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	\| birth_place = [[Hertford]], England		\| birth_place = [[Hertford]], England
	~~\| nationality = British~~
	\| occupation = Anthropologist		\| occupation = Anthropologist
	\| known_for = Ethnographic documentaries		\| known_for = Ethnographic documentaries
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	'''Paul Hockings''' (born February 23, 1935) is an anthropologist whose prime areas of focus are the [[Dravidian languages]], [[social anthropology\|social]], [[visual anthropology\|visual]] and [[medical anthropology\|medical]] anthropology.<ref name="UoIaC">{{cite web \|title=Paul Hockings \|url=https://anth.uic.edu/profiles/hockings-paul/ \|website=University of Illinois at Chicago \|place=Chicago, USA \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref>		'''Paul Hockings''' (born February 23, 1935) is an anthropologist whose prime areas of focus are the [[Dravidian languages]], [[social anthropology\|social]], [[visual anthropology\|visual]] and [[medical anthropology\|medical]] anthropology.<ref name="UoIaC">{{cite web \|title=Paul Hockings \|url=https://anth.uic.edu/profiles/hockings-paul/ \|website=University of Illinois at Chicago \|place=Chicago, USA \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref>

	He studied archaeology and anthropology at the [[University of Sydney]], the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and at the universities in Chicago, Stanford and Toronto. He taught anthropology at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] and the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], and he has been the dean of [[United International College]]'s Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. ~~He is~~ the ~~current~~ editor-in-chief of ''[[Visual Anthropology (journal)\|Visual Anthropology]]''.		He studied archaeology and anthropology at the [[University of Sydney]], the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and at the universities in Chicago, Stanford and Toronto. He taught anthropology at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] and the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], and he has been the dean of [[United International College]]'s Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. In 2024, he retired as the editor-in-chief of ''[[Visual Anthropology (journal)\|Visual Anthropology]]''.

	==Early life and family==		==Early life and family==
	Hockings was born on February 23, 1935 at [[Hertford]] and was raised in [[Hampshire]], England.<ref name="OEF"/><ref>{{cite web \|title=Hockings, Paul Edward (1935-....) \|url=https://www.idref.fr/028348443 \|website=Identifiants et Référentiels pour l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche \|language=fr \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="UoC"/> 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.<ref name="UoC">{{cite web \|title=Encounter with Visual Anthropology \|url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/245843/VISUAL%20ANTHROPOLOGY%20-reduced.pdf?sequence=1 \|website=University of Cambridge \|place=Cambridge, UK \|format=PDF \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref>		Hockings was born on February 23, 1935, at [[Hertford]] and was raised in [[Hampshire]], England.<ref name="OEF"/><ref>{{cite web \|title=Hockings, Paul Edward (1935-....) \|url=https://www.idref.fr/028348443 \|website=Identifiants et Référentiels pour l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche \|language=fr \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="UoC"/> 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.<ref name="UoC">{{cite web \|title=Encounter with Visual Anthropology \|url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/245843/VISUAL%20ANTHROPOLOGY%20-reduced.pdf?sequence=1 \|website=University of Cambridge \|place=Cambridge, UK \|format=PDF \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref>

	==Education==		==Education==
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	==Career and research==		==Career and research==
	Hockings made the first film in the style of ~~Observational Cinema, named~~, ''The Village''.<ref name="UoM"/> In 1969, he was signed as an anthropologist by ~~the~~ [[MGM Studios]] ~~for making~~ a film on [[Origins of man\|mankind's origins]]~~, titled "The Man Hunters",~~ for [[NBC television]] ~~which~~ drew a large North American audience.<ref name="UoC"/> He was then working as a research director for MGM Documentary Dept.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Newsletter \|volume=1–2 \|~~work~~=Program in Ethnographic Film ([[American Anthropological Association]]) ~~\|publisher=Program in Ethnographic Film~~ \|place=Philadelphia, USA \|year=1970 \|issn=0030-8013 \|oclc=16014996 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9EWAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=10 \|quote=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.}}</ref> About the same ~~tine~~ he served as the last research assistant for [[Ruth St. Denis]], and was on an expedition to India with the photographer [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]]. ~~For over 30 years he has been~~ the chief ~~editor~~ of ''Visual Anthropology''; and the [[University of Oslo]] has described him as "a pioneer in the fields of [[ethnographic film]] and visual anthropology".<ref name="UoO">{{cite web \|title=Paul Hockings: "Documentary film, commercial cinema, and the slow growth of ethnographic filming" \|url=https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621004708/https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|work=University of Oslo \|place=Oslo, Norway \|archive-date=June 21, 2020 \|access-date=May 29, 2021}}</ref>		Hockings made (with director Mark McCarty) the first film in the style of observational cinema, entitled ''The Village''.<ref name="UoM"/> It was filmed in the summer of 1967 in [[Dunquin]], a [[Gaeltacht]] village located at the westernmost tip of the [[Dingle Peninsula]], overlooking the [[Blasket Islands]], in [[County Kerry]], [[South-West Region, Ireland\|southwestern Ireland]], and released in 1968.<ref>{{cite web \| title=The Village (Remastered) - PREVIEW \| website=[[YouTube]] \| date=23 April 2020 \| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F7uSq8D0x8 }}</ref> In 1969, he was signed as an anthropologist by [[MGM Studios]] to make a film on [[Origins of man\|mankind's origins]] for [[NBC television]], entitled ''The Man Hunters''; it drew a large North American audience.<ref name="UoC"/> He was then working as a research director for MGM Documentary Dept.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Newsletter \|volume=1–2 \|publisher=Program in Ethnographic Film ([[American Anthropological Association]])\|place=Philadelphia, USA \|year=1970 \|issn=0030-8013 \|oclc=16014996 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9EWAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=10 \|quote=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.}}</ref> About the same time he served as the last research assistant for [[Ruth St. Denis]], and was on an expedition to India with the photographer [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]]. He was the editor-in-chief of ''Visual Anthropology'' for a third of a century; and the [[University of Oslo]] has described him as "a pioneer in the fields of [[ethnographic film]] and visual anthropology".<ref name="UoO">{{cite web \|title=Paul Hockings: "Documentary film, commercial cinema, and the slow growth of ethnographic filming" \|url=https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621004708/https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|work=University of Oslo \|place=Oslo, Norway \|archive-date=June 21, 2020 \|access-date=May 29, 2021}}</ref>

	Hockings is a professor emeritus of anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.<ref name="UoIaC"/> 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 ~~UoC~~\|Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia]], and as a script writer, journalist and librarian in New Zealand ~~and Canada~~.<ref name="UoC"/> 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.<ref name="UoC"/><ref name="OEF">{{cite web \|title=Father of Nilgiriology: Prof Paul Hockings \|url=http://www.oneearthfoundation.in/father-of-nilgiriology-prof-paul-hockings/ \|website=One Earth Foundation \|place=India \|access-date=July 8, 2020}}</ref>		Hockings is a professor emeritus of anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.<ref name="UoIaC"/> He worked at the University of California, Berkeley as a research assistant for [[David G. Mandelbaum]], while also studying with [[Aldous Huxley]] and others; and then 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 UBC\|Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia]], and as a script writer, journalist and librarian in New Zealand.<ref name="UoC"/> 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.<ref name="UoC"/><ref name="OEF">{{cite web \|title=Father of Nilgiriology: Prof Paul Hockings \|url=http://www.oneearthfoundation.in/father-of-nilgiriology-prof-paul-hockings/ \|website=One Earth Foundation \|place=India \|access-date=July 8, 2020}}</ref>

