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Ethnographic film & related resources in the UF Libraries

Keyword search for "ethnographic films" in the library catalog to identify all format materials (e.g. books and videos) relating to ethnographic film. Narrow results to just videos by using the advanced search option with this phrase in "Form/Genre Keyword(s)" or use the advanced search format option to restrict results to audio-visual, video or specific format materials such as DVD.

Many excellent resources available in the library can help you identify ethnographic videos for your research, teaching and enjoyment. Filmmakers such as Jean Rouch (links to a French language site; see Wikipedia for basic information and alternate links in English), Robert Flaherty, John Marshall, Robert Gardner and Timothy Asch helped to define ethnographic film in the twentieth century (although Flaherty, Marshall and Gardner were or are not themselves anthropologists), so searching for their names also may be a useful starting point.

Additional reference, film catalog, filmography, review and bibliographical resources beyond the handful of suggested titles below can be located by using subject searches for motion pictures in ethnology (this currently returns 38 titles), Video recording in ethnology and Indigenous peoples in motion pictures (use the JSTOR and AnthroSource subscription databases for journal articles and reviews if you have access to these through UF or your own institution). Many of the resulting titles include catalogs, annotated film lists and collections of essays to help identify and understand where individual films fit in the historical context of filmmaking generally and that of visual anthropology in particular.

A sample of available videos is listed below with an emphasis on the new arrivals for Spring Semester 2007 and on reproducing summary information from the distributors' websites, catalogs and video containers. Run times are included to assist classroom planning, as is an indication of genre (documentary, feature, ethnographic). Google video provides access to a number of excepts to these ethnographic films, available for ordering or full download there (fees are listed there for "day pass" viewing or permanent downloads). Remember to check the Library Catalog for current holdings, additional information and current availability of individual titles. Items listed below with VIDEO (i.e., VHS) & DVD numbers are available in Library West, 2nd floor.

