Browse Titles - 175 results

Sort

George's Place, In The Dooryard
See details
directed by Anna Grimshaw, fl. 1989-2014, in George's Place (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020), 1 hour 11 mins
Spring in Buck’s Harbor is about preparing for the fishing season ahead. Work on lobster traps and on halibut hooks begins in earnest. But it is rarely a solitary activity. Every day people come and go from George’s dooryard – offering advice, seeking help, enjoying companionship in the chilly days that foll...
Sample
directed by Anna Grimshaw, fl. 1989-2014, in George's Place (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020), 1 hour 11 mins
×
George's Place, On The Water
See details
directed by Anna Grimshaw, fl. 1989-2014, in George's Place (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020), 1 hour 8 mins
During April, George and Mark, his son and sternman, begin setting traps for the season ahead. It’s cold and rough on the ocean, and lobsters are scarce. Halibut fishing, permitted for only several weeks of the year, offers George the chance to draw on his carefully accumulated knowledge of where to drop a line....
Sample
directed by Anna Grimshaw, fl. 1989-2014, in George's Place (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020), 1 hour 8 mins
×
George's Place, The Season
See details
directed by Anna Grimshaw, fl. 1989-2014, in George's Place (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020), 1 hour 5 mins
Lobsters slowly migrate north, moving into the Machias Bay from warmer, southern waters. George works quickly to finish setting his full quota of traps. During July, August and September, he and Mark put in long days, hauling, baiting and banding their catch. Each fisherman jealously guards the secrets of his own...
Sample
directed by Anna Grimshaw, fl. 1989-2014, in George's Place (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020), 1 hour 5 mins
×
George's Place, The Smokehouse
See details
in George's Place (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020), 1 hour 22 mins
George has been smoking fish for as long as he can remember. The smokehouse has a place of pride in his dooryard, and he lovingly tends the racks to ensure perfection. The end of fishing is in sight. The weather is closing in, creating uncertainty. Traps have to be hauled ashore and the last lobsters of the season...
Sample
in George's Place (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 2020), 1 hour 22 mins
×
Golden Fish, African Fish 
See details
directed by Moussa Diop, 1979- and Thomas Grand; produced by Thomas Grand, Zideoprod (Paris, Ile-de-France: Beliane, 2018), 1 hour
The Casamance Region, in southern Senegal, is one of the last refuge hubs for non-industrial fishing in West Africa, employing around 15,000 people, fishermen, fish processors and migrant workers. "Golden Fish, African Fish" documents the way of life that depends on this artisanal fishing, which guarantees food se...
Sample
directed by Moussa Diop, 1979- and Thomas Grand; produced by Thomas Grand, Zideoprod (Paris, Ile-de-France: Beliane, 2018), 1 hour
×
Graphs re: Catches of Fish
See details
in Raymond William Firth Papers, of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Malaya: Other Papers, Fishing: Raw Materials) (London, England) (1939) , 5 page(s)
Hand drawn graphs by Raymond Firth, dated 1939-1940, regarding catches of fish. The graphs are titled "Frequency Distribution of Value of Daily Catches of Individual Takur Nets," and "Daily Takings of Takur Net of Japat Compared with Average Daily Takings of All Nets Out." A third graph is untitled.
Sample
in Raymond William Firth Papers, of London School of Economics and Political Science. Library. Archives and Special Collections Team (Malaya: Other Papers, Fishing: Raw Materials) (London, England) (1939) , 5 page(s)
×
Hand-Line Fishing Incomes, 30 July to 29 August, 1963
See details
Handwritten notes discuss cash earnings of a group of Malayan hand-line fishermen from July 30-August 29, 1963.
Sample
×
How a Child is Brought Up
See details
in Max Gluckman Papers, of Royal Anthropological Institute. Archives and Manuscripts (Box 55: Genealogies, village maps and essays on lozi life, [Folder 15]) (1940) , 11 page(s)
This typed document includes field notes on the Lozi child rearing customs.
Sample
in Max Gluckman Papers, of Royal Anthropological Institute. Archives and Manuscripts (Box 55: Genealogies, village maps and essays on lozi life, [Folder 15]) (1940) , 11 page(s)
×
Hudson Shad
See details
written by James Brown, fl. 1974 and George C. Stoney, 1916-2012; directed by George C. Stoney, 1916-2012 and James Brown, fl. 1974; produced by George C. Stoney, 1916-2012, Documentary Educational Resources (DER) (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1974), 18 mins
Folk music legend and environmental activist Pete Seeger, in despair over the pollution of his beloved Hudson River, launched a project to clean it up in the sixties. In Hudson Shad, Seeger and others in the 'River Keepers', make a statement about our responsibility for keeping the waters of the river clean enough...
Sample
written by James Brown, fl. 1974 and George C. Stoney, 1916-2012; directed by George C. Stoney, 1916-2012 and James Brown, fl. 1974; produced by George C. Stoney, 1916-2012, Documentary Educational Resources (DER) (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1974), 18 mins
×
Hunters of the South Seas, Episode 2, The Whale Hunters of Lamalera
See details
directed by Jamie Balment, fl. 2005; presented by Will Millard; produced by Jamie Balment, fl. 2005, Indus Films, in Hunters of the South Seas, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2015), 52 mins
One area on our planet, above all others, demonstrates man's extraordinary amphibious abilities: the Coral Triangle in the southwestern Pacific. Set apart from the modern world, it is the last place on Earth where people who have lived their lives entirely at sea can still be found. Each isolated community has ada...
Sample
directed by Jamie Balment, fl. 2005; presented by Will Millard; produced by Jamie Balment, fl. 2005, Indus Films, in Hunters of the South Seas, Episode 2 (London, England: BBC Worldwide, 2015), 52 mins
×

Pages