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Films
6 Films
Region
“South America”
x
Keywords
“Social Change”
x
films with a digital version
5
short films
1
Region
South America
6
x
Country
Colombia
2
Peru
1
Venezuela
2
not set
1
Keywords
Death
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
4
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Land Rights
2
Material Culture
1
Memory
1
Public Figure
1
Race / Racism / Antiracism
1
Reflexivity
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Social Change
6
x
Social Conflict
1
Directors
Ash, David
1
Drion, Georges
1
Fossgard-Moser, Titus
1
Henley, Paul
2
Moser, Brian
1
Pasini, Carlos
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
2
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology Staff Film
1
not set
3
Country of production
Norway
1
United Kingdom
4
United States
1
Year of production
1971
1
1974
1
1987
1
2000
1
2012
1
2016
1
Film list
Ignacio’s Legacy
2016
52
‘
Special Interest
Directed by
Titus Fossgard-Moser
.
Between 1960 and 1992, the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Brian Moser made four films concerning indigenous peoples of northwest Amazonia: "Piraparana" (1960), "War of the Gods"
South America
Film / Photography / Mass media
Social Change
Reflexivity
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
The Last of the Cuiva
1971
52
‘
Directed by
Brian Moser
.
The film focuses on recent changes in the culture and society of the Cuiva, hunters and gatherers in a remote forest region of south-eastern Colombia, brought about through contact with Colombian
South America
Social Change
Race / Racism / Antiracism
Land Rights
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
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
The Quechua
1974
52
‘
Directed by
Carlos Pasini
David Ash
.
This film is set in a community of peasant agriculturalists 2 1/4 miles above sea level in the southern Peruvian Andes. Concentrating on a single family, the film explores aspects of religious and
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Religion / Belief / Faith
Social Change
Reclaiming the Forest
1987
39
‘
Directed by
Paul Henley
Georges Drion
.
National governments, itinerant gold-miners, and indigenous inhabitants compete for control of an area of the South American rainforest. The film shows the potential conflict between the interests
South America
Land Rights
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Social Change
Social Conflict
Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones
2012
58
‘
Directed by
Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin
.
The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Material Culture
Social Change