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Films
151 Films
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Country of production
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short films
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D
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E
5
F
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G
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H
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I
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14
L
9
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M
15
N
4
O
2
P
2
Q
1
R
5
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15
T
11
U
5
V
1
W
6
Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
12
Caribbean Islands
2
Central Africa
1
Central America
1
Central Asia and Far East
8
Central Europe
1
East Africa
7
London
1
Melanesia
6
Micronesia
1
Middle and Near East
10
New Zealand and Polynesia
1
North America
9
North and Northeast Africa
12
Scandinavia
1
South America
21
South Asia
15
South-East Asia
11
South-East Europe
6
Southern Africa
2
Various
8
West Africa
11
Western Europe
5
Western Mediterranean
3
Country
Afghanistan
8
Albania
1
Algeria
1
Angola
1
Anguilla
1
Australia
1
Bangladesh
1
Bolivia
1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2
Brazil
7
Cameroon
1
Canada
2
China
4
Colombia
3
Cyprus
1
Denmark
1
Ethiopia
6
Federated States of Micronesia
1
France
1
Ghana
2
Greece
1
Guatemala
1
Haiti
1
Hungary
1
India
6
Indonesia
8
Iran
1
Italy
1
Japan
1
Jordan
1
Kenya
5
Madagascar
1
Mongolia
2
Morocco
1
Myanmar
2
Nepal
3
Nigeria
7
Pakistan
4
Palestine
1
Papua New Guinea
5
Paraguay
1
Peru
4
Romania
1
Russian Federation
1
Samoa
1
Senegal
1
Sierra Leone
1
Solomon Islands
1
South Africa
1
Spain
2
Sri Lanka
1
Sudan
5
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
The Netherlands
1
Turkey
1
Uganda
1
United Kingdom
15
United States
6
Various
8
Venezuela
3
not set
2
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
6
Agriculture/ Farming
1
Animals
12
Archaeology
2
Archival material / Museum displays
7
Art / Artists / Artisans
3
Art/ Artists/ Artisans
2
Children / Young people
6
Collective / Community identity
16
Colonialism / Postcolonialism
2
Dance / Theatre / Performance
9
Death
3
Development projects
5
Education / Knowledge Transmission
4
Education / Knowledge transmission
2
Elderly people
1
Environment
3
Ethnofiction
2
Everyday Life
9
Family / Kinship
10
Family/ Kinship
1
Festivals / Carnival
9
Film / Photography / Mass media
9
Food
1
Gender Role and Identity
16
Gender Role and identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
10
Health/ Health care/ Healing
1
Herding
9
History
4
History of Anthropology
10
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
9
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
14
Informant-researcher relationship
3
Infrastructure / Transport
2
Inter-religious relations
3
Intergenerational relations
1
LGBTQI*
4
Labour
7
Land Rights
9
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
2
Life Story / Life History
2
Life Story/ Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Marriage
6
Material Culture
3
Memory
4
Migration
5
Music / Ethnomusicology
13
Nationalism
1
Nomads and Nomadism
6
Personal Narrative
2
Political Activists
4
Popular Culture
1
Possession
3
Post-communism
2
Prison
1
Public Figure
4
Race / Racism / Antiracism
2
Reflexivity
2
Refugees / Displaced populations
11
Religion / Belief / Faith
23
Reproduction (biology)
1
Resistance
2
Ritual
34
Rural
9
Sex / Sexuality
5
Shamans and Shamanism
2
Social Change
23
Social Conflict
10
Social Norms
2
Social Organisation
14
Socioeconomic conditions
3
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
7
Trade
3
Travellers / Roma
1
Urban
5
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
15
Directors
Al Akash, Ruba
1
Arnott, Susi
1
Ash, David
1
Assunção, Matthias Röhrig
1
Baily, John
10
Banks, Marcus
1
Beckham, Michael
2
Beier, Ulli
1
Blake, John
2
Bonifacio, Valentina
1
Boswall, Karen
1
Bradbury, Ray
1
Brewer, Teri F.
1
Brice, Mark
1
Bringa, Tone
1
Bringas, Sylvie
1
Carr, Peter
1
Chambers, Simon
1
Christie, Debbie
1
Colucci, Erminia
3
Cross, Stephen
1
Curling, Chris
5
Davidson, John Paul
1
Day, Mike
1
Demiralay, Hakan
1
Dettmann, Christine
1
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia
2
Dineen, Molly
1
Drion, Georges
1
Dyson, Jane
1
Eaton, Michael
1
Edwards, Bob
1
Fales, Ludovica
1
Getzels, Peter
1
Gordon, Harriet
1
Grigsby, Michael
1
Grossman, Alyssa
1
Gruber, Martin
1
Gupta, Meghna
1
Hajee, Amin
1
Hardie, Amy
1
Harper, Peggy
2
Harries, Andy
3
Harrison, Ross
1
Hawkins, Richard
1
Heald, Suzette
1
Hellwig, Jean
1
Henley, Paul
3
Hopkins, Ben
1
Horton, Robin
1
Howes, Arthur
3
Hughes-Freeland, Felicia
1
Jeppesen, Kira de Hemmer
1
Jerstad, Jon
2
Johnson, Dul
1
Johnston, Graham
2
Kawanami, Hiroko
1
Kaymak, Vedide
1
Kenneil, Alastair
1
Kerlogue, Fiona
1
Kurutuac, Judith
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Lansing, Steven
1
Lasko, Claire
2
Lawrence, Andy
1
Lewis, Ariane
1
Llewelyn-Davies, Melissa
1
Lloyd, Ravi Hart
1
Loizos, Peter
2
Loïzos, Peter
1
MacDonald, Bruce
3
Marrero-Guillamon, Isaac
1
Milne, Claudia
1
Milner, George
1
Moffat, Zemirah
1
Mollona, Massimiliano
1
Moser, Brian
7
Munro, Neil G.
1
Nairn, Charlie
5
Owles, Ed
1
Owles, Edward
1
Pakleppa, Richard
1
Pasini, Carlos
2
Picard, David
1
Powell, Harry
1
Rens, Maarten
1
Robinson, Paul
1
Ross, Nina
1
Schlenker, Juana
1
Shakerifar, Elhum
1
Sheahan, Tom
1
Sheppard, John
4
Singer, André
16
Sjøberg, Johannes
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Sonderegger, Ramona
1
Sowa, Remigiusz
1
Sowa, Remigiusz (aka Remi)
1
Speed, Frank
6
Taylor, Jamie
1
Wason, David
5
Werbner, Richard
1
Whitby-Coles, Charlotte
1
Winter, Pattie
1
Woodhead, Leslie
12
Yorke, Michael
1
de Bromhead, Toni
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
54
Forbidden Rites
3
In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi Trilogy
3
National Film and Television School
10
Shorts Collection 2
3
Shorts collection 2
1
Strangers Abroad
5
Sudan Trilogy
3
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
not set
71
Country of production
Australia
1
Brazil
1
India
1
Indonesia
2
Italy
1
Jordan
1
Nigeria
6
Peru
1
Senegal
1
South Africa
1
Sweden
1
Switzerland
1
United Kingdom
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United States
5
Year of production
1931
1
1952
1
1963
1
1964
1
1966
1
1970
2
1971
3
1972
2
1973
2
1974
8
1975
5
1976
1
1977
5
1979
3
1980
2
1982
4
1983
7
1984
3
1985
3
1986
6
1987
9
1988
8
1989
9
1990
4
1991
4
1993
3
1996
2
1998
1
1999
4
2001
2
2003
2
2004
1
2005
2
2006
3
2007
4
2008
4
2009
2
2010
4
2011
2
2012
3
2013
1
2014
2
2015
4
2016
2
2018
1
2019
3
2020
2
2021
2
Film list
The Last Navigator
1989
50
‘
Directed by
André Singer
.
This is the story of two cultures and two technologies. An American navigator is taught the skills of navigation by a traditional Micronesian navigator on Satawal island. The American tries to
Micronesia
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
Infrastructure / Transport
Education / Knowledge Transmission
The Last of the Cuiva
1971
52
‘
Directed by
Brian Moser
.
The film focuses on recent changes in the culture and society of the Cuiva, hunters and gatherers in a remote forest region of south-eastern Colombia, brought about through contact with Colombian
South America
Social Change
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Land Rights
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
The Lau of Malaita
1982
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
.
*Pierre Miranda and a team from Granada Television have made a fine film exploring the trouble realities of the people of the lagoon in the 1980s.* (B. Shore) This film focuses on the people of
Melanesia
Social Change
Social Conflict
Ritual
Death
Religion / Belief / Faith
Law and War in Rural Kenya
2010
64
‘
Directed by
Suzette Heald
.
In 1998, a new movement swept through Kuria, in south western Kenya with dramatic effect. Cattle raiding fuelled by the increasing presence of guns had led to a situation of total insecurity, with
East Africa
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Lessons from Gulam
1986
52
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
A detailed study of musical enculturation within the Asian community of Bradford in northern England. Gulam Musa is the principal character and he is shown as a teacher and as a musician. The film
British-Irish Isles
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Letters from Palestine
2011
35
‘
Directed by
Ludovica Fales
.
What if in your great-grandfather’s letters there is a mystery your family doesn’t want to talk about? In 1920 Angelo Levi Bianchini set out to Palestine on an Italian diplomatic mission and never
Western Mediterranean
Middle and Near East
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory
History
Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village
1974
43
‘
Directed by
Peter Loizos
.
A careful account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, which follows four closely related families before the Turkish made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities
South-East Europe
Social Change
Life Story / Life History
Rural
Family / Kinship
Living with the Revolution
1983
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
Claire Lasko
.
*These three films (‘Inside China: Living with the Revolution’; ‘The Newest Revolution’; ‘The Kazakhs of China’) present a valuable record of aspects of most recent developments in China.* (A.
Central Asia and Far East
Social Change
History
Family / Kinship
The Longest Struggle: The Karen of Burma
1993
52
‘
Directed by
John Sheppard
.
In the forested hills of eastern Burma, a war has been going on for more than 50 years. A war that is rarely reported and is often apparently at a stalemate. For the Karen people of this part of
South-East Asia
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Memory