The Film-As-Text

After reading MacDougall's The Film-As-Text, I kept going back to the one idea explained in Jaguar. As far as achieving ethnographic accuracy, this sounds like a really neat idea. They added a third element, which is the subjects adding commentary after the footage is shot. From here, you have the filmmakers perspective, the audiences interpretation, the subjects actions, but also the subjects commentary and their perspective.
Later, they go on to talk about an anthropologist adding commentary, as well as the filmmaker in the post production stage.
This may not be the most important point of the reading, but it does sound like a really interesting way to achieve a more sound ethnographic film that would be accepted more generally.
Imagine attempting to document a spiritual ritual. The subjects are dancing and sacrificing, and the camera rolls. Most of the documentaries I have seen would show this footage with whatever sound was captured, and have the filmmaker or narrator explain the actions. At most, it would have captions with what the subjects are vocalizing. Imagine this, but also with the subjects explaining what they were doing at that time as an overdub, and an anthropologist explaining how he/she feels about it. That's magic.