Judith MacDougall
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wedding Camels
Judith MacDougall | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1938 (age 87–88) |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Known for | Ethnographic films in Africa, India and Australia The Wedding Camels |
| Spouse | David MacDougall |
| Awards | Film Prize by Royal Anthropological Institute for The Wedding Camels (1980) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Visual anthropology, social anthropology, documentary films |
| Part of a series on the |
| Anthropology of art, media, music, dance and film |
|---|
.png){kind=icon} |
| Social and cultural anthropology |
Judith MacDougall (born 1938) is an American visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, who has made over 20 ethnographic films in Africa, Australia and India.[1] Also a noted still photographer, she documented the tenor of popular culture in Texas in the early 1970s.[2][3] For many of the films, she worked with her husband, David MacDougall, also an anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker.[4] Both of them are considered among the most significant anthropological filmmakers in the English-speaking world and pioneers of observational cinema[5][6][7][8]
MacDougall was born in the United States. She enrolled in the ethnographic film program at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she met her husband, David.[9] Together, they would go on to make some 20 ethnographic films, across Australia, Africa, and India.[10]
Filmography
- Indians and Chiefs ( 1967)
- The House-Opening (1977)
- The Wedding Camels (1977)
- Lorang's Way (1979)
- Takeover (1980)
- A Wife Among Wives (1981)
- Three Horsemen (1982)
- Stockman's Strategy (1984)
- Collum Calling Canberra (1984)
- Sunny and the Dark Horse (1986)
- Photo Wallahs (1991)
- Diyas (2001)
- The Art of Regret (2007)
- Awareness (2010)
- The Queen of the Hills (2022)