  1. The Ax Fight. Timothy Asch. [His Yanomamo ethnographic series was a collaboration with Napolean Chagnon. Filmed in 1971, this is a four-part analysis of a conflict in a Yanomamo Indian village between local descent groups. It includes an unedited record of the event; a slow-motion replay of the fight; a discussion of the kinship structure surrounding the fight; and an edited version.] Clip excerpt (6 min.), full download available online.
    DVD 2100. 30 min.
  2. Between two worlds: Interview with John Marshall. [John Marshall discusses his long career in a conversation with Cynthia Close, Executive Director of Documentary Educational Resources. John talks about his early experience in Africa and moves forward chronologically through his film work as a war correspondent in Cyprus then discusses his ground breaking films about the Pittsburgh Police and ends with his magnum opus A Kahlahari Family which was in post production at the time of this interview.]
    Clip excerpt (12 min.), full 53 min. download available online.
  3. Birth of a priestess. Englewood, N.J. : J.A. Loew, c1991. [Ethnographer and camera, Andrew Apter; edited by Jennifer A. Loew; translated by Sherifat Akorede. Narration in English; English subtitles for Yoruba songs. Videotaped in Ayede, Ekiti, Ondo State, Nigeria, Summer 1990. Two pubescent girls become priestesses in a ritual in which the powers of Mami Wata, a female water spirit, are invoked.]
    VIDEO 3736. 31 min.
  4. Bitter melons. John Marshall. Watertown, Mass.: DER, c2005. [From film footage shot in the central Kalahari Desert during 1955 with John's mother Lorna Marshall as ethnographer, this video portrays the difficulty of survival in a southern African environment. A member of a San group called the G/wi performs songs about animals, the land, and daily life. Narration describes the G/wi, traditional music, dances, children's games, and hunting, planting, and food preparation.] Clip excerpt (6 min.), full download available online.
    DVD 1524. 32 min.
  5. Bono medicines. [Filmed among the Akan people in Ghana (West Africa) by J. Scott Dodd, this video is designed to dispell stereotypes about traditional medicine and to outline logistical problems of health care delivery in developing nations.]
    VIDEO 3734 58 min.
  6. Bosnia hotel. [The United Nations peace keeping force in Bosnia included soldiers from nations and cultures that did not know where Bosnia was, or what the conflict was about. Among them was a force from Kenya which included several Samburu warriors. Bosnia Hotel films these warriors after their return to their ancestral land. It shows their present life as cattle herders on the African plain. They tell of their experience in the "white man's war." In many ways, their confusion about what was going on between the Serbs, Bosnians and Croats was not very different from many in the Western world who had full access to news reports. Why were neighbors killing one another, and why were women and children being killed? Catalog description available at Filmakers Library (distributor website with Anthropology section).]
    VIDEO 3721. 52 min.
  7. Bride market of Imilchil. [Traveling a 100-mile dirt road which winds high into the mountains of Morocco in order to reach Imichil, producer-directors Steffen and Christian Pierce have created a distrubing yet disarming documentary which reveals the folklore and customs surrounding a disappearing Berber tradition. Eligible men and women from the Atlas Mountains gather each September at the Bride Market of Imilchil. They meet here, and many times they marry on the spot. Stories told by the village matriarch and interviews with eligible men and women are intercut with footage of the festival. The ironic impact of Western tourism on the ancient tradition of selling women in marriage is also considered.]
    VIDEO 3909. 58 min.
  8. Bury the spear! Watertown, Mass.: DER, c2004. [This documentary focuses on the 1993 peace-making efforts of the Abore, Borana, Konso, Tsamai, Hamar and Dasanach to end decades of ethnic war in the southern Ethiopian Rift Valley.] Clip excerpt (14 min.), full download available online.
    DVD 1522. 66 min.
  9. Cannibal Tours. [In this documentary, director Dennis O'Rourke depicts the journey of a group of wealthy tourists on a luxury cruise up the Sepik River, in Papua New Guinea. A second journey (the real text of the film) is a metaphysical one, an attempt to discover the place of "the Other" in the popular imagination. It affords a glimpse at the real (mostly unconsidered or misunderstood) reasons why "civilized" people wish to encounter the "primitive."]
    DVD 1990. 67 min.
  10. Changing paths: Female circumcision in Mali. [Documentary. "In French and Bambara with English subtitles. In Mali ninety-three percent of the women are circumcised. This tradition is deeply routed in village society. Astan Diallo travels to several villages on her moped, talking to men and women about the health hazards of circumcision. After five years, Astan's hard work does bring results as old traditions make way for new ones."]
    DVD 1523. 46 min.
  11. Chronique d'un été: (Paris 1960). "Chronicle of a summer." Jean Rouch. Brooklyn, NY: First Run/Icarus Films, 2002. [In the summer of 1960 a documentary film crew asks the people on the streets of Paris if they are happy.]
    VIDEO 3528. 85 min.
  12. Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Gender Roles. [In the first video Dr. Polly Radosh, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work, Western Illinois University, presents a lecuture recorded on Hindu, Chinese and Islamic gender roles, examining practices that give men authority. Her second video cassette lecture focuses on societies that have tried to remedy gender inequalities with specific policies and laws, presenting examples from China, the former Soviet Union and Sweden.]
