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Films
72 Films
Keywords
“Ritual”
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films with a digital version
45
short films
27
films available on demand
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Title initial
A
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B
5
C
9
D
4
E
1
F
1
G
7
H
5
I
4
K
5
L
1
M
8
N
2
R
3
S
5
T
5
U
2
W
3
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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
4
Melanesia
7
New Zealand and Polynesia
2
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
2
South America
7
South Asia
6
South-East Asia
11
South-East Europe
1
Southern Africa
3
Various
3
West Africa
10
Western Europe
1
Western Mediterranean
1
Country
Australia
3
Botswana
2
Brazil
4
Burkina Faso
1
Cameroon
1
Canada
1
China
3
Cote d’Ivoire
1
Ethiopia
2
Ghana
1
Greece
1
India
4
Indonesia
10
Japan
3
Kenya
3
Malta
1
New Zealand
1
Nigeria
7
Papua New Guinea
6
Peru
1
Samoa
1
Solomon Islands
1
Sri Lanka
1
Tibet
1
Togo
1
Trinidad and Tobago
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
3
Uzbekistan
1
Various
3
Venezuela
2
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
1
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
5
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
1
1963
2
1966
1
1970
1
1972
1
1973
2
1974
3
1975
2
1977
2
1980
2
1981
1
1982
1
1984
1
1987
3
1988
5
1989
2
1990
1
1991
5
1992
2
1996
2
1997
1
1998
1
1999
3
2000
2
2002
1
2003
4
2004
3
2007
3
2008
2
2009
3
2010
2
2011
1
2012
1
2014
2
2015
2
2019
1
Film list
We Don’t Need A Grave
2014
27
‘
.
‘We Don’t Need a Grave’ attempts to show how the people who choose Shizenso rather than the typical family grave try to accept one’s death. Shizenso is a natural mortuary practice that has no
Central Asia and Far East
Religion / Belief / Faith
Death
Ritual
Were Ni! He is a Madman
1963
30
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Raymond Prince
.
This ethnopsychiatric film shows the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Nigeria. There are two basic types of institutions to deal with psychiatric disorders. First there are
West Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Possession
The Wodaabe
1988
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
David Wason
.
*Is the Wodaabe world disappearing? How are we to place the painted male faces? The very considerable success of this film is the ways it answers these questions.* J. Picto The Wodaabe follow
Central Africa
Herding
Animals
Everyday Life
Ritual