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Films
9 Films
with a digital version available
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Keywords
“Everyday Life”
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Series
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films with a digital version
9
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short films
3
films available on demand
2
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
East Africa
1
Melanesia
2
South America
2
South Asia
1
West Africa
2
Country
Argentina
1
Cameroon
1
China
1
French Guiana
1
India
1
Nigeria
1
Papua New Guinea
2
Tanzania
1
Keywords
Children / Young people
1
Environment
1
Everyday Life
9
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Family / Kinship
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Herding
1
History of Anthropology
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Labour
1
Marriage
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Nomads and Nomadism
1
Personal Narrative
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Ritual
1
Rural
1
Social Norms
1
Directors
Entell, Peter
1
Grossenbacher, Ulrich
1
Holtedahl, Lisbet
1
LaPin, Deirdre
1
Luethi, Damaris
1
Møhl, Perle
1
Powell, Harry
1
Rosell, Ulises
1
Smith, Sophia Hersi
1
Speed, Frank
1
Vávrová, Daniela
1
Series
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Country of production
Argentina
1
Denmark
1
France
1
Norway
1
Slovenia
1
Switzerland
2
Tanzania
1
United Kingdom
2
Year of production
1952
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1984
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1988
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1997
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2007
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2008
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2012
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2016
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2017
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Film list
Confluences – Emerillon of French Guiana
2007
78
‘
Directed by
Perle Møhl
.
Like self-fulfilling prophecies, scientific reports have hitherto depicted the Emerillon of French Guiana as cultureless and doomed to disappear. With this film, an anthropologist proposes to defy
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Everyday Life
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
Enet Yapai – an Ambonwari Girl
2008
25
‘
Directed by
Daniela Vávrová
.
Enet Yapai was six years old when Vavrova met her for the first time in 2005 in Ambonwari village, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Between November 2007 and April 2008 she followed Enet and
Melanesia
Children / Young people
Rural
Everyday Life
The Ethnographer
2012
86
‘
Directed by
Ulises Rosell
.
John Palmer arrived in a Wichí community, located in Argentina, thirty years ago as an anthropologist – today he has married a Wichí woman with whom he has five sons in the last 5 years, who babble
South America
History of Anthropology
Everyday Life
Informant-researcher relationship
Silk, Muthappar and VHS: Portraits from South India
1997
63
‘
Directed by
Ulrich Grossenbacher
Damaris Luethi
.
The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of ‘ordinary’ personalities — Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz,
South Asia
Labour
Everyday Life
Film / Photography / Mass media
Sons of the Moon
1984
25
‘
Directed by
Frank Speed
Deirdre LaPin
.
In isolated mountain hamlets in Nigeria’s Jos Plateau the Ngas have traditionally observed the movements of the moon in the night sky. The moon is a key symbol in Ngas cosmology, believed to
West Africa
Religion / Belief / Faith
Music / Ethnomusicology
Everyday Life
Ritual
The Trobriand Islanders
1952
58
‘
Directed by
Harry Powell
.
During his field work in the region of Omarakana, H.A.Powell filmed various sequences from which the film is assembled. In spite of the technical handicaps under which he was operating — shooting
Melanesia
Everyday Life
The Way We Live Now
2016
32
‘
Student
Directed by
Sophia Hersi Smith
.
‘The Way We Live Now’ is an intimate portrait of the daily routines and rituals of the Hadza; modern-day hunter-gatherers living in the acacia-baobab woodlands surrounding Lake Eyasi in North-Central
East Africa
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Everyday Life
Wives
2017
85
‘
RAI Basil Wright
Directed by
Lisbet Holtedahl
.
Alhajji Ibrahim is an Islamic scholar who has served as judge at the Sultanate of Ngaoundéré in Northern Cameroon for 46 years. The film follows Alhajji during the last years of his life, focusing
West Africa
Family / Kinship
Everyday Life
Gender Role and Identity
Marriage
Personal Narrative
Religion / Belief / Faith
Social Norms