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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
1
Melanesia
6
Micronesia
1
Middle and Near East
11
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1
North America
10
North and Northeast Africa
5
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1
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18
South Asia
21
South-East Asia
13
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6
Southern Africa
3
West Africa
17
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13
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8
not set
1
Country
Afghanistan
7
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1
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1
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1
Australia
1
Bangladesh
1
Belgium
2
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2
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1
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1
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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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1
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2
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1
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3
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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
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
Mali
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
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2
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1
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4
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1
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2
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1
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2
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1
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2
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1
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2
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1
South Africa
2
Spain
2
Sudan
2
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1
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2
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1
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1
The Netherlands
1
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1
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1
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1
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1
United Kingdom
12
United States
9
Vanuatu
1
Venezuela
3
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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
1
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
2
1964
1
1966
1
1970
1
1974
2
1975
1
1983
4
1984
1
1985
1
1986
2
1987
3
1988
6
1989
4
1990
2
1991
2
1994
1
1995
1
1996
3
1997
2
1998
3
1999
2
2000
2
2001
4
2002
4
2003
4
2004
2
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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Film list
HARMONI: HEALING TOGETHER
2021
98
‘
Directed by
Erminia Colucci
.
As a nation of 270 million, Indonesia is facing the grave task of caring for millions of people living with mental illness. Many have experienced human rights abuses in their lifetime. In communities
South-East Asia
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Habilito – Debt for Life
2010
52
‘
Directed by
Chuck Sturtevant
.
This documentary explores many of the conflicts and tensions that arise at the point of contact between highland migrants and lowland indigenous peoples, focusing particularly on the system of debt
South America
Socioeconomic conditions
Migration
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Labour
Heal the Whole Man
1974
50
‘
Directed by
Paul Robinson
.
The ‘Barolong boo Ratshidi’ are one of the group of Tswana peoples, who together form a culturally homogeneous population of over two million. The Barolong themselves number about 75’000 and
Southern Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Health / Health care / Healing
Herat Films: The City of Herat
1983
21
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
These videos were edited from seven hours of Super 8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and
Middle and Near East
Urban
Trade
Herat Films: The Annual Cycle of Music in Herat
1983
54
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
These videos were edited from seven hours of Super 8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and
Middle and Near East
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Music / Ethnomusicology
Herat Films: The Shrines of Herat
1983
30
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
These videos were edited from seven hours of Super 8 film shot by John Baily during two years of ethnomusicological fieldwork carried out in the Herat region of western Afghanistan between 1973 and
Middle and Near East
Religion / Belief / Faith
Urban
Holy Men and Fools
2005
61
‘
Directed by
Michael Yorke
.
The film narrates the story of Uma Giri, a Swedish woman who has become a Hindu nun, called Uma Giri. She is one of the few western women to be accepted into the most radical order of wandering
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Inter-religious relations
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Horror in the Andes
2019
33
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
.
Horror in the Andes is a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the process of making a horror movie in Ayacucho, Peru. Directed by audio-visual anthropologist Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, it
South America
Art / Artists / Artisans
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Ethnofiction
Film / Photography / Mass media
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
A Hospice in Amsterdam
2005
62
‘
Directed by
Steef Meyknecht
.
At the end of Van Goghstraat in Amsterdam is the Veerhuis. A normal residential house in a normal urban area, where children play outside in front of the door. But people come to the Veerhuis to die.
Western Europe
Health / Health care / Healing
Elderly people