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Ethnographic Film

Revised Edition

By: Karl G. Heider

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From reviews of the first edition: “Ethnographic Film can rightly be considered a film primer for anthropologists.” —Choice “This is an interesting and useful book about what it means to be ethnographic and how this might affect ethnographic filmmaking for the better. It obviously belongs in all departments of anthropology, and most ethnographic filmmakers will want to read it.” —Ethnohistory Even before Robert Flaherty released Nanook of the North in 1922, anthropologists were producing films about the lifeways of native peoples for a public audience, as well as for research and teaching. Ethnographic Film (1976) was one of the first books to provide a comprehensive introduction to this field of visual anthropology, and it quickly became the standard reference. In this new edition, Karl G. Heider thoroughly updates Ethnographic Film to reflect developments in the field over the three decades since its publication, focusing on the work of four seminal filmmakers—Jean Rouch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, and Timothy Asch. He begins with an introduction to ethnographic film and a history of the medium. He then considers many attributes of ethnographic film, including the crucial need to present "whole acts," "whole bodies," "whole interactions," and "whole people" to preserve the integrity of the cultural context. Heider also discusses numerous aspects of making ethnographic films, from ethics and finances to technical considerations such as film versus video and preserving the filmed record. He concludes with a look at using ethnographic film in teaching.

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University of Texas Press

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0292779399

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9780292779396

The Dugum Dani

A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea

By: Karl G. Heider

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The Dugum Dani

A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea

By: Karl G. Heider

For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive warfare, its place in a particular culture, its form, and its consequences on other tribes. This full-scale ethnography of the Dugum Dani centers on the issue of hostility between groups of human beings and the place and function of violence. Warfare, like rituals and kinship alliances, is part of a total culture, and for this reason Professor Heider has approached the Dani from a holistic point of view. Other aspects of Dani life and organization are shown in interrelationship with the institution of warfare, such as the social, ecological, and technological elements in the Dani way of life. Professor Heider examines particularly the role of warfare itself in terms of the particular needs, and lack of them. The first section of this book documents the Dani and their warfare and provides one of the most detailed accounts of tribal life available. The second section focuses on the material aspects of Dani culture, to explore the interrelationships of the material objects with the other aspects of Dani culture; this analysis is especially interesting since the Dani moved from a stone-age culture to steel tools during the period of study itself. Professor Heider also notes the distinctive aspects of Dani culture; the paucity of color, number, and other attribute terms, the near absence of art; their five-year post-partum sexual abstinence, and other traits that seem to suggest that the Dani have little interest in intellectual elaboration or sex, and that despite their warfare, they are not a particularly aggressive people. Including previously unpublished photographs and descriptions of tribal life and warfare, this book provides anthropologists with a full and vivid account of Dani culture and with new insights into the general problems of human aggression.

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Routledge

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1351483366

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Visual Research and Indonesian Ethnography

Beyond Description

By: Karl Heider

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Visual Research and Indonesian Ethnography

Beyond Description

By: Karl Heider

This book focuses on how visual records – mainly on film or video – can provide data for research and presents a variety of visual projects drawn from ethnographic fieldwork in Indonesia. Karl Heider argues for the expansion of visual anthropology - or anthropology with a camera - beyond descriptive ethnographic film into actual use of the camera as a research tool. The chapters explore several ways in which camera-generated materials can complement and support what anthropologists already do in their research. Heider includes samples from fieldwork in Indonesia conducted over a number of years, particularly in New Guinea and Sumatra with groups including the Dani and Minangkabau. His studies combine visual and psychological anthropology and provides insight into the analysis of emotions in particular. Intended to inspire new approaches to the ethnographic enterprise, the book is valuable for scholars of visual anthropology and Southeast Asia.

