Judith MacDougall

Judith MacDougall (born 1938) is an American visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, who has made over 20 ethnographic films in Africa, Australia and India.[1] For many of the films, she worked with her husband, David MacDougall, also an anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker.[2] Both of them are considered among the most significant anthropological filmmakers in the English-speaking world.[3][4][5][6]

Judith MacDougall
Born1938
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Known forEthnographic films in Africa, India and Australia
The Wedding Camels
Spouse(s)David MacDougall
AwardsFilm Prize by Royal Anthropological Institute for The Wedding Camels (1980)
Scientific career
FieldsVisual anthropology, Social anthropology, Documentary films

Early life and education

MacDougall was born in the United States. She enrolled in the ethnographic film program at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she met her husband, David.[7] Together, they would go on to make some 20 ethnographic films, across Australia, Africa, and India.[8]

Filmography

  • Indians and Chiefs ( 1967)
  • The House-Opening (1977)
  • The Wedding Camels (1980)
  • Takeover (1980)
  • Three Horsemen (1982)
  • Collum Calling Canberra (1984)
  • Sunny and the Dark Horse (1986)
  • Photo Wallahs (1991)
  • Diyas (2001)

Bibliography

  • MacDougall, David (1999). Transcultural Cinema. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691012346.

References

  1. Maslin, Janet (October 28, 1981). "Film: Anthropologists Focus on Tribal Patriarch in Kenya" via NYTimes.com.
  2. Maslin, Janet (November 23, 1978). "'Wedding Camels' At the Film Forum" via NYTimes.com.
  3. Grimshaw, Anna (April 10, 2001). "The anthropological cinema of David and Judith MacDougall". The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology.
  4. "David & Judith MacDougall bio". subsol.c3.hu.
  5. Barbash, Ilisa; MacDougall, David; Taylor, Lucien; MacDougall, Judith (1996). "Reframing Ethnographic Film: A "Conversation" with David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall". American Anthropologist. 98 (2): 371–387. doi:10.1525/aa.1996.98.2.02a00120. JSTOR 682894.
  6. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ethnographers-eye/anthropological-cinema-of-david-and-judith-macdougall/6154654EED141B0BCBEC9F131046491B
  7. Internet, Chirp. "Judith MacDougall – Ronin Films – Educational DVD Sales". www.roninfilms.com.au.
  8. Br, Tyler; Willrich, on. "Judith MacDougall | Visual Anthropology".
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