Narco Cultura : Drug Culture, Musical Innovation, and Depictions of Violence Onscreen (Film Review)
As we are well into the New Year, I am still finding myself thinking about a film I watched just before the holidays: Narco…
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Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Darjo
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Using Multimodality to Provide Holistic Context and Promote Engaged Learning in Tajen: Interactive
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Visual Ethnographic Marginalia – Challenging the Dark Side: Udan Agung
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Shadows and Illuminations: A Multi-Touch Film Guide
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On the unexpected and emergent in ethnographic film — An example from Java
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Why I make ethnographic films (instead of writing a monograph…)
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Mead’s Use of Film
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Anthropologists vs. Filmmakers: The Personal Perspective of a Commercial Producer
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Toward an integration of psychological, medical and visual anthropology
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The Digital Revolution and Anthropological Film
Reblogged from Savage Minds: [The following is an invited post by Jay Ruby. Jay has been exploring the relationship between cultures and pictures for the…
Refusing to Look Away: ‘The Act of Killing’ and the Indonesian Genocide of 1965
The following film review of Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing (2013) originally appeared on Anthropology Now. In the mid 1990s I was conducting transcultural psychiatric…
Theyyam: When Gods Dance Among Men
According to Indian mythology, Parshurama, a Priest-Warrior and the sixth avatar of Lord Vishnu, following a bloody campaign to annihilate the ruling Kshatriyas, flung…
On the unexpected and emergent in ethnographic film — An example from Java
It is not uncommon for anthropologists engaged in long-term, longitudinal, ethnographic research to have their foci and at times basic domain or research area…
The Affliction Series: an Interview with Ethnographic Filmmaker Robert Lemelson
Reblogged from Somatosphere: When Robert Lemelson, an anthropologist, filmmaker, and research professor at UCLA, recently visited the George Washington University to speak at a conference on how…
“Bitter Honey” Conundrum: Gaining Informed Consent (Part 2 of 2)
If you haven’t read Part 1, it can be found HERE When it comes to gaining consent ethically, there are two types—legal consent…
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…
Ethics and Voyeurism
During our trip to Bali, I was considering both visual ethnography and documentary. Specifically, I was wondering when and how are they forms of…
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…
Anthropologists vs. Filmmakers: The Personal Perspective of a Commercial Producer
Anthropologists have a strong intellectual background and a radically different way of approaching the filming process and the making of a film than that…
Bali, tourism, and exoticism
Elemental Productions’ upcoming film, Bitter Honey, is a really important movie for the Balinese because it gives a critique to their own culture and…
Violence and Intervention: Filmmaker and Anthropologist in a Supportive Role
One of the more difficult areas in doing long-term filming is when your subjects, either because of the conditions of their lives or, more…
Editing: From Feature Film to Ethnographic Film
It has been almost three years since I started working for Elemental Productions. I have completed three movies as an editor or a co-editor,…
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…