Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Darjo
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…
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Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Udan Agung
We are announcing the first piece in a new series that we will be promoting on the Psycho Cultural Cinema blog on “Visual Ethnographic…
Shadows and Illuminations: A Multi-Touch Film Guide
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”…
20 Ethnographic and Documentary Films Psychological Anthropologists Should Be Teaching
Despite the rich history of innovative methods and techniques employed by documentary filmmakers across a range of genres, there seems to be little awareness…
Why I make ethnographic films (instead of writing a monograph…)
Orwell was once asked by his editor to address the question “why I write.” Orwell, in his typically clear and direct manner, listed a…
Mead’s Use of Film
On my recent trip to Bali with anthropologist Rob Lemelson and his film crew, I was asked to reflect upon my early remembrance of…
Autism Onscreen in Indonesia
In addition to working at Elemental Productions, I am finishing up my Ph.D at UCLA and writing my dissertation on the topic of autism…
Review of “Bethel: Community and Schizophrenia in Northern Japan” film
Despite the increasing use and production of film and video in various fields of anthropology, there are simply not very many ethnographic films available…
Toward an integration of psychological, medical and visual anthropology
There is an opportunity for psychological anthropology to break new ground, to come up with new ways of knowing and representation, to connect our…