The Record Of The Disappearing Culture-the Anthropology Documentary Research

The invention of the film condensed a lot of people's wisdom, Edison and Lumiaier brothers invented the film is to record the long human history and culture, or to add fun to the tedious human life, we can not understand. The anthropologists are acutely aware that this combination technology of Light and film have by text incomparable performance space in the field research,teaching research and preserving the culture of different models. They record the rapidly changing China by audio-visual language, to Anthropological viewpoint , accumulate a history of extinction for the Chinese, while cultivating a number of visual anthropology workers. In this paper, combinating the Western Development of visual anthropology, I briefly introduce the development of the anthropological documentary in China nearly a century history. I also made a different interpretation of the concept of Documentary and Anthropological in the context of China originated from the West. In addition, on the anthropological research perspective, I interpret the anthropology documentary on its own characteristics and value and the creative concept.