    VIDEO 5041. 2 vols. 60 min. each.
  13. Dani Sweet Potatoes. Karl Heider. ["Shot in 1963, this classic ethnographic documentary follows the sophisticated process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Grand Valley Dani, a Papuan culture in the central highlands of Irian Jaya (West New Guinea). 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. At that time the Dani had the simplest of tools - long pointed wooden poles used as digging sticks that are hardened in the fire and soaked in water - and they still used their stone-bladed adzes. (By now, most Dani use steel shovels, axes, and bush knives and make stone adzes only for the tourist trade.) Even though their tools are simple, their field system is intensive and sophisticated, with an intricate system of ditches. Perhaps the ditches were originally necessary to drain swampy land, but they now serves as both drainage and irrigation ditches, depending on whether rainfall is too little or too much. The ditches also hold compost. Weeds and topsoil collect there, later to be smeared back onto the garden beds. Pigs are part of the ecological system, plowing up the soil in search of food and fertilizing it with their droppings. In this film, we see people from a single neighborhood working alone in their own garden plots or, at times joining together in a cooperative work party."]
    DVD 2369. 19 min.
  14. Dead Birds. Robert Gardner. ["A cinematographic interpretation of the life of a group of Grand Valley Dani, who are mountain Papuans in West New Guinea (Irian Barat, Indonesia), studied by the Harvard-Peabody Expedition (1961-1963). This film was made by Gardner in 1961, before the area was pacified by the Dutch government. The film focuses on Weyak, the farmer and warrior, and on Pua, the young swineherd, following them through the events of Dani life: sweet potato horticulture, pig keeping, salt winning, battles, raids, and ceremonies.” — Karl G. Heider].
    DVD 2368. 83 min.
  15. Dreamers of Arnhem Land. [A documentary made for televison featuring Stuart and Valerie Ankin, Aboriginal elders who set out to save their community from cultural extinction by integrating traditional knowledge with contemporary scientific expertise. They invited scientists and marketing experts to help them develop natural resources commercially while ensuring all products were developed sustainably. Shows how they harvested and marketed medicines, plants and seeds fruit juices and other organic products, as well as crocodile eggs and baby turtles, which led to an economic revitalization of the North Coast that encouraged many Aborigines to return to their ancestral lands.]
    DVD 2149. 50 min.
  16. Duka's Dilemma: A visit to Hamar, Southern Ethiopia. A film by Jean Lydall and Kaira Strecker. [See also the Hamar Trilogy, below. "Duka is a married woman and mother of five young children, living in Hamar, Southern Ethiopia. Ever since her husband married a beautiful, young, second wife, Duka has been in a state of emotional turmoil... Personal and intimate, the film follows this family in crisis...."] Clip excerpt (17 min.), full download available online.
    DVD 2134. 87 min.
  17. Family. From the Canadian educational television series: Behold humanity! A sociological perspective. [Examines the concept of family as viewed around the world, currently and through time.]
    DVD 2169. 53 min.
  18. Festival of the Virgen del Carmen in Paucartambo. Lima: Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; Riva-Agüero Institute; The Preservation Project of Traditional Andean Music, c1993.
    SMATHERS, Latin America Ltd. Cir. GT4839 .F48 1993 Video [No run time provided.]
  19. Finzan. [Feature film in the Library of African cinema series, recorded in the Bambara language with English subtitles. Nanyuma, a young widow, refuses her brother-in-law, the village fool, when he asserts his traditional right to "inherit" her. Fili, a young girl sent from the city by her conservative father, is brutally circumcised by the village women who are scandalized that she resists the age-old custom.]
    VIDEO 941. 107 min.
  20. Fire of Creation (From the Sacred Balance televised series featuring David Suzuki.)
    DVD 1520. [2 videodiscs (216 min.). Each disk contains multiple televised episodes and additional features.]
  21. First Contact. [Documentary recounts the discovery of a flourishing native population in the interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930 in what had been thought to be an uninhabited area. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforseen meeting. Includes still photographs taken by a member of the expedition and contemporary footage of the island's terrain. Catalog description available at Filmakers Library (distributor website with Anthropology section).]
    VIDEO 3910. 54 min.
  22. Fishers of Dar. [This documentary film explores traditional fishing practices of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and the hundreds of people who make a living in the process.]
    DVD 1563. 37 min.
  23. Five Centuries Later. [Documentary made for televison by National Film Board of Canada presents native Indians of Latin America, their social and economic struggle for dignity and the right to live better lives. Describes the farming methods, crops, and the recent attempts at acquiring more land.]
    VIDEO 5039. 54 min.
  24. Forest of Bliss (companion book Making Forest of Bliss also available via Library Catalog). Robert Gardner. [Documentary originally released in 1978 on the Holy City of Benares, India, including daily customs and religious rituals. Catalog description available at DER (distributor website).]
    DVD 1781. 90 min.
  25. Grass: A nation's battle for life. [Merian C. Cooper documented the Bakhtiari people of Iran as they make a 48 day trek to find pasture for their herds. Along with the silent 1922 film Nanook of the North, in 1925 Grass helped define generic expectations of ethnographic film.]
    DVD 1771. 71 min.
  26. Guardians of the flutes. [Based on book by the same name by anthropologist Gilbert H. Herdt. In the mountains of New Guinea live the Sambia people, a war-like tribe whose secret rituals of initiation are aimed at making their warriors courageous and bold. This is a society where roles of men and women are sharply delineated. The male children must undergo a severe initiation in order to become men including thrashing, food and sleep deprivation, and sexual rites.]
    VIDEO 3902. 50 min.
  27. The Hamar trilogy. [See also Duka's dilemma, above. From the Under the Sun series on BBC television, this trilogy focuses on the Hamar, an isolated people of southwestern Ethiopia whose traditional lifestyle has been barely touched by the war and the famine in the north. The films concentrate on the powerful and outspoken Hamar women, particularly Duka who in the films matures from a young unmarried girl to a wife and mother with two young children. The twenty-year relationship of the anthropologist Jean Lydall with the Hamar people allowed for a remarkably spontaneous portrayal.] Catalog description available at Filmakers Library (distributor website with Anthropology section).
    VIDEO 3711-3713. 3 VHS casettes, 50 min. each.
  28. Jaguar. [Documentary or ethnographic(?) footage shot by Jean Rouch in the 1950s of three young me who travel from Niger to work in Ghana and return after three months. The three friends and "accomplices" improvise a narrative of their own story.]
    VIDEO 5012. 93 min.
  29. Kabala. [Feature originally released in 2002. Set in Mali, Hamalla is a man from the poor farming village Kabala on the edge of the desert. Unable to marry the woman he loves, he leaves Kabala. After working in the gold mines for several years, Hamalla hears a radio report of an outbreak of cholera in Kabala. The village elders won't allow the sacred well to be touched, no matter how contaminated, and they won't allow drilling for new wells. Hamalla is determined to return home, to find a way to reach the fresh water lying deep beneath the sacred well. It will take strong magic and madness to overcome the people's fears so the village can be saved.]
    VIDEO 5040. 88 min.
  30. Man Without Pigs. [This documentary, originally released in 1990, follows Anthropologist John Waiko as he returns to his native village in Papua New Guinea after receiving a Ph. D. from the Australian National University.] Clip excerpt (12 min.), full download available online.
    DVD 2101. 62 min.
  31. Meeting Ancestors. Video in the villages series. ["Chief Wai-Wai goes a trip to meet the Zo'é, a recently contacted group whom the Waiãpi met through video. Both tribes speak Tupi-Guarani dialects and share many cultural traditions, but the Zo'é are currently experiencing phenomena of contact that the Waiãpi experienced twenty years ago. The Zo'é afford their visitors the chance to re-encounter the way of life and wisdom of their ancestors. The Waiípi, on the other hand, bring the Zo'é information on the dangers of the white world that this isolated group was eager to understand. Conveying the warmth, joy and humor that quickly develops, this movie is an intimate portrait of a friendship between chiefs."]
    DVD 2362. 22 min. Clip excerpt (5 min.), full download available online.
  32. Morning with Asch [A visual interview with educator, anthropologist, Timothy Asch as he battles cancer. Asch was a driving force behind the Visual Anthropology Review and a co-founder of Documentary Educational Resources. This interview was conducted by his friend, Jayasinhji Jhala, and Asch expresses his views about his life and work and his feelings as he confronts death.] Clip excerpt (9 min.), full download available online.
    DVD 1901. 45 min.
  33. N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman. [Originally aired as part of the Odyssey television series in 1980, this is a compilation of footage of the !Kung people of Namibia filmed from 1951 through 1978 with anthropologist Patricia Draper in the field and produced in consultation with Marjorie Shostak and other anthropologists and translators. Focuses on the changes in the life of these people as seen through the reflections of one woman, N!ai.] Clip excerpt (12 min.), full download available online.
    DVD 2104. 60 min.
  34. Nanook of the North. Robert Flaherty. [This first ethnographic film, the first modern documentary many would argue, was originally produced in 1922 on the life of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. This silent film juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the family as they go about their daily affairs. Additional materials are available on this remastered 1998 Criterion collection DVD release.]
    DVD 1506. 79 min.
  35. The Nuer. [Originally produced as a documentary motion picture in 1971. Presents the most important relationships and events in the lives of the Nuer, Nilotic people in Sudan and on the Ethiopian border. Demonstrates the vital significance of cattle and their central importance in all Nuer thought and behavior.] Clip excerpt (15 min.), full download available online.
