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Films
4 Films
Keywords
“History of Anthropology”
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Series
“0”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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films with a digital version
2
short films
1
Region
Australia
1
British-Irish Isles
1
Melanesia
1
New Zealand and Polynesia
1
Country
Australia
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Samoa
1
United Kingdom
1
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
2
Film / Photography / Mass media
2
History of Anthropology
4
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Public Figure
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Ritual
3
Social Organisation
1
Directors
Eaton, Michael
1
Husmann, Rolf
1
Loizos, Peter
1
Milner, George
1
Owen, Chris
1
Sperscheinder, Werner
1
Series
not set
4
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Country of production
Germany
1
United Kingdom
4
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Year of production
1981
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1989
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1993
1
2010
1
Film list
Firth on Firth
1993
49
‘
Directed by
Rolf Husmann
Peter Loizos
Werner Sperscheinder
.
In a series of interviews in his London home and the London School of Economics, Sir Raymond Firth talks about his life and some of his personal views. The film focuses thus on his Maori studies,
British-Irish Isles
History of Anthropology
Public Figure
Masks of Mer
2010
37
‘
Directed by
Michael Eaton
.
The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world’s first example of anthropological cinema. ‘The Masks of Mer’ tells the extraordinary story of
Australia
History of Anthropology
Film / Photography / Mass media
Archival material / Museum displays
Ritual
Matai Samoa
1989
65
‘
Directed by
George Milner
.
The film is a valuable treatment of archival footage that George Milner shot while conducting fieldwork in 1955 and 1959. The footage (18 minutes of the total film) focuses on the traditional Samoan
New Zealand and Polynesia
History of Anthropology
Film / Photography / Mass media
Social Organisation
Archival material / Museum displays
Ritual
The Red Bowmen
1981
50
‘
Directed by
Chris Owen
.
In a remote part of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, the Umeda people eke out a difficult living from the sago swamps and primary rain forest that surround them. Until recently, these
Melanesia
Ritual
Religion / Belief / Faith
History of Anthropology