Film as Ethnography by Peter Crawford

Film as Ethnography by Peter Crawford

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This work examines the reasons why anthropologists have not used the camera as a research instrument or film as a means of communicating ethnographic knowledge. It suggests that images and words in this discipline operate on different logical levels.

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Film as Ethnography by Peter Crawford

This work examines the reasons why anthropologists have not used the camera as a research instrument or film as a means of communicating ethnographic knowledge. It suggests that images and words in this discipline operate on different logical levels; that they are hierarchically related; that whereas writings may encompass the images produced by film, the inverse of this cannot be true. The author argues for this position further by suggesting that the visual is to the written mode as "thin description" (giving a record of the form of behaviour) is to "thick description" (giving an account of meaning). -- .

David Turton is a senior associate of Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, where he was formerly Reader in Forced Migration and Director of the Refugees Studies Centre.

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ISBN 13 9780719036835
ISBN 10 0719036836
Titre Film as Ethnography
Auteur Peter Crawford
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Manchester University Press
Année de publication 1992-09-10
Nombre de pages 322
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
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