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12
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9
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1
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3
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Keywords
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2
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2
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3
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2
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4
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4
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5
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12
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15
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14
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2
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12
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4
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8
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Education / Knowledge Transmission
6
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2
Elderly people
3
Environment
7
Ethnofiction
5
Everyday Life
9
Family / Kinship
10
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6
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11
Food
1
Gender Role and Identity
18
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19
Health / Healthcare / Healing
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History
4
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4
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12
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6
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6
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4
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5
Internet
2
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5
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16
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3
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3
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1
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4
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11
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5
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15
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18
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2
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2
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4
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6
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3
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2
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3
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6
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6
Religion / Belief / Faith
25
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3
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2
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1
Ritual
25
Rural
7
Science / Technology
1
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9
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4
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13
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4
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2
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1
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1
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8
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1
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2
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5
Trade
4
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8
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5
Directors
Aaltonen, Jouko
1
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Akin, Dorcas
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Al Akash, Ruba
1
Arcé, Adrian
1
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
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Atieno, Lavine
1
Awino, Effie
1
Baily, John
10
Balikci, Anna
1
Balikci, Asen
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Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
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Banks, Marcus
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Basu, Helene
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Beier, Ulli
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Bhattachary, Nilanjan
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Bonifacio, Valentina
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Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
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Boswall, Karen
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Bradbury, Ray
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Brass, Anna
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Brewer, Teri F.
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Bringa, Tone
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Bringas, Sylvie
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Brown, David
1
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
1
Cai, Hua
2
Cao, Umberto
1
Chabamier, Gabriel
1
Chabanier, Gabriel
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Colucci, Erminia
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Davidson, John Paul
1
Day, Mike
1
Demiralay, Hakan
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Dettmann, Christine
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Dontchev, Antonii
1
Dreiss, Meredith
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dumont, Dirk
1
Dunne, Bryony
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Eaton, Michael
1
Elixhauser, Sophie
1
Entell, Peter
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Folly, Anne Laure
1
Fossgard-Moser, Titus
1
Francois, Alexandre
1
Garland, Christy
1
Geißler, Wenzel
1
Golovnev, Ivan
1
Grieco, Anthony
1
Grimshaw, Anna
2
Grootheest, Sjoerd van
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Grossenbacher, Ulrich
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Haensch, Valerie
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Hawkins, Richard
1
Hawkins, Russel
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
3
Heusch, Luc de
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Hinckley, Priscilla
1
Holtedahl, Lisbet
1
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horat, Thomas
1
Horton, Robin
1
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
1
Husmann, Rolf
1
Hörmann, André
1
Iteanu, Andre
1
Jaquerod, Muriel
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
1
Johnson, Dul
1
Journet, Martine
2
Kapon, Eytan
1
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kharel, Dipesh
2
Kuentz, Gaspard
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lancker, Laurent Van
1
Lane, Bruce Pacho
1
Langer, Vanessa
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lepcha, Dawa
1
Lepcha, Dawa T
1
Levie, Francoise
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Lindner, Tobias
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
2
Loïzos, Peter
1
Lu, Wanwan
1
Luethi, Damaris
1
Magnússon, Jón Bjarki
1
Mai, Nick
2
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
Meyknecht, Steef
1
Milner, George
1
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Monahan, Trent
1
Moore, Allen
1
Mora, Alba
1
Mora, Yves
1
Mukhopadhayay, Kanchan
1
Munro, Neil G.
