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Films
316 Films
Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Showing 11
Title initial
“E”
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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
D
14
E
11
x
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
Earning a Crust
2009
28
‘
Directed by
Elisa Contreras
.
Through their experiences, Uncle Isidro (a horse dealer) and Jeremo (a scrap collector) illustrate traditional gypsy occupations in the south of Spain, as well as the obstacles facing their
Western Mediterranean
Travellers / Roma
Labour
Easy Life
1996
30
‘
Directed by
Amelia Hann
.
This film is about a Breton woman and her family, their vision of life, and their clash with the French state which marked them as ‘terrorists’.
Western Europe
Political Activists
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Eat the Kimono
1989
60
‘
Directed by
Kim Longinotto
Claire Hunt
.
A compelling biography of Hanayagi Genshu, a feminist and dancer who spent her lifetime defying the conservative traditions of Japanese society with her radical politics and unconventional
Central Asia and Far East
Public Figure
Gender Role and Identity
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Alternative culture
Eco trip
1997
30
‘
Directed by
Rachel Robertson
.
A group of eco-activists travel around Britain attending festivals and other events aimed at raising awareness of ecological issues and of new, alternative ways of living. But sometimes relationships
British-Irish Isles
Alternative culture
Environment
Embera — the End of the Road
1971
52
‘
Directed by
Brian Moser
.
The way of life of the 10,000 Embera Indians who live in the Choco region of Colombia, South American, is threatened by the encroachments of Negro Libres (descendants of freed slaves) and by the
South America
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Encountering Eloyi
2008
56
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
Of all the faith-healing churches in Botswana, Eloyi is the most controversial. Sensational stories in newspapers and on television have made Eloyi notorious for so-called witch-busting and for
Southern Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
Reproduction (biology)
Endgames
2008
32
‘
Directed by
Ilinca Calugareanu
.
The film follows a day in the life of Cluj-Napoca, a city in Transylvania, focusing on the way the lives of the three main characters – Valer, an 85 year old retired colonel, Daria, an 89 year old
South-East Europe
Post-communism
Elderly people
Memory
The Eskimos of Pond Inlet
1977
52
‘
Directed by
Michael Grigsby
.
For the Eskimos of Pond Inlet – a new village in North Baffin Island in which they have been settled by the Canadian Government – the life of the semi-nomadic hunter has given way to that of
North America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Collective / Community identity
Social Conflict
Every Good Marriage Begins With Tears
2007
63
‘
Directed by
Simon Chambers
.
East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing form pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her
London
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Intergenerational relations
Social Norms
Everything is Relatives – William Rivers (1864-1922)
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
Extended Family
2016
31
‘
Student
Directed by
Ramona Sonderegger
.
This films offers an intimate insight into the lives of two same-sex families who found a way to create themselves within a legal grey area in Switzerland. Swiss law bans adoption and access to
Western Europe
LGBTQI*
Family / Kinship
Sex / Sexuality
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy