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Films
71 Films
Keywords
“Religion Belief Faith”
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films with a digital version
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films hosted on Kanopy
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short films
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8
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1
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1
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1
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11
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4
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1
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2
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1
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1
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3
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1
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3
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2
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1
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4
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1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
2
Alternative culture
1
Animation
1
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Art / Artists / Artisans
2
Children / Young people
3
Collective / Community identity
6
Dance / Theatre / Performance
4
Death
6
Education / Knowledge Transmission
2
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Elderly people
1
Environment
1
Essay film
1
Everyday Life
3
Family / Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
2
Gender Role and Identity
3
Health / Health care / Healing
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History
1
History of Anthropology
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
2
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Inter-religious relations
6
Intergenerational relations
3
LGBTQI*
1
Labour
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Love
1
Marriage
2
Material Culture
3
Migration
2
Music / Ethnomusicology
4
Personal Narrative
1
Political Activists
2
Possession
4
Post-communism
1
Reflexivity
1
Refugees / Displaced populations
3
Religion / Belief / Faith
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Reproduction (biology)
1
Resistance
1
Ritual
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Rural
2
Shamans and Shamanism
2
Social Change
4
Social Conflict
2
Social Norms
1
Socioeconomic conditions
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
2
Trade
1
Urban
3
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
2
Directors
Ahmed, Akbar
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Asch, Patsy
2
Asch, Timothy
1
Ash, David
1
Baily, John
2
Balikci, Asen
1
Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
1
Barreiro, Georgina
1
Basu, Helene
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Bernstein, Anya
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Cai, Hua
1
Chabanier, Gabriel
1
Clarissou, Priscilla
1
Colucci, Erminia
2
Cross, Stephen
1
Davidson, John Paul
1
Fedda, Yasmin
1
Ferrarese, Adriana
1
Ferrarini, Lorenzo
1
Griggs, David
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Grégoire, Charlotte
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Hatland, Line
1
Henley, Paul
2
Hill, Joanna
1
Holtedahl, Lisbet
1
Huysmans, Carla
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnson, Dul
1
Journet, Martine
1
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kharel, Dipesh
1
Kildea, Gary
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Langhorst, Insa
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Lu, Wanwan
1
MacDonald, Bruce
1
MacDougall, Judith
1
Meliqo’ziev, Iqbol
1
Moser, Brian
2
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Nairn, Charlie
1
Nougarol, Gérard
1
Oo, Zaw Naing
1
Owen, Chris
1
Pasini, Carlos
1
Pedrosa, Patrícia
1
Richards, Naomi
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Satija, Dhruv
1
Simon, Andrea
1
Singer, André
1
Speed, Frank
2
Stefani, Fotini
1
Storaas, Frode
1
Tari, János
1
Tsering Lepcha, Dawa
1
Tucker, Andrew
1
Vella, Steve
1
Waage, Trond
1
Werbner, Richard
4
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Woodhead, Leslie
1
Wright, Evie
1
Yezbick, Julia
1
Yorke, Michael
1
not set
1
van de Port, Mattijs
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
2
Disappearing World Series
8
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
17
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
National Film and Television School
1
Shorts collection 2
1
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
4
Yangon Film School
1
not set
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Country of production
Argentina
1
Australia
4
Cameroon
1
China
1
France
2
Germany
2
Hungary
1
India
6
Indonesia
1
Italy
1
Japan
1
Myanmar
1
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
2
Norway
3
Romania
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
46
United States
3
Uzbekistan
1
not set
1
Year of production
1964
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1971
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1973
2
1974
2
1977
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1981
1
1982
2
1983
1
1984
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1987
3
1990
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1992
2
1993
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1995
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1996
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1997
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1998
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1999
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2000
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2001
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2002
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2003
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2004
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2005
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2006
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2012
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2014
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2015
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2016
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2017
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2018
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2019
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2021
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Film list
Daba – Portrait of a Na Shaman
1999
40
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
After more than a quarter of a century without any form of religious ceremony, the Na, an ethnic group living on the Himalayan plateau, began openly practising their religion again in the early
South-East Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Religion / Belief / Faith
Shamans and Shamanism
Dervishes of Kurdistan
1973
52
‘
Directed by
Brian Moser
.
A community of Kurds resident in Iran on the border with Iraq forms the subject of this film. Many of the inhabitants of the community are refugees from Kurdish areas of Iraq and the villagers are
Middle and Near East
Refugees / Displaced populations
Religion / Belief / Faith
Distant Temple
2002
90
‘
Directed by
János Tari
.
The last orthodox synagogue in Makó was renewed and inaugurated in 2002. The little temple, as they call it, is more than hundred years old and represents the link between the Jews who emigrated
Middle and Near East
Migration
Religion / Belief / Faith
Diya
2001
55
‘
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
.
A diya is a small terra cotta oil lamp used throughout India in Hindu ceremonies. The film follows the life history of an object through the every day experience of people who make, sell and use it
South Asia
Trade
Material Culture
Religion / Belief / Faith
Art / Artists / Artisans
Drugs & Prayers
2009
55
‘
Directed by
Helene Basu
.
The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith