anthro-onvideo

Video recording with good audio is getting easier and easier to capture and then publish online. Even a recent cellphone will record good video. Many phones accept attachments so that an external microphone can capture sharper, more immersive sound than the built-in mic.

Since so many people are accustomed to looking for answers and ideas online, including routinely seeking video explanations, it makes sense for anthropologists to go beyond printed communication and slide sets and now consider simple and brief video recordings: (a) stories and memories of anthropologists about earlier decades of methods, training, and the scholarly landscape [oral histories of the discipline of anthropology in each country's academia and private or public sector], (b) mini-lessons or micro-lectures about a word, concept, technique of anthropology, (c) video blogging (vlog) by individuals or groups of anthropologist about subjects currently on their minds, (d) "from the field" to give brief introductions of one's research project.

Several audiences would benefit from these sorts of short video recordings of, by, or about anthropologists: (grad) students, precollege anthropology learners, outreach with the general public, future scholars wanting to know our times, language learners eager to improve their comprehension in these subjects, Public Anthropology (attracting wide interest in matters of big consequence or chronic dangers), and sister professional associations seeking examples to produce their own set of video recordings.

Examples

[a] Stories and memories of earlier anthropology

Series of 30 minute interviews with several Japan Anthropologists in "Voices of Experience," lately converted to digital streaming on the Youtube channel, http://bit.ly/digiasia-voices

Featured are Theodore Bestor, Keith Brown, William Kelly, Takie Sugiyama Lebra, Margaret Lock, David Plath, Robert J. Smith, and Ella Wiswell. Descriptions for each episode in the series can be seen online at http://www.aems.illinois.edu/mpg/vidseries.html#Experience

<extract from TV show> Part of a television series on 'Strangers Abroad' shown in the 1990's. This is on the distinguished anthropologist Franz Boas. All credits to director, producer etc. are at the end of the film. For interviews of other anthropologists and other anthropological materials, please see www.alanmacfarlane.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOvFDioPrMM

[b] Anthropology: a word, concept, or technique

Danny Miller, University College London, 8/2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNus-xZ7_6Y

Serious Science (channel, many subjects and disciplines and scholars), https://www.youtube.com/user/SeriousScience/videos

website displaying "anthropology" search results, http://serious-science.org/?s=anthropology

[c] Video blogging - subjects currently on the anthropologist's mind

Vlog by Patricia Lange, author of Thanks for Watching https://www.youtube.com/user/AnthroVlog

[d] Research project in capsule introduction

---taken from the November 2019 monthly newsletter of ACMS, American Center for Mongolian Studies

video interviews involving Summer 2019 ACMS Field Research Fellows have been posted on the ACMS YouTube Channel, providing useful insights into both the research topic and the research experience in Mongolia. The list now includes:

1. ACMS Field Research Fellow Jennifer Molchan (Undergraduate student at Western Kentucky University) on "Ceramic Analysis in the Khanuy River Valley"

ACMS Field Research Fellow Dr. Undrah Baasanjav (Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville) on "Media Credibility of Nonprofits and Educational Organizations in Mongolia"
ACMS Field Research Fellow Emily O'Dell (Research Scholar at Yale Law School) on "Muslims in Mongolia: Islamic Identity and Practices Among Kazakhs, Refugees and Converts"
ACMS Field Research Fellow Asa Cameron (PhD Student at Yale University) on "Crafting the Nomadic State: Isotopic Perspectives Into Pastoral Practices in Mongolia from the Late Bronze Age through the Xiongnu Period"

Miscellany of anthropology visible on video

<>There are so many documentary sources to explore

<>Story, How I Chose to Apply Anthropology through Film by Carylanna Taylor. National Association for the Practice of Anthropology on November 8, 2019.

<>Video project, Explore the Anthropology of Food Video Project by David Sutton. Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition on November 1, 2019.

created 14 November 2019 ... last updated 14 November 2019

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