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Introduction: Aboriginal ceremonies in Central Australia

The Origins of Theatre: Victor Turner, Durkheim, Van Gennep

Film Reviews from The American Anthropologist

 

Films

Coniston Muster

Scenes of the annual roundup on a cattle ranch in Central Australia from a time when most of the stockmen were Indigenes. (1970)

Nomads

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Roger Sandall’s Films and Contemporary Anthropology by Lorraine Mortimer, Indiana University Press, 2019. Available from bookstores and online.

FILMS

AUSTRALIA

Coniston Muster
Making a Bark Canoe
Camels and the Pitjantjara
Walbiri fire Ceremony

DVDs or Vimeo on Demand from Ronin Films

https://www.roninfilms.com.au/person/9705/roger-sandall.html

INDIA

Various licence options to purchase DVDs include institutional, home use, school and library

A Zenana

https://store.der.org/a-zenana-p230.aspx

Tragada Bhavai: A rural theater troupe of Gujarat

https://store.der.org/tragada-bhavai-p344.aspx

Bharvad Predicament

https://store.der.org/the-bharvad-predicament-p223.aspx

Close Encounters of No Kind

https://store.der.org/close-encounters-of-no-kind-p920.aspx

Nomads

Nomads

MEXICO

Maiz

Maiz