FILMS

Visual Anthropology

Filmography

 

A Balinese Family (1951, 20 min.)

A Balinese Trance Séance / Jero on Jero (1981, 51 min.) Tim & Patsy Asch, Linda Conner

A Man Called Bee: Studying the Yanomamo (1975, 45 min.) N. Chagnon and Tim Asch

A Tubewell for Kapura Village (1972, 23 min.) B&W. (India) (Dale Illig)

A Visual Journey (1993, 30 min.) John Collier

Alejandro Mamani: Case Study in Culture and Personality (1983, 27 min. Faces of Culture Series)

Angano . . . Angano (1989, 64 min.)

Anthropology on Trial (1983, 57 min.) NOVA series special

Amir: An Afgan Refugee Musician’s Life in Peshawar, Pakistan

Baka: People of the Forest

Bitter Melons (1950s, John Marshall)

Black Harvest (1992, 90 min.)

Black Robe (1991, 101 min.)

Box of Treasures (Chris Owen)

Bronislaw Malinowski: Off the Verandah (1990, 52 min.)

Buddha and the Rice Planters (1976, 27 min.)

Cannibal Tours (1987, 70 min.)

Celso and Cora

Chase the Devil (Appalachia)

Childhood Rivalry in Bali and New Guinea (1952, 17 min.)

Cows of Dolo Ken Paye

Culture (1991, 30 min.)

Dadi and Her Family

Dani Recess (Karl Heider)

Dead Birds (1963, 83 min.) Robert Gardner

Deep Hearts (Robert Gardner)

Embera: The End of the Road (1971, 55 min.) Disappearing World Series

Fear and Hope in Cambodia (1993, 59 min.)

First Contact (1984, 55 min) Australians in highland PNG.

Forest of Bliss (1985, 50 min.) Robert Gardner

Four Families (1959, 60 min.) Nat’l Film Board of Canada

Films are Dreams . . .  (20 min.)

Franz Boas: 1852-1942 (1988, 60 min.)

Franz Boas: The Shackles of Tradition (1990, 52 min.)

Given to Dance: India’s Odissi Tradition (1986, 57min. )

Gunabibi: An Aboriginal Fertility Cult (30 min., Australia)

Herders of Mongun

Holy Ghost People (53 min.)

How to Behave

I am a Sufi, I am a Musilm (52 min., color) 1996

In the Land of War Canoes: Kwakiutl Indian Life (1914, 47 min.) Edward Curtis.

Into the Circle (1992, 58 min.)

Imaginero (1969) Jorge Preloran (also films by same: Cochengo Miranda (1974) and Zerda’s Children (1978).

Ishi in Two Worlds (19 min.)

Ishi: The Last Yahi (1993, 57 min.)

Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Séance Observed (1981, 20 min) Tim Asch, Patsy Asch & Linda Conner

Joe Leahy’s Neighbors (1988)

Jolo Serpent Handlers (40 min.)

Joy Unspeakable (59 min.)

Krishna In the Spring (1969, 27 min.)

Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women (2000 /34 mins.)

Land Divers of Melanesia: Pentecost Island, Vanuatu (30 min.)

Last Jews of Radatui (1978, 25 mins.)

Latah: A Culture-Specific Elaboration on the Startle Reflex (Ronald Simmons & Gunter Pfaff)

Les Maitres Fous: West African revital Cult (1955, 30 min.) Jean Rouch

Legacy of the Incas (1990, 43 min.)

Live and Remember (1987, 30 min.)

Lorang’s Way: A Turkana man

Ma’Bugi: Trance of the Toradja (Sulawesi, Indonesia) 22 min.

Magical Curing (1988, 25 min.)

Magical Death (1973, 30 min.) N. Chagnon

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992, Part I: 94 mins.; Part II: 72 mins.)

Margaret Mead: Coming of Age (1990, 52 min.)

Margaret Mead and Samoa (1988, 51 min.)

Margaret Mead: Taking Note (1988, 58 min.)

Maring in Motion: A Choreometric Analysis of Movement among a New Guinea People.

Masai Men

Masai Women (1974 [1994], 52 min.) Disappearing World Series

Mayordomia: Ritual, Gender and Cultural Identity in a Zapote Community (1989, 20 min)

Mysteries of Mankind (1988, 60 min.)

N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman (1980, 59 min. )

Naim and Jabar (1973)

Nanook of the North (1922, 80 min.) w/ interview of Frances Flaherty

Nanook Revisited (1988, 55 min.)

Neighborhood Tokyo (H. Skela & T. C. Bestor)

Number our Days (Lynn Littman)

Ongka’s Big Moka (Strathern 1985?) 59 min. BOTH versions US and UK [video].

Panama Deception: Exposing the Cover Up! (1992, 91 min.)

People of the Seal (1971, 55 min.)

Photo Wallahs (1991) 60 mins. David and Judith MacDougal

Pizza Pizza Daddy-O (1980, 18 min.) Black Americana Series

Pygmies of the Rainforest (1975, 51 min.)

Religion and Magic (Faces of Culture Series, 50 min.)

Rouch in Reverse (Jean Rouch)

Rivers of Sand (Robert Gardner)

Sangoma: Traditional Healers in Modern Society (1996, 30 min.) Peter Davis. Zulu Shaman in Kwazulu-Natal province, South Africa.

Shadow Catcher (1974) ? min. (Edward Curtis)

Sir Edwards Evans-Pritchard: Strange Beliefs (1990, 52 min.)

Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer: Fieldwork (1990, 52 min.)

Sky Chief (19??) 26 min.

Small Happiness

Snake Handlers of W.Va.

Sophia’s People (1985)

Strangers Abroad [series?](William Rivers, Margaret Mead, excerpts, 1986)

TilaïBurkina Faso

The Asmat of Papua New Guinea (Faces of Culture Series, 50 min.)

The Aymara: Case Study in Class Inequalities (1983, 27 min. Faces of Culture Series)

The Ax Fight (Chagnon/Asch) 30 min.

The Beautiful Tree: Pono Indians (22 min.)

The Chaco Legacy (1980, 59 min.)

The Children Know (Aymara)

The Diary of a Maasai Village

The Falashas (1987, 27 min.)

The Feast (1970, 29 min.) N. Chagnon w/ T. Asch

The Goddess and the Computer (J. Stephen Lansing & Andre Singer)

The Great Dance: A Hunter’s Story (2000)—South Africa, San !Kung Bushmen

The Hadza

The House-Opening (1980)

The Hunters (1957 [1976]) 80 min. John Marshall

The Ilparakuyo Maasai of Tanzania (Peter Biella)

The Incas (1988, 58 min.)

The Jero Tapakan project (Jero on Jero)

The Kawelka (1989, 52 min.) Disappearing World Series (See Ongka’s Big Moka).

The Kayapo: Out of the Forest (1987 [1994], 58 min), Terrence Turner

The Kazakhs of China (1983, 53 min.) Disappearing World Series

The Lau of Maladita (1987, 51 min.) Disappearing World Series

The Market’s Edge: Glimpses of the Hasua World (28 min.)

The Meaning of Life (Monty Python) for birth scene.

The Quechua (1989, 51 min.) Disappearing World Series

The Salamanders

The Spirit of Ethnography (20 min.)

The Spirit Possession of Alejandro Mamani (1975) Aymara.

The Wedding Camels: A Turkana marriage (1977) (MacDougall)

The Woman’s Olamal: The Social Organization of a Maasai Fertility Ceremony (110 min).

To Live with Herds: A Dry season among the Jie (MacDougall)

Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity (1999 / color/ 80 mins.)

 

Trance and Dance in Bali (1952, 22 min.)

Trobriand Cricket: An Indigenous Response to Colonialism (1975, 53 min.) Jerry W. Leach

VIGIL (1993)

War Canoes

William Rivers: Everything is Relatives (1990, 52 min.)

Witchcraft Among the Azande (1984, 52 min.)

Yanomamö (1992)

Yawar Mallku (Blood of the Condor)

You Don’t know Dick (1997, 58 min.)

 

Navajo Film project

Juvenile Court (1973)

16 in Webster Groves (1966)