Contents
Preface Beate Engelbrecht IX
Introduction 1 The Early Years of Visual Anthropology Paul Hockings 3 The Prehistory of Ethnographic Film Luc de Heusch 15
Precursors in the Documentary Film 23 Robert Flaherty as I Knew Him. R ichard L eacock 2 5 Richard Leacock and the Origins of Direct Cinema: Re-assessing the Idea of an 'Uncontrolled Cinema' Chris tof Decker 31 Grierson Versus Ethnographic Film Brian Winston 49
Research and Record-Making Approaches 57 Recording Social Interaction: Margaret Mead and Gregory Batcson's Contribution to Visual Anthropology in Ethnographic Context Gerald Sullivan 59 From Bushmen to Ju/'Hoansi: A Personal Reflection on the Early Films of John Marshall. Patsy Asch 71 Life By Myth: The Development of Ethnographic Filming in the Work of John Marshall John Bishop 87 Pulling Focus: Timothy Asch Between Filmmaking and Pedagogy Sarah Elder 95 VI Contents
Observational and Participatory Approaches 121 Colin Young, Ethnographic Film and the Film Culture of the 1960s David MacDougall 1 23 Colin Young and Running Around With a Camera Judith MacDougall 133 The Origins of Observational Cinema: Conversations with Colin Young Paul Henley 139
Looking for an Indigenous View 163 The Worth/Adair Navajo Experiment - Unanticipated Results and Reactions Richard Chalfen 165 The Legacy of John Collier, Jr. Peter Biella 111 George Stoney: The Johnny Appelseed of Documentary Dorothy Todd Henaut 189
The American Way 205 "Let Me Tell You A Story": Edmund Carpenter as Forerunner in the Anthropology of Visual Media Harald Prins and John Bishop 207 Asen Balikci Films Nanook Paul Hockings 247 Robert Gardner: The Early Years Karl G. Heider 259 Robert Gardner's Ambivalent Anthropological Filmmaking kkos Ostor 273 From Romanticism to Reflexivity in the Films of Jorge Preloran Sharon R. Sherman 279 Contents VII
The Australian Way 293 Visual Anthropology: The AIATS1S Contribution Ian Bryson 295 Early Ethnographic Film and Documentary: Points of Contact Hart Cohen 307 The Aesthetics of Communication and the Communication of Cultural Aesthetics: A Perspective on Ian Dunlop's Films of Aboriginal Australia Howard Morphy 321
The European Way 341 Festivals, Conferences, Seminars and Networks in Visual Anthropology in Europe Colette Piault 343 The "cine-transe" and the Reign of the Subject: Jean Rouch Marc Henry Piault 363 Luc de Heusch: Science of Art and Art of Science Joelle Kiihne 377 Post-War Ethnographic Filmmaking in Germany: Peter Fuchs, the IWF and the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica Rolf Husmann 383 Meeting Visual Anthropology in Transit Countries Slovenian case Nasko Kriznar 397 Making Ethnographic Films - Experiences from East Europe Jdnos Tari 405 VIII Contents
Final Statements 421 Women Pioneers: An Interview with Four Founding Figures of Ethnographic Film W'ilma Kiener andEva Meifi 423
Back to the Future of Visual Anthropology - From Rock Art, to Visual Ethnography, to PowerPoint' Fadwa El Guindi 437
Appendix 459
Biographies of Authors and Protagonists 461 Filmography 481 Index: Films 495 Index: Persona 499 PPN: 26606809X Titel: Memories of the origins of ethnographic film / Beate Engelbrecht (ed.). - Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2007 ISBN: 978-3-631-50735-3; 0-8204-6419-3 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund