Woundrous difference

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WERE THERE ethnographic films before Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the Nini? This book began with this question some ten years ago, when I firs attempted to marry my interests in early cinema and ethnographic film. Strud by the dearth of material on ethnographic filmmaking from the early cinema period, I soon realized that the terrain I was entering, while intellectually stim ulating, was amorphous and potentially boundless. In my pursuit of precine matic antecedents and intellectual and institutional horizons for ethnograph ic film, cinema sometimes seemed like a vanishing point on an ever-receding landscape, by the time I completed three chapters of the dissertation, none of them directly addressing film, I began to have serious doubts about my approach. However, I came to believe that the questions these precinematic chapters addressed were vital in appreciating the intersections between cine-ma, anthropology, and turn-of-the-century visual culture. With support from faculty from both cinema studies and anthropology at New York University, including Antonia Lant (my adviser), Faye Ginsburg (whose intellectual rigor and unstunting generosity left an indelible mark on this book), Robert Stam, Richard Allen, and Fred Myers, I was encouraged to take on what turned out to be an immensely rewarding topic, one marked by moments of both intel-lectual exhilaration and self-doubt.

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791.43 GRI w

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New York : Columbia University Press., 2002

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xxxiv + 463 halaman; 21 cm

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English

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0-231-11696-9

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791

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