Manières et matières du cinéma anthropologique.

Abstract

J.-P. Colleyn — The Manner and Matter of Anthropological Cinema. After briefly reviewing the presuppositions and centers of interest of the descriptive tradition of "anthropological films" a plea is made for visual anthropology not as an autonomous subdiscipline but as a way to diversify methods of enquiry, broaden centers of interests and "publish" results. This approach holds for "complex" societies as well as the societies traditionally studied by anthropologists. When using the recording techniques of cinematographic language, we must be wary lest they be loaded with ethnocentric stereotypes, which precisely accounts for their success.