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Films
316 Films
Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Showing 19
Title initial
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films with a digital version
151
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
160
films available on demand
17
Title initial
A
8
B
20
C
19
x
D
14
E
11
F
10
G
13
H
22
I
12
J
3
K
15
L
19
M
24
N
6
O
5
P
7
Q
1
R
15
S
42
T
24
U
8
V
6
W
10
Y
2
Region
Australia
2
British-Irish Isles
48
Caribbean Islands
5
Central Africa
1
Central America
7
Central Asia and Far East
20
Central Europe
3
East Africa
9
London
1
Melanesia
9
Micronesia
1
Middle and Near East
18
New Zealand and Polynesia
2
North America
16
North and Northeast Africa
15
Scandinavia
6
South America
36
South Asia
26
South-East Asia
16
South-East Europe
14
Southern Africa
15
Various
8
West Africa
20
Western Europe
17
Western Mediterranean
12
Country
Afghanistan
8
Albania
1
Algeria
1
Angola
1
Anguilla
1
Australia
2
Austria
1
Bangladesh
1
Bolivia
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2
Botswana
7
Brazil
12
Burkina Faso
1
Cameroon
2
Canada
2
Cape Verde
1
Chile
1
China
7
Colombia
5
Cyprus
1
Czech Republic
1
Denmark
4
Ecuador
1
Egypt
1
Eritrea
1
Ethiopia
6
Federated States of Micronesia
1
France
6
Germany
5
Ghana
4
Greece
3
Greenland
1
Guatemala
2
Guinea-Bissau
1
Haiti
1
Hungary
1
India
14
Indonesia
10
Iran
3
Ireland
1
Israel
1
Italy
5
Jamaica
2
Japan
9
Jordan
1
Kenya
7
Lesotho
1
Los Angeles
1
Madagascar
1
Malawi
1
Malta
2
Mexico
3
Mongolia
3
Morocco
2
Myanmar
3
Namibia
1
Nepal
5
New Zealand
1
Nigeria
8
Norway
2
Pakistan
5
Palestine
3
Papua New Guinea
8
Paraguay
1
Peru
6
Portugal
3
Puerto Rico
1
Romania
5
Russian Federation
3
Samoa
1
Senegal
1
Sierra Leone
3
Solomon Islands
1
South Africa
3
Spain
3
Sri Lanka
1
Sudan
5
Sweden
2
Switzerland
1
Syria
2
The Netherlands
2
Togo
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
Turkey
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
51
United States
11
Various
8
Venezuela
8
Yemen
1
not set
3
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
9
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Alternative culture
15
Animals
17
Animation
2
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
2
Archaeology
2
Archival material / Museum displays
9
Art / Artists / Artisans
11
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
24
Collective / Community identity
23
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
5
Dance / Theatre / Performance
19
Death
8
Development projects
13
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
9
Education / Knowledge transmission
4
Elderly people
5
Environment
5
Ethnofiction
3
Everyday Life
9
Family / Kinship
16
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
10
Film / Photography / Mass media
14
Food
3
Gender Role and Identity
39
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
22
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Herding
11
History
5
History of Anthropology
13
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
11
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
20
Informant-researcher relationship
5
Infrastructure / Transport
2
Inter-religious relations
6
Intergenerational relations
7
Internet
1
LGBTQI*
5
Labour
13
Land Rights
12
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
9
Life Story / Life History
3
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
2
Love
5
Marriage
16
Material Culture
7
Memory
12
Migration
13
Music / Ethnomusicology
20
Nationalism
1
Nomads and Nomadism
7
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Personal Narrative
4
Political Activists
12
Popular Culture
4
Possession
4
Post-communism
5
Prison
2
Public Figure
10
Race / Racism / Antiracism
4
Reflexivity
6
Refugees / Displaced populations
16
Religion / Belief / Faith
46
Reproduction (biology)
3
Research methods
1
Resistance
5
Ritual
45
Rural
15
Sex / Sexuality
8
Shamans and Shamanism
3
Social Change
32
Social Conflict
12
Social Norms
3
Social Organisation
14
Socioeconomic conditions
14
Sport
7
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
9
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
14
Trade
7
Travellers / Roma
5
Urban
14
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
25
Directors
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Allward, Caroline
1
Alves-Costa, Catarina
1
Anttila, Birgitta H.
