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Films
9 Films
Country of production
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films with a digital version
3
films hosted on Kanopy
2
short films
4
films available on demand
2
Region
British-Irish Isles
2
Central America
1
Eastern Europe and Baltic States
1
South America
1
South Asia
2
Various
1
West Africa
1
Western Europe
1
Country
Belgium
1
Bolivia
1
Burkina Faso
1
Hungary
1
India
1
Mexico
1
Tibet
1
United Kingdom
2
Various
1
Keywords
Children / Young people
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Environment
1
Food / Water
1
Forensic
1
Gender Role and Identity
2
History of Anthropology
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Land Rights
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Marriage
1
Memory
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
3
Political Activists
1
Public Figure
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Reproduction (biology)
1
Resistance
1
Ritual
1
Rural
1
Social Conflict
1
Social Norms
1
Directors
Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
1
Cole, Sarah
1
Gazidis, Dorothea
1
Grégoire, Charlotte
1
Hansen, Anne-Katrine
1
Hennies, Jan-Holger
1
Hinckley, Priscilla
1
Huffschmid, Anne
1
Landseer, Kimona
1
Longinotto, Kim
1
Saltman, Carlyn
1
Singer, André
1
𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿, Ana
1
Series
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
3
Strangers Abroad
1
not set
5
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Year of production
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1986
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1988
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1989
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2007
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2019
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Film list
André and Nándi
2000
30
‘
Directed by
Charlotte Grégoire
.
Hungarian-born André Reinitz only discovered his Jewish identity when he moved to Brussels at the age of ten. Since then, in spite of the silence of his parents, he has become involved in the Jewish
Western Europe
Eastern Europe and Baltic States
Religion / Belief / Faith
Music / Ethnomusicology
Life Story / Life History
Chantal’s Choice
1990
30
‘
Directed by
Priscilla Hinckley
Carlyn Saltman
.
Adolescents in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, create a play for their peers in Europe and the USA. They enact an African folktale about a girl who faces a painful dilemma because she is determined to stay in school.
West Africa
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Children / Young people
Reproduction (biology)
Dor, Low is Better
1988
47
‘
Directed by
Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
.
The film offers an experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn introduced to
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Ritual
Persistence
2019
54
‘
Main Competition
Directed by
Anne Huffschmid
Jan-Holger Hennies
.
Human bodies don’t simply disappear. They were kidnapped, buried, broken into pieces. But they are also searched for, recovered and if forensic experts achieve the unlikely, reconstructed as
Central America
Forensic
Memory
Pride of Place – Observations of lives of girls at a Public School
1976
59
‘
Directed by
Dorothea Gazidis
Kimona Landseer
Kim Longinotto
.
A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England’s National School of Television and Film. As a teenager, the filmmaker had been condemned
British-Irish Isles
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Gender Role and Identity
Sangita Priya: Lover of Music
2007
30
‘
Directed by
Anne-Katrine Hansen
.
From temples to recording studios of Kochi, Kerala in South India, we follow four musicians -a student and his master, a professional and a promoter – all uniquely devoted to the music that permeates
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge transmission
The Shackles of Tradition – Franz Boas (1858-1942)
1986
52
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series
Various
History of Anthropology
Public Figure
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia
2020
76
‘
Directed by
Ana 𝗟𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗿
.
Uma: a water crisis in Bolivia tells the story of three Andean indigenous communities in the highlands of Bolivia who are fighting to protect their water from diversion and contamination amid a
South America
Environment
Food / Water
Gender Role and Identity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Political Activists
Resistance
Rural
Social Conflict
Why Wear White
1989
28
‘
Directed by
Sarah Cole
.
The wedding industry in Britain is currently booming and many people find it necessary to have a long white dress, an old-fashioned car and other specially made details for their wedding. The film,
British-Irish Isles
Marriage
Social Norms