Innovation in Ethnographic Film : From Innocence to Self-Consciousness, 1955-1985 Book

List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements
1. Innovation in ethnographic film, 1955-85
Documentary films Ethnographic documentary films Realism Innovations
2. For the record: documentation filming from innocent realism to self-consciousness The difficulties in documentation Marshall's !Kung/San Films The Yanomami films of Asch and Chagnon Australian documentation initiatives
Trobriand Cricket
The Jero Tapakan Project
3. Challenging documentation-realism: three early experiments by Jean Rouch
Moi, Un Noir
La Pyramide humaine
Chronique d'un été
Conclusion
4. Constructions from real lives: biographies and portraits
Imaginero
Lorang's Way: A Turkana Man
N!ai: the story of a !Kung woman
Celso and Cora
Amir: An Afghan refugee musician's life in Peshawar, Pakistan
Conclusion
5. Complex constructions with subjective voices: East Africa, 1971-76
The MacDougalls' background
To Live with Herds: A dry season among the Jie
The Wedding Camels: A Turkana marriage
Demanding texts
Maragoli
6. The Loita Maasai films: televised culture Documentation of a culture
Masai Women
Masai Manhood
The Woman's Olamal: The Social Organization of a Maasai Fertility Ceremony
7. Robert Gardner in Tahiti, or the rejection of realism Gardner's formation
Dead Birds
Rivers of Sand
Deep Hearts
Forest of Bliss
Conclusion
8. Complex constructions with subjective voices: Australia, 1972-80
Coniston Muster: scenes from a stockman's life
Mourning for Mangatopi and Goodbye, Old Man
The House Opening
Waiting for Harry
The challenge to AIAS ethnographic films Epilogue Appendix 1
The Göttingen Institute for Scientific Films Appendix 2
The Diary of a Maasai Village
Appendix 3
Nichols on pornography and ethnography References Film references Index