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Anthropology

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#73

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#17

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Cultural Anthropology

#12

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#19

Historical Rank

#8

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PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
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According to Wikipedia, Jay Ruby was an American scholar who was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Temple University until his retirement in 2003. He received his B.A. in History and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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A Crack in the mirror : reflexive perspectives in anthropology (1982) (273)
Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology (2000) (269)
Exposing yourself: Reflexivity, anthropology, and film (1980) (190)
Speaking For, Speaking About, Speaking With, or Speaking Alongside — An Anthropological and Documentary Dilemma (1991) (164)
Made to be seen : perspectives on the history of visual anthropology (2011) (127)
The Image Mirrored: Reflexivity and the Documentary Film. (1977) (101)
Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television (1991) (99)
Film as ethnography (1994) (93)
The last 20 years of visual anthropology – a critical review (2005) (81)
Is an Enthnographic Film a Filmic Ethnography (1975) (77)
Trouble on the Horizon (2004) (58)
Secure the Shadow: Death and Photography in America (1995) (58)
The Moral Burden of Authorship In Ethnographic Film (1995) (42)
Seeing Through Pictures: The Anthropology of Photography (1981) (28)
Where Is the Theory in Visual Anthropology? (2014) (20)
1. Collective Reflexivity: Restoration of Behavior (1982) (19)
The cinema of John Marshall (1994) (19)
Out of Sync: The Cinema of Tim Asch (1995) (17)
Portraying the Dead (1989) (13)
5. How to Look at Us Looking at the Yanomami Looking at Us (1982) (12)
Anthropology and film: The social science implications of regarding film as communication (1976) (12)
Robert J. Flaherty, a biography (1983) (11)
The Professionalization of Visual Anthropology in the United States: The 1960s and 1970s. (2001) (10)
A Future for Ethnographic Film? (2008) (8)
The Emperor and His Clothes: A Comment (1989) (8)
Vision, Race and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World (1997) (8)
Post-Mortem portraiture in America (1984) (7)
The Teaching of Visual Anthropology at Temple. (1973) (7)
8. Masked I Go Forward: Reflections on the Modern Subject (1982) (6)
10. Social Explorers and Social Scientists: The Dark Continent of Victorian Ethnography (1982) (5)
Image Ethics In The Digital Age (2017) (5)
Introduction: Editor's Note (1985) (5)
A reexamination of the early career of Robert J. Flaherty 1 (1980) (5)
11. Occasions and Forms of Anthropological Experience (1982) (4)
The future of anthropological cinema—A modest polemic (1986) (4)
The belly of the beast: Eric Michaels and the anthropology of visual communication (1990) (4)
North American Contributions to the History of Visual Anthropology - Introduction. (2001) (3)
9. Ritual Undress and the Comedy of Self and Other: Bandelier's The Delight Makers (1982) (3)
Occurrence of Southwestern Pottery in Los Angeles County, California (1964) (3)
Introduction: A Reevaluation of Robert J. Flaherty, Photographer and Filmmaker (1980) (3)
Anthropology as a Subversive Art: A Review of Through These Eyes (2005) (3)
Animals and people: the tie between: images of the family: the symbolic implications of animal photography (1983) (3)
Pictures at an Execution: An Inquiry Into the Subject of Murder (2008) (3)
Autobiography : Film/Video/Photography (1978) (3)
4. Ethnography as Trompe I'Oeil: Film and Anthropology (1982) (3)
Worlds in a Small Room (1977) (3)
Images of Rural America: View photographs and picture postcards (1988) (3)
Digital Oak Park: an experiment (2007) (2)
Eric Michaels: An appreciation (1991) (2)
Eric Michaels: A partial guide to his written work (1990) (2)
6. Anthropological Hermeneutics and the Problem of Alphabetic Literacy (1982) (2)
