Performers and partners

This paper explores the role of video in ethnographic U.S. market research.

performers and partners

Consumer video documentaries in ethnographic research

Patricia L. SunderlandandRita M. DennyPatricia Group LLC

Introduction

When in 1963, at a meeting of anthropologists, I began to point out that the films and photographs made by students in colleges, people in their homes, as well as mental patients in hospitals, could be looked at as ways in which these different people structured their world, rather than as 'true images' of the world, I thought I was...

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