An Ethnographic Filmflam: Giving Gifts, Doing Research, and Videotaping the Native Subject/Object

American Anthropologist

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 32-42

  Jackson Jr , John L ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black America; Gifts; Native anthropology; Reflexivity; Visual anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842733028     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aa.2004.106.1.32     Document Type: Article

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