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In 1961, anthropologist Robert Gardner organised an expedition to the highlands of New Guinea to film the Dani people. He stayed for six months to create an essay on the themes of violence and death most...
Following in the same template as 1992’s BARAKA (also directed by Fricke), SAMSARA is a study in the ways humanity works as a collective and as individuals, with the cycle of human existence providing the...
The film introduces the audience to ten Muslim women from various backgrounds who now live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Their discussion about hijab, the headscarf, revolves around a lecture on the same...
Anthony Giddens, at the time Director of the London School of Economics, delivered this series of 5 Reith lectures on the theme of globalisation from major cities around the world, locating the lectures...
About the encounter between tradition and modernity in a small village of Papua New Guinea. Three exceptional men rival with each other in the field of rituals and artistic creation in order to win over...
Brings together excerpts from 15 films to illustrate the relationship between Spanish cinema and culture. Primarily intended as an accompaniment to Professor Marsha Kinder’s critique of Spanish film,...
A characteristic of the Na, an ethnic group in south-east China, is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives. Their social organisation is absolutely matrilineal and, in that...
Cross-cultural examples illustrate and explain the specific functions of types of age groups, various common-interest associations, and different forms of social stratificaton.
Alejandro Mamani, an elderly Aymara Indian, is the subject of this ethnographic study of mental illness and the approach of death.
Some form of artistic expression exists in all cultures. This video shows the many kinds of art and the variety of functions served by the arts: the fulfilment of the need for individual creative expression,...
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