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Bake Restudy 1984
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directed by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, 1927-2009 and Amy Catlin, fl. 1982-2017; produced by Apsara Media for Intercultural Education (Van Nuys, CA: Apsara Media for Intercultural Education, 1991), 1 hour 1 mins
A one-hour video narrated by Nazir Jairazbhoy and Amy Catlin. The authors return in 1984 to the original sites of Arnold Bake's 1938 South Indian fieldwork in order to solicit responses to his photographs and audio recordings of numerous performance traditions in an examination of continuity and change. The video...
directed by Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy, 1927-2009 and Amy Catlin, fl. 1982-2017; produced by Apsara Media for Intercultural Education (Van Nuys, CA: Apsara Media for Intercultural Education, 1991), 1 hour 1 mins
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Boyobi, the ceremony for the net hunt
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of University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers Museum, in The Louis Sarno Archive, Film; interview by Nick Lobley, fl. 2013 (Oxford, England: University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers Museum), 4 mins,
Source: web.prm.ox.ac.uk
The video clip shows Louis Sarno talking about recording Bayaka Boyobi ceremonies, and is part of a series of video interviews with Louis that were recorded in April 2012. Boyobis are Bayaka ceremonies that are often performed before net hunting. Women sing interlocking webs of polyphonic sound to entice the bobé...
of University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers Museum, in The Louis Sarno Archive, Film; interview by Nick Lobley, fl. 2013 (Oxford, England: University of Oxford. Pitt Rivers Museum), 4 mins,
Source: web.prm.ox.ac.uk
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Carnival in Q’eros: Where the Mountains Meet the Jungle
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directed by Juan Núñez del Prado, fl. 1991-2004 and John Cohen, 1932-; produced by John Cohen, 1932- (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 1991), 33 mins
This groundbreaking documentary shows the remarkable Carnival celebrations -- never before seen by outsiders -- of a remote community of Indians high in the Peruvian Andes. Their culture offers important clues into the Inca past and the roots of Andean cultures.The Q'eros play flutes and sing to their alpacas in a...
directed by Juan Núñez del Prado, fl. 1991-2004 and John Cohen, 1932-; produced by John Cohen, 1932- (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 1991), 33 mins
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Fire In My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel
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written by Glenn Hinson, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, originally published 2000), 418 page(s)
written by Glenn Hinson, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000, originally published 2000), 418 page(s)
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The Taste of Blood: Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomblé
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written by Jim Wafer, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, originally published 1991), 237 page(s)
written by Jim Wafer, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, originally published 1991), 237 page(s)
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The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology
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written by Paul Stoller, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, originally published 1989), 200 page(s)
written by Paul Stoller, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989, originally published 1989), 200 page(s)
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DAF
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directed by Bahman Ghobadi, 1969- (Jeonju International Film Festival, 2003), 39 mins
This simple but affecting documentary portrays a rural craftsman who makes a traditional Iranian percussion instrument called a daf. All able-bodied family members participate in the production, including a blind son, whom we see hitching a ride to market with his sister to purchase the sheep skins and wood planks...
directed by Bahman Ghobadi, 1969- (Jeonju International Film Festival, 2003), 39 mins
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Dor, Low is Better
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directed by Robert Boonzajer-Flaes, fl. 1988 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2002), 47 mins
The film offers an experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn introduced to them by the anthropologist. While the monks agree to play those foreign instruments, they still prefer their own flute...
directed by Robert Boonzajer-Flaes, fl. 1988 (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2002), 47 mins
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Funeral Chants from the Georgian Caucasus
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directed by Hugo Zemp, 1937- (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2007), 22 mins

The villages of the Svaneti province are located in north-western Georgia, in the valleys that lie between the mountains of the Caucasus. The Svans represent about 1% of the Georgian population. Their language differs from the Georgian language, and their religion is a syncretism of Orthodox Christian faith and pr...

directed by Hugo Zemp, 1937- (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2007), 22 mins
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