Anthroclan

            “The relationship between what we see and what we know is never settled.” --John Berger,  Ways of Seeing  (1972:7) INTRODUCTION         Seeing might be believing, but how does it relate to knowing? What is the relation between ways of seeing and ways of knowing in anthropology? These are the questions that frame the following analysis of theories of the visual in anthropology. The introduction situates the visual and the anthropological in a socio-historical context and outlines the basis of some of the theoretical concerns explored throughout the paper. The second section explores experiments in ethnographic filmmaking and the use of visual material in constructions of anthropological knowledge by several important practitioners, including Margaret Mead, Jean Rouch, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, and David and Judith MacDougall. The intent is to elucidate theoretical understandings of visual material in the practice of these ethnographic filmmakers. The