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Cultures through Film: Film List

Please give me your opinion on whether or not you’d recommend that I use the following films again. You can factor in your enjoyment of a film, but please focus on each film’s effectiveness in communicating information and adding to your understanding of another culture, a social issue or process, and/or film.

Nanook of the North (Canada Arctic, traditional Inuit life, first “documentary” by Robert

The Happy People  (Siberian hunters and fur trappers by Werner Herzog)

Rabbit Proof Fence (Australian aboriginals: the stolen generation)

The Kalahari Family (Bushmen of the Kalahari desert)

Black Harvest (Papua New Guinea, Joe Leahy struggles with the Ganiga tribe to raise coffee/deals with warfare)

Unsettled: From Tinker to Traveller (Ireland, two anthropologists return to discover changes among Irish Travelling People after 40 years)

Smoke Signals (Coeur D’Alene Indians, reservation life/family relationships/identity, first commercial film made by Native Americans)

My Ancestors Were Rogues and Murderers, (Newfoundland outports, culture, fish and adaptation to environment) guest speaker Diane Royal 

New Muslim Cool  (Islam and hip hop in American urban life/globalization/identity) guest speaker anthropologist Rabia Kamal  

Mardi Gras: Made in China (China and US, factory work/globalization/ gender and inequality issues/commodity chains)

Steam of Life (Finnish saunas, a cultural institution, men in intimacy) _

 Ballplayer: Peletero (Dominican baseball players and international sports migration) _

Lost Boys of Sudan (Sudan and US, Dinka refugees adapt to American life/culture clash)_

Virunga (Civil War and the struggle for the Congo’s natural resources)         

Life in a Day (what it was like to be alive for people around the world on 24 July, 2010)