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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 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>

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