David MacDougall is a pivotal figure in the development of
ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology. As a filmmaker, he has
directed in Africa, Australia, India, and Europe. His prize-winning
films (many made jointly with his wife, Judith MacDougall) include
"The Wedding Camels," "Lorang's Way," "To Live with Herds," "A Wife
among Wives," "Takeover," "Photo""Wallahs," and "Tempus de
Baristas." As a theorist, he articulates central issues in the
relation of film to anthropology, and is one of the few documentary
filmmakers who writes extensively on these concerns. The essays
collected here address, for instance, the difference between films
and written texts and between the position of the filmmaker and
that of the anthropological writer.
In fact, these works provide an overview of the history of
visual anthropology, as well as commentaries on specific subjects,
such as point-of-view and subjectivity, reflexivity, the use of
subtitles, and the role of the cinema subject. Refreshingly free of
jargon, each piece belongs very much to the tradition of the essay
in its personal engagement with exploring difficult issues. The
author ultimately 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.
Although influential among filmmakers and critics, some of these
essays were published in small journals and have been until now
difficult to find. The three longest pieces, including the title
essay, are new.
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