1
Arnott, Susi
1
Asadullah, Sara
1
Asare-Nyako, Afua
1
Ash, David
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Austena, Aunund
1
Ayisi, Florence
1
Baily, John
11
Banks, Marcus
1
Basu, Paul
1
Beckham, Michael
2
Beier, Ulli
1
Belkind, Lukas
1
Benfield, Andy
1
Berg, Julia
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Blake, John
2
Bolchover, James
1
Bonifacio, Valentina
1
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Brice, Mark
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Calugareanu, Ilinca
1
Campbell, Karlia
1
Carr, Peter
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Cheetham, Ben
1
Christie, Debbie
1
Christodoulou, Chris
1
Clarissou, Priscilla
1
Clay, Charlie
1
Clifford-Jaeger, Simone
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Contreras, Elisa
1
Cook, Alistair
1
Coppe, Alexia
1
Coppens, Sharis
1
Corral Paredes, Carolina
1
Cross, Stephen
1
Cubero, Carlo A.
1
Curling, Chris
5
D’onofrio, Alexandra
1
Davidson, John Paul
1
Day, Mike
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Dineen, Molly
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eagle, Rob
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Elliot, Dominic
1
Engels, Claudia
1
Eschenbach, Sebastian
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Farrell, Emma
1
Fassnidge, Matthew
1
Fedda, Yasmin
2
Ferrarini, Lorenzo
1
Finnestad, Mari
1
Flores, Carlos
1
Ford, Ellie
1
French, Dominic
1
Getzels, Peter
1
Goldberg, Claudia
1
Gordon, Harriet
1
Grasseni, Cristina
1
Greenwood, Rachel
1
Griggs, David
1
Grigsby, Michael
1
Grossman, Alyssa
2
Grove-White, Will
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Hammill, Ruth
1
Hann, Amelia
1
Hanson, Kieran
1
Hardie, Amy
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Harries, Andy
3
Harrison, Ross
1
Hartford, Hugh
1
Hatland, Line
1
Hawkins, Richard
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Heer, Madelief de
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
6
Hertog, Ester
1
Hill, Amanda
1
Hill, Joanna
1
Hirl, Alexander
1
Hogel, Jakob
1
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horton, Robin
1
Howes, Arthur
3
Hughes, Richard
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
2
Hunt, Claire
1
Hunt, Clare
1
Husmann, Rolf
1
Huysmans, Carla
1
Ihle, Johanne Haaber
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
2
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Graham
2
Juárez-Allen, Gema
1
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kildea, Gary
1
Kirk, Laura
1
Kirkwood, Nick
1
Kriszio, Janina
1
Kurc, Julia
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Langhorst, Insa
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lasko, Claire
2
Lawrence, Andy
2
Leach, Jerry
1
Lehto, Veera
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
2
Levaulx-Vrecourt, Henriette
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Lipsanen, Heidi
1
Llewelyn-Davies, Melissa
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
3
Longinotto, Kim
16
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lutz, Peter
1
Maagdenberg, Ester
1
MacDonald, Bruce
3
MacDonald, Caro
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
2
Marcus, Alan
1
Marin, Nadja
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
McGuirk, Siobhan
1
Meriwether, Maria
1
Merli, Laetitia
1
Merrun, Gabriel
1
Milling, Julie
1
Milne, Claudia
1
Milner, George
1
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba
1
Moderbacher, Christine
1
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Moggan, Julie
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Morris, Bessie
1
Moser, Brian
7
Munro, Neil G.