	He has studied the [[South Indian culture\|cultures of South India]],<ref>{{cite book \|title=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute \|publisher=[[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]] \|year=2002 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcsgAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=790 \|quote=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.}}</ref><ref name="UoC"/> and has been working with the [[Badagas]] for more than 50 years.<ref name="UoM">{{cite web \|title=Ankündigung Hockings \|url=https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/download/andere-vortraege/ankuendigung-hockings.pdf \|website=[[Ludwig ~~Maximilian University of Munich~~]] \|place=Munich, Germany \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="UoV">{{cite web \|title=Structuring an ethnographic film in relation to social theory \|url=https://www.unive.it/pag/fileadmin/user_upload/cdlm/allegati-elementi-comuni/2018-19/attivita_sostitutive/LAB_DEA/secondo_semestre/9_HOCKINGS_LOCANDINA.pdf \|website=[[Ca' Foscari University of Venice]] \|place=Venice, Italy \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> He has researched their [[medical anthropology]], culture and [[Badaga language\|language]].<ref name="UoC"/>		He has studied the [[South Indian culture\|cultures of South India]],<ref>{{cite book \|title=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute \|publisher=[[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]] \|year=2002 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcsgAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=790 \|quote=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.}}</ref><ref name="UoC"/> and has been working with the [[Badagas]] for more than 50 years.<ref name="UoM">{{cite web \|title=Ankündigung Hockings \|url=https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/download/andere-vortraege/ankuendigung-hockings.pdf \|website=[[Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München]] \|place=Munich, Germany \|access-date=7 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="UoV">{{cite web \|title=Structuring an ethnographic film in relation to social theory \|url=https://www.unive.it/pag/fileadmin/user_upload/cdlm/allegati-elementi-comuni/2018-19/attivita_sostitutive/LAB_DEA/secondo_semestre/9_HOCKINGS_LOCANDINA.pdf \|website=[[Ca' Foscari University of Venice]] \|place=Venice, Italy \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> He has researched their [[medical anthropology]], culture and [[Badaga language\|language]].<ref name="UoC"/>

	==Awards==		==Awards==
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	===Books===		===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.
	*{{cite book \|title=So Long a Saga: Four Centuries of Badaga Social History \|first=Paul\|last=Hockings \|publisher=Manohar \|place=New Delhi, India \|year=2013 \|isbn=978-9350980187 \|oclc=860865948 \|ref=none}}		*{{cite book \|title=So Long a Saga: Four Centuries of Badaga Social History \|first=Paul\|last=Hockings \|publisher=Manohar \|place=New Delhi, India \|year=2013 \|isbn=978-9350980187 \|oclc=860865948 \|ref=none}}
	*{{cite book \|title=Encyclopaedia of the Nilgiri Hills \|first=Paul \|last=Hockings \|publisher=Manohar \|place=New Delhi, India \|year=2012 \|isbn=978-8173048937 \|oclc=794592439 \|ref=none}}		*{{cite book \|title=Encyclopaedia of the Nilgiri Hills \|first=Paul \|last=Hockings \|publisher=Manohar \|place=New Delhi, India \|year=2012 \|isbn=978-8173048937 \|oclc=794592439 \|ref=none}}
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	==Education==		==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 [[Field research\|field studies]] from [[American Institute of Indian Studies]], he moved to the [[Nilgiris]] in India and did research on the [[Badagas]] of the Nilgiris, completing a Ph.D. on this subject in 1965.<ref name="UoC"/><ref>{{cite web \|title=Paul Hockings Collection, 1962-1976 \|url=http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/8 \|website=[[Chicago Film Archives]] \|place=Chicago, USA \|access-date=July 8, 2020}}</ref> He also studied anthropology at the universities in Chicago, Stanford, Toronto, and at the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name="UoM"/>		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 [[Field research\|field studies]] from [[American Institute of Indian Studies]], he moved to the [[Nilgiris]] in India and did research on the [[Badagas]] of the Nilgiris, completing a Ph.D. on this subject in 1965.<ref name="UoC"/><ref>{{cite web \|title=Paul Hockings Collection, 1962-1976 \|url=http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/8 \|website=[[Chicago Film Archives]] \|place=Chicago, USA \|access-date=July 8, 2020}}</ref> He also studied anthropology at the universities of Chicago, Stanford, Toronto, and at the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name="UoM"/>

