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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…
As we are well into the New Year, I am still finding myself thinking about a film I watched just before the holidays: Narco…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Orwell was once asked by his editor to address the question “why I write.” Orwell, in his typically clear and direct manner, listed a…
During our trip to Bali, I was considering both visual ethnography and documentary. Specifically, I was wondering when and how are they forms of…
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 have a strong intellectual background and a radically different way of approaching the filming process and the making of a film than that…
Elemental Productions’ upcoming film, Bitter Honey, is a really important movie for the Balinese because it gives a critique to their own culture and…
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…
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,…
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…