Lucien Castaing-Taylor

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#407

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According to Wikipedia, Lucien Giles Castaing-Taylor is a British anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography. Biography Castaing-Taylor received his B.A. at Cambridge University and his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley under Paul Rabinow. Since 2002 Castaing-Taylor has taught at Harvard University, where he is Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. His works include In and Out of Africa, which he made with Ilisa Barbash in 1992. It is an ethnographic video about issues of authenticity, taste, and racial politics in the African art market that won eight international awards. He also recorded the film Sweetgrass , which is described as "an unsentimental elegy at once to the American West and to the 10,000 years of uneasy accommodation between post-Paleolithic humans and animals." He is the founding editor of the American Anthropological Association’s journal Visual Anthropology Review .

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Lucien Castaing-Taylor's Published Works

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Cross-cultural filmmaking : a handbook for making documentary and ethnographic films and videos (1997) (158)
Visualizing Theory : Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994 (1996) (59)
“Visual Anthropology Is Dead, Long Live Visual Anthropology!” (1998) (54)
Reframing Ethnographic Film: A “Conversation” with David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall (1996) (22)
How anthropology lost it at the movies (2013) (18)
In and out of Africa (1993) (17)
The Same Difference@@@Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays (1994) (13)
Radically Empirical Documentary: An Interview with David and Judith MacDougall (2000) (12)
Making Forest of Bliss: Intention, Circumstance, and Chance in Nonflction Film (2002) (11)
A Conversation with Jean Rouch (1991) (11)
The cinema of Robert Gardner (2007) (7)
Notes on Historicity, Postmodernism, and the Social Subject (1991) (2)
The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology: Visual Methods in Social Research (2002) (1)
The United States and Japan : selected references to books and periodicals in the Public library of the city of Boston (1)
Visualizing Theory: Selections from V.A.R. 1990 —1993 (1993) (1)
Seminar around the film 'Gandhi's Children' by David MacDougall (2009) (0)
Beyond the burden of the real: anthropological reflections on the technique of a master cutter (2007) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Rouch's Seed (1993) (0)
A List of Books On Modern Ireland in the Public Library of the City of Boston (2010) (0)

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