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The Cinematic Griot (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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The Cinematic Griot (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of
cinema verite and one of the earliest ethnographers of African
societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often
misunderstood figure in histories of anthropology and film. By
examining Rouch's neglected ethnographic writings, Paul Stoller
seeks to clarify the filmmaker's true place in anthropology.
A brief account of Rouch's background, revealing the ethnographic
foundations and intellectual assumptions underlying his fieldwork
among the Songhay of Niger in the 1940s and 1950s, sets the stage
for his emergence as a cinematic griot, a peripatetic bard who
"recites" the story of a people through provocative imagery.
Against this backdrop, Stoller considers Rouch's writings on
Songhay history, myth, magic and possession, migration, and social
change. By analyzing in depth some of Rouch's most important films
and assessing Rouch's ethnography in terms of his own expertise in
Songhay culture, Stoller demonstrates the inner connection between
these two modes of representation.
Stoller, who has done more fieldwork among the Songhay than anyone
other than Rouch himself, here gives the first full account of
Rouch the griot, whose own story scintillates with important
implications for anthropology, ethnography, African studies, and
film.
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