Judith MacDougall | |
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Born | 1938 (age 86–87) |
Nationality | American |
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 |
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Anthropology of art, media, music, dance and film |
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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]