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Films
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“South-East Asia”
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Country
“China”
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films with a digital version
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short films
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South-East Asia
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Country
China
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Keywords
Collective / Community identity
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Family / Kinship
1
Film / Photography / Mass media
1
Food
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Labour
1
Material Culture
1
Public Figure
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Ritual
1
Rural
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Shamans and Shamanism
2
Social Change
1
Social Organisation
1
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage
1
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
1
Directors
Berg, Julia
1
Cai, Hua
2
Curling, Chris
1
Hughes, Richard
1
MacDougall, Judith
1
Moser, Brian
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Series
Disappearing World Series
1
Granada Center for Visual Anthropology Student Film
2
not set
3
Country of production
Australia
1
China
2
United Kingdom
3
Year of production
1972
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1995
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1999
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2000
1
2002
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2007
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Film list
Daba – Portrait of a Na Shaman
1999
40
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
After more than a quarter of a century without any form of religious ceremony, the Na, an ethnic group living on the Himalayan plateau, began openly practising their religion again in the early
South-East Asia
Education / Knowledge transmission
Religion / Belief / Faith
Shamans and Shamanism
The Art of Regret
2007
60
‘
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
.
Photography is known in China as the “Art of Regret”. In the rapidly changing city of Kunming, people are ambivalent about whether they want photography to be a medium of preservation and
South-East Asia
Material Culture
Film / Photography / Mass media
The Meo
1972
52
‘
Directed by
Brian Moser
Chris Curling
.
Over the last three thousand years the Meo (Miao or Hmong) have migrated south from north and central China to avoid oppression and protect their way of life. Today they live in scattered mountain
South-East Asia
War / Conflict / Reconciliation
Shamans and Shamanism
Ritual
Social Organisation
Rural
Guiyang Beautiful Flavour Barbecue
2000
30
‘
Directed by
Richard Hughes
.
In the teeming cities of the most populated country on earth, 20 years of economic reform have brought new opportunity, new energy, and new dangers. This film follows one family’s efforts to navigate
South-East Asia
Food
Social Change
Labour
Without Fathers or Husbands
1995
26
‘
Directed by
Hua Cai
.
The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and as
South-East Asia
Family / Kinship
Collective / Community identity
Gender Role and Identity
Sex / Sexuality
The Most Admired Man
2002
29
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Directed by
Julia Berg
.
‘Wise’? ‘Serene’? ‘A Sage’? Mythologized as the Daoist physician from the Jade Dragon Mountain of Lijiang Province in southwest China , Dr Ho receives hundreds of visitors in search of the ‘Real
South-East Asia
Public Figure
Tourism / Travel / Pilgrimage