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6
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2
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Central America
6
Central Asia and Far East
16
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1
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2
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6
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6
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2
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1
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4
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6
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5
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10
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4
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Afghanistan
3
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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8
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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3
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3
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3
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4
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1
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6
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2
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7
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1
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1
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2
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2
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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1
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2
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1
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1
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1
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1
United Kingdom
7
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5
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1
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1
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1
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3
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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
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2012
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2013
5
2014
4
2015
6
2016
6
2018
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2019
9
2020
8
Film list
The Secret of the Stone
2009
39
‘
Directed by
Zhifang Song
Gary Seaman
Steven Rousso-Schindler
.
Located on the North China Plain about 200 miles south of Beijing, ‘Song Family Village’ is home to about 1,300 people. Some 80% of all villagers are members of a single lineage of the Song surname.
Central Asia and Far East
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Ritual
Festivals / Carnival
A Sheepherder’s Homecoming
1996
40
‘
Directed by
Allen Moore
Louis Werner
.
This film documents a migrant worker’s experiences as a herder on a Nevada sheep ranch who then returns to his family in Mexico after a long absence to renew ties and find a job at home. It
North America
Central America
Migration
Labour
Smoke
1991
28
‘
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Maarten Rens
.
The film deals with fish smoking in Monnickendam, a small town twelve miles north of Amsterdam. Using archival footage, interviewing old fishermen, and contrasting the traditional and the modern
Western Europe
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Food
Archival material / Museum displays
Song Family Village Takes a Bride
2009
27
‘
Directed by
Zhifang Song
Gary Seaman
Steven Rousso-Schindler
.
Most weddings in the village still reflect traditional patterns of patrilineal descent and patrilocal residence. The bride leaves her natal home to marry into her husband’s village, where she is a
Central Asia and Far East
Marriage
Family / Kinship
Gender Role and Identity
Social Change
Sons of the Moon
1984
25
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Deirdre LaPin
.
In isolated mountain hamlets in Nigeria’s Jos Plateau the Ngas have traditionally observed the movements of the moon in the night sky. The moon is a key symbol in Ngas cosmology, believed to
West Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Music / Ethnomusicology
Everyday Life
Ritual
Sophia and Her People
1985
35
‘
Directed by
Peter Loïzos
.
Sofia and her family lost their village home in 1975 when Turkey invaded Cyprus. The film, mainly set in Nicosia in 1983, shows the pressures of refugee economic recovery through shift work in a
South-East Europe
Refugees / Displaced populations
Social Change
Family / Kinship
Southeast London Ethnography – Three Student Films: Anglesea Road; The Good Ol’ Days; Talk of Trade
2007
13
‘
Directed by
Elhum Shakerifar
Ed Owles
Jamie Taylor
.
These 3 films on Southeast London were made by GCC college students who took a course in anthropology & film. ANGLESEA ROAD: Situated in Woolwich, South East London, Anglesea Road is a small
British-Irish Isles
Urban
Spirit
2019
19
‘
Directed by
Jane Dyson
Ross Harrison
.
Saraswati is a new arrival in an Indian Himalayan village. She wonders how she will ever feel at home in the new setting. “Spirit” by Jane Dyson and Ross Harrison is a story of longing and
Central Asia and Far East
Gender Role and identity
Agriculture/ Farming
Everyday Life
Family/ Kinship