Film list

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Uncle Poison 1998 60'
  Directed by Ricardo Leizaola .
Filmed in the city of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community’s Easter celebrations. Every day,
South America Health / Health care / Healing Religion / Belief / Faith Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
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Writing Panare - Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork 1996 30'
  Directed by Paul Henley .
Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has worked for many years with the Panare, an Amerindian people of Venezuelan Amazonia. She has now been commissioned by the government literacy programme to
South America Linguistics / Language Education / Knowledge Transmission
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Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones 2012 58'
  Directed by Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin .
The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small
South America Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples Material Culture Social Change