Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words -- Ethnographic Filming and the Cinema -- The History of Ethnographic Film -- McCarty's Law and How to Break It -- Cinematic Social Inquiry -- The Camera and Man -- Documenting the Human Condition -- Beyond Observational Cinema -- Ethnographie Film Documents -- Idea and Event in Urban Film -- Ethnographie Observation and the Super-8 Millimeter Camera -- Research Filming of Naturally Occurring Phenomena: Basic Strategies -- Visual Anthropology and the Past -- Ethnographic Film and History -- Some Methods of Ethnographic Filming -- Reconstructing Cultures on Film -- The Role of Film in Archaeology -- Specialized Uses of Film and Videotape -- Photography and Visual Anthropology -- Feature Films as Cultural Documents -- Videotape: New Techniques of Observation and Analysis in Anthropology -- The Film Elicitation Technique -- Audiovisual Tools for the Analysis of Culture Style -- Analysis of Body Movement and Space -- Filming Body Behavior -- A Photographic Method for the Recording and Evaluation of Cross-Cultural Proxemic Interaction Patterns -- Proxemic Research: A Check on the Validity of its Techniques -- The Presentation of Anthropological Information -- Educational Uses of Videotape -- Using Film in Teaching Anthropology: One Pedagogical Approach -- The Use of Television in Teaching Anthropology -- Research Films and the Communications Revolution -- Mass Communication Meets the Anthropologist: A Short Manual of Some Unprimitive Thought -- Anthropological Programming in Japanese Television -- The Future of Visual Anthropology -- The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness -- Visual Records, Human Knowledge, and the Future -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Resolution on Visual Anthropology -- Filmography -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Films -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects