John Bishop and Naomi Bishop present a portrait a peculiar life style of the Himalayan indigenous Sherpa people in their documentary , the Himalayan Herders. The 76 minutes long film is about the diverse culture and life style of herders community near Mt. Everest region of Nepal.The film was made in 1997 as a part of Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology Series.
Children and teenagers throw sticks, berries, and leaves at each other from perches in a large baoba...
Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtoon tribal group in northeastern Afghan...
Inspired by Steven Blush's book "American Hardcore: A tribal history" Paul Rachman's feature documen...
In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most malign...
Five stories about dignity in the capital of Peru. A local leader looking for someone to leave the p...
The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New W...
Ju/'hoan women often share an intimate sociability and spend many hours together discussing their li...
This film depicts a moment of flirtation between N!ai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great-uncle...
Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be tra...
Women from three separate Ju/'hoan bands have gathered at a mangetti grove at !O to play an intense ...
An unprejudiced portrait of Spanish folklore and a crude analysis in black and white of its intimate...
A documentary about the histoy and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric, and Samoyedic peoples. Speak...
Sequel to the "The Waterfowl People". The author interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural re...
A three-act film-essay about memory and the historical-cultural ties of the Finno- Ugric peoples. T...
In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to ...
"Shaman" was filmed on July the 16th, 1977 in the northernmost corner of Eurasia, on the Taymyr Pen...
From time immemorial, the people of the island used to leave the clothes of their dead to the sea, s...
A century ago the Torres Strait Island were the subjects of the famous Cambridge Anthropological Exp...
Film about the singing and dancing culture of the Ingush people