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Films
15 Films
Keywords
“Informant-researcher relationship”
x
films with a digital version
7
short films
5
Region
Australia
1
East Africa
1
Melanesia
2
North America
1
North and Northeast Africa
1
South America
4
South Asia
3
Southern Africa
1
Western Europe
1
Country
Argentina
1
Australia
1
Bolivia
1
Botswana
1
Canada
1
Ethiopia
1
France
1
India
3
Nepal
1
Papua New Guinea
1
Uganda
1
Vanuatu
1
Venezuela
2
Keywords
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Children / Young people
3
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Death
3
Development projects
1
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Ethnofiction
1
Everyday Life
1
Health / Health care / Healing
2
History of Anthropology
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
3
Informant-researcher relationship
15
x
Infrastructure / Transport
1
Labour
1
Life Story / Life History
1
Linguistics / Language
1
Memory
1
Migration
1
Music / Ethnomusicology
1
Participatory / Collaborative methods
1
Public Figure
1
Reflexivity
4
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Ritual
2
Sex / Sexuality
1
Social Change
1
Social Conflict
1
Squatter Settlements / Homelessness
1
Urban
1
Directors
Banks, Marcus
1
Francois, Alexandre
1
Glass, Aaron
1
Henley, Paul
1
Kawase, Itsushi
1
MacDougall, David
3
MacDougall, Judith
1
Mai, Nick
1
McKenzie, Kim
1
Nairn, Charlie
1
Nielsen, Christian Suhr
1
Otto, Ton
1
Rosell, Ulises
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Werbner, Richard
1
Wittersheim, Eric
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
1
Doon School Project
1
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
The Well-Being Quest in Botswana
1
not set
11
Country of production
Argentina
1
Australia
3
Canada
1
Denmark
1
France
2
India
1
Japan
1
United Kingdom
5
United States
3
Year of production
1970
1
1973
1
1980
1
1988
1
1989
1
2000
1
2004
2
2006
2
2007
1
2008
1
2012
1
2016
1
2018
1
Film list
The Age of Reason
2004
87
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
In this fifth and final film in the Doon School quintet, MacDougall focuses on the life of one student whom he discovers at the school. The film was made in parallel with ‘The New Boys’ and
South Asia
Children / Young people
Education / Knowledge Transmission
Informant-researcher relationship
The Child’s Eye
2018
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
This video is a series of 12 short films that are the result of ethnographic filmmaker David MacDougall’s a five-year project video workshop project with Indian children. In six workshops held in
South Asia
Children / Young people
Informant-researcher relationship
Participatory / Collaborative methods
A Clearing in the Jungle
1970
52
‘
Directed by
Charlie Nairn
.
Like that of many other Indian groups in South America, the culture of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is threatened by their almost daily contact with neighbouring creoles, Spanish-speaking
South America
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
Informant-researcher relationship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Doctors of Two Worlds
1989
55
‘
Directed by
Natasha Solomons
.
In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is
South America
Health / Health care / Healing
Informant-researcher relationship
Development projects
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
In Search of the Hamat’sa: A Tale of Headhunting
2004
33
‘
Directed by
Aaron Glass
.
The Hamat’sa (or “Cannibal Dance”) is the most important—and highly represented ceremony of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British Columbia. This film traces the history of
North America
Archival material / Museum displays
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Ritual
Informant-researcher relationship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
The Legacy of Antonio Lorenzano
2000
46
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
.
Antonio Lorenzano was an acclaimed musician, shamanic healer and craftsman, and the leader of the Warao community of Morichito on the Winikina River, in the lower Orinoco Delta, Venezuela. The film
South America
Death
Public Figure
Informant-researcher relationship
Social Change
Memory
NGAT IS DEAD: STUDYING MORTUARY TRADITIONS
2007
59
‘
Directed by
Christian Suhr Nielsen
Ton Otto
.
A film about how anthropological knowledge is developed through active participation in traditional exchange ceremonies on the small island of Baluan in the South Pacific. The film follows the
Melanesia
Death
Ritual
Informant-researcher relationship
Social Conflict
The Poet’s Salary
2008
59
‘
Directed by
Eric Wittersheim
Alexandre Francois
.
For the first time in many years, on the little island of Motalava in Vanuatu, a new song will be composed in the island’s ancestors’ language, the language of god Quat, and become part of the
Melanesia
Music / Ethnomusicology
Linguistics / Language
Informant-researcher relationship
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
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
Shade Seekers and The Mixer
2006
60
‘
Directed by
Richard Werbner
.
Set in Moremi village within Botswana’s awesome Tswapong hills, the film makes village elders self-consciously reflexive. The elders, including a controversial healer, view and discuss an earlier
Southern Africa
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Informant-researcher relationship
Travel
2016
63
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Nick Mai
.
(This version of the film is edited using a single screen. For the split screen version see ‘Travel – double screen version’). Joy left Nigeria to help her family after her father’s death. She
Western Europe
Sex / Sexuality
Labour
Migration
Ethnofiction
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Under the Men’s Tree
1973
15
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
At Jie cattle camps in Uganda men often gather under a special tree to make leather and wooden goods and talk, relax, and sleep. This brilliant ethnographic documentary by renowned filmmakers David
East Africa
Infrastructure / Transport
Informant-researcher relationship
Reflexivity
Waiting for Harry
1980
57
‘
Directed by
Kim McKenzie
.
Although the events around which this film was planned were the final mortuary rites for Les Angabarraparra, the subject of the film became interaction. Interaction between the anthropologist Les
Australia
Informant-researcher relationship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Death
Reflexivity