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by Jay Ruby (Author) "One motivation for the creation of a motion-picture technology was to provide scientists with a mechanism to record and study human behavior (Musser 1990)..." (more)
Key Phrases: anthropological cinema, researchable data, ethnographic film, Dead Birds, United States, Margaret Mead (more...)
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Here, Jay Ruby—a founder of visual anthropology—distills his thirty-year exploration of the relationship of film and anthropology. Spurred by a conviction that the ideal o