摘要当敏锐的人类学家把摄影机带进人类学的研究中以后，人类学学科的发展便进入了一个新的时期；当《藏北人家》在国际上名声大振以后，全世界的人类学家和纪录片创作者都把目光投向中国这片充满神奇而诱惑的土地。
人类学和西部纪录片表面是两个不同的概念，实际则存在着千丝万缕的联系，纵观人类学和西部纪录片的发展之路，日趋成熟。
但是，很少有人从人类学的视角出发去研究西部纪录片，本文通过介绍人类学、人类学纪录片和西部纪录片的概念、研究范畴，以及粗略介绍他们的发展历程，从人类学这个独特的角度重新审视西部纪录片，以人类学的观点为起点，以西部纪录片为落点。
我国西部地区幅员辽阔，地理形态多样化，人类文化资源丰富，丰富的地理文化资源含有许多人类学因素，从人类学的角度审视西部地域，会有不小的收获。
再者，以人类学为基础，透视西部纪录片的制作过程以及西部纪录片的价值，无一不含有人类学的观点和思想。
我国西部纪录片也曾经辉煌过，但只是昙花一现，并未长久，从人类学的观点出发，为西部纪录片开辟一条新的道路，有助于我国西部纪录片更有效的开拓国内外市场。
再者，文化侵略、文化霸权愈演愈烈，全球一体化理念深入人心，许多文化面临消失或已经消失，而唯一拯救的办法就是影像纪录，因此，西部纪录片担任着义不容辞的责任。
本文将在结论部分结合目前的国际环境，结合我国西部地域特色资源和丰富的文化资源，从人类学的角度出发为西部纪录片提出一些发展策略。
关键词：人类学；西部纪录片；地理形态；文化资源AbstractWhen keen anthropologists put the camera is brought into the study of anthropology, after the development of anthropology discipline has entered into a new period. When "the family in the northern of Tibet" of international fame rose to fame later, world anthropologists and documentary creator pay close attention her Chinese this piece of land full of magic and temptation. Anthropology and western documentary surface are two different concepts; actual is existed countless connection, throughout the development of anthropology and western documentary, mature road. However, few people from the perspective of the anthropology of western documentary, this paper study through the introduction of anthropology, anthropology documentary and western documentary concepts and the research category, and introduced their development course roughly from anthropology, this unique Angle to examine the western view of anthropology and documentary, that is to start for placement. Western documentary In China's western region is vast and varied geography, rich resources of human culture words, abundant geographical culture resources contains many anthropology factors, from the perspective of the people some of the western region, there will be a lot of harvest. Furthermore, based in anthropology perspective, the manufacture process and the western documentary value of western documentary all contain anthropology views and ideas. In China's western documentary also once brilliant, but just a flash in the pan, did not last, from the anthropological point of view for the western opens a new roads, documentary in western China more effectively to the documentary develop domestic and international market. Moreover, cultural aggression and cultural hegemony increasingly fierce, the global integration concept pervasive, many cultural extinction or have disappeared, and the only way to salvation, therefore, that influence the western documentary record as the obligatory responsibility. This paper will be a conclusion combining international environment, with China's western region characteristic resources and rich cultural resources, from the Angle of anthropology for western development strategy proposed some documentaries.Keywords: anthropology; western documentary; geography culture; resources第一章绪论一、选题的目的1922年6月1日罗伯特·弗拉哈迪拍摄的反映爱斯基摩人的影片《北方的那努克》在纽约首映并获得巨大的成功，此电影至今都被认为是纪录片的经典之作，也被认为是人类学电影的诞生之作。