A Country Auction: The Paul V. Leitzel Estate Sale (1986) (2)
Jean Rouch: Hidden and Revealed (2005) (2)
Third Voice Films (1996) (2)
A Filmography of Jean Rouch—1946–1981 (1989) (2)
COMMENTARY: Tierney's Claims about Tim Asch (2000) (1)
Robert J. Flaherty (1884-1951) (1987) (1)
Francis L. Cooper, Spruce Hill Photographer (1985) (1)
The World of Francis Cooper: Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania Photographer (1999) (1)
Photographs, Memory, and Grief (1991) (1)
Beauty Before Age: Growing Older in Gay Culture (2000) (1)
Robert J. Flaherty (2015) (1)
4–Butte–1: A Lesson In Archaeology. Produced by Peter Schnitzler (1969) (1)
The United States View Company of Richfield, Pennsylvania (Photo Essay) (1983) (1)
Film as Ethnography/Innovation in Ethnographic Film: From Innocence to Self‐Consciousness/The Cinema of John Marshall/China Turned On; Television, Reform, and Resistance. (1994) (1)
Studying Sideways in Malibu (2014) (1)
General and Theoretical: Principles of Visual Anthropology. Paul Hockings (1977) (1)
Objectivity Revisited: Rethinking Objectivity . Allan Megill. ; Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge . Kirsten Hastrup, Peter Hervik. (1996) (1)
Southwestern Pottery in Los Angeles County, California: A Correction (1966) (1)
Program in Ethnographic Film Newsletter (1972) (1)
Book Review:Suburbia. (1999) (0)
Some Flaherty Sayings (1983) (0)
Joseph Replogle: An Unknown Photographer of Modest Talents (2014) (0)
John Bull, photographer (1990) (0)
Design: The End Justifies the Means (2008) (0)
: The Path . Donald Rundstrom, Ronald Rundstrom, Clinton Bergum. (1975) (0)
Ola Belle Reed, Memories (1977) (0)
Response to Leeds's Review of A Crack in the Mirror (1986) (0)
Law and Regulation (1989) (0)
Chapter 6. Louisiana Story (1983) (0)
In the Kitchen by Dona Schwartz (2010) (0)
Cinema of John Marshall (2014) (0)
Archaeological Resources of the Willow Hole Area, Riverside County, California (1964) (0)
Appendix IV. Notes by John Goldman (1983) (0)
Picturing Culture: A Response to a Review (2002) (0)
ETHNOGRAPHIC CINEMA (EC): A MANIFESTO / A PROVOCATION (USA, 2003) (2019) (0)
Chapter 2. Moana and the Pacific (1983) (0)
CORRESPONDENCE: Immoral Website? (2002) (0)
Correspondence: Email Ethnography (2000) (0)
A Unique Life in Film (2010) (0)
In a Pic’s Eye (1976) (0)
Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy. 1990. Directed by Tracey Moffatt. (1992) (0)
O Say Can You See: American Photographs 1839-1939: One Hundred Years of American Photographs from the George Rinhart Collection (1991) (0)
Appendix III. On the Record (1983) (0)
The Other Worlds of Joe Steinmetz (Photo Essay) (1984) (0)
Appendix II. Some Flaherty Stories (1983) (0)
Beyond Realism/Formalism: Toward a New Role for Film in Anthropology (1981) (0)
II. An Interview with Bernd Lohse (1985) (0)
The Teaching of Visual Anthropology at the Temple University - 1967 to 2004 (2013) (0)
Cooperating with the Government (2005) (0)
Stopping By: Portraits from Small Towns (1991) (0)
How the dog got his likeness taken (1986) (0)
Festival Dei Popoli 1984: 25th Annual Film-Festival (1985) (0)
Chapter 4. India and the Elephants (1983) (0)
THE ABORTED INDIGENOUS SEMINAR (2021) (0)
Francis L. Cooper, Avocational Photographer (1997) (0)
: Family . Hubert Smith. ; Changing . Hubert Smith. (1972) (0)
Portrait by Oliver St. John Gogarty (1948) (1983) (0)
Now that the Buffalo's Gone. Written, directed, and produced by Burton Gershfield (1969) (0)
Penn: Worlds in a Small Room (1977) (0)
The Architectural Uncanny/ The Surreptitious Speech/ The Cinematic Grtot / Ethnographic Film Aesthetics & Narrative Traditions / Deer Camp / Magic Eyes / Partial Recall / Waucoma Twilight (1993) (0)
Harald Lechenperg, Photojournalist (1985) (0)
Film as text: a response to Neofotistos (AT 24[3]) (2008) (0)
Bernd Lohse, Photojournalist (1985) (0)
Exhibiting Cultures; Museums and Communities (1992) (0)
The Other Worlds of Joe Steinmetz (1984) (0)
A REVIEW ON PELLETIZATION TECHNIQUES (2020) (0)
Review essay (1982) (0)
A Country Auction: The Paul V. Leitzel Estate Sale@@@The Ramsey Trade Fair (1987) (0)

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