Wild thing; Saba Douglas-Hamilton spent her childhood helping her father...

The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  September 28, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the way to satisfy this appetite for 'more' is to make anthropological films about different cultures. Broadcasters, though, have...this type of programme. 'I'm told there's no market for anthropological films,' she says. 'I don't agree. It's an unexplored frontier...

Margaret Mead: Meet the Peoples

The Washington Post;  February 18, 1994 ;     250 words ...THE TRAVELING Margaret Mead Film Festival, a series of anthropological films, comes to Washington this weekend at the Natural History Museum's Baird Auditorium. The two-day program lasts from 11 to 5:30 Saturday...

PICTURING CULTURE: EXPLORATIONS OF FILM AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Metro : Media & Education Magazine;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the more highly respected contributors to the field of anthropological film in the United States. Since the late 1960s he has produced...readers not familiar with Ruby's legacy or with that of anthropological film as a concept, this may be a good place to begin to forage...

Picturing culture: explorations of film and anthropology.(Review)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  September 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......representation requires reflexivity, anthropological film-makers should avoid creating 'the...anthropological representation, he proposes anthropological film narrative might be structured as...udied' (p. 266). Arguing that, ideally, anthropological film narratives would explicate ...

(book reviews)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  June 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......the 1987 conference of the Nordic Anthropological Film Association. However, due to an...means and motivation for individual anthropological film-makers to pursue their aims. Such...rather uniform films, and appeals to anthropological film-makers to distance themselves from...

Jørgen Leth

Journal of Film Preservation;  October 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......more are in progress. The three completed sets cover anthropological films, sport, and travel. The films are arranged by theme...la totalit des films sera dite : Antropologiske film / Anthropological Films, Sportsfilm / Sports Films et Rejsefilmene /Travel Films...

Nepal to hold int'l mountain film festival

Xinhua News Agency;  November 20, 2004 ;     120 words ......years, Himal Association, one of the organizers, said Saturday in a press release. The range of presentations include anthropological films, alpine documentation, archival footage, adventure cinema, experimental shorts, lighthearted commentary and feature films...

Documentary Evidence

The Washington Post;  February 1, 1991 ;     462 words ......festival at the Museum of Natural History. "The Human Legacy Through Film: A Day-Long Look at Ourselves," includes seven anthropological films, culled from the 14th annual Margaret Mead Film Festival's 45 selections. The free films will be shown from 12:30 to...

Gordon Davis Gibson, 92; Curator With Smithsonian

The Washington Post;  October 8, 2007 ;     297 words ......led four expeditions to Africa for ethnographic fieldwork in Botswana, Namibia and Angola. He also reviewed books and anthropological films for the American Anthropologist, a journal of the American Anthropological Association. He was born in Vancouver and...

Jerome Daen Science Foundati ...

The Washington Post;  October 5, 2005 ;     249 words ......that included the "Introductory to Physical Science" middle school curriculum in the late 1960s, the "Faces of Change" anthropological film series and the "Limits of Growth" political economy project. He was a Fulbright scholar in Colombia in 1967 and spent...

(book review)

Critical Arts;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Moreover, he suggests that perhaps every viewpoint is the truth, even when they contradict each other. In writing reviews of anthropological films, Tomaselli encourages his students to begin their papers with a framing of their individual perspectives. This puts their...

Timothy Asch and Ethnographic Film

The Australian Journal of Anthropology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......of synchronous sound technologies and portable cameras generated a new level of enthusiasm, innovation and funding for anthropological film projects in remote areas of the world. Often working together with his wife, Patsy Asch (about whom we learn comparatively...

Pour 1'Image

Natural History;  November 1, 1996 ;     331 words ......films featured at this year's festival are those of Paul Fejos (page 93) who left Hollywood in the late 1930s to make anthropological films. For Fejos, people's stories-whether they are natives of New York City or Madagascar-could be best revealed through the...

Films; Margaret Mead Festival.

The Nation;  September 27, 1986 ;     700+ words ......New Guinea, filmed between 1936 and 1938. As befits a festival that bills itself as the nation's preeminent showcase of anthropological films, the real people on display this year include Australian aborigines, Ecuadorean Indians, Eskimo fishermen, African tribespeople...

NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY EVENTS FROM NOV. 29 - DEC. 5

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 24, 2008 ;     526 words ......call (575) 646-6814. NMSU MUSEUM SHOWS THIRD FILM IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL FILM SERIES The New Mexico State University Museum will show...Museum Auditorium located at Kent Hall as part of an anthropological film series.. The museum is located at University Avenue and...