Lucien Giles Castaing-Taylor (born 10 January 1966,

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, United Kingdom) is a British anthropologist and artist who works in film, video, and photography.

Biography

Castaing-Taylor received his B.A. at

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and his PhD at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

under

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. Since 2002 Castaing-Taylor has taught at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...

, where he is Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. His works include '' In and Out of Africa'', which he made with Ilisa Barbash in 1992. It is an ethnographic video about issues of authenticity, taste, and racial politics in the African art market that won eight international awards. He also recorded the film '' Sweetgrass'' (2009), which is described as "an unsentimental elegy at once to the American West and to the 10,000 years of uneasy accommodation between post-Paleolithic humans and animals." He is the founding editor of the American Anthropological Association’s journal '' Visual Anthropology Review'' (1991–94).

Filmography

* ''In and Out of Africa'' (1992, with Ilisa Barbash) * ''Made in USA'' (1997, with Ilisa Barbash) * '' Sweetgrass'' (2009, with Ilisa Barbash) * ''The High Trail'' (2010) * ''

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'' (2012, with Véréna Paravel) * ''Caniba'' (2017, with Véréna Paravel) * ''

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'' (2022, with Véréna Paravel)

Bibliography

* ''Visualizing Theory'' (1994) * ''Cross-Cultural Filmmaking'' (1997, with Ilisa Barbash) * ''Transcultural Cinema'', essays by David MacDougall (1998) * ''The Cinema of Robert Gardner'' (2008, with Ilisa Barbash)

References

External links

Sweetgrass Official Website
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