This text articulates central issues in the relation of film to anthropology. The essays provide an overview of the history of visual anthropology, as well as commentaries on specific subjects, such as point-of-view and subjectivity, the use of subtitles, the role of the cinema subject, the difference between films and written texts and between the position of the filmmaker and that of the anthropological writer. Ultimately, the author disputes the view that ethnographic filmmaking is merely a visual form of anthropology, maintaining instead that it is a radical anthropological practice, which challenges many of the basic assumptions of the discipline of anthropology itself.
- ISBN10 0691012350
- ISBN13 9780691012353
- Publish Date 27 December 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 January 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 528
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/6346.html