	==Career and research==		==Career and research==
	Hockings made the first film in the style of Observational Cinema, named, ''The Village''.<ref name="UoM"/> In 1969, he was signed as an anthropologist by the [[MGM Studios]] for making a film on [[Origins of man\|mankind's origins]], titled "The Man Hunters", for ~~the~~ [[NBC television]] which drew a large audience.<ref name="UoC"/> He ~~also worked~~ as a research director for ''MGM Documentary''.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Newsletter \|volume=1–2 \|work=Program in Ethnographic Film ([[American Anthropological Association]]) \|publisher=Program in Ethnographic Film \|place=Philadelphia, USA \|year=1970 \|issn=0030-8013 \|oclc=16014996 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9EWAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=10 \|quote=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 ~~on a regular monthly salary~~.}}</ref> ~~He is~~ the chief editor of ''Visual Anthropology'', and the [[University of Oslo]] has described him as "a pioneer in the fields of [[ethnographic film]] and visual anthropology".<ref name="UoO">{{cite web \|title=Paul Hockings: "Documentary film, commercial cinema, and the slow growth of ethnographic filming" \|url=https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621004708/https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|work=University of Oslo \|place=Oslo, Norway \|archive-date=June 21, 2020 \|access-date=May 29, 2021}}</ref>		Hockings made the first film in the style of Observational Cinema, named, ''The Village''.<ref name="UoM"/> In 1969, he was signed as an anthropologist by the [[MGM Studios]] for making a film on [[Origins of man\|mankind's origins]], titled "The Man Hunters", for [[NBC television]] which drew a large North American audience.<ref name="UoC"/> He was then working as a research director for MGM Documentary Dept.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Newsletter \|volume=1–2 \|work=Program in Ethnographic Film ([[American Anthropological Association]]) \|publisher=Program in Ethnographic Film \|place=Philadelphia, USA \|year=1970 \|issn=0030-8013 \|oclc=16014996 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9EWAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=10 \|quote=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.}}</ref> About the same tine he served as the last research assistant for [[Ruth St. Denis]], and was on an expedition to India with the photographer [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]]. For over 30 years he has been the chief editor of ''Visual Anthropology''; and the [[University of Oslo]] has described him as "a pioneer in the fields of [[ethnographic film]] and visual anthropology".<ref name="UoO">{{cite web \|title=Paul Hockings: "Documentary film, commercial cinema, and the slow growth of ethnographic filming" \|url=https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621004708/https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|work=University of Oslo \|place=Oslo, Norway \|archive-date=June 21, 2020 \|access-date=May 29, 2021}}</ref>

	Hockings is a professor emeritus of anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.<ref name="UoIaC"/> 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. For a brief period ~~of time,~~ he worked at the [[Museum of Anthropology at ~~UBC~~\|Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia]], and as a script writer, journalist and librarian in New Zealand and Canada.<ref name="UoC"/> He served in China as the dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the United International College in [[~~Xiangzhou District,~~ Zhuhai]], and in Chicago as a [[Field Museum of Natural History]]'s adjunct curator of anthropology.<ref name="OEF">{{cite web \|title=Father of Nilgiriology: Prof Paul Hockings \|url=http://www.oneearthfoundation.in/father-of-nilgiriology-prof-paul-hockings/ \|website=One Earth Foundation \|place=India \|access-date=July 8, 2020}}</ref~~><ref name="UoC"/~~>		Hockings is a professor emeritus of anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.<ref name="UoIaC"/> 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 UoC\|Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia]], and as a script writer, journalist and librarian in New Zealand and Canada.<ref name="UoC"/> 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.<ref name="UoC"/><ref name="OEF">{{cite web \|title=Father of Nilgiriology: Prof Paul Hockings \|url=http://www.oneearthfoundation.in/father-of-nilgiriology-prof-paul-hockings/ \|website=One Earth Foundation \|place=India \|access-date=July 8, 2020}}</ref>

	He has studied the [[South Indian culture\|cultures of South India]],~~<ref name="UoC"/>~~<ref>{{cite book \|title=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute \|publisher=[[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]] \|year=2002 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcsgAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=790 \|quote=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.}}</ref> and has been working with the [[Badagas]] for more than 50 years.<ref name="UoM">{{cite web \|title=Ankündigung Hockings \|url=https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/download/andere-vortraege/ankuendigung-hockings.pdf \|website=[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]] \|place=Munich, Germany \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="UoV">{{cite web \|title=Structuring an ethnographic film in relation to social theory \|url=https://www.unive.it/pag/fileadmin/user_upload/cdlm/allegati-elementi-comuni/2018-19/attivita_sostitutive/LAB_DEA/secondo_semestre/9_HOCKINGS_LOCANDINA.pdf \|website=[[Ca' Foscari University of Venice]] \|place=Venice, Italy \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> He has researched their [[medical anthropology]], culture and [[Badaga language\|language]].<ref name="UoC"/>		He has studied the [[South Indian culture\|cultures of South India]],<ref>{{cite book \|title=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute \|publisher=[[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]] \|year=2002 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcsgAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=790 \|quote=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.}}</ref><ref name="UoC"/> and has been working with the [[Badagas]] for more than 50 years.<ref name="UoM">{{cite web \|title=Ankündigung Hockings \|url=https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/download/andere-vortraege/ankuendigung-hockings.pdf \|website=[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]] \|place=Munich, Germany \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="UoV">{{cite web \|title=Structuring an ethnographic film in relation to social theory \|url=https://www.unive.it/pag/fileadmin/user_upload/cdlm/allegati-elementi-comuni/2018-19/attivita_sostitutive/LAB_DEA/secondo_semestre/9_HOCKINGS_LOCANDINA.pdf \|website=[[Ca' Foscari University of Venice]] \|place=Venice, Italy \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> He has researched their [[medical anthropology]], culture and [[Badaga language\|language]].<ref name="UoC"/>

	==Awards==		==Awards==
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	Hockings made the first film in the style of Observational Cinema, named, ''The Village''.<ref name="UoM"/> In 1969, he was signed as an anthropologist by the [[MGM Studios]] for making a film on [[Origins of man\|mankind's origins]], titled "The Man Hunters", for the [[NBC television]] which drew a large audience.<ref name="UoC"/> He also worked as a research director for ''MGM Documentary''.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Newsletter \|volume=1–2 \|work=Program in Ethnographic Film ([[American Anthropological Association]]) \|publisher=Program in Ethnographic Film \|place=Philadelphia, USA \|year=1970 \|issn=0030-8013 \|oclc=16014996 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9EWAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=10 \|quote=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 on a regular monthly salary.}}</ref> He is the chief editor of ''Visual Anthropology'', and the [[University of Oslo]] has described him as "a pioneer in the fields of [[ethnographic film]] and visual anthropology".<ref name="UoO">{{cite web \|title=Paul Hockings: "Documentary film, commercial cinema, and the slow growth of ethnographic filming" \|url=https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621004708/https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|work=University of Oslo \|place=Oslo, Norway \|archive-date=June 21, 2020 \|access-date=May 29, 2021}}</ref>		Hockings made the first film in the style of Observational Cinema, named, ''The Village''.<ref name="UoM"/> In 1969, he was signed as an anthropologist by the [[MGM Studios]] for making a film on [[Origins of man\|mankind's origins]], titled "The Man Hunters", for the [[NBC television]] which drew a large audience.<ref name="UoC"/> He also worked as a research director for ''MGM Documentary''.<ref>{{cite book \|title=Newsletter \|volume=1–2 \|work=Program in Ethnographic Film ([[American Anthropological Association]]) \|publisher=Program in Ethnographic Film \|place=Philadelphia, USA \|year=1970 \|issn=0030-8013 \|oclc=16014996 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9EWAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=10 \|quote=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 on a regular monthly salary.}}</ref> He is the chief editor of ''Visual Anthropology'', and the [[University of Oslo]] has described him as "a pioneer in the fields of [[ethnographic film]] and visual anthropology".<ref name="UoO">{{cite web \|title=Paul Hockings: "Documentary film, commercial cinema, and the slow growth of ethnographic filming" \|url=https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621004708/https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html \|work=University of Oslo \|place=Oslo, Norway \|archive-date=June 21, 2020 \|access-date=May 29, 2021}}</ref>

	Hockings is a professor emeritus of anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.<ref name="UoIaC"/> 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. For a brief period of time, he worked at the [[Museum of Anthropology at UBC\|Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia]], and as a script writer, journalist and librarian in New Zealand and Canada.<ref name="UoC"/> He served in China as the dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the United International College in [[Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai]], and in Chicago as a [[Field Museum of Natural History]]'s adjunct curator of anthropology.~~<ref name="UoC"/>~~<ref name="OEF">{{cite web \|title=Father of Nilgiriology: Prof Paul Hockings \|url=http://www.oneearthfoundation.in/father-of-nilgiriology-prof-paul-hockings/ \|website=One Earth Foundation \|place=India \|access-date=July 8, 2020}}</ref>		Hockings is a professor emeritus of anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.<ref name="UoIaC"/> 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. For a brief period of time, he worked at the [[Museum of Anthropology at UBC\|Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia]], and as a script writer, journalist and librarian in New Zealand and Canada.<ref name="UoC"/> He served in China as the dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the United International College in [[Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai]], and in Chicago as a [[Field Museum of Natural History]]'s adjunct curator of anthropology.<ref name="OEF">{{cite web \|title=Father of Nilgiriology: Prof Paul Hockings \|url=http://www.oneearthfoundation.in/father-of-nilgiriology-prof-paul-hockings/ \|website=One Earth Foundation \|place=India \|access-date=July 8, 2020}}</ref><ref name="UoC"/>

