Research Catalog

Title

Roger Sandall's films and contemporary anthropology : explorations in the aesthetic, the existential, and the possible / Lorraine Mortimer.

Author

Mortimer, Lorraine

Publication

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

x, 347 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"In Roger Sandall's Films and Contemporary Anthropology, Lorraine Mortimer argues that while social anthropology and documentary film share historic roots and goals, particularly on the continent of Australia, their trajectories have tended to remain separate. This book reunites film and anthropology through the works of Roger Sandall, a New Zealand-born filmmaker and Columbia University graduate, who was part of the vibrant avant-garde and social documentary film culture in New York in the 1960s. Mentored by Margaret Mead in anthropology and Cecile Starr in fine arts, Sandall was eventually hired as the one-man film unit at the newly formed Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in 1965. In the 1970s, he became a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Sydney. Sandall won First Prize for Documentary at the Venice Film Festival in 1968, yet his films are scarcely known, even in Australia now. Mortimer demonstrates how Sandall's films continue to be relevant to contemporary discussions in the fields of anthropology and documentary studies. She ties exploration of the making and restriction of Sandall's aboriginal films and his nonrestricted films made in Mexico, Australia, and India to the radical history of anthropology and the resurgence today of an expanded, existential-phenomenological anthropology that encompasses the vital connections between humans, animals, things, and our environment"--

Subject

• Sandall, Roger > Criticism and interpretation
• Ethnographic films > History and criticism
• Ethnographic films

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-337), filmography (pages 321) and index.

Contents

Trusting the material : Maíz (1962) -- Environments fit for the spirit : The Flahertys, Sandall, and some anarchist anthropology -- They were still participants : The ritual films (1966-76) -- The colors of the infinite : Camels and the Pitjantjara (1969) -- "What you thinkin' about, little horse?" : Coniston Muster : scenes from a stockman's life (1972) -- Harmony and fire : Making a bark canoe (1969) and A Walbiri fire ceremony : Ngatjakula (1967 and 1977) -- More optional and more fragile : Weddings (1976) -- In the floating desert with Jayasinhji Jhala, part 1 : The Tragada Bhavai : a rural theater troupe of Gujarat (1981), A Zenana : scenes and recollections (1982), and The Bharvad predicament (1987) -- In the floating desert with Jayasinhji Jhala, part 2 : Close encounters of no kind (2002) and Nomads (1984).

Call Number

MWES (Sandall, R.) 19-4343

ISBN

• 9780253043979
• 0253043972
• 9780253043948
• 0253043948
• 9780253043955 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019016937
• 40029464775

OCLC

1056450520

Author

Mortimer, Lorraine, author.

Title

Roger Sandall's films and contemporary anthropology : explorations in the aesthetic, the existential, and the possible / Lorraine Mortimer.

Publisher

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-337), filmography (pages 321) and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Mortimer, Lorraine. Roger Sandall's films and contemporary anthropology. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2019] 9780253043955 (DLC) 2019980372

Other Standard Identifier

40029464775

Research Call Number

MWES (Sandall, R.) 19-4343