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Films
4 Films
Series
“0”
x
Year of production
“1980”
x
Region
Australia
4
Country
Australia
4
Keywords
Death
2
Education / Knowledge Transmission
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
4
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Land Rights
2
Reflexivity
1
Resistance
1
Ritual
1
Social Conflict
1
Directors
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
2
McKenzie, Kim
1
Series
not set
4
x
Country of production
Australia
4
United States
1
Year of production
1980
4
x
Film list
Familiar Places
1980
50
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
.
Anthropologist Peter Sutton is taken by an Aboriginal family, the Naponans, to map hereditary clan country in northern Queensland where they hope to live one day. To the children it is all new; to an
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Land Rights
Education / Knowledge Transmission
The House-Opening
1980
45
‘
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
.
When Geraldine Kawanka’s husband died, she and her children left their house at Aurukun on Cape York Peninsula. In earlier times a bark house would have been burnt, but today a ‘house-opening’
Australia
Ritual
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Death
Takeover
1980
90
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
On March 13, 1978 the Queensland Government announced its intention to take over management of Aurukun Aboriginal Reserve from the Uniting Church. The people of Aurukun complained bitterly, fearing
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Resistance
Land Rights
Social Conflict
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