1
Musleh, Hanna
1
Nairn, Charlie
5
Namondwe, Charles
1
Navarro Smith, Alejandra
1
Nicolau, João
1
Okojie, Paul
1
Olatunji, Ife
1
Ono, Ray
1
Owen, Chris
1
Owles, Ed
1
Owles, Edward
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Pardee, Lucy
1
Pasini, Carlos
2
Paterek, Austin
1
Patriarca, Niccolo
1
Payne, Becky
1
Pedrosa, Patrícia
1
Picard, David
1
Pinhheiro, Joceny
1
Planas, María Elena
1
Pollack, Claire
1
Powell, Harry
1
Pratt, Helen
1
Ravetz, Amanda
1
Read, Rosie
1
Reed, Alex
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Rice, Tom
1
Richards, Naomi
1
Robertson, Rachel
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Rosen, Jennifer
1
Ross, Nina
1
Samir-Shakir, Yasmin
1
Sandberg, Eirik
1
Savage, Rebecca
1
Schiltz, Anne
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Schädler, Natalie
1
Schäuble, Michaela
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Sheahan, Tom
1
Sheppard, John
4
Singer, André
16
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Speed, Frank
6
Sperscheinder, Werner
1
Stefani, Fotini
1
Taylor, Jamie
1
Thomas Allen, Christopher
1
Torresan, Angela
1
Tovey, Ana
1
Tucker, Andrew
1
Vella, Steve
1
Vinken, Polly
1
Vybiral, James
1
Waddell, Anna
1
Wason, David
5
Webster, Rachel
1
Werbner, Richard
10
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Willerslev, Rane
1
Williams, Jano
3
Williams, Stacey
1
Winter, Pattie
1
Woodhead, Leslie
12
Wright, Evie
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
de Bromhead, Toni
5
Øien, Cecilie
1
Series
Caught in a Web
3
Decolonising Shorts
1
Disappearing World Series
54
Forbidden Rites
3
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
121
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
3
In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy
3
National Film and Television School
10
Pleasure Shorts
1
Shorts Collection 2
3
Shorts collection 2
1
Strangers Abroad
5
Sudan Trilogy
3
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
8
Turkana Conversations
1
not set
99
Country of production
Australia
2
Austria
1
Brazil
1
Canada
1
Denmark
1
Germany
3
India
2
Indonesia
2
Italy
2
Jordan
1
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
6
Peru
1
Romania
1
Senegal
1
South Africa
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
316
x
United States
9
Venezuela
1
Year of production
1931
1
1952
1
1963
1
1964
1
1966
1
1970
2
1971
3
1972
2
1973
2
1974
9
1975
5
1976
1
1977
6
1979
4
1980
2
1981
1
1982
4
1983
7
1984
3
1985
7
1986
6
1987
9
1988
9
1989
11
1990
5
1991
7
1992
5
1993
6
1994
4
1995
4
1996
5
1997
7
1998
8
1999
8
2000
9
2001
10
2002
11
2003
12
2004
9
2005
5
2006
7
2007
11
2008
18
2009
14
2010
16
2011
6
2012
3
2013
2
2014
4
2015
6
2016
3
2018
4
2019
3
2020
4
2021
2
Film list
Cae Dai – a Home From Home
1997
30
‘
Directed by
Will Grove-White
.
After the closure of the North Wales psychiatric hospital in the late 1980s, Sparrow Harrison opened his family home to local people suffering from mental illness. This film explores the humour,
British-Irish Isles
Health / Health care / Healing
Alternative culture
Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio Palopó
1987
52
‘
Directed by
Bruce MacDonald
.
The documentary shows how Cakchiquel Maya of a village on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala adapted to changes that took place in the decades before the film was made, when the lake became a favoured spot
Central America
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Call for Grace
2000
30
‘
Student
Directed by
Laetitia Merli
.
During Mongolia’s seventy years of domination by the Soviet Union, shamanism, like many aspects of Mongolian tradition, was forbidden by the Communist authorities, and went into decline. Since the
Central Asia and Far East
Shamans and Shamanism
Post-communism
Cannibalism
1999
60
‘
Directed by
André Singer
Tom Sheahan
.
The history of cannibalism around the world and its role in different culture, from ancient Britain to Papua New Guinea. The Forbidden Rites trilogy explores cannibalism, head hunting and human
Various
Ritual
Archival material / Museum displays
History of Anthropology
The Carrot and the Stick
1988
44
‘
Directed by
Susi Arnott
.
When they retired from selling insurance and teaching, John and Irene Brown volunteered to work overseas under a British Aid programme. They were sent to expand a marketing project aimed at
Melanesia
Development projects
Agriculture / Farming
Rural
Casado’s Legacy
2009
49
‘
Directed by
Valentina Bonifacio
.
For 100 years Maskoy people worked in Carlos Casado’s tannin factory. The factory, which had been founded on their land, based its production on the exploitation of local natural resources. After
South America
Political Activists
Labour
Land Rights
Caught in Between
2016
56
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
The focus is on a leading village elder, John Lelatlhego, a retired Human Resources administrator trained in settling disputes in the South African mines. John gets entangled in the long troubled
Southern Africa
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Love
Marriage
Caught in a Magic Place
2007
28
‘
Directed by
Niccolo Patriarca
.
A story of sandwiches and generations, ambitions and regrets from the heart of the Italian kitchen.
Western Mediterranean
Food
Intergenerational relations
Labour
Changes
2010
30
‘
Directed by
Afua Asare-Nyako
.
Kwabena wants to move back to Ghana, the country he left more than 30 years ago. This film shows one of the many journeys that he has to take in preparation for his return. It explores the motives
West Africa
Western Europe
Migration
Cinema Pedregal
1994
27
‘
Directed by
Ricardo Leizaola
.
For forty years Alejandro Farfán has been making and showing films in El Pedregal. Now located in the heart of Caracas, this community was a small village when Alejandro first went to the cinema.
Central America
Popular Culture
Urban
Film / Photography / Mass media
Memory
A Clearing in the Jungle
1970
52
‘
Directed by
Charlie Nairn
.
Like that of many other Indian groups in South America, the culture of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is threatened by their almost daily contact with neighbouring creoles, Spanish-speaking
South America
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Informant-researcher relationship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Coming of Age – Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
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
The Condor and the Bull
1989
56
‘
Directed by
Peter Getzels
Harriet Gordon
.
Villagers from remote hamlets high in the Andes join together with people from the roadside village of Ocongate for the Peruvian Independence Day celebration. Festivities require that a wild condor
South America
Animals
Festivals / Carnival
Ritual
Counterpoint Botswana
2011
45
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
Seeing ‘Holy Hustler’, the 2009 film made in Botswana, local viewers respond and discuss it with the filmmaker Richard Werbner in 2011. ‘Counterpoint Botswana’ captures the reception by home
British-Irish Isles
Reflexivity
Counterpoint One
2011
37
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
The first in the Forum Follies series, ‘Counterpoint One’ pitches the ethnographic filmmaker Richard Werbner into debate with audiences for his film ‘Holy Hustlers’ (2009), from a rough to a final
British-Irish Isles
Reflexivity
Counterpoint Two
2011
45
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
The second in the ‘Forum Follies’ series, ‘Counterpoint Two’ pitches the ethnographic filmmaker Richard Werbner into debate with audiences for his film ‘Encountering Eloyi’ (2008), from a rough to a
British-Irish Isles
Reflexivity
Cultivating Death
2003
23
‘
Directed by
Martin Gruber
.
Cemeteries are not only places for the dead. They are also spaces in which the living interact with each other – and with the dead. “Cultivating Death” depicts the different ways in which
British-Irish Isles
Death
Ritual
Cuyagua – Devil Dancers
1987
52
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
.
The men of the Afro-Caribbean population of Cuyagua enact a ritual that occurs 60 days after Easter. The film is a portrait of two men who direct the devil dancing. They tell the history of the
South America
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
Cuyagua – the Saint With Two Faces
1987
56
‘
Student
Directed by
Paul Henley
.
The film centres on the predominantly female celebration of the feast of Saint John. The women sing the songs associated with the Feast, describe their beliefs and how they organise the feast.
South America
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
Festivals / Carnival