Movies: Anthropology

  • 2014
    Stonehenge Empire

    Stonehenge Empire (2014)

    Stonehenge Empire

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    For centuries, Stonehenge has been cloaked in mystery. Who built it? How did they do it? Why did they do it and what is its significance? Now, a team of archaeologists takes a high-tech approach to find out, and their discoveries will exceed all expe...

    Stonehenge Empire
  • 1972
    Congo

    Congo (1972)

    Congo

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    An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology....

    Congo
  • 2003
    Tubabs In Africa

    Tubabs In Africa (2003)

    Tubabs In Africa

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    "Tubabs" is a nickname for foreigners, especially white ones, in the West African country of Gambia. In this documentary filmed by Mary Flannery, a group of college students from St. Mary's College of Maryland travel to Gambia as part of an anthropol...

    Tubabs In Africa
  • 1900
    Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs

    Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs (1900)

    Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs

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    The film is a panorama shot-scene lasting just under a minute. The panorama film, as coined by Lumière, is a moving-camera shot--usually accomplished by placing the camera on a moving transport, such as a boat or train....

    Le village de Namo - Panorama pris d'une chaise à porteurs
  • 2013
    The Fall of Womenland

    The Fall of Womenland (2013)

    The Fall of Womenland

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    The Fall of Womenland is a fascinating documentary on the unique sexual culture of the Mosuo people — a small minority situated in the southwest of China — and one of the last remaining matriarchal societies in the world. Without a formal marriage c...

    The Fall of Womenland
  • 1986
    The Sounds of Kaleva

    The Sounds of Kaleva (1986)

    The Sounds of Kaleva

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    A three-act film-essay about memory and the historical-cultural ties of the Finno- Ugric peoples. The first chapter is dedicated to ancient Bearese of memory, such as Karelian cliff drawings, Kalevala runo song and Khanty bear feast rituals. the s...

    The Sounds of Kaleva
  • 1996
    Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed

    Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed (1996)

    Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed

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    A documentary on the influential anthropologist Margaret Mead. Using never-before-seen archival footage, stills, interviews and dramatic re-creations, it shows the journey of how Mead became a scientist, adventurer, and international celebrity. As a ...

    Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed
  • 1974
    Ongka's Big Moka

    Ongka's Big Moka (1974)

    Ongka's Big Moka

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    The film follows Ongka's struggles to accumulate huge numbers of pigs and other items of value to present at a Moka ceremony to another tribe....

    Ongka's Big Moka
  • 2018
    Carving Thy Faith

    Carving Thy Faith (2018)

    Carving Thy Faith

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    A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the livelihood. An experiential film on neocolonial Philippines’ interpretation of Saints and Gods through many f...

    Carving Thy Faith
  • 2021
    Nest

    Nest (2021)

    Nest

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    The real estate industry has destabilized the natural surroundings of the city of Concón, on the Chilean coast, forcing the inhabitants and landscapes of the region to find new ways to adapt and survive. “Nidal” depicts the cohabitating of species a...

    Nest
  • 1906
    Human Apes from the Orient

    Human Apes from the Orient (1906)

    Human Apes from the Orient

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    The subject is two grotesque-looking human beings who are sitting on the deck of a ship. The two weird individuals sit cross-legged and do the bidding of a man in oriental costume. The point of the film seems to be directed at the fact that the bone ...

    Human Apes from the Orient
  • 2019
    What Remains - An Obituary on Wilhelmine and Bernard

    What Remains - An Obituary on Wilhelmine and Bernard (2019)

    What Remains - An Obituary on Wilhelmine and Bernard

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    The director’s grandparents Wilhelmine, an Austrian Catholic, and Bernard, a Jewish Czechoslovakian communist, have always been part of her life, although she never met them in person. Her uncle Hermann lives in what was once their house, with their ...

    What Remains - An Obituary on Wilhelmine and Bernard
  • 2008
    Big Science - Was Tiere denken

    Big Science - Was Tiere denken (2008)

    Big Science - Was Tiere denken

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    Big Science - Was Tiere denken
  • 2008
    A vodou memory

    A vodou memory (2008)

    A vodou memory

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    Marianne Lehmann, born in Switzerland in 1936, married a Haitian and moved to Port-au-Prince in 1957. Fascinated by voodoo cult objects, she began with buying them to avoid their scattering abroad. Over the years it became the largest collection in t...

    A vodou memory
  • 2021
    Séfar, A City of Mysteries

    Séfar, A City of Mysteries (2021)

    Séfar, A City of Mysteries

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    Séfar (in Arabic: سيفار) is an ancient city in the heart of the Tassili n'Ajjer mountain range in Algeria, more than 2,400 km south of Algiers and very close to the Libyan border. Séfar is the largest troglodyte city in the world, with several thousa...

    Séfar, A City of Mysteries
  • 2005
    Pururambo

    Pururambo (2005)

    Pururambo

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    Globe-trotting Slovakian filmmaker Pavol Barabas explores Earth's biggest tropical island, New Guinea, in this breathtaking tour of a culture wholly unfamiliar with modern civilization and with no previous contact with white people. Along the way, Ba...

    Pururambo
  • 2011
    In The Eyes Of A Beast

    In The Eyes Of A Beast (2011)

    In The Eyes Of A Beast

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    How do humans and animals see each other? Dominique Loreau captures astonishing exchanges of “views” between people and animals who coexist in the city, in farms, slaughterhouses, zoos, museums, or in a dance rehearsal room. In The Eyes Of A Beast qu...

    In The Eyes Of A Beast
  • 2017
    JANBAL

    JANBAL (2017)

    JANBAL

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    From time immemorial, the people of the island used to leave the clothes of their dead to the sea, so that the mother of the sea could turn them into imaginary people. The ignorant Musa finds the gold-embroidered pieces of southern women's trousers ...

    JANBAL
  • 1974
    Baobab Play

    Baobab Play (1974)

    Baobab Play

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    Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baobab tree....

    Baobab Play
  • 1997
    The Shaman

    The Shaman (1997)

    The Shaman

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    "Shaman" was filmed on July the 16th, 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Peninsula, at the Avam river, concurrently with the shooting of the documentary "The Winds of the Milky Way". The Nganasan Shaman Demnime (1913-1980) w...

    The Shaman