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3) The Brigade
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This documentary was filmed during three months on the Yamal Peninsula in West Siberia, where the Nenets have been herding reindeer for about a thousand years.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The conflict shown in The Ax Fight disrupted the political stability in Mishimishimabowei-teri. Several days after the fight, Moawa, the most prominent headman in the village, killed a tapir and presented it to his brothers-in-law who comprise an important political bloc in the village.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Brujo is an exploration of shamanism and curing among the Mazatec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico, and among two groups of Maya Indians in southern Mexico and Guatemala. The film is divided into three sequences. The first, filmed in Chichicastenango (Guatemala), shows Diego, a shaman, cure a woman on whom a spell has been cast. The cure takes place partly in a church and partly in the mountains, where a sacrificed chicken is used to bring back the ailing...
6) Herdsmen
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A small film crew tracks a Kazak family in Xinjiang, China's western-most province, from spring to winter. Unlike the people of Kazakstan, who grew into a nation of farmers and workers, the Kazaks retained their nomadic life and a close bond with nature.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An Aymara family plants potatoes, prepares and eats a meal, and discusses the religious and astronomical forces that control their destiny. The stark routine of this typical planting day contrasts with thecomplexity of their beliefs.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film, shot in 1955, focuses on a small band of /Gwi San living in the arid landscape of the central Kalahari Desert in present-day Botswana. The hardships of their everyday survival are woven into the songs of a blind musician, Ukxone, who composes music on a hunting bow.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Our Lives In Our Hands examines the traditional Native American craft of split ash basketmaking as a means of economic and cultural survival for Aroostook Micmac Indians of northern Maine. This documentary of rural off-reservation Indian artisans aims to break down stereotypical images.
10) Firewood
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The strenuousness of women's work is revealed as a woman patiently chops a large log for firewood one evening, enough to last one day. Her two children play nearby, and she occasionally stops to nurse the younger.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, the Enga people have developed the art of body decoration as a visual language. Using earth paints, tree oils, bird plumes, human hair, and a variety of plants, the Enga turn the body into a medium for an expressive and dramatic symbolism.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
n the Navajo language there is neither a word for religion nor art. The only word that could be used to describe both is "hozho" beauty, balance, order and harmony. Navajo history is turbulent, and in order to survive the Navajo had to adapt. Baskets are a part of this history, changing throughout time and adapting with the people.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea, French anthropologist Maurice Godelier invites five of his Baruya friends and informants to his house to discuss Baruya kinship and rules of marriage. As Godelier poses questions, the kinship rules that provide the cohesive fabric of Baruya culture are brought to life.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The ingenuity of Yanomamo technology is revealed in the climbing frame used to scale the spiny trunk of the peach palm tree. Here a young man collects the fruit for his in-laws by means of two frames, each constructed of two crisscrossed poles. As he perches on one frame, he raises (or lowers) the other, onto which he carefully steps, continuing in this manner up (or down) the entire tree.
19) The Spirit of TV
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Beginning with the arrival by canoe of a TV and VCR in their village, The Spirit of TV documents the emotions and thoughts of the Waiãpi as they first encounter their own recorded images and those of others. Viewing news broadcasts and videos of other Brazilian native peoples, the Waiãpi see the power of images to facilitate memory preservation and political awareness.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dedeheiwa, a shaman and headman in his village, takes nine of his children and grandchildren to the river where he washes them carefully and patiently. This film, like A Man and His Wife Weave a Hammock and Weeding the Garden, reveals the warmth and gentleness typical of many kinds of Yanomamo interactions.
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