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Films
2 Films
shorter than 40 minutes
x
Keywords
“Linguistics Language”
x
short films
2
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Region
South America
1
South-East Asia
1
Country
Indonesia
1
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Environment
1
Linguistics / Language
2
x
Directors
Asch, Patsy
1
Asch, Timothy
1
Fox, J.
1
Henley, Paul
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
1
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
Country of production
Australia
1
United Kingdom
1
Year of production
1983
1
1996
1
Film list
The Water of Words: a cultural ecology of a small island in Eastern Indonesia
1983
30
‘
Directed by
J. Fox
Timothy Asch
Patsy Asch
.
This film examines the ecology and poetry of everyday life. Two Rotinese narrate this film, each offering his perception of the importance of the Lontar (Borassus) palm: a clan leader describes the
South-East Asia
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Linguistics / Language
Environment
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