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Films
84 Films
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5
C
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D
5
E
3
F
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G
6
H
5
I
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L
6
M
3
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N
2
O
5
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2
R
4
S
8
T
5
U
3
V
2
W
5
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1
Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
6
Caribbean Islands
2
Central Africa
1
Central America
6
Central Asia and Far East
16
East Africa
1
Melanesia
2
Middle and Near East
6
North America
6
North and Northeast Africa
2
Scandinavia
1
South America
4
South Asia
6
South-East Asia
5
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2
West Africa
10
Western Europe
7
Western Mediterranean
4
not set
1
Country
Afghanistan
3
Anguilla
1
Australia
1
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1
Burkina Faso
1
Cameroon
1
Canada
1
China
8
Cyprus
1
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1
Egypt
1
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1
Germany
1
Ghana
1
Greece
1
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1
India
3
Indonesia
3
Italy
3
Japan
4
Jordan
1
Mexico
6
Nepal
2
Nigeria
7
Pakistan
1
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1
Papua New Guinea
2
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2
Romania
1
Russian Federation
1
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1
Singapore
1
South Korea
1
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1
Sweden
1
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2
Taiwan
1
Tanzania
1
The Netherlands
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
7
United States
5
Uzbekistan
1
Virtual Space
1
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1
not set
3
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
4
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Animals
7
Animation
1
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
2
Archaeology
2
Archival material / Museum displays
5
Art / Artists / Artisans
5
Art/ Aritists/ Artisans
1
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
7
Children/ Young people
1
Collective / Community identity
7
Dance / Theatre / Performance
5
Death
2
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
2
Education / Knowledge transmission
2
Elderly People
1
Elderly people
1
Environment
3
Ethnofiction
1
Everyday Life
5
Family / Kinship
7
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
4
Festivals/ Carnival
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
4
Folklore
1
Food
1
Food / Water
1
Gender Role and Identity
8
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
History
3
History of Anthropology
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
5
Hunting/Gathering/Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nation peoples
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
9
Informant-researcher relationship
2
Infrastructure/transport
1
Inter-religious relations
2
Intergenerational relations
4
Internet
2
LGBTQI*
2
Labour
6
Land Rights
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Life Story / Life History
2
Life Story/ Life History
1
Marriage
2
Material Culture
6
Memory
3
Migration
6
Music / Ethnomusicology
5
Music/ Ethnomusicology
1
Music/Ethnomusicology
1
Myths/ Fairy tales
1
Nationalism
1
Personal Narrative
1
Political Activists
1
Popular Culture
1
Possession
2
Post-communism
1
Prison
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Reflexivity
3
Refugees / Displaced populations
2
Refugees/ Displaced populations
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
8
Reproduction (biology)
3
Resettlement
1
Ritual
16
Rural
5
Science / Technology
1
Sensory Ethnography
1
Sex / Sexuality
4
Shamans and Shamanism
4
Social Change
7
Social Conflict
3
Social Organisation
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Tourism/ Travel/ Pilgrimage
1
Trade
2
Urban
6
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
2
Directors
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Arcé, Adrian
1
Arif-Bashir, Abeera
1
Baily, John
3
Banks, Marcus
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Cai, Hua
2
Cao, Umberto
1
Choi, Hyewon
1
Contreras, Isis
1
Cooper, Timothy
1
Danusiri, Aryo
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Drion, Georges
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Gao, Ang
1
Golovnev, Ivan
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Harrison, Ross
1
Henley, Paul
1
Hinckley, Priscilla
1
Horat, Thomas
1
Horton, Robin
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
1
Hörmann, André
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnston, Graham
1
Kaserci, Zeynep
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lane, Bruce Pacho
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lu, Wanwan
1
Magaña, Jaime
1
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
Meliqo’ziev, Iqbol
1
Monahan, Trent
1
Moore, Allen
1
Munro, Neil G.
1
Mura, Andrea
1
Nitzky, William
1
Owles, Ed
1
Owles, Edward
1
Palmer, Lisa
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Rivero Uicab, Carlos R.
1
Ross, Nina
1
Rousso-Schindler, Steven
4
Saltman, Carlyn
1
Sarabi, Abtin
1
Schillaci, Rossella
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Seaman, Gary
4
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Smith, Sophia Hersi
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Song, Zhifang
4
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Speed, Frank
7
Straube, Anna
1
Tamura (aka John Wells), Can
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Taylor, Jamie
1
Teo, Qi Yu
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Tsai, Futuru C.L.
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vávrová, Daniela
1
Werner, Louis
1
Xu, Beina
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
de Bromhead, Toni
1
not set
1
Series
Ambulante Beyond
3
National Film and Television School
4
Shorts Collection 1
1
Shorts Collection 2
11
Shorts collection 2
5
Song Family Village
4
not set
56
Country of production
Australia
1
China
7
Egypt
1
France
1
Germany
3
Iceland
1
India
1
Indonesia
1
Italy
2
Japan
4
Jordan
1
Mexico
5
Netherlands
1
Nigeria
6
Norway
1
Pakistan
1
Peru
1
Russia
1
Singapore
1
Slovenia
1
South Korea
1
Switzerland
3
Taiwan
1
Tanzania
1
Turkey
1
United Kingdom
39
United States
11
Uzbekistan
1
not set
1
Year of production
1931
1
1963
2
1964
1
1966
1
1970
1
1975
1
1982
1
1983
3
1984
1
1985
1
1987
2
1988
2
1990
1
1991
1
1995
1
1996
2
1999
1
2000
1
2003
1
2004
2
2006
3
2007
1
2008
1
2009
5
2010
2
2011
1
2012
3
2013
5
2014
4
2015
6
2016
6
2018
3
2019
9
2020
8
Film list
Marriage, Maoism and Modernity
2009
30
‘
Directed by
Zhifang Song
Gary Seaman
Steven Rousso-Schindler
.
This film outlines the types of marriage exchange practiced in a Chinese village over the last fifty years. Dowry, brideprice and exchange marriages have dominated the marriage market in turn as
Central Asia and Far East
Marriage
History
Social Change
Masks of Mer
2010
37
‘
Directed by
Michael Eaton
.
The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world’s first example of anthropological cinema. ‘The Masks of Mer’ tells the extraordinary story of
Australia
History of Anthropology
Film / Photography / Mass media
Archival material / Museum displays
Ritual
Muktuk
1983
40
‘
Directed by
Graham Johnston
.
Shot on the mosquito-ridden shores of the Mackenzie Delta in Canada’s North-West territories, the film deals with the annual Beluga (white whale) hunt. Three families are followed who have
North America
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Animals
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Education / Knowledge transmission