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M
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O
5
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4
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Australia
1
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6
Caribbean Islands
2
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1
Central America
6
Central Asia and Far East
16
East Africa
1
Melanesia
2
Middle and Near East
6
North America
6
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2
Scandinavia
1
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4
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6
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5
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2
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10
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7
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4
not set
1
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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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1
China
8
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1
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1
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1
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1
Germany
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
Uzbekistan
1
Virtual Space
1
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1
not set
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
3
2013
5
2014
4
2015
6
2016
6
2018
3
2019
9
2020
8
Film list
The Way We Live Now
2016
32
‘
Student
Directed by
Sophia Hersi Smith
.
‘The Way We Live Now’ is an intimate portrait of the daily routines and rituals of the Hadza; modern-day hunter-gatherers living in the acacia-baobab woodlands surrounding Lake Eyasi in North-Central
East Africa
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Everyday Life
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
Wild Honey: Caring for bees in a divided land
2019
30
‘
Directed by
Lisa Palmer
.
For more than a century, the island of Timor has been divided by a colonial border. Timor’s migratory wild honey bees challenge this division. In community honey harvest rituals, queen bees are
South-East Asia
Animals
Food / Water
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Without Fathers or Husbands
1995
26
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as
South-East Asia
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality