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8
Caribbean Islands
1
Central Africa
2
Central America
4
Central Asia and Far East
8
Central Europe
2
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7
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1
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6
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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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17
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8
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1
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Afghanistan
7
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1
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1
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1
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2
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2
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4
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1
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3
Chile
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3
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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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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
Morocco
1
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1
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2
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1
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8
Pakistan
2
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1
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4
Paraguay
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
Senegal
2
Solomon Islands
1
South Africa
2
Spain
2
Sudan
2
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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
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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
1
2018
5
2019
1
2021
2
Film list
Rain in the Mirror
2012
48
‘
Directed by
Nilanjan Bhattachary
Kanchan Mukhopadhayay
.
Dorji Bhutia, a Buddhist monk and a reputed mask-maker with supernatural powers of bringing or stopping rain chose a self-determined death at the age of eighty-six. Dorji leaves his mystic image
South Asia
Religion / Belief / Faith
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Intergenerational relations
Raju and His Friends
1988
40
‘
Directed by
Marcus Banks
.
This film is set in the city of Jamnagar, western India. The film focuses on the emotions, quality of life, and on duty. Raju’s friendship with different people, including the director, provide a
South Asia
Urban
Informant-researcher relationship
Life Story / Life History
Reclaiming the Forest
1987
39
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Georges Drion
.
National governments, itinerant gold-miners, and indigenous inhabitants compete for control of an area of the South American rainforest. The film shows the potential conflict between the interests
South America
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Change
Social Conflict
Return of the Nightingales
2013
33
‘
Directed by
John Baily
.
In 2010 Afghan musicologist Dr. Ahmad Sarmast opened the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), a coeducational vocational music school in Kabul that teaches Afghan, Indian and Western
South Asia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Children / Young people
Returning Home: Revival of a Bosnian Village
2001
48
‘
Directed by
Tone Bringa
Peter Loizos
.
The film is the sequel to ‘We are all Neighbours’, the 1993 Granada Disappearing World film, about the breakdown of relations between Muslims and Croats as war overtakes their ethnically mixed
South-East Europe
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Collective / Community identity
Refugees / Displaced populations
Ritual Journeys
2011
75
‘
Directed by
Dawa Lepcha
Anna Balikci
.
The film is an intimate portrait of Merayk, an 80 years old Lepcha shaman or Padim. Merayk lives with his family in Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim. He performs healing rituals for
South Asia
Ritual
Shamans and Shamanism
Health / Health care / Healing
Rockerill: Rekindling the Fire
2011
53
‘
Directed by
Yves Mora
.
Five years ago, one of the oldest industrial buildings of Charleroi- ‘les Forges de la Providence’- was saved from demolition being brought by two citizens: Thierry Camuy and Mika Hell. Together
Western Europe
Alternative culture
Art / Artists / Artisans
Room 11, Ethiopia Hotel
2006
23
‘
Directed by
Itsushi Kawase
.
The film recounts the life of children living on the street in Gondar, Ethiopia, by witnessing the interaction between two children and the filmmaker. The entire film was shot in the room of Ethiopia
North and Northeast Africa
Children / Young people
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity