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Through Navaho Eyes
An Exploration in Film Communication and Anthropology

Sol Worth and John Adair

WITH A NEW FOREWORD, AFTERWORD and ILLUSTRATIONS
by Richard Chalfen

Department of Anthropolgy
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122

University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM

Table of Contents

Prologue to the Revised Edition
Foreword to the Revised Edition
Acknowledgements to the Original Edition
Introduction

CHAPTER ONE
How do People Structure Reality Through Film?

CHAPTER TWO
A Look at Film As If It Were a Language

CHAPTER THREE
The Navaho
CHAPTER FOUR
The Method of Research
CHAPTER FIVE
The Lives of Some of the Navaho Students
CHAPTER SIX
Teaching Navajos about Cameras and Film
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Community Attends the Work Premier
CHAPTER EIGHT
Analysis
CHAPTER NINE
Narrative Style
CHAPTER TEN
Sequencing Film Events
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Who Can Be an Actor in a Navajo Film
CHAPTER TWELVE
"They Handle the Equiptment Like Pros"

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Motion or Eventing

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Intrepid Shadows and the Outsider
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
How Groups in Our Society Act When Taught to Use a Movie Camera (with Richard Chalfen)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Some Concluding Throughts

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To contact Richard Chalfen, email: rchalfen@temple.edu