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The Cinematic Griot: Ethnography of Jean Rouch
[Buy it!] | Paul Stoller | USD 40.71
(Tue May 28 11:30:45 2024) | Biblio | The Saint Bookstore | Paperback / softback. New. The most prolific ethnographic filmmaker in the world, a pioneer of cine ma ve rite and one of the earliest ethnographers of African societies, Jean Rouch (1917-) remains a controversial and often misunderstood figure in histories of anthropology and film. By examining Rouch's neglected ethnographic writings, Paul Stoller seeks to clarify the filmmaker's true place in anthropology. A brief account of Rouch's background, revealing the ethnographic foundations and intellectual assumptions underlying his fieldwork among the Songhay of Niger in the 1940s and 1950s, sets the stage for his emergence as a cinematic griot, a peripatetic bard who "recites" the story of a people through provocative imagery. Against this backdrop, Stoller considers Rouch's writings on Songhay history, myth, magic and possession, migration, and social change. By analyzing in depth some of Rouch's most important films and assessing Rouch's ethnography in terms of his own expertise in Songhay culture, Stoller demonstrates the inner connection between these two modes of representation. Stoller, who has done more fieldwork among the Songhay than anyone other than Rouch himself, here gives the first full account of Rouch the griot, whose own story scintillates with important implications for anthropology, ethnography, African studies, and film. ISBN 0226775488 9780226775487 [GB] |
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Waters Rising: Letters From Florence
[Buy it!] | Waters Sheila | USD 88.80
(Tue May 28 11:30:45 2024) | Biblio | Westland Books | Hardcover. Good. UK stocked, available immediately. Hardcover, published by Legacy Press in 2016. First edition. No DVD. A very good copy in a very good unclipped dustjacket. Small mark on page 150, very minor edge rubbing. Illustrated. ISBN 1940965004 9781940965000 [GB] |
