Opre Roma: Gypsies in Canada - PREVIEW
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Tags: anthropology Canada documentary film gypsy immigration music Roma
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/opre-roma.html This film celebrates the culture and struggle of the Gypsy. There is a new generation of Roma who claim their Gypsy roots with pride, while fighting the myths that caused their parents to live in fear. They call themselves by their rightful name,...
Piemule - PREVIEW
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Tags: anthropology balkan czechoslovakia documentary film piemule
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/piemule.html This film is about an ethnic group of Czechs which settled over a hundred and fifty years ago in the hills not far from Timisoara. Director Jana Sevikova employs a complex structure of composition, as the film depicts the social aspects of this...
Return to Belaye: A Rite of Passage - PREVIEW
- Length: 8:47
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Tags: Africa anthropology Belaye cross-culturalism documentary family film ritual Senegal tradition
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/return-to-belaye.html The film focuses on filmmaker, Amy Flannery and her husband, Papis Goudiaby, as they leave their home in the United States and journey back to Papis' birthplace (Belaye, Senegal) where he must undergo the tribe's traditional initiation...
Seguir Siendo - PREVIEW
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Tags: anthropology Argentina documentary film Guarani Misiones
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/seguir.html A portrait of the Mbya-Guarani people living in Misiones, a subtropical province in Northeast Argentina. The people demonstrate everyday life existing on a geographical as well as a cultural border. The filmmaker lives in Argentina and has produced...
Pull Ourselves Up or Die Out - PREVIEW
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Tags: !kung Africa anthropology bushman Bushmen documentary film Ju/'hoansi Namibia
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/pull-ourselves-up.html "Pull Ourselves Up or Die Out" is a field report which provides visual and factual information on the situation of the !Kung San people at Tshum!Kwi, in Namibia, where N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman was filmed. The report includes...
Pepe's Family - PREVIEW
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Tags: anthropology documentary family film Germany labor migrant
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/pepes-family.html The concerns of a migrant laborer who works in Germany are portrayed during his holiday visit - his social networks, his present foreign experiences, and his plans for the future of his family. When his father insists on remaining in the rural...
Namekas: Music in Lake Chambri - PREVIEW
- Length: 4:11
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Tags: anthropology Chambri documentary drum film flute Guinea Lake music New panpipe Papua Pondo
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/namekas.html On the southern shores of Lake Chambri (Middle Sepik River, Papua New Guinea) live 1500 Pondo-speaking villagers. All elements of the natural world are associated with spirits which have individual personalities and powers, characterized in legend,...
My Family and Me - PREVIEW
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Tags: anthropology documentary ethnography family film Greece migration relationships Switzerland
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/my-family-and-me.html Shot over four years, the film shows one specific aspect of migration: family relationships. Thanassakis, a 13-year-old boy, is staying with his grandparents in the Greek village of Ano Ravenia, while his parents stay with his younger...
Miyah: The Life of a Javanese Woman - PREVIEW
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Tags: anthropology documentary film Indonesia Jakarta Java labor women
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/miyah.html This is an intimate portrait of a Javanese woman who works as a servant and a cook for a prominent family in Jakarta, Indonesia. While many aspects of her life are specific to circumstances pertinent to Indonesia, Miyah also presents us with a more...
Legacy of the Spirits - PREVIEW
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Tags: Africa anthropology ceremony documentary ethnography film Haiti New religion ritual vodou voodoo York
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/legacy-of-the-spirits.html For centuries, the religion of Vodou (called "voodoo" by outsiders) has been thought of as sticking pins in dolls or witchcraft and has been kept underground, giving way to much misunderstanding and sensationalism. This documentary...
The Mandolin King - PREVIEW
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Tags: anthropology craft Cumana documentary film luthier mandolin music Venezuela
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/mandolin-king.html Cruz Quinal, "the mandolin king," lives near Cumaná, Venezuela in a mountain valley surrounded by sugarcane fields. Perpetuating 16th century Spanish traditions of guitar-making, Cruz fashions such musical instruments as cuatros, marimba,...
Loving Krishna - PREVIEW
- Length: 5:9
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Tags: anthropology bengal devotion documentary film India Krishna religion ritual vishnapur worship
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/loving-krishna.html Loving Krishna is about the worship of Krishna and the meaning of devotion. It explores the rural and urban character of the town of Vishnapur in West Bengal by examining the royal past, everyday life, work in traditional arts and crafts,...
La Memoire Dure - PREVIEW
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Tags: adoption Africa Algeria anthropology cross-culturalism documentary France Koran Liberia Mali orphan school
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/lamemoiredure.html Ibrahim lived with his uncle in the woods in Mali, for a few days he attended Koran school. Alpha comes from Liberia, and during the war his family was dispersed. Nawel lived in Algeria where his large family was forced to have him adopted and...
Leaving Bakul Bagan - PREVIEW
- Length: 4:58
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Tags: anthropology calcutta documentary family film Hindu India politics religion tradition
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/leaving-bakul-bagan.html Three generations of the extended Roychowdury family have resided for decades at 160 Bakul Bagan Road, Calcutta. Often it's members must leave to relocate for a job or to start a family elsewhere. In this film, Saborna, a 19 year-old...
Kama Wosi: Music in the Trobriand Islands - PREVIEW
- Length: 9:39
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Tags: anthropology documentary ethnomusicology Guinea Islands Kiriwina music New ritual song tradition Trobriand
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/kama-wosi.html Traditional music of the Trobriand Islands (Kiriwina Islands) is played on a variety of flutes, from simple curving stems to panpipes. Songs (wosi) are also an important part of Trobriand music, and although everyone may compose and sing, people...
!Kung Bushmen Hunting Equipment - PREVIEW
- Length: 5:3
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Tags: !kung Africa age anthropology arrow bushman bushmen documentary film hunting Ju/'hoan kalahari Namibia stone
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/kung-bushmen-hunting.html This film shows in detail all the pieces in the Ju/'hoan hunting kit and how each piece is made and used, from the collection of the raw materials to the final fabrication, including the preparation of poison arrows. !Kung Bushmen...
Kenya Boran: Part I - PREVIEW
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Tags: africa anthropology boran desert documentary film herding kenya pastoralism
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/kenya-boran-part1.html In the midst of a traditional herding territory, a growing town and a new road encroach upon a once-isolated desert people. The complexities brought about by this modernization are shown as two fathers and their sons confront difficult...
Kenya Boran: Part II - PREVIEW
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Tags: africa anthropology boran desert documentary film herding Kenya pastoralism
Purchase: http://www.der.org/films/kenya-boran-part2.html The film focuses on the life of Peter Boru, a sixteen-year-old former herdsboy who has become a boarding school student. Peter's life is juxtaposed to a traditional herdsboy, Dokata. The question, "Education for what?" is posed when both...
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