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An American Mosque
directed by David Washburn, fl. 2007-2016; produced by David Washburn, fl. 2007-2016 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2013), 27 mins
An American Mosque is a film about Islam in America, religious intolerance, and the interfaith response to an historic hate-crime. When the Islamic Center of Yuba City, California, was burned to the ground in 1994, it was the first arson to destroy a mosque in US history. At the time, this incident was largely i...
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directed by David Washburn, fl. 2007-2016; produced by David Washburn, fl. 2007-2016 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2013), 27 mins
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An American Mosque is a film about Islam in America, religious intolerance, and the interfaith response to an historic hate-crime. When the Islamic Center of Yuba City, California, was burned to the ground in 1994, it was the first arson to destroy a mosque in US history. At the time, this incident was largely ignored. Now, decades later, this symbolically important story is revisited. Late one night, arsonists broke into the newly-constructed...
An American Mosque is a film about Islam in America, religious intolerance, and the interfaith response to an historic hate-crime. When the Islamic Center of Yuba City, California, was burned to the ground in 1994, it was the first arson to destroy a mosque in US history. At the time, this incident was largely ignored. Now, decades later, this symbolically important story is revisited. Late one night, arsonists broke into the newly-constructed mosque, doused prayer rugs with gasoline, then lit the building ablaze. The mosque was reduced to ashes and an investigation ensued.
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Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
David Washburn, fl. 2007-2016
Author / Creator
David Washburn, fl. 2007-2016
Date Published / Released
2013
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Arson, History, Mosques, Islam, Communities, Hate crime
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The Ax Fight
written by Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; directed by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; produced by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938- (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1975), 30 mins
A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in 1971. The conflict developed between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village. The visitors had formerly been part of Mishimishimabowei-teri, and many still had ties wi...
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written by Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; directed by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; produced by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938- (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1975), 30 mins
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A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in 1971. The conflict developed between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village. The visitors had formerly been part of Mishimishimabowei-teri, and many still had ties with members of that village. A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in...
A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in 1971. The conflict developed between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village. The visitors had formerly been part of Mishimishimabowei-teri, and many still had ties with members of that village. A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in 1971. The conflict developed between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village. The visitors had formerly been part of Mishimishimabowei-teri, and many still had ties with members of that village. They refused to work in their hosts' gardens, yet they demanded to be fed. The event lasted about half an hour, ten minutes of which were filmed. The film is constructed of four parts. The first consists of an unedited version of what the cameraman saw and the sound technician recorded. The apparent chaos of these first ten minutes is clarified in the second section, in which Chagnon explains the sequence of actions, the relationships between the actors, and how the filmmakers' interpretation of the events became coherent. The third section diagrams the lineages in the villages involved to illustrate the fight's relationship to long-standing patterns of conflict and alliance within the village. Finally, in an edited version of the fight, we see how the editors' hands shape the "reality" we view. The Ax Fight thus operates on several levels. It plunges the viewer into the problems of Yanomamo kinship, alliance, and village fission; of violence and conflict resolution. At the same time it raises questions about how anthropologists and filmmakers translate their experience into meaningful words and coherent, moving images.
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Date Written / Recorded
1971-02-28
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Timothy Asch, 1932-1994, Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-, Craig Johnson
Author / Creator
Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-, Timothy Asch, 1932-1994
Date Published / Released
1975
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Speaker / Narrator
Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-
Topic / Theme
Yanomamö, Politics, Negotiation in government, Kin relationships, Violence, Cultural identity, Rural population, Tribal and national groups, Indigenous peoples, Ethnography, Yanomámi
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Dead Birds
written by Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014; directed by Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1964), 1 hour 23 mins
"A cinematographic interpretation of the life of a group of Grand Valley Dani, who are mountain Papuans in West New Guinea (Irian Barat, Indonesia), studied by the Harvard-Peabody Expedition (1961-1963). This film was made by Gardner in 1961, before the area was pacified by the Dutch government. The film focuses o...
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written by Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014; directed by Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1964), 1 hour 23 mins
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"A cinematographic interpretation of the life of a group of Grand Valley Dani, who are mountain Papuans in West New Guinea (Irian Barat, Indonesia), studied by the Harvard-Peabody Expedition (1961-1963). This film was made by Gardner in 1961, before the area was pacified by the Dutch government. The film focuses on Weyak, the farmer and warrior, and on Pua, the young swineherd, following them through the events of Dani life: sweet potato horticul...
"A cinematographic interpretation of the life of a group of Grand Valley Dani, who are mountain Papuans in West New Guinea (Irian Barat, Indonesia), studied by the Harvard-Peabody Expedition (1961-1963). This film was made by Gardner in 1961, before the area was pacified by the Dutch government. The film focuses on Weyak, the farmer and warrior, and on Pua, the young swineherd, following them through the events of Dani life: sweet potato horticulture, pig keeping, salt winning, battles, raids, and ceremonies." - Karl G. Heider "A film about the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem high in the mountains of West Irian. When I shot the film in 1961, the Dani had an almost classic Neolithic culture. They were exceptional in the way they focussed their energies and based their values on an elaborate system of intertribal warfare and revenge. Neighboring groups of Dani clans, separated by uncultivated strips of no man's land, engaged in frequent formal battles. When a warrior was killed in battle or died from a wound and even when a woman or a child lost their life in an enemy raid, the victors celebrated and the victims mourned. Because each death had to be avenged, the balance was continually being adjusted with the spirits of the aggrieved lifted and the ghosts of slain comrades satisfied as soon as a compensating enemy life was taken. There was no thought in the Dani world of wars ever ending, unless it rained or became dark. Without war there would be no way to satisfy the ghosts. Wars were also the best way they knew to keep a terrible harmony in a life which would be, without the strife they invented, mostly hard and dull. Dead Birds has a meaning which is both immediate and allegorical. In the Dani language it refers to the weapons and ornaments recovered in battle. Its other more poetic meaning comes from the Dani belief that people, because they are like birds, must die." — Robert Gardner
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014
Author / Creator
Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014
Date Published / Released
1964
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Dani, Religious beliefs, Gender, Daily life, Rural population, Battles, Tribal and national groups, Ethnography
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Fully Awake: Black Mountain College
written by Neeley Dawson, fl. 2008 and Cathryn Davis Zommer, fl. 2008; directed by Neeley Dawson, fl. 2008 and Cathryn Davis Zommer, fl. 2008; produced by Neeley Dawson, fl. 2008 and Cathryn Davis Zommer, fl. 2008, Documentary Educational Resources (DER) (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2008), 1 hour
Hidden in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933 - 1957) was an influential experiment in education that inspired and shaped twentieth century American art.
Fully Awake: Black Mountain College is a documentary film that explores the college's progressive pedagogy and radical approac...
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written by Neeley Dawson, fl. 2008 and Cathryn Davis Zommer, fl. 2008; directed by Neeley Dawson, fl. 2008 and Cathryn Davis Zommer, fl. 2008; produced by Neeley Dawson, fl. 2008 and Cathryn Davis Zommer, fl. 2008, Documentary Educational Resources (DER) (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2008), 1 hour
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Hidden in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933 - 1957) was an influential experiment in education that inspired and shaped twentieth century American art.
Fully Awake: Black Mountain College is a documentary film that explores the college's progressive pedagogy and radical approach to arts education. Highly democratic and faculty-owned, the school promoted practical responsibilities and the creative arts as equal...
Hidden in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933 - 1957) was an influential experiment in education that inspired and shaped twentieth century American art.
Fully Awake: Black Mountain College is a documentary film that explores the college's progressive pedagogy and radical approach to arts education. Highly democratic and faculty-owned, the school promoted practical responsibilities and the creative arts as equally important components to intellectual development.
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Date Written / Recorded
2008
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Neeley Dawson, fl. 2008, Cathryn Davis Zommer, fl. 2008, Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Author / Creator
Neeley Dawson, fl. 2008, Cathryn Davis Zommer, fl. 2008
Date Published / Released
2008
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
European, African American, American, Cultural life, Cultural adaptation, War, Education, Fine arts, Ethnography, Europeans, African Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2008 by Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
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!Kung, The Hunters
written by John Marshall, 1932-2005; directed by John Marshall, 1932-2005; produced by John Marshall, 1932-2005, in !Kung (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1957), 1 hour 11 mins
This re-release of an early classic in anthropological film follows the hunt of a giraffe by four men over a five-day period. The film was shot in 1952-53 on the third joint Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored Marshall family expedition to Africa to study Ju/'hoansi, one of the few surviving groups that lived by...
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written by John Marshall, 1932-2005; directed by John Marshall, 1932-2005; produced by John Marshall, 1932-2005, in !Kung (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1957), 1 hour 11 mins
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This re-release of an early classic in anthropological film follows the hunt of a giraffe by four men over a five-day period. The film was shot in 1952-53 on the third joint Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored Marshall family expedition to Africa to study Ju/'hoansi, one of the few surviving groups that lived by hunting - gathering. This re-release of an early classic in anthropological film follows the hunt of a giraffe by four men over a five...
This re-release of an early classic in anthropological film follows the hunt of a giraffe by four men over a five-day period. The film was shot in 1952-53 on the third joint Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored Marshall family expedition to Africa to study Ju/'hoansi, one of the few surviving groups that lived by hunting - gathering. This re-release of an early classic in anthropological film follows the hunt of a giraffe by four men over a five-day period. The film was shot in 1952-53 on the third joint Smithsonian-Harvard Peabody sponsored Marshall family expedition to Africa to study Ju/'hoansi, one of the few surviving groups that lived by hunting - gathering. John Marshall was a young man when he made this, his first feature length film. He was a natural cameraman who found a subject that would dominate the rest of his life. He has since shot over 600,000 feet of film from which 24 films were edited. The value of the footage as an encyclopedia of !Kung life is unequaled by any other body of ethnographic film. The entire series is currently available through DER.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Robert G. Gardner, 1925-2014, John Marshall, 1932-2005, ≠Oma Tsamkxao, G≠kao Dabe, 1937-
Author / Creator
John Marshall, 1932-2005
Date Published / Released
1957
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
!Kung
Speaker / Narrator
John Marshall, 1932-2005
Topic / Theme
!Kung, Ju/'hoansi, Cultural identity, Gender, Hunting, Rural population, Tribal and national groups, Ethnography, Ju❘’hoan
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!Kung, N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman
written by John Marshall, 1932-2005; directed by John Marshall, 1932-2005; produced by John Marshall, 1932-2005, in !Kung (Documentary Educational Resources (DER)), 58 mins
This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties.
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written by John Marshall, 1932-2005; directed by John Marshall, 1932-2005; produced by John Marshall, 1932-2005, in !Kung (Documentary Educational Resources (DER)), 58 mins
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This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. N!ai tells her own story, and in so doing, the story of Ju/'hoan life over a thirty year period. "Before the white peop...
This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. This film provides a broad overview of Ju/'hoan life, both past and present, and an intimate portrait of N!ai, a Ju/'hoan woman who in 1978 was in her mid-thirties. N!ai tells her own story, and in so doing, the story of Ju/'hoan life over a thirty year period. "Before the white people came we did what we wanted," N!ai recalls, describing the life she remembers as a child: following her mother to pick berries, roots, and nuts as the season changed; the division of giraffe meat; the kinds of rain; her resistance to her marriage to /Gunda at the age of eight; and her changing feelings about her husband when he becomes a healer. As N!ai speaks, the film presents scenes from the 1950's that show her as a young girl and a young wife. The uniqueness of N!ai may lie in its tight integration of ethnography and history. While it portrays the changes in Ju/'hoan society over thirty years, it never loses sight of the individual, N!ai.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
John Marshall, 1932-2005, Kunta Boo, N!ae Kommtsa
Author / Creator
John Marshall, 1932-2005
Date Published / Released
1980
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
!Kung
Person Discussed
N!ae Kommtsa
Topic / Theme
Ju/'hoansi, !Kung, Kin relationships, Communities, Cultural change and history, Cultural identity, Women, Tribal and national groups, Daily life, Ethnography, Ju❘’hoan
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(un)veiled: Muslim Women Talk About Hijab
written by Ines Hofmann Kanna; directed by Ines Hofmann Kanna; produced by Ines Hofmann Kanna (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2007), 36 mins
(un)veiled introduces the audience to ten Muslim women from various backgrounds who now live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in a discussion about hijab, the headscarf.
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written by Ines Hofmann Kanna; directed by Ines Hofmann Kanna; produced by Ines Hofmann Kanna (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2007), 36 mins
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(un)veiled introduces the audience to ten Muslim women from various backgrounds who now live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in a discussion about hijab, the headscarf. (un)veiled introduces the audience to ten Muslim women from various backgrounds who now live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Their discussion about hijab, the headscarf, revolves around a lecture on the same topic that was banned last minute but delivered anyway. In a time when I...
(un)veiled introduces the audience to ten Muslim women from various backgrounds who now live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in a discussion about hijab, the headscarf. (un)veiled introduces the audience to ten Muslim women from various backgrounds who now live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Their discussion about hijab, the headscarf, revolves around a lecture on the same topic that was banned last minute but delivered anyway. In a time when Islam and especially Muslim women are represented as monolithic and beset by backwardness, the women in (un)veiled show the diverse, lively, argumentative debates in Muslim societies about the meanings of modernity, emancipation, and feminism. Dubai, where the filmmaker lived for eight months, becomes a character in itself, showing the complex face of a contemporary Arab city.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Ines Hofmann Kanna, Dr. Aisha (Laureen) Hamdan
Author / Creator
Ines Hofmann Kanna
Date Published / Released
2007
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
Arab, Emirati, Feminism, Religion, Urban life, Sexuality, Gender, Cultural participation, Women, Ethnography, Arabs, Emiratis
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The Uprising of '34
directed by Susanne Rostock, fl. 1989, Judith Helfand, fl. 1983-2016 and George C. Stoney, 1916-2012 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1995), 1 hour 27 mins
The Uprising of '34 is a startling documentary which tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers during the Great Depression. The mill workers' defiant stance — and the remarkable grassroots organizing that led up to it...
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directed by Susanne Rostock, fl. 1989, Judith Helfand, fl. 1983-2016 and George C. Stoney, 1916-2012 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1995), 1 hour 27 mins
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The Uprising of '34 is a startling documentary which tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers during the Great Depression. The mill workers' defiant stance — and the remarkable grassroots organizing that led up to it — challenged a system of mill owner control that had shaped life in cotton mill communities for decades. Sixty years after the gover...
The Uprising of '34 is a startling documentary which tells the story of the General Strike of 1934, a massive but little-known strike by hundreds of thousands of Southern cotton mill workers during the Great Depression. The mill workers' defiant stance — and the remarkable grassroots organizing that led up to it — challenged a system of mill owner control that had shaped life in cotton mill communities for decades. Sixty years after the government brutally suppressed the strike, a dark cloud still hangs over this event, spoken of only in whispers if at all.
Through the voices of those on all sides, The Uprising of '34 paints a rare portrait of the dynamics of life in mill communities, offering a penetrating look at class, race, and power in working communities throughout America and inviting the viewer to consider how those issues affect us today. The film raises critical questions about the critical role of history in making democracy work today.
A thoughtful exploration of the paternalistic relationship between mill management and its employees, the relationship between black and white workers, and the impact of the New Deal on the lives of working people, The Uprising of '34 is “meant to challenge the myths that Southern workers can't be organized, that they will work for nothing, and that they hate unions,” says Stoney. More than a social document, the film is intended to spark discussion on class, race, economics, and power — issues as vital today as they were 77 years ago. “This is more than a story about a strike; it's a story about community. We went out of our way to make sure that we didn't make a 'which side are you on' film,” says Helfand. “The thrust of this film is to give the workers their chance to speak,” adds Rostock. “We're very proud of the fact that here's a film in which they speak for themselves [with no narrator].”
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Date Written / Recorded
1995
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
George C. Stoney, 1916-2012, Judith Helfand, fl. 1983-2016, Susanne Rostock, fl. 1989
Author / Creator
Susanne Rostock, fl. 1989, Judith Helfand, fl. 1983-2016, George C. Stoney, 1916-2012
Date Published / Released
1995
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Topic / Theme
American, Company towns, Economic classes, Race relations, Labor unions, Textile mill workers, Labor disputes, Labor strikes, Ethnography, Americans
Copyright Message
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Yanomamö, A Man Called "Bee": Studying the Yanomamo
written by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; directed by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; produced by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-, in Yanomamö (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER)), 44 mins
This is one of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects, and as such it is a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork.
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written by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; directed by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; produced by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-, in Yanomamö (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER)), 44 mins
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This is one of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects, and as such it is a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork. This is one of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects, and as such it is a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork. Napoleon Chagnon, who lived among the Yanomamo for 36 months over a period of eight years, is shown in various...
This is one of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects, and as such it is a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork. This is one of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects, and as such it is a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork. Napoleon Chagnon, who lived among the Yanomamo for 36 months over a period of eight years, is shown in various roles as "fieldworker": entering a village armed with arrows and adorned with feathers; sharing coffee with the shaman Dedeheiwa who recounts the myth of fire; dispensing eyedrops to a baby and accepting in turn a shaman's cure for his own illness; collecting voluminous genealogies; making tapes, maps, Polaroid photos; and attempting to analyze such patterns as village fission, migration, and aggression. The commentary touches on the problems of the fieldworker (all the genealogies compiled in the first year were based on false data, and had to be discarded). Between the image and the commentary we also glimpse some of the ambiguities of the anthropologist's role and his relation to the subjects of his study, for example in the tension between mutual exploitation and reciprocity. The film complements Chagnon's book on his fieldwork, Studying the Yanomamo.
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Date Written / Recorded
1971
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-, Timothy Asch, 1932-1994, Moäwä, Dedeheiwä
Author / Creator
Timothy Asch, 1932-1994, Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-
Date Published / Released
1974
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
Yanomamö
Topic / Theme
Yanomamö, Cultural identity, Shamanism, Ethnosociology, Tribal and national groups, Rural population, Field work for anthropology, Ethnography, Yanomámi
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