Films 12 Films Directors "Woodhead, Leslie" x films with a digital version 12 Region Central Africa 1 Central Asia and Far East 2 Melanesia 1 North America 1 North and Northeast Africa 5 South Asia 1 Western Europe 1 Country Cameroon 1 China 2 Ethiopia 6 France 1 Nepal 1 Solomon Islands 1 Keywords Agriculture / Farming 1 Animals 1 Collective / Community identity 2 Death 1 Everyday Life 1 Family / Kinship 2 Gender Role and Identity 1 Health / Health care / Healing 2 Herding 2 History 1 Labour 1 Marriage 2 Refugees / Displaced populations 1 Religion / Belief / Faith 1 Ritual 4 Rural 1 Social Change 7 Social Conflict 3 Social Organisation 2 Socioeconomic conditions 1 Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage 1 Trade 1 War / Conflict / Reconciliation 1 Directors Harries, Andy 1 Lasko, Claire 2 Wason, David 2 Winter, Pattie 1 Woodhead, Leslie 12 x Series Disappearing World Series 12 In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy 3 Country of production United Kingdom 12 Year of production 1974 1 1977 1 1979 1 1982 1 1983 2 1985 1 1987 2 1988 1 1991 2 Film list The Basques of Santazi 1987 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead . *In her book 'The Circle of Mountains' Sandra Ott provided a fascinating analysis of social reciprocity (...) The film highlights the village's contemporary dilemmas and thereby complements rather Western Europe Herding Social Change Rural In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy 1987 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead . This is a trilogy about aspects of the culture of two groups of people, the Kwegu and the Mursi, in Ethiopia. The titles are: THE MURSI , THE KWEGU, THE MIGRANTS *What made this trilogy special North America Social Change Socioeconomic conditions Health / Health care / Healing The Kwegu 1979 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead Andy Harries . *'The Kwegu' is an entirely tasteful and dignified presentation of the harsh realities of subsistence living, and it may help us understand how, even in stateless societies, dominated groups come to North and Northeast Africa Collective / Community identity Agriculture / Farming Social Organisation Marriage Trade The Lau of Malaita 1982 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead . *Pierre Miranda and a team from Granada Television have made a fine film exploring the trouble realities of the people of the lagoon in the 1980s.* (B. Shore) This film focuses on the people of Melanesia Social Change Social Conflict Ritual Death Religion / Belief / Faith Living with the Revolution 1983 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead Claire Lasko . *These three films ('Inside China: Living with the Revolution'; 'The Newest Revolution'; 'The Kazakhs of China') present a valuable record of aspects of most recent developments in China.* (A. Central Asia and Far East Social Change History Family / Kinship The Migrants 1985 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead David Wason . The Migrants is the third film in the trilogy 'In Search of Cool Ground' for Granada Television's Disappearing World series. It is about a drought-induced migration of Mursi from their traditional North and Northeast Africa Social Change Collective / Community identity Refugees / Displaced populations The Mursi 1974 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead . The Mursi, an unadministered tribe living in remote south-west Ethiopia, are a cattle-keeping and agricultural group without chiefs or leaders. This film, made under extremely difficult conditions, North and Northeast Africa War / Conflict / Reconciliation Social Organisation Mursi: The Land is Bad 1991 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead . A further visit to the Mursi of Southern Ethiopia with whom contact was established 17 years ago, for an important coming of age ceremony which has had to be postponed many times. An elder of the North and Northeast Africa Ritual Social Conflict Health / Health care / Healing Mursi: Nitha 1991 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead . The proper time for a man to go through the Age Set Ceremony, the nitha, is just as he reaches physical maturity. But many years may elapse from one nitha to the next, so it is inevitable that some North and Northeast Africa Ritual Social Conflict Gender Role and Identity The Newest Revolution 1983 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead Claire Lasko . This film is a continuation of 'Living with the Revolution', set in the same communes near Wuxi and focusing on the same families. This film concentrates, however, on the new social and economic Central Asia and Far East Family / Kinship Social Change Sherpas of Nepal 1977 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead Pattie Winter . Thami is a village 12,000 feet up in the Himalayas in the Kingdom of Nepal. As the film's opening shots illustrate, in a type of filmic short-hand, Thami is composed of a patchwork of individual South Asia Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage Labour Marriage Social Change The Wodaabe 1988 52' Directed by Leslie Woodhead David Wason . *Is the Wodaabe world disappearing? How are we to place the painted male faces? The very considerable success of this film is the ways it answers these questions.* J. Picto The Wodaabe follow Central Africa Herding Animals Everyday Life Ritual