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Films
72 Films
Keywords
“Ritual”
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short films
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Region
Australia
3
British-Irish Isles
2
Caribbean Islands
1
Central Africa
1
Central Asia and Far East
6
East Africa
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Melanesia
7
New Zealand and Polynesia
2
North America
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North and Northeast Africa
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South America
7
South Asia
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South-East Asia
11
South-East Europe
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Southern Africa
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Various
3
West Africa
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Country
Australia
3
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Brazil
4
Burkina Faso
1
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3
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India
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Indonesia
10
Japan
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Nigeria
7
Papua New Guinea
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Peru
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Samoa
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Solomon Islands
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Sri Lanka
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Tibet
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Togo
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Trinidad and Tobago
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Uganda
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United Kingdom
3
Uzbekistan
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Various
3
Venezuela
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not set
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Alternative culture
1
Animals
4
Archival material / Museum displays
5
Art / Artists / Artisans
1
Children / Young people
2
Collective / Community identity
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
9
Death
11
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Elderly people
1
Environment
1
Everyday Life
2
Family / Kinship
2
Festivals / Carnival
7
Film / Photography / Mass media
3
Gender Role and Identity
11
Health / Health care / Healing
9
Herding
3
History
1
History of Anthropology
6
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
2
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
5
Informant-researcher relationship
2
Intergenerational relations
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Marriage
3
Material Culture
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
3
Nomads and Nomadism
2
Political Activists
1
Possession
9
Religion / Belief / Faith
19
Reproduction (biology)
2
Ritual
72
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Rural
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Sex / Sexuality
1
Shamans and Shamanism
3
Social Change
3
Social Conflict
6
Social Organisation
5
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Asch, Patsy
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Asch, Timothy
4
Balikci, Anna
1
Basu, Helene
1
Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Connor, Linda
2
Cross, Stephen
1
Curling, Chris
3
Day, Mike
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Esteva, Jordi
1
Ferrarini, Lorenzo
1
Folly, Anne Laure
1
Forge, Anthony
1
Fox, James J.
1
Getzels, Peter
1
Glass, Aaron
1
Gordon, Harriet
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Hawkins, Richard
1
Henley, Paul
2
Horton, Robin
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
1
Jerstad, Jon
2
Johnson, Dul
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lepcha, Dawa
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Longinotto, Kim
1
MacDougall, David
1
MacDougall, Judith
1
Meliqo’ziev, Iqbol
1
Milner, George
1
Moser, Brian
1
Munro, Neil G.
1
Nairn, Charlie
2
Namondwe, Charles
1
Nielsen, Christian Suhr
1
Opipari, Carmen
1
Otto, Ton
1
Owen, Chris
2
Pasini, Carlos
1
Petropoulou, Irene
1
Pinhheiro, Joceny
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Richter, Thomas
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
2
Seaman, Gary
2
Sheahan, Tom
1
Singer, André
3
Song, Zhifang
2
Speed, Frank
6
Timbert, Sylvie
1
Tovey, Ana
1
Tsering Lepcha, Dawa
1
Vella, Steve
1
Vischer, Michael P.
1
Wason, David
2
Werbner, Richard
2
Woodhead, Leslie
4
Wright, Evie
1
Youngstein, Theo
1
not set
1
Series
ANU, Indonesia Series
8
Disappearing World Series
12
Forbidden Rites
3
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
7
National Film and Television School
2
Shorts collection 2
1
Song Family Village
2
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
2
not set
35
Country of production
Australia
11
Canada
1
China
2
Côte d’Ivoire
1
Denmark
1
France
2
Germany
1
Greece
1
India
2
Japan
2
Nigeria
6
Papua New Guinea
1
Spain
1
United Kingdom
45
United States
7
Uzbekistan
1
not set
1
Year of production
1931
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1963
2
1966
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1970
1
1972
1
1973
2
1974
3
1975
2
1977
2
1980
2
1981
1
1982
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1984
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1987
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1988
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1989
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1990
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1991
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1992
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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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2002
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2003
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2004
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2007
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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2014
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2015
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2019
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Film list
The Day I Will Never Forget
2002
92
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
.
The documentary explores the local dimensions of the female circumcision debate in Kenyan societies. In a region of Kenya that is home to Muslims, Massai and Somali and crosscut by Christian
East Africa
Gender Role and Identity
Ritual
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Political Activists
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
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
Duminea: A Festival for the Water Spirits
1966
20
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Robin Horton
.
The communal rituals of most villages of the Eastern Niger Delta focus on two great classes of spirits – the heroes and the water people. The heroes once lived with the men, founded their
West Africa
Ritual
Possession