Audience reception and ethnographic film: Laughing at first contact

Visual Anthropology Review

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 14-33

  Wogan, Peter ^a  

^a WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audience reception; Education; Ethnographic film; First contact; Humor

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249133548     PISSN: 10587187     EISSN: 15487458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/var.2006.22.1.14     Document Type: Review

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