film as ethnography
By: edited by Peter Ian Crawford and David Turton.
Contributors: Crawford, Peter Ian.; Turton, David.; Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology.
Publisher: Manchester University Press in association with the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Manchester; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Motion pictures in ethnology.
Description: This work examines the reasons why anthropologists have not used the camera as a research instrument or film as a means of communicating ethnographic knowledge. It suggests that images and words in this discipline operate on different logical levels.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Outcome of a conference held at the University of Manchester in 1990 as part of the Royal Anthropological Institute's IInd International Festival of Ethnographical Film"--Pref.