ABSTRACT
Although questions about the extent to which non-academic practitioners perceive and relate to (visual) anthropology have been gradually emerging, international academia has rarely paid attention to ethnographic audiovisual practices that occur outside the discipline of visual anthropology. Drawing on examples from the Indian subcontinent, in this chapter I address this lacuna and hope to initiate a long overdue debate on the ontological significance of ‘ethnographic’ imaging practices in anthropology and beyond. The examples from India offer a valuable case with which to challenge the orthodoxy of the ‘ethnographic’ typology of film that some anthropologists still argue belongs exclusively to the discipline of anthropology and cannot be appropriated by other image-making practices and disciplines.
