Movies: Anthropology

  • 2001
    The Shaman's Apprentice

    The Shaman's Apprentice (2001)

    The Shaman's Apprentice

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    Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes from extinction....

    The Shaman's Apprentice
  • 2011
    Cartas do Kuluene

    Cartas do Kuluene (2011)

    Cartas do Kuluene

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    Cartas do Kuluene
  • 2004
    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii (2004)

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii

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    Filmmaker Kevin McMahon accompanies the Haida delegation on a repatriation trip to Chicago in 2003. His film reveals the whole repatriation process through the stories and experiences of the people who participated, both Museum staff and the Haida pe...

    Stolen Spirits of Haida Gwaii
  • 2020
    The Inner Mountain

    The Inner Mountain (2020)

    The Inner Mountain

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    Saint Anthony, Abbot of the Desert, protector of animals, is a central figure in the Italian countryside, where fortune depends on the health of the animals. To heal his donkey, Antonio asks the village priest to bless the sick animal. Faced with his...

    The Inner Mountain
  • 2025
    Darwin's Darlings

    Darwin's Darlings (2025)

    Darwin's Darlings

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    Standing near the reptile section in a zoo we can learn a lot about the animals on both sides of the separating glass....

    Darwin's Darlings
  • 1997
    Himalayan Herders

    Himalayan Herders (1997)

    Himalayan Herders

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    John Bishop and Naomi Bishop present a portrait a peculiar life style of the Himalayan indigenous Sherpa people in their documentary , the Himalayan Herders. The 76 minutes long film is about the diverse culture and life style of herders community ne...

    Himalayan Herders
  • 1969
    Louceiras

    Louceiras (1969)

    Louceiras

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    "Louceiras" portraits the daily life of the last ceramists of the Brazilian indigenous ethnic group Kariri-Xocó, who earn a living from clay. They inherit a tradition passed from mother to daughter concerning the art of choosing, manufacturing and co...

    Louceiras
  • 1908
    Touaregs in Their Country

    Touaregs in Their Country (1908)

    Touaregs in Their Country

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    “The barbaric negro inhabitants of an African village are shown in their various forms of activity, the first view being a photograph of a number of children of all sizes, shapes and degrees of African beauty. Following this is a match between two gi...

    Touaregs in Their Country
  • 2022
    When you go back, tell them. Voices of Melanesian women

    When you go back, tell them. Voices of Melanesian women (2022)

    When you go back, tell them. Voices of Melanesian women

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    An anthropological documentary that gives voice to the Orokavia women in Papua New Guinea and shows their daily lives....

    When you go back, tell them. Voices of Melanesian women
  • 2002
    Mauss, Segundo Suas Alunas

    Mauss, Segundo Suas Alunas (2002)

    Mauss, Segundo Suas Alunas

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    Biography of the ideas and teachings of Marcel Mauss, considered the founder of Anthropology who lived and wrote in the first half of the 20th century, in France. His work is discussed through the testimony of three students, carried out in Paris bet...

    Mauss, Segundo Suas Alunas
  • 2013
    The Trick Brain

    The Trick Brain (2013)

    The Trick Brain

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    A dark and magical visit to the fabled Parisian address Rue Fontaine 42. This was the residence of André Breton, the mastermind of surrealism, who surrounded himself with an impressive collection of modern, Western art and ethnographic objects from O...

    The Trick Brain
  • 2020
    Ãjãí: o jogo de cabeça dos Myky e Manoki

    Ãjãí: o jogo de cabeça dos Myky e Manoki (2020)

    Ãjãí: o jogo de cabeça dos Myky e Manoki

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    Ãjãí is a fun game in which only the players' heads can touch the ball. This practice, shared by few indigenous peoples in the world, is present among the Myky and Manoki populations of Mato Grosso, who speak a language of an isolated linguistic fami...

    Ãjãí: o jogo de cabeça dos Myky e Manoki
  • 1994
    TimeWave Zero

    TimeWave Zero (1994)

    TimeWave Zero

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    Terence McKenna gives us a detailed description of his TimeWave concept and a demonstration of the software Terence originated in his early exploratory period of deep study with the I Ching, the ancient oracular Chinese Book of Changes. He proudly ta...

    TimeWave Zero
  • 1969
    The Shepherdess

    The Shepherdess (1969)

    The Shepherdess

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    “The shepherdess” is a short ethnographic film inspired by Joyce, an 80 year old woman who has spent her whole life farming in Eastern Ontario. While this film is largely centred on Joyce’s narrative about her life, it is also about Joyce’s flock of ...

    The Shepherdess
  • 2025
    Grandma in Two Dimensions: Memories, Images and Stories of Faith

    Grandma in Two Dimensions: Memories, Images and Stories of Faith (2025)

    Grandma in Two Dimensions: Memories, Images and Stories of Faith

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    A young anthropologist reflects on her late grandmother's religious background....

    Grandma in Two Dimensions: Memories, Images and Stories of Faith
  • 2011
    The Man of Flores or the tale of the last Hobbits

    The Man of Flores or the tale of the last Hobbits (2011)

    The Man of Flores or the tale of the last Hobbits

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    March 2008. The renowned journal ‘Science’ publishes an article confirming that the human bones discovered in 2004 on the island of Flores in Indonesia are indeed those of a new species of man. These tiny men lived there just a few thousand years ago...

    The Man of Flores or the tale of the last Hobbits
  • 2006
    Le compagnon déloyal

    Le compagnon déloyal (2006)

    Le compagnon déloyal

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    Le compagnon déloyal
  • 1913
    Race Memories

    Race Memories (1913)

    Race Memories

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    Denton, an anthropologist of note, meets by accident a new neighbor, an attractive girl, whose father insists upon her marriage to a man whom he favors because of his wealth. Denton and the girl are mutually attracted and to Denton comes a vague but ...

    Race Memories
  • 2015
    Swamp Dialogues

    Swamp Dialogues (2015)

    Swamp Dialogues

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    The Danube Delta in Romania - the 'Last European Sanctuary’ - is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. While major efforts are made to protect biodiversity, the plight of local communities is largely overlooked. Social scientists claim that the traumatic nat...

    Swamp Dialogues
  • 1925
    In the Land of Giants and Pygmies

    In the Land of Giants and Pygmies (1925)

    In the Land of Giants and Pygmies

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    IN THE LAND OF GIANT PYGMIES, a diary of Aurelio Rossi's 1925 trek into the immense Belgian Congo, preserves a long-gone-Colonial-era wonder at natural resources, "primitive" tribes, customs and costumes in Europe's cast African possessions, and impl...

    In the Land of Giants and Pygmies