Television, Anthropology on
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22370261 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Cristina Pertierra (0000-0003-4410-5528, Western Sydney University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2070 |
| OpenAlex | W3082115134 |
| ISBN | 9781118924396 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Overall, anthropology's relationship to television can be characterized as uneasy; ethnographic research has rarely featured on mainstream broadcasting schedules and few anthropologists have regularly participated in broadcast television production. Nevertheless, a number of television documentary series have made extensive use of anthropology in their explorations of cultures; the Disappearing World series (1970–93) in the United Kingdom has been the most notable example, and episodes from this series remain significant long after their original airing. More recent changes to the industry and the technology of television production have seen new—but no less uneasy—attempts for anthropology and television to find mutual ground. The rise of reality television genres, multichannel environments, and the possibilities of digital documentary production have created new avenues for the documentation of diverse cultures. How closely related much of this proliferation of programming about human diversity is to the academic field of anthropology, however, remains unclear
Anthropology of art · Art history · Digital anthropology · Documentation · Ethnography · Mainstream · Media studies · Performance art · Political science · Sociology · Television series · Television studies · Anthropology · Computer Science · Culinary Culture and Tourism · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |