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Account of a disaster in which 2 islands of the Tongan group disappeared
written by Craig Nelson Maginnis, in Maginnis (Nelson), Craig, Notebooks Collection, of Royal Anthropological Institute (London, England - Bloomsbury) (1900) , 2 page(s)
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written by Craig Nelson Maginnis, in Maginnis (Nelson), Craig, Notebooks Collection, of Royal Anthropological Institute (London, England - Bloomsbury) (1900) , 2 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
1900
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Essay
Contributor
Craig Nelson Maginnis
Author / Creator
Craig Nelson Maginnis
Topic / Theme
Tongan, Island life, Natural disasters
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Across the Border: Afghan Musicians exiled in Peshawar
directed by John Baily, fl. 1973 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2008), 54 mins
This documentary, directed by John Baily, features Afghanistan musicians exiles in Peshawar.
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directed by John Baily, fl. 1973 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2008), 54 mins
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This documentary, directed by John Baily, features Afghanistan musicians exiles in Peshawar.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
John Baily, fl. 1973
Author / Creator
John Baily, fl. 1973
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Topic / Theme
Afghan, Exile, Musicians, Cultural identity, Music, Ethnomusicology, Ethnography, Afghans
Copyright Message
Copyright 2008. Used by permission of Royal Anthropological Institute. All rights reserved.
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Agave is Life
directed by Meredith Dreiss, fl. 2008 and David Brown, fl. 2014; produced by Meredith Dreiss, fl. 2008, Archeo Productions (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2014), 1 hour
Agave is Life is a documentary film about mankind’s 10,000 year-long symbiotic alliance with the marvelous agave plant, from which tequila, Mexico’s iconic distilled spirit, is derived. The documentary takes viewers back to a time when hunter-gatherers relied on the agave plant as a source of food, drink, shel...
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directed by Meredith Dreiss, fl. 2008 and David Brown, fl. 2014; produced by Meredith Dreiss, fl. 2008, Archeo Productions (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2014), 1 hour
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Agave is Life is a documentary film about mankind’s 10,000 year-long symbiotic alliance with the marvelous agave plant, from which tequila, Mexico’s iconic distilled spirit, is derived. The documentary takes viewers back to a time when hunter-gatherers relied on the agave plant as a source of food, drink, shelter and fiber while roaming desert regions of Mexico and the American Southwest. With the advent of early agriculture, and later, the d...
Agave is Life is a documentary film about mankind’s 10,000 year-long symbiotic alliance with the marvelous agave plant, from which tequila, Mexico’s iconic distilled spirit, is derived. The documentary takes viewers back to a time when hunter-gatherers relied on the agave plant as a source of food, drink, shelter and fiber while roaming desert regions of Mexico and the American Southwest. With the advent of early agriculture, and later, the development of more complex civilizations, agave played a role in the longevity, success, and ritual life of ancient cultures in these regions. Only recently have archaeologists realized how important the agave plant was to pre-Columbian people living in what may seem like marginal environments. It is through their investigations that the story unfolds, starting with feasting rituals and practices among hunter-gatherers and early agave farmers, and ending with current day environmental concerns. Along the way we learn how this unique desert plant, and its products, once integral to human survival, community gatherings, and religious rites, has become embedded in identity, mythology, art, and cultural traditions. After the Spanish Conquest, the once sacred agave was transformed into an economic commodity with meteoric increases in fiber, pulque, and distilled spirit production. In recent decades, however, competition with beer has all but eliminated Mexico’s once flourishing pulque market while synthetics have severely curtailed the agave fiber industry. Tequila and mezcal producers, the survivors of agave’s early commercial success in Mexico, are threatened today by climate change, water scarcity, and the lack of biological diversity in their fields. While biologists and producers struggle to reverse this negative trend, the multi-purpose agave plant rides through another transition for 21st century consumers. Hope for the plant’s future may one day rely upon more traditional agricultural methods and, as in the past, the use of its many products --- from fuel to musical instruments.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
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Meredith Dreiss, fl. 2008, Archeo Productions, Edward James Olmos, 1947-
Author / Creator
Meredith Dreiss, fl. 2008, David Brown, fl. 2014
Date Published / Released
2014
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Speaker / Narrator
Edward James Olmos, 1947-
Topic / Theme
Cultural identity, Globalization, Mescalero
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2014 Royal Anthropological Institute
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Archaeology and the Prehistoric Origins of the Ghana Empire
written by Patrick J. Munson, fl. 1980, in Conference on Manding Studies, London, 1972, of Royal Anthropological Institute (London, England - Bloomsbury) (1972) , 13 page(s)
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written by Patrick J. Munson, fl. 1980, in Conference on Manding Studies, London, 1972, of Royal Anthropological Institute (London, England - Bloomsbury) (1972) , 13 page(s)
Date Written / Recorded
1972
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Essay
Contributor
Patrick J. Munson, fl. 1980
Author / Creator
Patrick J. Munson, fl. 1980
Topic / Theme
Soninke, Mauritanian, Ghanian, Anthropology, Archaeology, Prehistory, Empire, Mauritanians, Ghanaians
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Between two Villages (Entre deux Villags Entre Duas Terras)
directed by Muriel Jaquerod, 1970- and Eduardo Saraiva Pereira, 1868- (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2003), 1 hour 34 mins
Between two Villages tells the story of Aldeia da Luz, population of 330, bound to disappear with the construction of the Alqueva dam in the south of Portugal. A new village is being built a few kilometres away as a compensation for the population. The film focuses on the daily life of Aldeia da Luz, with its stro...
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directed by Muriel Jaquerod, 1970- and Eduardo Saraiva Pereira, 1868- (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2003), 1 hour 34 mins
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Between two Villages tells the story of Aldeia da Luz, population of 330, bound to disappear with the construction of the Alqueva dam in the south of Portugal. A new village is being built a few kilometres away as a compensation for the population. The film focuses on the daily life of Aldeia da Luz, with its strong rural tradition and its prospect of change. From the negotiations to the construction of the new houses, the film shows how the auth...
Between two Villages tells the story of Aldeia da Luz, population of 330, bound to disappear with the construction of the Alqueva dam in the south of Portugal. A new village is being built a few kilometres away as a compensation for the population. The film focuses on the daily life of Aldeia da Luz, with its strong rural tradition and its prospect of change. From the negotiations to the construction of the new houses, the film shows how the authorities and the population try to recreate the village identity. The situation of the village of Aldaia da Luz reflects a mutating society.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Eduardo Saraiva Pereira, 1868-, Muriel Jaquerod, 1970-
Author / Creator
Muriel Jaquerod, 1970-, Eduardo Saraiva Pereira, 1868-
Date Published / Released
2003
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Topic / Theme
Portuguese, Household moves, Rural population, Cultural change and history, Towns, Dams, Ethnography
Copyright Message
Copyright 2003. 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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Calcutta Calling
directed by Andre Hormann, fl. 2006; produced by Anna Wendt, fl. 2006 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2006), 16 mins
“Business Process Outsourcing” is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western companies and their customers. Vikhee Uppal is one of them. From a busy office in Calcutta, he pretends to be a guy n...
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directed by Andre Hormann, fl. 2006; produced by Anna Wendt, fl. 2006 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2006), 16 mins
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“Business Process Outsourcing” is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western companies and their customers. Vikhee Uppal is one of them. From a busy office in Calcutta, he pretends to be a guy named Ethan Reed and calls Americans, Brits and Australians to try and sell them cell phones and subscriptions. Vikhee hopes to make it...
“Business Process Outsourcing” is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western companies and their customers. Vikhee Uppal is one of them. From a busy office in Calcutta, he pretends to be a guy named Ethan Reed and calls Americans, Brits and Australians to try and sell them cell phones and subscriptions. Vikhee hopes to make it in this sector. On the bulletin board, we see that he and his colleagues keep track of who sells the most. The Americans are the most impolite: they yell at the salespeople and hang up on them. The English, on the contrary, are the most willing to listen to their sales pitch. Even though Vikhee pretends to be a westerner at work, Indian traditions remain very important for him. He wants to get married to a girl from Punjab, and if he doesn’t succeed, his family will find a bride for him. At work, Vekhee gets tutored in English. Each night, he watches English soccer matches to see what the people on the other end of the line actually look like.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Andre Hormann, fl. 2006, Vikhee Uppal, fl. 2006, Anna Wendt, fl. 2006
Author / Creator
Andre Hormann, fl. 2006
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Person Discussed
Vikhee Uppal, fl. 2006
Topic / Theme
Punjabi, Language and linguistics, Ethnography, Panjabi
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Copyright 2006. Used by permission of Royal Anthropological Institute. All rights reserved.
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Carnival King of Europe, Carnival King of Europe. Release 2.1
directed by Giovanni Kezich, 1956- and Michele Trentini, fl. 2015; produced by Museo degli usi e costumi della gente trentina, in Carnival King of Europe (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2011), 38 mins
Award-winning ethnographic caleidoscope featuring over 50 different masquerades of some 13 European countries. Thanks to some careful editing, the underlying structure of European winter masked ritual is made apparent, from fear (Act 1) to ceremony (Act 2: the marital cortege + ritual ploughing) to the burlesque (...
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directed by Giovanni Kezich, 1956- and Michele Trentini, fl. 2015; produced by Museo degli usi e costumi della gente trentina, in Carnival King of Europe (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2011), 38 mins
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Award-winning ethnographic caleidoscope featuring over 50 different masquerades of some 13 European countries. Thanks to some careful editing, the underlying structure of European winter masked ritual is made apparent, from fear (Act 1) to ceremony (Act 2: the marital cortege + ritual ploughing) to the burlesque (Act 3), and finally to a sobering Epilogue on the pyre. All winter masquerades in Europe – and there are hundreds all over the contin...
Award-winning ethnographic caleidoscope featuring over 50 different masquerades of some 13 European countries. Thanks to some careful editing, the underlying structure of European winter masked ritual is made apparent, from fear (Act 1) to ceremony (Act 2: the marital cortege + ritual ploughing) to the burlesque (Act 3), and finally to a sobering Epilogue on the pyre. All winter masquerades in Europe – and there are hundreds all over the continent – seem to bear reference at some level to this single hidden script, and “Carnival King of Europe” demonstrates it with exceptionally persuasive visuals. Prize-winning in Japan (“Grand Prize for Academic Film”, Kyoto University Museum Academic Film EXPO 2009) and Armenia (“Special Prize by Filmadaran Film Culture Development Organization”, Apricot Tree International Ethno Film Festival 2016), the film was also shown to great acclaim at festivals and conferences in Bristol, Binche, Göttingen, Rome, Čadca, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Beograd, Cluj, Moscow and elsewhere.
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Date Written / Recorded
2012
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Giovanni Kezich, 1956-, Museo degli usi e costumi della gente trentina
Author / Creator
Giovanni Kezich, 1956-, Michele Trentini, fl. 2015
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Series
Carnival King of Europe
Topic / Theme
Religious rites and ceremonies, Field work for anthropology, Race and culture
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Carnival King of Europe, Koza Szymborska: The Day of the Goat in Szymborze
directed by Michele Trentini, fl. 2015; produced by Museo degli usi e costumi della gente trentina, in Carnival King of Europe (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2011), 14 mins
The Koza or Goat is animal that gives the masquerade its name throughout Eastern Europe, from Romania to Moldavia and the Ukraine, and all the way to northern Poland where we filmed it.
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directed by Michele Trentini, fl. 2015; produced by Museo degli usi e costumi della gente trentina, in Carnival King of Europe (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2011), 14 mins
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The Koza or Goat is animal that gives the masquerade its name throughout Eastern Europe, from Romania to Moldavia and the Ukraine, and all the way to northern Poland where we filmed it.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Giovanni Kezich, 1956-, Museo degli usi e costumi della gente trentina
Author / Creator
Michele Trentini, fl. 2015, Giovanni Kezich, 1956-
Date Published / Released
2011
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Series
Carnival King of Europe
Topic / Theme
Polish
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2011 Royal Anthropological Institute
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