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Chronicles of the Ephemeral: Some Thoughts on Delhi At Eleven

Chronicles of the Ephemeral: Some Thoughts on Delhi At Eleven The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 455 Chronicles of the Ephemeral: Some Thoughts on Delhi At Eleven Faye Ginsburg What a privilege it is to watch four short films made by eleven-year-old students. Since the late 1990s, when David MacDougall began his first project looking at the lives of children in India, beginning with the elite progressive boarding school known as The Doon School and through films with less privileged youth, as in his riveting Gandhi’s Children, his interest in using documentary film to understand the lives of children in India has deepened and expanded. Workshops where children are given training to make their own films, with guidance from MacDougall and local teachers, seems a logical next step for a filmmaker whose fascination with the diversity of the experience of childhood in India has clearly grown over the last fifteen years or more. We are fortunate that the results of this particular effort to show us life in New Delhi through the eyes of young people on the brink of adolescence are so rewarding for audiences beyond the subcontinent. Not knowing what to expect as I began viewing the films, while sitting in my office in New York City, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

Chronicles of the Ephemeral: Some Thoughts on Delhi At Eleven

Ginsburg, Faye
The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology , Volume 15 (5): 3 – Oct 20, 2014
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Chronicles of the Ephemeral: Some Thoughts on Delhi At Eleven

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 455 Chronicles of the Ephemeral: Some Thoughts on Delhi At Eleven Faye Ginsburg What a privilege it is to watch four short films made by eleven-year-old students. Since the late 1990s, when David MacDougall began his first project looking at the lives of children in India, beginning with the elite progressive boarding school known as The Doon School and through films with less privileged youth, as in his riveting Gandhi’s Children, his interest...
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© 2014 The Australian National University
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1444-2213
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10.1080/14442213.2014.952058
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Abstract

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 455 Chronicles of the Ephemeral: Some Thoughts on Delhi At Eleven Faye Ginsburg What a privilege it is to watch four short films made by eleven-year-old students. Since the late 1990s, when David MacDougall began his first project looking at the lives of children in India, beginning with the elite progressive boarding school known as The Doon School and through films with less privileged youth, as in his riveting Gandhi’s Children, his interest in using documentary film to understand the lives of children in India has deepened and expanded. Workshops where children are given training to make their own films, with guidance from MacDougall and local teachers, seems a logical next step for a filmmaker whose fascination with the diversity of the experience of childhood in India has clearly grown over the last fifteen years or more. We are fortunate that the results of this particular effort to show us life in New Delhi through the eyes of young people on the brink of adolescence are so rewarding for audiences beyond the subcontinent. Not knowing what to expect as I began viewing the films, while sitting in my office in New York City,

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology – Taylor & Francis

Published: Oct 20, 2014

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