Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Visual Anthropology In A Discipline Of Words -- Ethnographic Filming And The Cinema -- The History Of Ethnographic Film -- Feature Films As Cultural Documents -- Mccarty'S Law And How To Break It -- Some Recent Approaches To Anthropological Film -- The Camera And Man -- Observational Cinema -- Beyond Observational Cinema -- Idea And Event In Urban Film -- Research Filming Of Naturally Occurring Phenomena: Basic Strategies -- Visual Anthropology And The Past -- Ethnographic Film And History -- Reconstructing Cultures On Film -- The Role Of Film In Archaeology -- Ethnographic Photography In Anthropological Research -- Our Totemic Ancestors And Crazed Masters -- Some Specialized Uses Of Film And Videotape -- Photography And Visual Anthropology -- Videotape: New Techniques Of Observation And Analysis In Anthropology -- Filming Body Behavior -- Audiovisual Tools For The Analysis Of Culture Style -- Film In Ethnographic Research -- The Presentation Of Anthropological Information -- Ethnographies On The Airwaves: The Presentation Of Anthropology On American, British, Belgian And Japanese Television -- The First Videotheque -- Funding Ethnographic Film And Video Productions In America -- Ethnographic Filmmaking For Japanese Television -- Matters Of Fact -- The Future Of Visual Anthropology -- The Tribal Terror Of Self-Awareness -- Visual Records, Human Knowledge, And The Future -- Conclusion: Ethnographic Filming And Anthropological Theory -- Appendices -- Resolution On Visual Anthropology -- Note On Filmography -- Biographical Notes -- Index Of Films -- Index Of Names -- Index Of Subjects.