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133

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Routledge

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1000415287

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9781000415285

The Storied Nature of Human Life

The Life and Work of Theodore R. Sarbin

By: Karl E. Scheibe,Frank J. Barrett

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The Storied Nature of Human Life

The Life and Work of Theodore R. Sarbin

By: Karl E. Scheibe,Frank J. Barrett

This book sheds new light on the life and the influence of one of the most significant critical thinkers in psychology of the last century, Theodore R. Sarbin (1911-2005). In the first section authors provide a comprehensive account of Sarbin’s life and career. The second section consists in a collection of ten publications from the last two decades of his career. The essays cover topics such as the adoption of contextualism as the appropriate world view for psychology, the establishment of narrative psychology as a major mode of inquiry, and the rejection both mechanism and mentalism as suitable approaches for psychology. The book is historically informed and yet focused on the future of psychological theory and practice. It will engage researches and scholars in psychology, social scientists and philosophers, as well general readership interested in exploring Sarbin’s theories.

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Springer

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3319487906

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Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements

A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique, and Synthesis

By: Karl-Dieter Opp

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Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements

A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique, and Synthesis

By: Karl-Dieter Opp

Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure theory, the identity approach, the framing perspective, and the dynamics of contention approach. The book has three objectives: (1) Many basic concepts like political opportunities or identity are not clearly defined. It is further often a matter of interpretation what factors are supposed to affect which phenomena. The first aim is therefore to provide a detailed introduction to and a clear restatement of the theories. Only then is it possible to assess and improve them. (2) For each theory the major strengths and weaknesses are discussed, and various modifications and extensions are suggested. (3) Building on these analyses, it is shown how the theories can be integrated into a single theoretical paradigm: the structural-cognitive model.

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1134014384

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An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis

A Manual for Family Workers

By: Gina Smith,Karl Gregory,Annie Higgs

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An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis

A Manual for Family Workers

By: Gina Smith,Karl Gregory,Annie Higgs

The authors also consider how to overcome personal and external barriers to effective family work by suggesting a framework of ground rules and boundaries to apply.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1843103699

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No Other Gods

Emergent Monotheism in Israel

By: Robert Karl Gnuse

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No Other Gods

Emergent Monotheism in Israel

By: Robert Karl Gnuse

This is the first full-scale assessment of the theological, social and ideational implications of our new understandings of ancient Israel's social and religious development. Scholars now stress the gradual emergence of Israel out of the culture of ancient Palestine and the surrounding ancient Near East rather than contrast Israel with the ancient world. Our new paradigms stress the ongoing and unfinished nature of the monotheistic 'revolution', which is indeed still in process today. Gnuse takes a further bold step in setting the emergence of monotheism in a wider intellectual context: he argues brilliantly that the interpretation of Israel's development as both an evolutionary and revolutionary process corresponds to categories of contemporary evolutionary thought in the biological and palaeontological sciences (Punctuated Equilibrium).

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A&C Black

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0567374157

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Visual Research and Indonesian Ethnography

Beyond Description

By: Karl Heider

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By: Karl Heider

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Remembering Our Childhood

How Memory Betrays Us

By: Karl Sabbagh

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Remembering Our Childhood

How Memory Betrays Us

By: Karl Sabbagh

In a number of highly-charged child abuse cases, teachers and parents have been wrongfully arrested because of claims of 'recovered memory'. But brain science is now discovering how memories can alter, or even be planted by leading questions. Sabbagh explains the latest findings, and argues that courts must be guided by them.

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Oxford University Press

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0199218412

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Book's by Karl Heider

Ethnographic Film

Ethnographic Film

The Dugum Dani

The Dugum Dani

Visual Research and Indonesian Ethnography

Visual Research and Indonesian Ethnography

The Storied Nature of Human Life

The Storied Nature of Human Life

Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements

Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements

An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis

An Integrated Approach to Family Work for Psychosis

No Other Gods

No Other Gods

Visual Research and Indonesian Ethnography

Visual Research and Indonesian Ethnography

Remembering Our Childhood

Remembering Our Childhood

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