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Visualising Ethnography is a resource and gateway site for students and researchers using visual methods of research and representation in ethnographic projects. It has a range of links to existing on-line work in Visual Ethnography as well as publishing its own interviews with visual researchers and articles describing visual research projects. This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 17/12/2006. This does not include access to the moving images.
Alan Macfarlane at Cambridge University has been interviewing anthropologists, historians,ethno-musicologists and international travellers on video since the 1980s. Extracts from forty of these as well as the full interviews, often lasting between sixty and ninety minutes or more, can be found on this rudimentary but easy to use site and will require QuickTime to access. The full interviews (not all of which are available yet) are chaptered in reasonable detail and include useful metadata on the topics covered. The encoding is top notch, but some of the material was originally of poor quality and can therefore be a little hard to follow.
Haddon is an online catalogue of archival ethnographic films and film footage shot 1898-1945. It is named after A.C. Haddon, the Cambridge ethnologist whose Cambridge University Expedition to the Torres Straits in 1898 pioneered the science of ethnology, and made use of film and sound recordings. The database comprises films from several collections worldwide, and includes many titles from the BFI National Archive, quoting from its own detailed shotlists. This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 27/08/2006. This does not include access to the moving images.
This anthropology site is very well designed and features a large number of audio lectures which can be streamed easily. Those speaking include Leslie Aiello, Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, Margaret Mead and others. The lecturers have been usefully broken down into bite size chunks and the site also includes links to many useful other websites.
This accompanies a series of broadcasts on American public radio which collected many of the surviving audio recordings of ex-slaves which were made in the 1920s and 1930s throughout the United States. Put together by the Smithsonian Institute and supporting the 1998 book of the same name. The audiovisual part of the website is divided into five sections which looks at slavery in general, the work and home life of slaves and the adjustment to freedom and requires Real Audio to work, which can create some problems for Mac users - the site does offer help on how to overcome it however.
Part of the Internet Archive, which also covers archived moving images (The Internet Moving Images Archive), audio and software, the Wayback Machine holds cached versions of thousands of websites and billions of pages, allowing users to look at sites that are no longer available or at earlier versions of ones that are still around. An invaluable resource that, due to the gigantic nature of the holdings, is slightly hampered by the fact that no list of the holdings can be easily provided. This means inevitably that correct recall of the URL in question is necessary, or failing that, searching for it on the web first.
This extremely large site incorporates much fascinating material relating to the history of the Staffordshire region, told in photographic stills and artist’s representations and occasionally audio, which will require Windows Media Player, while to view some of the documents QuickTime will be required.
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