Paul Hockings
Paul Hockings | |
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Born | Hertford, England | February 23, 1935
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Anthropologist |
Known for | Ethnographic documentaries |
Awards | Nilgiris Lifetime Achievement Award (2015) |
Academic background | |
Education | Doctor of Philosophy |
Alma mater | University of Sydney University of California, Berkeley |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Anthropology |
Sub-discipline | Social anthropology Visual anthropology Medical anthropology |
Institutions | Former dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of United International College, China |
Notable works | The Man Hunters (documentary) The Village (documentary) |
Paul Hockings (born February 23, 1935) is an anthropologist whose prime areas of focus are the Dravidian languages, social, visual and medical anthropology.[1]
He studied archaeology and anthropology at the
Early life and family
Hockings was born on February 23, 1935, at Hertford and was raised in Hampshire, England.[2][3][4] At the age of ten years, he developed interest in prehistory and museums. His father Arthur Hockings, a Londoner, was a cricketer and an engineer, who worked as a personal assistant for Henry Royce. Later, he helped design landing-craft for D-Day. In 1952, Paul migrated to Australia with his parents.[4]
Education
Hockings studied Near-Eastern archaeology at the University of Sydney, and completed two majors in the subjects of archaeology and anthropology at that university. In 1962, after receiving a grant for
Career and research
Hockings made the first film in the style of Observational Cinema, named, The Village.
Hockings is a professor emeritus of anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.[1] He worked at the University of California, Berkeley as a research assistant for David G. Mandelbaum, and taught anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, before moving to Chicago. For a brief period he worked at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and as a script writer, journalist and librarian in New Zealand.[4] He served in China as the dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the United International College in Zhuhai, and in Chicago as a Field Museum of Natural History's adjunct curator of anthropology.[4][2]
He has studied the cultures of South India,[9][4] and has been working with the Badagas for more than 50 years.[6][10] He has researched their medical anthropology, culture and language.[4]
Awards
In 2015, he was awarded the Nilgiris Lifetime Achievement Award by the Nilgiri Documentation Centre;[2] and in 2016, a Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Visual Anthropology.[11]
Works
Hockings made several documentaries and published about 20 books and more than 200 papers.[10]
Books
- Hockings, Paul, and Christiane Pilot-Raichoor (2023). A Badaga and English Dictionary: Glossary and Gazetteer. New Delhi: Manohar. ISBN 978-93-91928-17-9.
- Hockings, Paul (2013). So Long a Saga: Four Centuries of Badaga Social History. New Delhi, India: Manohar. OCLC 860865948.
- Hockings, Paul (2012). Encyclopaedia of the Nilgiri Hills. New Delhi, India: Manohar. OCLC 794592439.
- Hockings, Paul (1999). Kindreds of the Earth: Badaga Household Structure and Demography. OCLC 468432193.
- Hockings, Paul (1989). Blue Mountains: The Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian Region (illustrated ed.). New Delhi, India: OCLC 716653588.
- Hockings, Paul (1975). Principles of Visual Anthropology. World Anthropology. The Hague, Netherlands: OCLC 500590678.
Selected papers
- Hockings, Paul (October 2020). "The Amateur Anthropologist: G. W. Willis and His Precursors". Anthropos. 115 (1): 55–67. .
- Hockings, Paul; Tomaselli, Keyan G.; Ruby, Jay; MacDougall, David; et al. (2014). "Where is the Theory in Visual Anthropology?". S2CID 143385174.
- Hockings, Paul (2012) [First published 1995]. "Conclusion: Ethnographic Filming and Anthropological Theory". Principles of Visual Anthropology. Berlin, Germany: OCLC 7350367542.
Documentaries
- Paul Hockings; Mark McCarty; Colin Young (1968). The Village (eVideo) (in English and Irish). Watertown, Massachusetts, USA: OCLC 701798441.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Paul Hockings". University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, USA. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Father of Nilgiriology: Prof Paul Hockings". One Earth Foundation. India. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
- ^ "Hockings, Paul Edward (1935-....)". Identifiants et Référentiels pour l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche (in French). Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Encounter with Visual Anthropology" (PDF). University of Cambridge. Cambridge, UK. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ^ "Paul Hockings Collection, 1962-1976". Chicago Film Archives. Chicago, USA. Retrieved July 8, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Ankündigung Hockings" (PDF). Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Munich, Germany. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- OCLC 16014996. p. 10:
Paul Hockings, an anthropologist who had earlier made THE VILLAGE, and who taught at the UCLA film school, was hired by MGM Documentary as research director.
- ^ "Paul Hockings: "Documentary film, commercial cinema, and the slow growth of ethnographic filming"". University of Oslo. Oslo, Norway. Archived from the original on June 21, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
- ^ Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 2002. p. 790:
Paul Hockings has a long history of research among various groups in south India, including most importantly the Badagas of the Nilgiri Hills in Tamilnadu.
- ^ a b "Structuring an ethnographic film in relation to social theory" (PDF). Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Venice, Italy. Retrieved July 7, 2020.
- ^ "SVA Lifetime Achievement Award". Society for Visual Anthropology. USA. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
External links
- "Paul Hockings". Academia.edu.
- Carrin, Marine; ISSN 1393-8592.