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Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
8
Caribbean Islands
1
Central Africa
2
Central America
4
Central Asia and Far East
8
Central Europe
2
East Africa
7
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1
London
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6
Micronesia
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Middle and Near East
11
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10
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5
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18
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21
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13
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6
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17
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8
not set
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Country
Afghanistan
7
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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
Belgium
2
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2
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1
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Brazil
4
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1
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1
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3
Chile
1
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3
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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
France
3
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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
India
14
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9
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1
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7
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1
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4
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1
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3
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1
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1
Mexico
4
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1
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1
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2
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1
Nigeria
8
Pakistan
2
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1
Papua New Guinea
4
Paraguay
1
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2
Portugal
1
Romania
2
Russia
1
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2
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1
Senegal
2
Solomon Islands
1
South Africa
2
Spain
2
Sudan
2
Sweden
1
Switzerland
2
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1
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1
The Netherlands
1
Tibet
1
Togo
1
Turkey
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
12
United States
9
Vanuatu
1
Venezuela
3
Vietnam
1
Virtual Space
1
Yemen
1
not set
2
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
2
Alternative culture
2
Animals
3
Animation
2
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
4
Archaeology
4
Archival material / Museum displays
5
Art / Artists / Artisans
12
Children / Young people
15
Collective / Community identity
14
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
12
Death
4
Development projects
8
Disasters
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
6
Education / Knowledge transmission
2
Elderly people
3
Environment
7
Ethnofiction
5
Everyday Life
9
Family / Kinship
10
Festivals / Carnival
6
Film / Photography / Mass media
11
Food
1
Gender Role and Identity
18
Health / Health care / Healing
19
Health / Healthcare / Healing
1
Herding
2
History
4
History of Anthropology
4
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
4
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
12
Informant-researcher relationship
6
Infrastructure / Transport
6
Inter-religious relations
4
Intergenerational relations
5
Internet
2
LGBTQI*
5
Labour
16
Land Rights
3
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
4
Life Story / Life History
3
Linguistics / Language
2
Love
1
Marriage
4
Material Culture
11
Memory
5
Migration
15
Music / Ethnomusicology
18
Myths / Fairy tales
1
Nomads and Nomadism
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
2
Personal Narrative
2
Political Activists
4
Popular Culture
1
Possession
6
Post-communism
3
Prison
2
Race / Racism / Antiracism
3
Reflexivity
6
Refugees / Displaced populations
6
Religion / Belief / Faith
25
Reproduction (biology)
3
Resettlement
2
Resistance
1
Ritual
25
Rural
7
Science / Technology
1
Sex / Sexuality
9
Shamans and Shamanism
4
Social Change
13
Social Conflict
4
Social Norms
2
Social Organisation
1
Social participation
1
Socioeconomic conditions
8
Sport
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
2
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
5
Trade
4
Travellers / Roma
1
Urban
8
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
5
Directors
Aaltonen, Jouko
1
Ahmed, Akbar
1
Akin, Dorcas
1
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Arcé, Adrian
1
Asadi Faezi, Daniel
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Atieno, Lavine
1
Awino, Effie
1
Baily, John
10
Balikci, Anna
1
Balikci, Asen
1
Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna
1
Banks, Marcus
1
Basu, Helene
1
Beier, Ulli
1
Bhattachary, Nilanjan
1
Bonifacio, Valentina
1
Boonzajer-Flaes, Robert
2
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brass, Anna
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Brown, David
1
Cabezas Pino, Angélica
1
Cai, Hua
2
Cao, Umberto
1
Chabamier, Gabriel
1
Chabanier, Gabriel
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Davidson, John Paul
1
Day, Mike
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Diengdoh, Wanphrang
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Dontchev, Antonii
1
Dreiss, Meredith
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dumont, Dirk
1
Dunne, Bryony
1
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
1
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
1
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
Pakleppa, Richard
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
1
Wessels, Joshka
1
Wester, Hasse
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Wildenauer, Nora
1
Wittersheim, Eric
1
Yorke, Michael
1
Zirión, Antonio
1
not set
1
Șalaru, Maria
1
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Argentina
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Australia
2
Belgium
5
Bolivia
1
Brazil
1
Bulgaria
1
Canada
2
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
not set
2
Year of production
1931
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1952
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1963
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1964
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1966
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1970
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1974
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1975
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1983
4
1984
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1985
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1986
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1987
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1988
6
1989
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1990
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1991
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1994
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1995
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1996
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1997
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1998
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1999
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2000
2
2001
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2002
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2003
4
2004
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2005
5
2006
8
2007
5
2008
8
2009
7
2010
5
2011
4
2012
10
2013
7
2014
7
2015
11
2016
12
2017
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2018
5
2019
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2021
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Film list
Daba – Portrait of a Na Shaman
1999
40
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
After more than a quarter of a century without any form of religious ceremony, the Na, an ethnic group living on the Himalayan plateau, began openly practising their religion again in the early
South-East Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Religion / Belief / Faith
Shamans and Shamanism
Democracía Indígena
2000
39
‘
Directed by
Bruce Pacho Lane
.
This film examines the indigenous rights revolution sweeping Mexico through the municipal elections in Huehuetla, Puebla. In 1989, the Huehuetla Totonacs formed the Organización Independiente
Central America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Political Activists
Depending on Heaven
1988
56
‘
Directed by
Peter Entell
.
The film is in two parts and focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Part One (28 minutes) follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey
Central Asia and Far East
Environment
Nomads and Nomadism
Herding
Everyday Life
The Devil’s Mills. Roundabouts don’t Build Houses any more
2006
56
‘
Directed by
János Tari
.
The everyday life of migrant fun fair operators is the filter through which we view the social and economic factors of the 20th and early 21st century that define the life and work of this social
Central Europe
Labour
Social Change
Trade
Festivals / Carnival
Distant Temple
2002
90
‘
Directed by
János Tari
.
The last orthodox synagogue in Makó was renewed and inaugurated in 2002. The little temple, as they call it, is more than hundred years old and represents the link between the Jews who emigrated
Middle and Near East
Migration
Religion / Belief / Faith
Doctors of Two Worlds
1989
55
‘
Directed by
Natasha Solomons
.
In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is
South America
Health / Health care / Healing
Informant-researcher relationship
Development projects
A Donation to the Museum
2015
25
‘
Directed by
Teri F. Brewer
.
Human remains from the California Channel Islands were donated to an English city museum nearly a century ago. More recently research began into how they came to be there, and whose remains they
North America
Western Europe
Archaeology
Archival material / Museum displays
Dor, Low is Better
1988
47
‘
Directed by
Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
.
The film offers an experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn introduced to
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Ritual
Drugs & Prayers
2009
55
‘
Directed by
Helene Basu
.
The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community
South Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
Duminea: A Festival for the Water Spirits
1966
20
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Robin Horton
.
The communal rituals of most villages of the Eastern Niger Delta focus on two great classes of spirits – the heroes and the water people. The heroes once lived with the men, founded their
West Africa
Ritual
Possession