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Films
3 Films
Series
“0”
x
Country of production
“China”
x
films with a digital version
2
films hosted on Kanopy
1
short films
2
Region
Central Asia and Far East
1
South-East Asia
2
Country
China
3
Keywords
Collective / Community identity
1
Development projects
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Family / Kinship
1
Gender Role and Identity
1
Infrastructure\transport
1
Land rights
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Resettlement
1
Sex / Sexuality
1
Shamans and Shamanism
1
Urban
1
Directors
Cai, Hua
2
Svartzman, Boris
1
Series
not set
3
x
Country of production
China
3
x
France
1
Year of production
1995
1
1999
1
2019
1
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
A New Era
2019
71
‘
Werbner Award
Directed by
Boris Svartzman
.
In 2008, local authorities evicted 2,000 villagers from Guanzhou, a river island in Southern China, to make way for new urban planning projects. In spite of the demolition of their houses and police
Central Asia and Far East
Urban
Development projects
Infrastructure\transport
Land rights
Resettlement
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