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Films
4 Films
Year of production
“1972”
x
films with a digital version
2
Region
East Africa
1
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South-East Asia
1
Country
Algeria
1
Canada
1
China
1
Uganda
1
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Disasters
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Marriage
1
Nomads and Nomadism
2
Ritual
1
Rural
1
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Social Change
1
Social Organisation
2
Socioeconomic conditions
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Curling, Chris
1
Curtis, Edward S.
1
MacDougall, David
1
Moser, Brian
1
Nairn, Charlie
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
2
not set
2
Country of production
Australia
1
Canada
1
United Kingdom
2
United States
2
Year of production
1972
4
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Film list
In the Land of the War Canoes
1972
47
‘
Directed by
Edward S. Curtis
.
The film was made in 1914 by Edward Curtis. The plot concerns the efforts of a young man, Motana, son of a great chief, to obtain a bride and how he is thwarted by a wicked sorcerer. Many of the
North America
Archival material / Museum displays
Marriage
Film / Photography / Mass media
The Meo
1972
52
‘
Directed by
Brian Moser
Chris Curling
.
Over the last three thousand years the Meo (Miao or Hmong) have migrated south from north and central China to avoid oppression and protect their way of life. Today they live in scattered mountain
South-East Asia
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Shamans and Shamanism
Ritual
Social Organisation
Rural
To Live With Herds
1972
90
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
The Jie are semi-nomadic pastoral people living in North-eastern Uganda, who are striving to maintain their way of life in the face of unsympathetic government policy, and, at the time of filming, a dry-season famine.
East Africa
Nomads and Nomadism
Disasters
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
The Tuareg
1972
52
‘
Directed by
Charlie Nairn
.
This film is about a group of nomadic Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains near Tamanrasset in Algeria. The main focus of the film is the collapse of the former economic basis of their
North and Northeast Africa
Social Organisation
Social Change
Socioeconomic conditions
Nomads and Nomadism