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Adhiambo - Born in the Evening
directed by Ruth Tuchtenhagen, Wenzel Geissler, fl. 2001 and Ruth Prince, fl. 2001 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2001), 1 hour 7 mins
‘Adhiambo’ means ‘the one born in the evening’ in the language of the Luo of western Kenya. The film follows NyaSeme, a married mother and grandmother in her late 30s, during the last month of her pregnancy and through the first weeks of her newborn daughter’s life. The first part of the film focuses on...
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directed by Ruth Tuchtenhagen, Wenzel Geissler, fl. 2001 and Ruth Prince, fl. 2001 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2001), 1 hour 7 mins
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‘Adhiambo’ means ‘the one born in the evening’ in the language of the Luo of western Kenya. The film follows NyaSeme, a married mother and grandmother in her late 30s, during the last month of her pregnancy and through the first weeks of her newborn daughter’s life. The first part of the film focuses on everyday life in NyaSeme’s home, as well as on the work of the anthropologists in the home, who themselves are expecting a child, whi...
‘Adhiambo’ means ‘the one born in the evening’ in the language of the Luo of western Kenya. The film follows NyaSeme, a married mother and grandmother in her late 30s, during the last month of her pregnancy and through the first weeks of her newborn daughter’s life. The first part of the film focuses on everyday life in NyaSeme’s home, as well as on the work of the anthropologists in the home, who themselves are expecting a child, which is born shortly after NyaSeme’s. The second part follows the various small illnesses that the child, goes through. NyaSeme employs the herbal resources of the bush surrounding the home as well as those of the government dispensary; simultaneously, Otto, the anthropologists’ son falls ill and receives various forms of medical treatment. The film creates a personal account of a woman’s life, motherhood, children and the maintenance of bodily health in rural western Kenya, as well as insights into the reflexive and relational nature of ethnographic fieldwork.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ruth Tuchtenhagen, Wenzel Geissler, fl. 2001, Ruth Prince, fl. 2001
Author / Creator
Ruth Tuchtenhagen, Wenzel Geissler, fl. 2001, Ruth Prince, fl. 2001
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Topic / Theme
Luo, Field work for anthropology, Childbirth, Pregnancy, Tribal and national groups, Ethnography
Copyright Message
Copyright 2001. Used by permission of Royal Anthropological Institute. All rights reserved.
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Born
directed by Andy Lawrence, fl. 2009 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2008), 56 mins
This documentary is made by Andy Lawrence in collaboration with independent midwife Judith Kurutac. They met in Kurutac’s thirteenth year of practice when she supported Lawrence’s partner, Helen Knowles (Birth Rites’ curator), through the birth of their second child at home. For Kurutac the collaboration was...
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directed by Andy Lawrence, fl. 2009 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2008), 56 mins
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This documentary is made by Andy Lawrence in collaboration with independent midwife Judith Kurutac. They met in Kurutac’s thirteenth year of practice when she supported Lawrence’s partner, Helen Knowles (Birth Rites’ curator), through the birth of their second child at home. For Kurutac the collaboration was a chance for film to capture the important relationship between a woman and her attendant in pregnancy and birth. The film is a person...
This documentary is made by Andy Lawrence in collaboration with independent midwife Judith Kurutac. They met in Kurutac’s thirteenth year of practice when she supported Lawrence’s partner, Helen Knowles (Birth Rites’ curator), through the birth of their second child at home. For Kurutac the collaboration was a chance for film to capture the important relationship between a woman and her attendant in pregnancy and birth. The film is a personal journey, examining the roles the collaborators play as father and midwife, stimulated by their engagement with two couples who encounter very different experiences of birth. The film draws us into an examination of the connection between birth and death to explore what role fear plays in childbirth and how the ways in which we deal with fear affect the way in which a child is born.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Judith Kurutac, Andy Lawrence, fl. 2009
Author / Creator
Andy Lawrence, fl. 2009
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Topic / Theme
English, Midwives, Pregnancy, Childbirth, Ethnography
Copyright Message
Copyright 2008. Used by permission of Royal Anthropological Institute. All rights reserved.
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Breeding Cells
directed by Saskia Warzecha, Miren Artola, Gregor Gaida and Anna Straube (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2009), 39 mins
Breeding Cells is a film from the laboratory of reproduction. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There fertilization is made visible and manipulable on a cellular level while the couples themselves seem to become marginal p...
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directed by Saskia Warzecha, Miren Artola, Gregor Gaida and Anna Straube (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2009), 39 mins
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Breeding Cells is a film from the laboratory of reproduction. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There fertilization is made visible and manipulable on a cellular level while the couples themselves seem to become marginal participants in a process that involves a large number of different professionalized agents and technologies.Recorded in the ward of rep...
Breeding Cells is a film from the laboratory of reproduction. A fertility clinic is a place where human reproduction is separated from sex and anatomized into bio/technological components. There fertilization is made visible and manipulable on a cellular level while the couples themselves seem to become marginal participants in a process that involves a large number of different professionalized agents and technologies.Recorded in the ward of reproductional medicine at Charite Hospital Berlin, this documentary approaches a scientific environment with an experimental ethnographic gaze. The filmmakers meet an open and quite unexcited "fertility team", who consider themselves simply ãassistants of nature. But what is nature in a hospital environment that is highly regulated by procedural methods, doctors conventions and conservative laws? Closely describing the routines and moral concerns of the medical staff, the film is portraying a transition time, when biotechnological science fiction is turning into everyday life.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Saskia Warzecha, Miren Artola, Gregor Gaida, Anna Straube
Author / Creator
Saskia Warzecha, Miren Artola, Gregor Gaida, Anna Straube
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Topic / Theme
German, Biology, Fertility, Reproduction, Hospital buildings, Ethnography, Germans
Copyright Message
Copyright 2009. Used by permission of Royal Anthropological Institute. All rights reserved.
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Body and Emotion: The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas
written by Robert R. Desiarlais, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992, originally published 1992), 319 page(s)
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written by Robert R. Desiarlais, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992, originally published 1992), 319 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Robert R. Desiarlais
Author / Creator
Robert R. Desiarlais
Date Published / Released
1992
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Series
Contemporary Ethnography
Topic / Theme
Nepalese, Spirituality, Soul, Emotions and feelings, Spiritual healing, Shamanism, Ethnography, Nepali
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1992 by University of Pennsylvania Press
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Doctors of Two Worlds
directed by Natasha Solomons, fl. 1989; produced by Richard Solomons, fl. 1989 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1989), 54 mins
In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is confronted with and tries to learn the methods of the local curandero’s methods of healing. The film is a highly reveali...
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directed by Natasha Solomons, fl. 1989; produced by Richard Solomons, fl. 1989 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1989), 54 mins
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In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is confronted with and tries to learn the methods of the local curandero’s methods of healing. The film is a highly revealing document of the encounter of different approaches to illness and is particularly suited for the teaching of Medical Anthropology.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Natasha Solomons, fl. 1989, Richard Solomons, fl. 1989
Author / Creator
Natasha Solomons, fl. 1989
Date Published / Released
1989
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Speaker / Narrator
Natasha Solomons, fl. 1989
Topic / Theme
Bolivian, Healing, Medical doctors, Medications, Health care issues, Mountains, Ethnography, Bolivians
Copyright Message
Copyright 1989. Used by permission of Royal Anthropological Institute. All rights reserved.
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Drugs & Prayers - Indian Psychiatry in the Realm of Saints
directed by Helena Basu, fl. 2010 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2001), 55 mins
The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community care in the mental health sector. The film documents exchanges between various actors at the shrine and listens to the...
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directed by Helena Basu, fl. 2010 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2001), 55 mins
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The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community care in the mental health sector. The film documents exchanges between various actors at the shrine and listens to the stories of the protagonists. It presents different views on the presumed causes of mental illness as well as on the benefit or non-ben...
The Sufi shrine of Mira Datar in North Gujarat is a large pilgrimage centre specialising in healing possession and mental illness. It has become a site of experimenting with new forms of community care in the mental health sector. The film documents exchanges between various actors at the shrine and listens to the stories of the protagonists. It presents different views on the presumed causes of mental illness as well as on the benefit or non-benefit of medicine or ritual practices as perceived by patients and their relatives.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Helena Basu, fl. 2010
Author / Creator
Helena Basu, fl. 2010
Date Published / Released
2001
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Topic / Theme
Indian, Drugs and pharmaceuticals, Saints, Mental illnesses, Patients, Health care issues, Religious rites and ceremonies, Mental health treatments, Pilgrimage, Ethnography, Indians (Asian)
Copyright Message
Copyright 2010. Used by permission of Royal Anthropological Institute. All rights reserved.
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Edward O. Wilson: Reflections on a Life in Science
written by Bruce Baird-Middleton, fl. 1988; directed by Bruce Baird-Middleton, fl. 1988; produced by Bruce Baird-Middleton, fl. 1988 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1990), 1 hour
Edward O. Wilson, the Pelligrino University Professor and Honorary Curator of Entomology at Harvard University, is one of the world's most distinguished and controversial scientists. Through his books and lectures, Wilson has changed the way scientists and nonscientists alike view the natural world by fueling thei...
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written by Bruce Baird-Middleton, fl. 1988; directed by Bruce Baird-Middleton, fl. 1988; produced by Bruce Baird-Middleton, fl. 1988 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1990), 1 hour
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Edward O. Wilson, the Pelligrino University Professor and Honorary Curator of Entomology at Harvard University, is one of the world's most distinguished and controversial scientists. Through his books and lectures, Wilson has changed the way scientists and nonscientists alike view the natural world by fueling their enthusiasm for science and showing them its immediacy for their everyday lives. Edward O. Wilson, the Pelligrino University Professor...
Edward O. Wilson, the Pelligrino University Professor and Honorary Curator of Entomology at Harvard University, is one of the world's most distinguished and controversial scientists. Through his books and lectures, Wilson has changed the way scientists and nonscientists alike view the natural world by fueling their enthusiasm for science and showing them its immediacy for their everyday lives. Edward O. Wilson, the Pelligrino University Professor and Honorary Curator of Entomology at Harvard University, is one of the world's most distinguished and controversial scientists. Wilson has changed the way scientists and nonscientists alike view the natural world. His devotion to natural history, broad humanistic approach to learning, and storytelling gifts have made him one of the most popular teachers at Harvard and lecturers around the world. In this warm and engaging portrait Wilson offers insight into the scientific process, relating how an interest in studying ants and social insects led him to establish the field of sociobiology and to promote the study of biodiversity. Comparing scientists to mythmakers, he examines the role of imagination in scientific inquiry. A passionate concern for the preservation of our natural heritage has placed him in the forefront of environmental activism. Growing up in the deep South, Wilson’s childhood interest in collecting insects grew into a career that has encompassed studies in the biology of social insects, ecology, biogeography, sociobiology, and environmental conservation. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the National Medal of Science (1976), the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1990), and two Pulitzer Prizes. Prof. Wilson's books include The Insect Societies, Sociobiology: the New Synthesis, On Human Nature, The Diversity of Life, Biophilia, Naturalist, and The Future of Life.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Bruce Baird-Middleton, fl. 1988, E. O. Wilson, 1929-
Author / Creator
Bruce Baird-Middleton, fl. 1988
Date Published / Released
1990
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Person Discussed
E. O. Wilson, 1929-
Topic / Theme
American, Environment, Sociobiology, Scientific method, Biology, Scientists, Ethnography, Americans
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© Documentary Educational Resources
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Expedition Borneo, Programme 1
written by Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Jonny Young, fl. 2006; produced by Jonny Young, fl. 2006, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2007), 49 mins
The team sets up a base camp deep in the jungle. Justine attempts to follow a family of gibbons, and Junior spots fresh clouded leopard tracks. With his ultra-violet torch George finds scorpions uncomfortably close at hand, then spots a Tarsier with his thermal-imaging camera. Then a tree comes crashing down durin...
