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Longer-form pieces written by anthropologists and pertaining to topics in visual anthropology.

CONTRASTING WORLDS: Lisbet Holtedahl’s ethnographic films and her contribution to the development of visual anthropology

(Photo: Lisbet Holtedahl with Susan Whyte by Knud Fischer-Møller) An international ethnographic film seminar in the Ethnographic Exploratory at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, 26 June 2025 NAFA, together… Read More »CONTRASTING WORLDS: Lisbet Holtedahl’s ethnographic films and her contribution to the development of visual anthropology

The passing of a maker of film-makers, or was he a shoe-maker? A tribute to Colin Young

In 1923 Dziga Vertov was flattered to be labelled a ‘shoe-maker’ rather than an ‘Artist of Soviet Cinema’. He knew that documentary film-makers “must be more aware that the boot… Read More »The passing of a maker of film-makers, or was he a shoe-maker? A tribute to Colin Young