The intersection of psychological anthropology with ethnographic film
By Annie Tucker (Elemental Productions) A recent piece in American Anthropologist, “The Balinese Cockfight Reimagined: Tajen: Interactive and the Prospects for a Multimodal Anthropology,”…
What I’m presenting today is the second of three case studies on traditional healers in Java and Bali, for an as yet unreleased film…
We are announcing the first piece in a new series that we will be promoting on the Psycho Cultural Cinema blog on “Visual Ethnographic…
With a complete documentary film, ethnography, and multi-media interactive study guide contained in one package, the “Shadows and Illuminations: A Multi Touch Film Guide”…
It was a warm spring day in May 2014, I was cloaked in a light blue cap and gown, surrounded by my family, and…
One afternoon in 2014, my friend Mawardi and I were combatting the humid heat with cool, sugary, drinks at a cafe situated in a…
“Sudah bangun Gusti?” It was 4 AM and I sent a text message to Gusti Ayu to ask whether she was awake or not….
A repost of the blog “Heroes of Freedom: Burma’s 88 Generation and the Legacy of Mandela” for our readers in Burma: ၿမန္မာႏိုင္ငံလုိ အလ်င္အၿမန္…
It is easy when a nation is modernizing as rapidly as Burma is to look only forward, rather than backward. Yet, perhaps one of…
(To read Part 1, click here). What Can Multi-modal Ethnography Do? So, to return to the questions of the conference: how can anthropologists tell…
Earlier this month I braved the lingering polar vortex to head out to the second annual Screening Scholarship Media Festival at the University of…
“Daddy, you cannot die now, because now I have finally become successful, I can buy a car, I can build a house, I can…
This past September, I traveled to Bali, Indonesia, as a still photographer for Elemental Productions, an ethnographic film production studio owned by UCLA anthropology…
The documentary world has been talking about Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing for a while now, and the buzz has grown since the…
Despite the rich history of innovative methods and techniques employed by documentary filmmakers across a range of genres, there seems to be little awareness…