Paul Hockings

Biographic Data

ID76218
NAMEPaul Hockings
GIVEN NAMESPaul
FAMILY NAMEHockings
SIGNATUREHOCKINGS P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Illinois Chicago
ORCID0000-0002-7154-9047
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS99
TOTAL CITATIONS110
AUTHOR COUNT96
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1963
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX7

  • An Anthropologist from the Start

    Open AccessPaul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2026

    As I have now been around for the best part of a century, and lived in twelve countries, it may perhaps be of some interest to look back at the personal relationships that I welded with various ant...

  • Can We Believe Our Own Eyes? Did the Greeks Invent the Laptop

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2025

    To begin with a general question: Through what empirical processes are visual anthropology’s assertions to be evaluated? Can we indeed believe our own eyes? We humans privilege the information we r

  • Islamic Societies Are Encountering Modernity: An Introduction

    Paul Hockings, Fatemeh TashakoriARTICLEVisual Anthropology2024

    News from the Islamic regions of the world too often takes a horrendously negative tone, giving an impression to Western readers that denying girls education or women professions, and occasionally

  • Into the Twentieth Century: Science and Entertainment, Two Realms Apart

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2024References: 9

    The year 1895 saw a multitude of crucial inventions worldwide, one of which was the cinema. Within a few years it had become the basis of a major entertainment industry, though documentary films occasionally seemed relevant to academic ethnography too. This article explores the interplay between the film industry, ethnography, and world events

  • Australian Aboriginals in the Snow

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2024References: 2

    Although pre-eminently today a people of the Australian desert and semi-desert areas, the Aboriginals were adapted to the cold winters of Victoria, in particular, through the invention of huts and

  • Envoi

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2024

  • The Amateur Anthropologist

    Paul HockingsARTICLEAnthropos2020Cited by: 2

    The thinkers who founded anthropology and prehistory in the nineteenth century were almost entirely untrained in the subject, and indeed had often distinguished themselves in other professions altogether. Their efforts, along with the development of local field clubs in Britain and elsewhere, led to the founding of many museums, regional journals, and to the development of public interest in culture history. G. W. Willis, FSA, a clocksmith and Ma…

  • Baking the Bread

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2019Cited by: 1References: 2

    When bread is baked some parts are split at the surface, and these parts which thus open, and have a certain fashion contrary to the purpose of the baker’s art, are beautiful in a manner, and in a

  • The Editor Reminisces … in Appreciation of Bronisław Malinowski and Bedside Books

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2018

    With the completion of this journal’s thirtieth year, the Editor feels that it is time to glance backwards for a few moments (which is what the Cumulative Index does too, in its own way). The fact

  • Editor’s Introduction

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2017

    This index covers the Volumes 21–30 of Visual Anthropology, which were issued over the years 2008–2017. The layout of the various sections follows that of our previous two cumulative indexes, which...

  • On Display

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2017Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Visuality in Times Long Past

    Paul Hockings, Johan Hegardt et al.ARTICLEVisual Anthropology2016References: 6

    Visual anthropology is a creation of modern times, in two arenas, research method and cultural analysis. The first pertinent research we are familiar with was Felix Regnault's photographic experime

  • Eine kleine Statistik

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2015

    Eine kleine Statistik." Visual Anthropology, 28(2), pp. 181–182View correction statement:Correction to: Eine kleine Statistik Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul HockingsPAUL HOCKINGS is the editor of Visual Anthropology. He holds degrees in Anthropology and Archaeology from the Universities of Sydney, Toronto and California, and is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Illinois

  • Disasters Drawn: The Illustrated London Newsin the Mid-19th Century

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2015References: 3

    Herbert Ingram launched a new kind of newspaper in 1842, The Illustrated London News. Its numerous drawn illustrations supported a formula that was rapidly copied in other countries, and always ensured circulation success for Ingram and those who followed him. When we look at some of the drawings made to present the Great Famine in Ireland and, a decade later, the Indian Mutiny, we clearly see that disasters such as starvation, violence, fires, c…

  • Early Photography in South India

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2015

  • Introduction: Style among Visual Anthropologists

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2015References: 7

    The study of style has had a checkered past in the annals of anthropology. The 19th- and 20th-century prehistorians in Europe found it an essential conceptual tool, and the Boasians in North America contributed much to its understanding too. But after Tylor, British anthropology was unconcerned with material culture or with style, which is one minor aspect of it. Earlier German anthropology did not make a notable contribution on this subject eith…

  • Afterword

    Open AccessPaul HockingsARTICLEAsian Ethnology2014

  • Where Is the Theory in Visual Anthropology

    Paul Hockings, Keyan G Tomaselli et al.ARTICLEVisual Anthropology2014Cited by: 19References: 19

    Is there a real theoretical underpinning for visual anthropology? Or are we just borrowing theoretical concepts, as needed, from other disciplines? Here eight visual anthropologists offer their thoughts on this fundamental question succinctly

  • Translating Museums

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2014

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul HockingsSan Jose, CA, USA

  • Kipling, Sabu, and Goldie Hawn: Reflections onElephant Boy, a Forgotten Film of Robert Flaherty's

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2014References: 1

    Perhaps Robert Flaherty's most insignificant film, Elephant Boy [1937 1937 Elephant Boy. Starring Sabu, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and a cast of elephants. Directors: Robert Flaherty and Zoltan Korda; producer: Alexander Korda; camera: Osmond Borradaile and Robert Flaherty. Denham: London Films; b & w, 78 or 85 mins. Available at http://archive.org/details/ElephantBoy [Google Scholar]] was made during a commercial partnership with Alexander Korda in the…

  • The Visual Culture Reader

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2013

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul HockingsSan Jose, CA USA [email protected]

  • Mediamorphoses: The Changes Induced by Television

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2013

  • The Semblance of Hindustan: An Introduction

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2012

  • Atlas of World Art

    Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2012

    Onians, John (ed.), and 68 contributors. Atlas of World Art. (U.S. title, The Art Atlas.) London: Laurence King Publishing; New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2008; 352 pp. + a CD; 600 maps and

  • Two Recent Films from David MacDougall

    A Grimshaw, Paul HockingsARTICLEVisual Anthropology2011References: 2