Curt Nimuendajú’s Photographic Legacy of the Indians of the Rio Negro in 1927 Renato Athias, curator, 2013 This set of 17 images from Nimuendajú’s Photographic Legacy is part of a larger collection which is held in the Ethnographic Collection Carlos Estevão de Oliveira of the State Museum of Pernambuco. This...
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A Question of Perspective Josefine Borrmann, Julia Luhnau, 2013 A Question of Perspective is a documentary investigating the history and current effect of organized crime in Rio de Janeiro on the lives of contemporary families. How do the preparations for the Olympics in Rio change the lives of...
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500 Anos: A Outra História Renato Athias, 2012. 500 Anos – A Outra História presents the national meeting of the Indigenous people in Brazil during the celebration of the five hundred years of the European invasion. Director/Author: Renato Athias Producer: e Laboratory of Visual Anthropology (LAV) of Federal University...
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Menino no rancho: Festa, cura e iniciação entre os Pankararu Renato Athias, 2012 This video presents a ritual among the Pankararu Indians of Pernambuco Brazil. Length: 00:22:00. About the author Renato Athias is a Doctor in ethnology (1995) from the University of Paris 10, is the Coordinator of the Centre for Studies and...
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Claude Lévi-Strauss: Return to the Amazon Claude Lévi-Strauss: Auprès de l'Amazonie Marcelo Fortaleza Flores (Marcelo Fiorini). In French (2009).In English (2011, with subtitles in French) Return to the Amazon in the footsteps of Claude Lévi-Strauss. Sixty years after the renowned French anthropologist conducted his famous fieldwork among the Nambikwara, we...
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Owners of the Water: Conflict and Collaboration Over Rivers Laura R. Graham, David Hernandez Palmer, and Caimi Waiásse, 2009 A unique collaboration between two indigenous filmmakers and an anthropologist, Owners of the Water is a compelling documentary with groundbreaking ethnographic imagery. A central Brazilian Xavante, a Wayuu...
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