	He has studied the [[South Indian culture\|cultures of South India]],<ref>{{cite book \|title=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute \|publisher=[[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]] \|year=2002 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcsgAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=790 \|quote=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.}}</ref~~><ref name="UoC"/~~> and has been working with the [[Badagas]] for more than 50 years.<ref name="UoM">{{cite web \|title=Ankündigung Hockings \|url=https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/download/andere-vortraege/ankuendigung-hockings.pdf \|website=[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]] \|place=Munich, Germany \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="UoV">{{cite web \|title=Structuring an ethnographic film in relation to social theory \|url=https://www.unive.it/pag/fileadmin/user_upload/cdlm/allegati-elementi-comuni/2018-19/attivita_sostitutive/LAB_DEA/secondo_semestre/9_HOCKINGS_LOCANDINA.pdf \|website=[[Ca' Foscari University of Venice]] \|place=Venice, Italy \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> He has researched their [[medical anthropology]], culture and [[Badaga language\|language]].<ref name="UoC"/>		He has studied the [[South Indian culture\|cultures of South India]],<ref name="UoC"/><ref>{{cite book \|title=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute \|publisher=[[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]] \|year=2002 \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcsgAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 \|quote-page=790 \|quote=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.}}</ref> and has been working with the [[Badagas]] for more than 50 years.<ref name="UoM">{{cite web \|title=Ankündigung Hockings \|url=https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/download/andere-vortraege/ankuendigung-hockings.pdf \|website=[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]] \|place=Munich, Germany \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="UoV">{{cite web \|title=Structuring an ethnographic film in relation to social theory \|url=https://www.unive.it/pag/fileadmin/user_upload/cdlm/allegati-elementi-comuni/2018-19/attivita_sostitutive/LAB_DEA/secondo_semestre/9_HOCKINGS_LOCANDINA.pdf \|website=[[Ca' Foscari University of Venice]] \|place=Venice, Italy \|access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> He has researched their [[medical anthropology]], culture and [[Badaga language\|language]].<ref name="UoC"/>

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{{short description|English anthropologist}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Paul Hockings
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|year=1935|month=02|day=23}}
| birth_place = [[Hertford]], England
| nationality = British
| occupation = Anthropologist
| known_for = Ethnographic documentaries
| awards = Nilgiris Lifetime Achievement Award (2015)
| education = Doctor of Philosophy
| alma_mater = {{br separated entries|[[University of Sydney]]|[[University of California, Berkeley]]}}
| discipline = Anthropology
| sub_discipline = {{br separated entries|Social anthropology|Visual anthropology|Medical anthropology}}
| workplaces = Former dean at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of [[United International College]], China
| main_interests =
| notable_works = {{br separated entries|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 anthropology|social]], [[visual anthropology|visual]] and [[medical anthropology|medical]] anthropology.<ref name="UoIaC">{{cite web |title=Paul Hockings |url=https://anth.uic.edu/profiles/hockings-paul/ |website=University of Illinois at Chicago |place=Chicago, USA |access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref>

He studied archaeology and anthropology at the [[University of Sydney]], the [[University of California, Berkeley]], and at the universities in Chicago, Stanford and Toronto. He taught anthropology at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]] and the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], and he has been the dean of [[United International College]]'s Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. He is the current editor-in-chief of ''[[Visual Anthropology (journal)|Visual Anthropology]]''.

==Early life and family==
Hockings was born on February 23, 1935 at [[Hertford]] and was raised in [[Hampshire]], England.<ref name="OEF"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Hockings, Paul Edward (1935-....) |url=https://www.idref.fr/028348443 |website=Identifiants et Référentiels pour l'Enseignement supérieur et la Recherche |language=fr |access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="UoC"/> 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.<ref name="UoC">{{cite web |title=Encounter with Visual Anthropology |url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/245843/VISUAL%20ANTHROPOLOGY%20-reduced.pdf?sequence=1 |website=University of Cambridge |place=Cambridge, UK |format=PDF |access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref>

==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 [[Field research|field studies]] from [[American Institute of Indian Studies]], he moved to the [[Nilgiris]] in India and did research on the [[Badagas]] of the Nilgiris, completing a Ph.D. on this subject in 1965.<ref name="UoC"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Paul Hockings Collection, 1962-1976 |url=http://www.chicagofilmarchives.org/collections/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/8 |website=[[Chicago Film Archives]] |place=Chicago, USA |access-date=July 8, 2020}}</ref> He also studied anthropology at the universities in Chicago, Stanford, Toronto, and at the University of California, Berkeley.<ref name="UoM"/>

==Career and research==
Hockings made the first film in the style of Observational Cinema, named, ''The Village''.<ref name="UoM"/> In 1969, he was signed as an anthropologist by the [[MGM Studios]] for making a film on [[Origins of man|mankind's origins]], titled "The Man Hunters", for the [[NBC television]] which drew a large audience.<ref name="UoC"/> He also worked as a research director for ''MGM Documentary''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Newsletter |volume=1–2 |work=Program in Ethnographic Film ([[American Anthropological Association]]) |publisher=Program in Ethnographic Film |place=Philadelphia, USA |year=1970 |issn=0030-8013 |oclc=16014996 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9EWAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 |quote-page=10 |quote=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 on a regular monthly salary.}}</ref> He is the chief editor of ''Visual Anthropology'', and the [[University of Oslo]] has described him as "a pioneer in the fields of [[ethnographic film]] and visual anthropology".<ref name="UoO">{{cite web |title=Paul Hockings: "Documentary film, commercial cinema, and the slow growth of ethnographic filming" |url=https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621004708/https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/news-and-events/events/sai-department-seminar/2019/mars-25-hockings.html |work=University of Oslo |place=Oslo, Norway |archive-date=June 21, 2020 |access-date=May 29, 2021}}</ref>

Hockings is a professor emeritus of anthropology from the University of Illinois at Chicago.<ref name="UoIaC"/> 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. For a brief period of time, he worked at the [[Museum of Anthropology at UBC|Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia]], and as a script writer, journalist and librarian in New Zealand and Canada.<ref name="UoC"/> He served in China as the dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at the United International College in [[Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai]], and in Chicago as a [[Field Museum of Natural History]]'s adjunct curator of anthropology.<ref name="UoC"/><ref name="OEF">{{cite web |title=Father of Nilgiriology: Prof Paul Hockings |url=http://www.oneearthfoundation.in/father-of-nilgiriology-prof-paul-hockings/ |website=One Earth Foundation |place=India |access-date=July 8, 2020}}</ref>

He has studied the [[South Indian culture|cultures of South India]],<ref>{{cite book |title=Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute |publisher=[[Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland]] |year=2002 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcsgAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Paul+Hockings%22 |quote-page=790 |quote=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.}}</ref><ref name="UoC"/> and has been working with the [[Badagas]] for more than 50 years.<ref name="UoM">{{cite web |title=Ankündigung Hockings |url=https://www.ethnologie.uni-muenchen.de/download/andere-vortraege/ankuendigung-hockings.pdf |website=[[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]] |place=Munich, Germany |access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref><ref name="UoV">{{cite web |title=Structuring an ethnographic film in relation to social theory |url=https://www.unive.it/pag/fileadmin/user_upload/cdlm/allegati-elementi-comuni/2018-19/attivita_sostitutive/LAB_DEA/secondo_semestre/9_HOCKINGS_LOCANDINA.pdf |website=[[Ca' Foscari University of Venice]] |place=Venice, Italy |access-date=July 7, 2020}}</ref> He has researched their [[medical anthropology]], culture and [[Badaga language|language]].<ref name="UoC"/>

