Principles of Visual Anthropology

by Paul Hockings (editor)

This edition contains 27 articles, written by scholars and filmmakers who are generally acknowledged as the international authorities in the field. 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 video-tape; subdisciplinary applications in ethnography, archaeology, bio-anthropology, museology and ethnohistory; and overcoming the funding problems of film production.

Genres: Anthropology, Film, Art

581 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1975