Abstract

HENLEY, Paul. Ethnographic film: Technology, Practice and Anthropological Theory. Desacatos [online]. 2001, n.8, pp.17-36. ISSN 2448-5144.

Despite the enthusiasm of the pioneer generation of anthropologists for the camera as a means of ethnographic research, filmmaking remained marginal to the anthropological project form most of the course of the last century. However a combination of technological developments and recent theoretical paradigm shifts within anthropology generally now offers the possibility of greater integration of filmmaking into ethnographic research. This article seeh to identify the basis for this theoretical incorporation and discusses some of the practical ways in which film can now be used as a means of generating ethnographic understanding.