1
Mura, Andrea
1
Møhl, Perle
1
Ndinya, June
1
Nguyen, M. Trinh
1
Niglas, Liivo
1
Njoki, Ruth
1
Nougarol, Gérard
2
Opipari, Carmen
1
Owles, Ed
1
Pakaslahti, Antti
1
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1
Picard, David
1
Powell, Harry
1
Prince, Raymond
1
Prince, Ruth
1
Prothero, Sarah
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Rosell, Ulises
1
Saito, Asami
1
Saltman, Carlyn
1
Sanmartí, Anna
1
Saraiva Pereira, Eduardo
1
Schillaci, Rosella
1
Schillaci, Rossella
2
Schlenker, Juana
1
Seitz, Anni
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Shuffield, Robin
1
Sincich, Francesco
1
Singer, André
2
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Smith, Sophia Hersi
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Speed, Frank
7
Sperschneider, Werner
1
Strasse, Cornelia
1
Straube, Anna
1
Sturtevant, Chuck
1
Tanlaka, Kilian Lamtur
1
Tari, János
2
Taylor, Jamie
1
Tender, Priit
1
Timbert, Sylvie
1
Torson, Jennifer
1
Tuchtenhagen, Ruth
1
Visser, Mara Lin
1
Vohra, Paromita
1
Vávrová, Daniela
1
Werner, Louis
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Wessels, Joshka
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Wester, Hasse
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Wildenauer, Nora
1
Wittersheim, Eric
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Zirión, Antonio
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Șalaru, Maria
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Belgium
5
Bolivia
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Brazil
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Bulgaria
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Canada
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Chile
1
China
2
Denmark
2
Egypt
1
Estonia
1
Finland
1
France
9
Germany
9
Hungary
2
Iceland
1
India
7
Indonesia
3
Italy
7
Japan
4
Jordan
1
Kenya
2
Mexico
2
Nepal
1
Netherlands
6
Nigeria
7
Norway
4
Pakistan
1
Peru
1
Portugal
1
Romania
1
Russia
1
Senegal
2
Slovenia
1
South Africa
1
Spain
1
Sweden
2
Switzerland
7
Tanzania
1
United Kingdom
71
United States
16
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2010
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Film list
The Absence of Apricots
2018
49
‘
Student
Directed by
Daniel Asadi Faezi
.
In the Hunza Valley in the northern Pakistan there is a magnificent turquoise lake. But the lake hasn’t been always there: it is the result of a massive landslide that blocked a river, causing
South Asia
Environment
Memory
Development projects
Resettlement
Across the Border: Afghan Musicians exiled in Peshawar
2008
54
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
It is the year 2000 and most of Afghanistan is under the control of the Taliban. Hearing that many of Afghanistain’s musicians are now in exile across the border in Pakistan, ethnomusicologist John
South Asia
Refugees / Displaced populations
Music / Ethnomusicology
Religion / Belief / Faith
Adhiambo – Born in the Evening
2001
66
‘
Directed by
Ruth Prince
Wenzel Geißler
Ruth Tuchtenhagen
.
‘Adhiambo’ means ‘the one born in the evening’ in the language of the Luo of western Kenya. The film follows NyaSeme, a married mother and grandmother in her late 30s, during the last month
East Africa
Children / Young people
Health / Health care / Healing
Agave is Life
2014
59
‘
Directed by
Meredith Dreiss
David Brown
.
Agave is Life is a documentary film about mankind’s 10,000 year-long symbiotic alliance with the marvelous agave plant, from which tequila, Mexico’s iconic distilled spirit, is derived. The
Central America
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
Food
History
The Ainu Bear Ceremony
1931
27
‘
Directed by
Neil G. Munro
.
The RAI has reedited the original film of this ceremony among the Ainu people of Japan. In the bear ceremony, now no longer performed, a specially reared bear was reverently killed and its flesh and
Central Asia and Far East
Ritual
Animals
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
At Low Tide
2016
63
‘
Directed by
Anna Grimshaw
.
Every day, carrying the simplest of tools, diggers across coastal Maine set out at low tide to dig for clams on the wide mud flats that stretch far into the bay. It is backbreaking work. But it has
North America
Material Culture
Labour
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Atieno
2018
64
‘
Directed by
June Ndinya
Effie Awino
Ruth Njoki
Lavine Atieno
Dorcas Akin
.
Atieno is a collaborative fiction film scripted, acted and directed by DreamGirls, a group of adolescent girls and young women from Nairobi and Kisumu. The film tells of Atieno, a 16 year old girl
East Africa
Health / Healthcare / Healing
Children / Young people
Gender Role and Identity
Ethnofiction
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Participatory / Collaborative methods
Sex / Sexuality