This is a chronologic list of representative anthropologically-minded films and filmmakers:

Alfred C. Haddon – UK Torres Strait Expedition, 1898 Edward S. Curtis – US In the Land of the Head Hunters, 1916 Zora Neale Hurston - US Fieldwork Footage, 1928 Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 Percy Powell-Cotton - UK Crafts in the Cameroons, 1931 Gorilla Drive, Cameroons, 1931 Osonigbe Juju House and Benin Brass Cutting, 1931 Robert J. Flaherty – US Nanook of the North, 1922 Moana, 1926 Tabu, 1931 Man of Aran, 1934 Louisiana Story, 1948 José Leitão de Barros – Portugal Maria do Mar, 1930 Ala-Arriba!, 1942 Jean Epstein – Poland L'or des mers (The ocean's gold), 1932 Diana and Antoinette Powell-Cotton - UK Angola: Dombondola Potter, 1936 Angola: Scenes from a household (Dombondola), 1936 Margaret Mead - US Trance and Dance in Bali (Trance and Dance in Bali), 1937 Jean Rouch – France Les Maîtres Fous (The Mad Masters), 1954 Moi, un noir, 1958 Chronique d’un été (Chronicle of a Summer), 1961 Jaguar, 1954–1967 Petit à petit, 1972 Lionel Rogosin – US On the Bowery, 1957 Come Back, Africa, 1957 John Marshall – US The Hunters, 1957 N!ai: The Story of a !Kung Woman, 1980 A Kalahari Family, 1951–2000 António Campos – Portugal A Almadraba atuneira (Tuna net), 1961 Vilarinho das Furnas, 1971 Histórias selvagens (Savage stories), 1978 Falamos de Rio de Onor (Let’s talk about Rio de Onor) Gente da Praia da Vieira (The people of Praia da Vieira), 1976 Terra fria (Cold land), 1992 Manoel de Oliveira – Portugal Acto da Primavera (Act of Spring), 1963 Michel Brault – Canada Pour la suite du monde, 1963 Orders (Les Ordres) 1975 The Paper Wedding (Les Noces de papier), 1990 Pierre Perrault – Canada Pour la suite du monde, 1963 Robert Gardner – US Dead Birds, 1964 The Nuer, 1970 Rivers of Sand, 1975 Sons of Shiva, 1985 Forest of Bliss, 1986 David MacDougall and Judith MacDougall – Australia To Live with Herds, 1968/1972 Nawi, 1968/1970 The Wedding Camels, 1974/1977 Lorang's Way, 1974/1979 A Wife Among Wives, 1974/1981 Three Horsemen, 1978/1982 Stockman's Strategy, 1982/1984 Collum Calling Canberra, 1982/1984 Doon School Chronicles, 1997-1998/2000 Diyas, 1997/2000 Tim Asch – US The Feast, 1969 Yanomamo: A Multidisciplinary Study, 1971 Magical Death, 1974 The Ax Fight, 1975 A Man Called "Bee": Studying the Yanomamo, 1975 A Balinese Trance Seance, 1979 Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Seance Observed, 1980 Jero Tapakan: Stories From the Life of a Balinese Healer, 1983 The Medium is the Masseuse: A Balinese Massage, 1983 The Water of Words: A Cultural Ecology of an Eastern Indonesian Island, 1983 Spear and Sword: a Ceremonial Payment of Bridewealth, 1989 Releasing the Spirits, 1990 A Celebration of Origins, 1992 António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro – Portugal Trás-os-Montes, 1976 Ana, 1984 Noémia Delgado – Portugal Máscaras (Masks), 1976 Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson First Contact, 1983 Joe Leahy’s Neighbors, 1988 Black Harvest, 1991 Dennis O'Rourke – Australia Yumi Yet – Independence for Papua New Guinea, 1976 Ileksen – Politics in Papua New Guinea, 1978 Yap ... How Did you Know We’d Like TV, 1980 The Shark Callers of Kontu, 1982 Couldn't Be Fairer, 1984 Half Life: A Parable for the Nuclear Age, 1985 Cannibal Tours, 1988 The Good Woman of Bangkok, 1991 Cunnamulla, 2000 Land Mines -- A Love Story, 2004 John Melville Bishop - US Rhesus Play, 1977 YoYo Man, 1978 The Land Where The Blues Began, 1979 New England Fiddles & New England Dances, 1983 The Last Window, 1987 Himalayan Herders, 1997 Hosay Trinidad (1999) Oh What A Blow That Phantom Gave Me, 2003, (with Harald Prins) Oss Tales, 2007 John Bishop Short Films, (14 films 1975-2007) Pedro Costa – Portugal Casa de Lava (Down to Earth), 1994 Ossos (Bones), 1997 No Quarto da Vanda (In Vanda’s room), 2000 Juventude em Marcha (Colossal youth), 2006 Flora Gomes – Guiné-Bissau Po di Sangui, 1996 Nha Fala, 2002 Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Kim Longinotto - Iran/UK Divorce Iranian Style, 1998 Runaway, 2001 Ruth Behar - Cuba/US Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love) 2002 Randy Olson Flock of Dodos, 2006 Harjant Gill - US / India Milind Soman Made Me Gay, 2007 Roots of Love, 2011 Mardistan/Macholand, 2014 Sent Away Boys, 2016 Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor- France/UK Leviathan, 2012 somniloquies, 2017 Caniba, 2017 Maria Giménez Cavallo - USA / Italy Anime galleggianti, 2024 Robert Lemelson – US 40 Years of Silence: An Indonesian Tragedy, 2009 Afflictions: Culture and Mental Health in Indonesia Film Series, 2010 / 2011 Shadows and Illuminations, 2010 Family Victim, 2010 The Bird Dancer, 2010 Kites and Monsters, 2011 Memory of My Face, 2011 Ritual Burdens, 2011 Jathilan: Trance and Possession in Java, 2011 Ngaben: Emotion and Restraint in a Balinese Heart, 2012 Standing on the Edge of a Thorn, 2012

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