ABSTRACT
One result of anthropology’s preoccupation with representation during the 1980s has been a resurgence of interest in ethnographic film both inside and outside of anthropology (see Marcus and Fischer 1986: 45; Nichols 1991). While some anthropologists continue to emphasize films and written texts as complementary media, many more now see films as media of representation in their own right as opposed to seeing ethnographic film-making as merely an adjunct activity to data gathering. At the same time, considerably more attention is now given to the social and political circumstances in which films are produced and to the contexts in which they are distributed, viewed, and interpreted.
