Preface
Acknowledgments
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
Bibliography
Index

Ethnographic Film

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