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written by Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Jonny Young, fl. 2006; produced by Jonny Young, fl. 2006, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2007), 49 mins
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The team sets up a base camp deep in the jungle. Justine attempts to follow a family of gibbons, and Junior spots fresh clouded leopard tracks. With his ultra-violet torch George finds scorpions uncomfortably close at hand, then spots a Tarsier with his thermal-imaging camera. Then a tree comes crashing down during a tropical storms, narrowly missing base camp, and the camp loses radio contact with the team on the Mount Kuli climb.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004, Jonny Young, fl. 2006, Steve Backshall, 1973-, Gordon Buchanan, 1972-, Justine Evans, Tara Shine, Alisdair Simpson, 1974-
Author / Creator
Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004, Jonny Young, fl. 2006
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Speaker / Narrator
Alisdair Simpson, 1974-
Topic / Theme
Environment, Scientists, Mountain climbers and climbing, Wild animals, Forests, Exploration, Ethnography
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2007 BBC Worldwide
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Expedition Borneo, Programme 2
written by Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Jonny Young, fl. 2006; directed by Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Jonny Young, fl. 2006; produced by Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2007), 49 mins
Steve Backshall and his team decide to press on with their ascent of Mount Kuli. They are still without radio contact, so if anything goes wrong they will be in real trouble. At base camp, they have run out of toilet roll and the river has been in flood for four days, making getting around very difficult. Tyrone a...
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written by Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Jonny Young, fl. 2006; directed by Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Jonny Young, fl. 2006; produced by Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2007), 49 mins
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Steve Backshall and his team decide to press on with their ascent of Mount Kuli. They are still without radio contact, so if anything goes wrong they will be in real trouble. At base camp, they have run out of toilet roll and the river has been in flood for four days, making getting around very difficult. Tyrone arrives, and cameraman Gordon Buchanan and Dr Tara Shine go in search of rare and elusive jungle elephants.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004, Jonny Young, fl. 2006, Tyrone Hayes, 1967-, George McGavin, 1954-, Steve Backshall, 1973-, Gordon Buchanan, 1972-, Tara Shine, Justine Evans, Alisdair Simpson, 1974-
Author / Creator
Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004, Jonny Young, fl. 2006
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Speaker / Narrator
Alisdair Simpson, 1974-
Topic / Theme
Primates, Wild animals, Insects, Scientists, Forests, Exploration, Ethnography
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2007 BBC Worldwide
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Expedition Borneo, Programme 3
written by Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Jonny Young, fl. 2006; directed by Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Jonny Young, fl. 2006; produced by Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2007), 50 mins
With the pressure on to find as many species as possible before they move on, the jungle explorers encounter some of the less pleasant jungle inhabitants. Naturalist Cede Prudente is bitten by a deadly coral snake, inside a hollow tree Gordon has a close encounter with a python, while Steve and Tara visit a palm o...
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written by Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Jonny Young, fl. 2006; directed by Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004 and Jonny Young, fl. 2006; produced by Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2007), 50 mins
Description
With the pressure on to find as many species as possible before they move on, the jungle explorers encounter some of the less pleasant jungle inhabitants. Naturalist Cede Prudente is bitten by a deadly coral snake, inside a hollow tree Gordon has a close encounter with a python, while Steve and Tara visit a palm oil plantation where another python has been killing the villagers’ chickens. But there is a major breakthrough as they go in search o...
With the pressure on to find as many species as possible before they move on, the jungle explorers encounter some of the less pleasant jungle inhabitants. Naturalist Cede Prudente is bitten by a deadly coral snake, inside a hollow tree Gordon has a close encounter with a python, while Steve and Tara visit a palm oil plantation where another python has been killing the villagers’ chickens. But there is a major breakthrough as they go in search of wild orangutans, and they can add a bearded pig and a tangalang as last-minute additions to the list of the animals that live in the Imbak canyon.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004, Jonny Young, fl. 2006, Tara Shine, Justine Evans, Gordon Buchanan, 1972-, Steve Backshall, 1973-, George McGavin, 1954-, Tyrone Hayes, 1967-, Alisdair Simpson, 1974-
Author / Creator
Steve Greenwood, fl. 2000, Ingrid Kvale, fl. 2004, Jonny Young, fl. 2006
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
BBC Worldwide
Speaker / Narrator
Alisdair Simpson, 1974-
Topic / Theme
Scientists, Exploration, Snakes, Insects, Caves, Pictographs, Logging, Forest fires, Forests, Ethnography
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2007 BBC Worldwide
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