Judith MacDougall (born 1938) is an American

visual anthropologist Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media. More recently it has been used by historians of science a ...

and documentary filmmaker, who has made over 20 ethnographic films in Africa, Australia and India. For many of the films, she worked with her husband,

David MacDougall David MacDougall (born November 12, 1939) is an American-Australian visual anthropologist, academic, and documentary filmmaker, who is known for his ethnographic film work in Africa, Australia, Europe and India. For much of his career he co-pro ...

, also an anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker. Both of them are considered among the most significant anthropological filmmakers in the English-speaking world.

Early life and education

MacDougall was born in the United States. She enrolled in the ethnographic film program at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, where she met her husband, David. Together, they would go on to make some 20

ethnographic films An ethnographic film is a non-fiction film, often similar to a documentary film, historically shot by Western filmmakers and dealing with non-Western people, and sometimes associated with anthropology. Definitions of the term are not definitive. ...

, across Australia, Africa, and India.

Filmography

* ''Indians and Chiefs'' ( 1967) * ''The House-Opening'' (1977) * ''

The Wedding Camels ''The Wedding Camels'' is an ethnographic film directed by David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall, filmed in 1974 and released in 1980 (108 min., Turkana with English subtitles), that examines the negotiations and cultural practices that surround t ...

'' (1980) * ''Takeover'' (1980) * ''

A Wife Among Wives ''A Wife Among Wives'' is a 1981 ethnographic documentary produced by filmmakers Judith and David MacDougall. It is about the dynamics of polyamorous marriage in a small Turkana village in Kenya. The film premiered at the 1981 Margaret Mead Film ...

'' (1981) (co-directed with David MacDougall) * ''Three Horsemen'' (1982) * ''Collum Calling Canberra'' (1984) * ''Sunny and the Dark Horse'' (1986) * ''Photo Wallahs'' (1991) * ''Diyas'' (2001)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:MacDougall, Judith Visual anthropologists American anthropologists Living people University of California, Los Angeles alumni Cultural anthropologists Social anthropologists American documentary film directors 1938 births