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Gardner's films have been required viewing for introductory anthropology students, but have been carped at or worse by visual anthropology's thought police. He now offers us a richly illustrated, frank and unapologetic account of his major filming expeditions. The 500 photos are often arresting, the text always writerly. The book is not about how the films were made technically, except to mention frequent camera breakdowns, and ruined film batches. Nor does he start us with the germ of the idea, the background reading, expedition preparations, and there is little about editing. Mostly, the diary entries are about where he was, how it was, how he felt. It's a journal which conveys the emotional difficulty of trying to make memorable films, far from capital cities.

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