Commentary: Here and There… of Anthropology at Home and Abroad

Robert Gardner at Work

The ethnographic films of Robert Gardner and anthropology in general resonate quite powerfully with me, although I've hardly ever had a chance to become broadly or deeply acquainted with either. My first encounter with Gardner's Dead Birds, his best-known work, made a deep impression on me, not only because of the film itself, which was reason enough, but because of the odd circumstances in which I first discovered it.

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