    DVD 2103. 73 min.
  36. Number Our Days. [Interviews conducted by anthropologist Barbara G. Myerhoff to document the lives of Jewish senior citizens of Israel Levin Senior Adult Center, Venice, California. Originally released in 1977. Myerhoff's 1978 book of the same title is also available.]
    VIDEO 5037. 29 min.
  37. Piemule. Documentary Educational Resources, 1999. ["Scientists from the Ethnographica Folklore of the Czech Academy of Sciences assisted in the making of [this] film." In Ukrainian and Czech, with English subtitles. Videocassette release of a 1992 documentary film. During the early 1980's, Czech filmmaker Jana Ševčíková spent several years documenting the daily lives and customs of an ethnic group of Czechs living near Timisoara, Romania. The social and work customs of these individuals are much like those of their ancestors who settled in the Romanian highlands over 150 years ago. In returning to the village in 1992, the filmmaker found that little had changed despite the fall of communism.]
    VIDEO 3518. 43 min.
  38. The Potato Planters. ["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 the complexity of their beliefs."]
    DVD 2357. 17 min.
  39. The Potters of Buur Heybe, Somalia. [Documents the role of pottery in the economy of Buur Heybe as well as the techniques used to create it. Women mine the clay used to make the pottery while men make the drinking and cooking vessels.]
    DVD 1628. 25 min.
  40. Primates like us: highlights from the 1998 CWU/Universities Udayana Belinese Macaque Project. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Media, 2003. [In the summer of 1998 a group of primarily American undergraduate students from Central Washington University went to Bali as part of the university's first Balinese Macaque Project field school. The goal was to experience Balinese culture and study macaque monkey behavior and document the entire six-week process.]
    DVD 2181. 58 min.
  41. A Question of Race. [Educational film produced for Discovery Channel School and Assignment Discovery television series: "In part 1, become a part of the debate questioning whether race is an accurate biological identification or a subcategory made up by humans to seperate us. In part 2, racial prejudice, or bias, is easily recognized in its extreme forms, but it infilitrates everyday life in subtle ways also. Discover just how common bias is as a hidden camera follows real-life adults as they interact with people of different races."]
    VIDEO 5013 . 2 videocassettes, 51 min. each.
  42. Reassemblage. Trinh, T. Minh-Ha. [A complex, self-reflexive visual study of the women of rural Senegal, questioning its own status as documentary filmmaking and as an ethnographic representation of cultures.]
    DVD 2155. 40 min.
  43. Red Persimmons. [Documentary made for television. Using film footage and composition notes left by the late Ogawa Shinsuke, Chinese director Peng Xiaolian shot additional film and completed the work, which colorfully yet elegantly depicts the manufacturing process of the Kaminoyama red persimmon. The inhabitants of the tiny Japanese village of Kaminoyama explain that it is the perfect combination of earth, wind and rain that makes their village's persimmons superior to those grown anywhere else, including the village just a few miles away. Ogawa's larger subject, however, is to memorialize a very special part of Japanese culture and to share its beauty with us. It is a record of the ineluctable forces of modernization that are slowly bringing to an end Japan's traditional culture, the end of a centuries-old way of life.]
    DVD 2089. 90 min.
  44. Right to be Nuba. [Filmmaker/anthropologist Hugo D'aybaury presents the struggles felt by the Nuba people, caught in the middle of Sudan's civil war between the northern Islamic Khartoum and the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army rebel forces.]
    VIDEO 3706. 45 min.
  45. Rivers of Sand. ["The people portrayed in this film are called Hamar. They dwell in the thorny scrubland of southwestern Ethiopia.... Hamar men are masters and their women are slaves. The film is an attempt to disclose not only the activities of the Hamar, but also the effect on mood and behavior, of a life governed by sexual inequality."]
    DVD 2387. 83 min.
  46. Saints and Spirits. ["Produced by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, from material shot for the Granada Television film 'Some Women of Marrakech'" Explores Muslim religious expression in Morocco through 3 events: pilgrimage to the shrine of Sidi Chamharouch, a celebration of renewal in Marrakech, and the establishment of a new place of pilgrimage in a rural village.]
    VIDEO 5038. 26 min.
  47. Shomõtsi directed and photographed by Valdete Pinhanta Ashenika. New York: Distributed in the U.S. by Latin American Video Archives, c2001. [UNESCO Award, 8th International Ethnographic Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2001. "A report on the day to day life of Shomőtsi, a Ashenika Indian living on the border of Brazil and Peru. Valdete, who is a teacher and one of the village video makers, features his hard-headed and witty uncle."]
    SMATHERS, Latin America Ltd. Cir. F3430.1.A83 S56 2001 VIDEO. 42 min.
  48. Still, The Children Are Here. [Documentary shot over the course of an entire growing cycle, the film provides a portrait of the Garo people of Meghalaya in Northeast India, for whom cultivating rice is a way of life and worship.]
    DVD 2073. 85 min.
