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Films
3 Films
Region
“South America”
x
Year of production
“2012”
x
Status
“A”
x
films with a digital version
3
Region
South America
3
x
Country
Argentina
1
Guyana
1
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Elderly people
1
Everyday Life
1
Family / Kinship
1
History of Anthropology
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Intergenerational relations
1
Material Culture
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Garland, Christy
1
Rosell, Ulises
1
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Series
not set
3
Country of production
Argentina
1
Canada
1
Denmark
1
United States
1
Year of production
2012
3
x
Status
Film list
The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song
2012
71
‘
Directed by
Christy Garland
.
‘The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song’, using direct cinema style, introduces us to the Smith family in Georgetown, Guyana, where both Muscle, and his mother Mary, each struggle to fight the family
South America
Elderly people
Family / Kinship
Intergenerational relations
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
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