Judith MacDougall

Judith MacDougall
Born1938 (age 85–86)
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Known forEthnographic films in Africa, India and Australia
The Wedding Camels
SpouseDavid MacDougall
AwardsFilm Prize by Royal Anthropological Institute for The Wedding Camels (1980)
Scientific career
FieldsVisual anthropology, social anthropology, documentary films

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] For many of the films, she worked with her husband, David MacDougall, also an anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker.[2] Both of them are considered among the most significant anthropological filmmakers in the English-speaking world.[3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ Maslin, Janet (October 28, 1981). "Film: Anthropologists Focus on Tribal Patriarch in Kenya". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Maslin, Janet (November 23, 1978). "'Wedding Camels' At the Film Forum". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Grimshaw, Anna (April 10, 2001). "The anthropological cinema of David and Judith MacDougall". The Ethnographer's Eye. pp. 121–148. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511817670.009. ISBN 9780521773102. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. ^ "David & Judith MacDougall bio". subsol.c3.hu.
  5. ^ Barbash, Ilisa; MacDougall, David; Taylor, Lucien; MacDougall, Judith (1996). "Reframing Ethnographic Film: A "Conversation" with David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall". American Anthropologist. 98 (2): 371–387. doi:10.1525/aa.1996.98.2.02a00120. JSTOR 682894.
  6. ^ "The anthropological cinema of David and Judith Mac Dougall". The Ethnographer's Eye. Cambridge University Press. 2001. pp. 121–148. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511817670.009. ISBN 9780521773102.