David MacDougall was born on November 12,1939 and is an American-Australian visual anthropologist, academic, and documentary filmmaker, who is known for his ethnographic film work in Africa, Australia, Europe and India.
12 Facts About David MacDougall
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David MacDougall has produced films covering a wide range of subjects, be it the semi-nomadic Turkana people of Kenya in The Wedding Camels or an elite North Indian boys' boarding school in The Doon School Quintet.
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David MacDougall was one of the first ethnographic filmmakers to eschew explanatory narration and employ longer takes, using subtitles to translate the speech of people in other cultures.
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David MacDougall is considered one of the most prominent theorists in visual anthropology.
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In 2013, David MacDougall received the Life Achievement Award from the Royal Anthropological Institute in London.
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David MacDougall was born on November 12,1939 in New Hampshire, United States, to a Canadian father and an American mother.
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David MacDougall attended Dalton School in New York City until the eighth grade and then The Putney School in Vermont.
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David MacDougall began his career in 1972 when he made his first film To Live with Herds about the semi-nomadic pastoral Jie people in Uganda.
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The setting of the documentary was a shelter for abandoned, runaway, or orphaned children on the outskirts of New Delhi, where David MacDougall lived for several months.
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Between 1996 and 2003, David MacDougall worked on one of his most ambitious projects, The Doon School Quintet, a five-part ethnographic film series that was a long-term visual study of The Doon School, a boys' boarding school in the North Indian town of Dehradun.
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David MacDougall went on to make film studies of two further institutions for children in India, the Rishi Valley School in South India and the Prayas Children's Home for Boys in New Delhi.
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In 2013, David MacDougall was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Royal Anthropological Institute for his contributions in the field of ethnographic and documentary filmmaking.