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Films
4 Films
Region
“South America”
x
Keywords
“Health Health care Healing”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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films with a digital version
2
short films
1
Region
South America
4
x
Country
Bolivia
1
Brazil
2
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany
1
Development projects
1
Health / Health care / Healing
4
x
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Possession
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
2
Ritual
2
Directors
Cross, Stephen
1
Leizaola, Ricardo
1
Pinhheiro, Joceny
1
Solomons, Natasha
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
1
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
not set
1
Country of production
United Kingdom
4
x
United States
1
Year of production
1977
1
1989
1
1998
1
2003
1
Film list
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
Healer on the Street
2003
28
‘
Directed by
Joceny Pinhheiro
.
During the day, Isnar is a community paramedic who works in the local clinic and runs an arts and drugs rehabilitation centre for young people in Fortaleza on the coast of Northeast Brazil. But by
South America
Health / Health care / Healing
Ritual
Umbanda
1977
52
‘
Directed by
Stephen Cross
.
Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it,
South America
Possession
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
Uncle Poison
1998
60
‘
Directed by
Ricardo Leizaola
.
Filmed in the city of Caracas, capital of Venezuela, Uncle Poison is an intimate portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community’s Easter celebrations. Every day,
South America
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Archaeobotany / Ethnobotany