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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The film takes place in the village of Samarina, in the Pindos Mountains in North Western Greece, where we meet three brothers, Tsiogas, Steryios and Vassilis Anthoulis, Vlachs who speak a language closely related to Romanian. In October it is time for the Dhiava, the autumn journey.
22) The Ax Fight
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in 1971. The conflict developed between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village. The visitors had formerly been part of Mishimishimabowei-teri, and many still had ties with members of that village.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This video depicts traditional Ju/'hoan life by using vignettes from longer films in the !Kung San series. Footage selected shows tool-making technology, hunting and gathering, social life and children at play, and gives the viewer a feel for the vastness and beauty of the Nyae Nyae region of the Kalahari Desert.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Cremation rites are the most elaborate rites of passage performed by Balinese householders. Poor families may wait years before accumulating enough resources to cremate their dead, who are buried in the meantime. In 1978 many more cremations than usual were carried out because of the great purification cermony, Eka Dasa Rudra, held at Bali's main temple, Besakih, in 1979. Religious officials recommended that all Balinese cleanse the island by cremating...
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Shimofukuzawa, Japan, the local men's youth association organizes the annual Dosojin deity festival. The festivities are characterized by paper decorations and pantomime, with sexualized symbols promoting marriage and fertility.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Aymara
Description
Aymara women voice a common paradox. In the film they express agreement with the dominant Hispanic ideal that women should be subservient to men and assigned to tasks appropriate to their limited strength and intellegence. Yet Aymara culture recognizes their equal contributions to survival.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The film concerns the traditional "floating population" who fish Chinese coastal waters from family sized Junks based in Hong Kong in competition with salaried fisherman using large, mechanized boats. The combined effect of education and an increased integration with shore life is putting strains on the old ways.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
The shooting of this peasant chronicle in the Gruyère region of Switzerland lasted a whole year, from July 1989 to July 1990. A year of work and festivities in the family of Conrad and Louise Bapst, their children and grandchildren who live in La Roche (canton of Fribourg).
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The deep division in Andean society between rural and townspeople begins at birth, is perpetuated by the schools and continues throughout life. The film evidences the discrimination faced by the children of the rural and extremely poor campesinos.
30) At Highest Risk
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Quechua
Description
Just as the rivers of the Andes mountains twist and coil in a curious maze, so does the grave situation of Peruvian women's health care. Within the past decade, the Andean women in Peru have faced a massive sterilization campaign, exorbitant fines for homebirths, remnants of a deadly civil war, and the second highest maternal death rate in South America. Yet, as they have for centuries, the Quechua and Aymara people are fighting to preserve their...
31) Magical Death
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film is an exceptionally vivid portrayal of shamanic activity, as well as an exploration of the close connection between politics and shamanism in Yanomamo culture.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The mission in Bisaasi-teri has a style and orientation quite different from the Salesian mission shown in Ocamo is My Town. The New Tribes Mission has been in this region since the early 1950s. Their main goal, the missionary-teacher in the film explains, is spiritual: to bring the message of Jesus and salvation to the Indians, and to teach them to reject their false gods, demons, and drugs.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
For 200 years groups of Lahu have been migrating from southwestern China into the highlands of Southeast Asia's "Golden Triangle" region.Though they share much with other migrants in the ethnic patchwork of the region, the Lahu maintain a vigorous sense of themselves as a distinct people. New Years is their prime time for celebrating what it means to be Lahu.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film illustrates the field techniques used by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Michigan in collaboration with their Venezuelan colleagues. The film describes the team's objectives - to understand the Yanomamo population structure in genetic and social terms - and the methods used in obtaining data.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Indonesian
Description
This traditionally ethnographic sequence film focuses on the negotiations betwen representatives of two families during a payment of bridewealth. In the past the husband's group would carry a spear and a sword to hang in the wife's house. Now, a payment is made as a substitute for the spear and sword.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The people of the Bolivian highlands blend in thought and practice the traditional magic of the region and the religion of their conquerors. A fatal automobile accident, coincident with the festival of Santiago, provides occasion for unique expressions of both faith and magic in the effort to influence events.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film demonstrates the time-honored solutions to the problems associated with the Boran's dependence on cattle for living. Direct government intervention and the indirect impact of modernization are forcing the old patterns to change. The film depicts herding practices, movement patterns, watering strategies, and the lifestyle of the herdsmen.
39) Dani Houses
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Dani Sweet Potatoes (19 min) follows the sophisticated process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Dani. It follows the Dani sweet potato cycle from clearing off the old brush and weeds from a fallow field to planting, harvesting, cooking and eating. Dani Houses (16 min) observes both round and square house construction techniques of the Grand Valley Dani. It shows how the ground is cleared, walls are made from boards, poles lashed together,...
40) Ausangate
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film documents the lives of Quechua people who live around Ausangate, a sacred peak in southeastern Peru. It is based on anthropological research conducted over twenty years and reveals how the weavers make textiles encoded with symbolic images that reinforce ancestral beliefs during rituals and in everyday life. Four Quechua people's stories are told against a backdrop of high Andean lakes and mountains showing a harsh existence possible only...
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