Judith MacDougall

{{short description|American anthropologist (born 1938)}}

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| name = Judith MacDougall

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| education = University of California, Los Angeles

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1938}}

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| spouse = David MacDougall

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| nationality = American

| fields = Visual anthropology, social anthropology, documentary films

| awards = Film Prize by Royal Anthropological Institute for The Wedding Camels (1980)

| known_for = Ethnographic films in Africa, India and Australia
The Wedding Camels

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{{Anthropology of art}}

Judith MacDougall (born 1938) is an American visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, who has made over 20 ethnographic films in Africa, Australia and India.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/28/movies/film-anthropologists-focus-on-tribal-patriarch-in-kenya.html|title=Film: Anthropologists Focus on Tribal Patriarch in Kenya|first=Janet|last=Maslin|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 28, 1981}} For many of the films, she worked with her husband, David MacDougall, also an anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/23/archives/wedding-camels-at-the-film-forum-worth-about-150-goats.html|title='Wedding Camels' At the Film Forum|first=Janet|last=Maslin|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 23, 1978}} Both of them are considered among the most significant anthropological filmmakers in the English-speaking world.{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ethnographers-eye/anthropological-cinema-of-david-and-judith-macdougall/6154654EED141B0BCBEC9F131046491B|chapter=The anthropological cinema of David and Judith MacDougall|first=Anna|last=Grimshaw|title=The Ethnographer's Eye |date=April 10, 2001|website=The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Anthropology|pages=121–148|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511817670.009|isbn=9780521773102}}{{Cite web|url=http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors3/macdougalbio.html|title=David & Judith MacDougall bio|website=subsol.c3.hu}}{{Cite journal|title=Reframing Ethnographic Film: A "Conversation" with David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall|author1=Barbash, Ilisa|author2=MacDougall, David|author3=Taylor, Lucien|author4=MacDougall, Judith|year=1996|journal=American Anthropologist|volume=98|issue=2|pages=371–387|doi = 10.1525/aa.1996.98.2.02a00120|jstor = 682894}}{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/ethnographers-eye/anthropological-cinema-of-david-and-judith-macdougall/6154654EED141B0BCBEC9F131046491B|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511817670.009|chapter=The anthropological cinema of David and Judith Mac Dougall|title=The Ethnographer's Eye|year=2001|pages=121–148|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521773102}}