Films - RAI FILM

RAI FILM

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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

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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

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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

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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