ABSTRACT
Anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists have been keen to talk, particularly the question and answer kind of talk. It is true that observation has played a role in social research but this has often been either of animals (for example, rats, pigeons, monkeys) or of people from ‘foreign’ places (as part of the Australian colonial past). Rarely has both talk and image come together as in real life, and indeed as in modern film, for social science research. When research was not decontextualised (i.e. occurring away from the actual events being discussed) it was commonly disembodied (i.e. the results were presented in abstract numerical tracts that denied the richness of the original experience).
