1. Introduction -- Toward a definition : the nature of the category "ethnographic film" -- The nature of ethnography -- The differing natures of ethnography and film -- "Truth" in film and ethnography -- 2. A history of ethnographic film -- Background factors -- Prehistory : the explorers -- Grass -- Scripted fictional films -- Bateson and Mead in Bali and New Guinea -- Jean Rouch -- John Marshall -- Robert Gardner -- Timothy Asch -- University of California American Indian Series -- The Netsilik Eskimo Project -- Australia -- The natives' view -- Institutionalization of ethnographic film -- 3. The attributes of ethnographic film -- The attributes -- Additional principles -- The attributes as dimensions -- 4. Making ethnographic film -- The ethics of ethnographic filmmaking -- An ethnographic film must be based on ethnographic understanding -- An ethnographic film must exploit the visual potential of film -- Whole bodies, whole interactions, and whole people in whole acts -- Division of labor -- The meaning of real collaboration -- An ethnographic film cannot stand by itself -- Ethnographic films from research footage -- Preservation of the film record -- 5. The use of ethnographic films in teaching -- Films and background reading -- Strategies -- Appendix. A brief descriptive catalog of films
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