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Films
72 Films
Keywords
“Ritual”
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short films
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Region
Australia
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British-Irish Isles
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Caribbean Islands
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Central Africa
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Central Asia and Far East
6
East Africa
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Melanesia
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New Zealand and Polynesia
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North America
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North and Northeast Africa
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South America
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South Asia
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South-East Asia
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South-East Europe
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Southern Africa
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Various
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West Africa
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Western Europe
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Australia
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4
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10
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Nigeria
7
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Peru
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Samoa
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Solomon Islands
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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
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Venezuela
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Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
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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
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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
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Rural
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Sex / Sexuality
1
Shamans and Shamanism
3
Social Change
3
Social Conflict
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Social Organisation
5
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
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War / Conflict / Reconciliation
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Directors
Asch, Patsy
5
Asch, Timothy
4
Balikci, Anna
1
Basu, Helene
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Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
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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
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1974
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1975
2
1977
2
1980
2
1981
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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
Tayuban: Dancing the Spirit in Java
1996
30
‘
Directed by
Felicia Hughes-Freeland
.
Once a year a ritual is held in a Javanese village. After a distribution of food, men dance with professional female dancers. Their allegedly sexual ethos makes these ‘tayuban’ unacceptable as
South-East Asia
Ritual
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Sex / Sexuality
Gender Role and Identity
The Temple in the Sea
2008
26
‘
Directed by
Theo Youngstein
.
‘The Temple in the Sea’ looks at ritual and religious practice at a well-known Hindu shrine and its associated cremation grounds in Central Trinidad. Documenting the daily life of the Temple, and
Caribbean Islands
Ritual
There is Nothing Wrong with my Uncle
2012
78
‘
Directed by
Sylvie Bringas
Dul Johnson
.
Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to Tarok land to observe the local death rituals and the record of the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honoring departed. This film provides a rare and
West Africa
Death
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
A Tibetan New Year
1987
45
‘
Directed by
Jon Jerstad
.
This outstanding documentary is placed in Northern India among a group of Tibetan refugees. They celebrate the New Year, following a ritual of their religion, Bonpo, which is older than Buddhism.
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea
1990
52
‘
Directed by
David Wason
.
The Trobriand Islands lie off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The island society has a complex balance of male authority and female wealth. Magic spells and sorcery pervade everyday life.
Melanesia
Gender Role and Identity
Festivals / Carnival
Ritual