Principles of Visual Anthropology

Download or read book Principles of Visual Anthropology written by Paul Hockings and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2003 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.