==Awards==
In 2015, he was awarded the ''Nilgiris Lifetime Achievement Award'' by the Nilgiri Documentation Centre;<ref name="OEF"/> and in 2016, a ''Lifetime Achievement Award'' of the Society for Visual Anthropology.<ref>{{cite web |title=SVA Lifetime Achievement Award |work=Society for Visual Anthropology |place=USA |url=http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/sva-awards/sva-lifetime-achievement-award/ |access-date=30 May 2021}}</ref>

==Works==
Hockings made several documentaries and published about 20 books and more than 200 papers.<ref name="UoV"/>

===Books===
*{{cite book |title=So Long a Saga: Four Centuries of Badaga Social History |first=Paul|last=Hockings |publisher=Manohar |place=New Delhi, India |year=2013 |isbn=978-9350980187 |oclc=860865948 |ref=none}}
*{{cite book |title=Encyclopaedia of the Nilgiri Hills |first=Paul |last=Hockings |publisher=Manohar |place=New Delhi, India |year=2012 |isbn=978-8173048937 |oclc=794592439 |ref=none}}
*{{cite book |title=Kindreds of the Earth: Badaga Household Structure and Demography |first=Paul |last=Hockings |others=[[John Caldwell (demographer)|John C. Caldwell]] |publisher=[[SAGE Publishing|SAGE]] |place=New Delhi, India |year=1999 |isbn=978-0761992929 |oclc=468432193 |ref=none}}
*{{cite book |title=Blue Mountains: The Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian Region |edition=illustrated |first=Paul |last=Hockings |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |place=New Delhi, India |year=1989 |isbn=978-0195621778 |oclc=716653588 |ref=none}}
*{{cite book |title=Principles of Visual Anthropology |series=World Anthropology |first=Paul |last=Hockings |publisher=[[Mouton de Gruyter|Mouton]] |place=The Hague, Netherlands |year=1975 |isbn=978-9027975195 |oclc=500590678 |ref=none}}

===Selected papers===
*{{cite journal |journal=Anthropos |volume=115 |issue=1 |date=October 2020 |pages=55–67 |title=The Amateur Anthropologist: G. W. Willis and His Precursors |first=Paul |last=Hockings |doi=10.5771/0257-9774-2020-2-343 |ref=none}}
*{{cite journal |journal=[[Visual Anthropology (journal)|Visual Anthropology]] |volume=27 |issue=5 |year=2014 |pages=436–456 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |title=Where is the Theory in Visual Anthropology? |first1=Paul |last1=Hockings |first2=Keyan G. |last2=Tomaselli |first3=Jay |last3=Ruby |first4=David |last4=MacDougall |first5=Drid |last5=Williams |first6=Albert |last6=Piette |first7=Maureen T. |last7=Schwarz |first8=Silvio |last8=Carta |display-authors=4 |doi=10.1080/08949468.2014.950155|hdl=1885/103475 |s2cid=143385174 |hdl-access=free |ref=none}}
*{{cite book |title=Principles of Visual Anthropology |orig-year=First published 1995 |year=2012 |pages=507–530 |publisher=[[De Gruyter Mouton]] |place=Berlin, Germany |article=Conclusion: Ethnographic Filming and Anthropological Theory |first=Paul |last=Hockings |doi=10.1515/9783110290691.507 |article-url=https://www.degruyter.com/view/book/9783110290691/10.1515/9783110290691.507.xml |oclc=7350367542 |ref=none}}

===Documentaries===
*{{cite AV media |people=Paul Hockings; Mark McCarty; Colin Young |year=1968 |title=The Village |medium=eVideo |language=en, ga |location=Watertown, Massachusetts, USA |publisher=[[Documentary Educational Resources]] |oclc=701798441 |ref=none}}

==See also==
*[[Colin Young]]
*[[David G. Mandelbaum]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{cite web |website=[[Academia.edu]] |title=Paul Hockings |url=https://uic.academia.edu/PaulHockings}}
*{{cite journal |journal=Irish Journal of Anthropology |volume=19 |issue=2 |year=2016 |pages=139–142 |publisher=Anthropological Association of Ireland |place=Kildare, Ireland |title=Interview with Paul Hockings |first1=Marine |last1=Carrin |first2=Harald |last2=Tambs-Lyche |author2-link=Harald Tambs-Lyche |issn=1393-8592 |url=http://anthropologyireland.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/IJA_19_2_2016.pdf}}

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