  49. Surname Viet, Given Name Nam. [Trinh T. Minh-ha's film looks at the many faces of culture of Vietnamese women as seen in staged interviews, dance footage, and manipulated archival images. Questions the politics of interviewing and the problems of translation in filmmaking.]
    DVD 2182. 108 min.
  50. Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism. [Shows how the Trobriand Islanders have transformed the British game of cricket over the last seventy years into a unique Trobriand sport and a colorful ritual expressing their own cultural values.]
    DVD 2185. 54 min.
  51. Video in the villages. [Founded in 1987, the Video in the Villages project began with the introduction of video in indigenous communities that produced documentaries for their own purposes. In 1995, the opening of a space on educational TV in Cuiabá, led the project to produce the "Indigenous Program," an original experience for the first time on Brazilian television. Since 1997, Video in the Villages has been investing in the formation of the first generation of indigenous documentary filmmakers, through the use of national and regional workshops.]
    Clip excerpt (6 min.), full 32 min. download available online.
  52. Waiting. [Documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada chronicles the remarkable dignity of a people in a truly desperate situation. The people of the town of Alek have run out of food. The grain crop has been consumed, and enemies have stolen their livestock. Desperate, the people appeal for hunger relief. One hundred and forty five tons of grain are air-dropped into Alek, but there is a problem: without enough relief workers to distribute the food properly, there might be a riot. For a week, as the food sits on the ground, everyone, the starving Dinkas, and the well-fed aid workers, waits for relief."]
    VIDEO 4192. 33 min.
  53. We Gather as a Family. Video in the villages series. ["This video documents a cultural exchange between the Parakatêjê (Gavião) of Pará and their "relatives," the Krahô of Tocantins. Kokrenum, the charismatic chief of the Parakatêjê, organizes a visit to the Krahô, who speak the same language and maintain their traditions. The 50 young Parakatêjê he brings along participate in a ceremony consisting of singing, body-painting and preparations for the long, strenuous relay race through the savannah. The following year, the Parakatêjê return the invitation and the Krahô travel to Kokrenum's village. The two chiefs discuss cultural issues and seal a pact of friendship between their groups."]
    DVD 2361. 32 min. Clip excerpt (6 min.), full 32 min. video available online.
  54. Yakoana. Producer & director, Anh D. Crutcher. New York: Parabola Video, 1997. [Participants in the First World Conference of Indigenous Peoples on Territory, Environment and Development discuss their concerns about environment, development and the survival of their cultures in anticipation of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held in Rio de Janeiro.]
    VIDEO 4045. 60 min.
  55. Yanomamo of the Orinoco. Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 1987. [This DVD utilizes film footage from the extensive series that Napoleon Chagnon and Timothy Asch made together. In conjunction with seventh grade geography teachers in Wayland, Massachusetts schools, it presents land use in a South American rain forest and depicts many of the daily activities of the Yanomamo Indians such as slash-and-burn gardening, body decorating, gathering firewood, bathing in the river and preparing for a feast.] Clip excerpt (6 min.), full download available online.
    SMATHERS, Latin America Ltd. Cir. F2520.1.Y3 Y42 2000. 29 min.
  56. Zora Neale Hurston's fieldwork footage. In: More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931. United States: National Film Preservation Foundation: Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, c2004.
    DVD 1658. [Contains about 7 minutes of film that Hurston shot in 1928 and described in the accompanying resource guide book.]

Documentary Educational Resources (DER) distributes the ethnographic work of many well-known filmmakers, including Timothy Asch, Robert Gardner, John Marshall and Jean Rouch. Study guides and other documentary resources are available.

Ethnography and Film: A Selected Bibliography for Anthropology. Prepared and revised by Dr. Simon Charsley (Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Applied Social Sciences, University of Glasgow.) September 2003. Provides many suggested readings relating to the films listed above.

Filmakers Library is a distributor for video with a substantial anthropology section in their catalog.

First Run/Icarus Films has a large video catalog available online, with a useful section for cultural anthropology resources.

The Human Studies Film Archives and National Anthropological Archives at the National Museum of Natural History are important sources for primary materials and supporting documentation such as the guides to the film archives. An Adobe Acrobat format (.pdf) Finding Aid to the Papers of Timothy Asch is available there.

The Royal Anthropological Institute has a number of resources dedicated to ethnographic film. The electronic catalog provides excellent blurbs and includes sometimes very extensive scholarly reference lists, including reviews.

Pennsylvania State University rents films and videos via the Media Tech catalog online, which contains more than 23,000 films, videos, and DVDs.

Visual Anthropology Review is available through AnthroSource by institutional or individual subscription.

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