Anthropology › Section O · Anthropology of media › Topic O.3
Visual anthropology and ethnographic film
Cameras let anthropologists record, slow down and share what they see in the field. They also raise hard questions: who is filmed, who frames the story, and who decides what audiences will believe they have seen?
In this topic
- Cameras in early fieldwork
- What visual anthropology is
- Trance and Dance in Bali
- Ethnographic film
- Nanook of the North
- Worked example: weighing Nanook as evidence
- Observation and synchronous sound
- Ethics and shared anthropology
- Worked example: planning an ethical film
- Experimental and sensory film
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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