Paul Hockings 
Principles of Visual Anthropology [PDF ebook] 

Frontmatter – General Editor’s Preface – Foreword – Table of Contents – Introduction – Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words – Ethnographic Filming and the Cinema – The History of Ethnographic Film – Mc Carty’s Law and How to Break It – Cinematic Social Inquiry – The Camera and Man – Documenting the Human Condition – Beyond Observational Cinema – Ethnographie Film Documents – Idea and Event in Urban Film – Ethnographie Observation and the Super-8 Millimeter Camera – Research Filming of Naturally Occurring Phenomena: Basic Strategies – Visual Anthropology and the Past – Ethnographic Film and History – Some Methods of Ethnographic Filming – Reconstructing Cultures on Film – The Role of Film in Archaeology – Specialized Uses of Film and Videotape – Photography and Visual Anthropology – Feature Films as Cultural Documents – Videotape: New Techniques of Observation and Analysis in Anthropology – The Film Elicitation Technique – Audiovisual Tools for the Analysis of Culture Style – Analysis of Body Movement and Space – Filming Body Behavior – A Photographic Method for the Recording and Evaluation of Cross-Cultural Proxemic Interaction Patterns – Proxemic Research: A Check on the Validity of its Techniques – The Presentation of Anthropological Information – Educational Uses of Videotape – Using Film in Teaching Anthropology: One Pedagogical Approach – The Use of Television in Teaching Anthropology – Research Films and the Communications Revolution – Mass Communication Meets the Anthropologist: A Short Manual of Some Unprimitive Thought – Anthropological Programming in Japanese Television – The Future of Visual Anthropology – The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness – Visual Records, Human Knowledge, and the Future – Conclusion – Appendices – Resolution on Visual Anthropology – Filmography – Biographical Notes – Index of Films – Index of Names – Index of Subjects