
Some Mao Era Ethnographic Films
Clearly massive hard drives are becoming like attics—places where forgotten things wait to be rediscovered. Yesterday while talking with a friend about the Oroqen people in China, I vaguely remembered that six or seven years ago a visual anthropologist in China had shared with me an old Communist-era ethnological film about them. I had saved it on my laptop, and then when I returned home I transferred it to my desktop. Two computer swaps later I wasn’t even sure it […]
Categories: China, Documentary, Visual Anthropology • Tags: 纳西族, ethnology, 鄂伦春族, media, naxi, Oroqen