In February 1974, Pam Sambo Zima, the oldest of the priests of possession in Niamey, Niger, died at the age of seventy-plus years. In his backyard, the followers from the possession cult symbolically break the dead priest's ritual vases and cry for the deceased while dividing up the clothes of the divinities.

AMIN portrays Qashqai musician Amin Aghaie, a young modern nomad and his family who despite facing s...
Rites and operation of the circumcision of thirty Songhai children on the Niger. Material of this fi...

In the Darhat valley in northern Mongolia, the horses of nomadic tribes are stolen by bandits who th...
While no wrestling is actually depicted, Atilogivu: The Story of a Wrestling Match documents gymnast...

The people of Unamenshipu (La Romaine), an Innu community in the Côte-Nord region of Quebec, are see...

"Tourou et Bitti", an eight minute documentary concerning a ritual in Niger, is yet another example ...

Founding father of Anthropology, Bronislaw Malinowski's work raises powerful and disturbing question...

How’s the Big Everything? Garba asks Nicole. For them, the “Big Everything” encompasses family, poli...

This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her yea...

Commemorative celebrations of the independence of the Republic of Niger filmed in December 1961 and ...

Lightning struck the hut of a Fulani shepherd near a village of settled fishermen, Ganghel, in Niger...

Shigeki, one of the Ainu people of northern Japan, follows the traditions of his ancestors and teach...

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, port...

Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin. Shows how their daily lives revolve about the...

On the night of 3 August 1996 a school of striped dolphins ran ashore near the village of Tuo on Nga...

Forest of Bliss is an unsparing yet redemptive account of the inevitable griefs, religious passions ...

Remember the culture clash in THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY? This time it's real. One of the most ancient c...

The story of a poor girl who leaves her starving family and sheep for a more prosperous village. Her...