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12 Can we control the spiritual world?
An analysis of the functions and nature of rituals, symbols, taboos and other constraints on human beings, from an anthropological and historical viewpoint.
Collection: How the World Works: Letters to Lily
Institution: King's College
Created: Wed 2 Jan 2013
14. Evolving Images: Race and Popular Darwinism in Nineteenth-Century Photography
Professor Elizabeth Edwards explores how the emerging mass medium of photography engaged with popular Darwinian ideas in the nineteenth century, and how notions of race, 'type'...
Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum Podcasts
Institution: Fitzwilliam Museum
Created: Mon 3 Aug 2009
2007, An oral history of gendered analyses in archaeology.
Four of most eminent scholars in archaeology, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, Henrietta Moore, Professor Meg Conkey from University...
Collection: Personal-Histories Project
Institution: Department of Archaeology
Created: Mon 15 Nov 2010
Adrian Mayer
An interview with Adrian Mayer where he talks about his background and his work in central India and Fiji, and his relations with certain anthropologists. Interview of Adrian...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Fri 8 Apr 2011
Affordable and Expedient: Platforms and Technologies for the Capture and Cartographic Presentation of Linguistic and...
An English language (as opposed to technical and incomprehensible) overview of current technologies and platforms for mapping, from fieldwork to presentation. Emphasis will be...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Workshop 2012
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 28 Aug 2012
After the volcano: the language of custom and conflict in East New Britain
Senior Research Seminar given by Keir Martin (University of Manchester), Friday 26 November 2010, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge.
Collection: Department of Social Anthropology
Institution: Department of Social Anthropology
Created: Wed 1 Dec 2010
Aidan Southall
Interview of Aidan Southall, in which he describes his life, work in Africa and America, and the influences upon him. Interview on 7th July 2005, lasting about one hour,...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 13 Apr 2011
Akbar Ahmed
Akbar Ahmed describes his family background, life as an administrative officer in Pakistan, and role as an analyst and spokesman for Islamic civilization. Akbar Ahmed was...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Mon 7 Mar 2011
Alama Ritual
Alama is an annual ritual observed on the fourteenth day of the eleventh lunar month of the Tibetan Calendar by children and youths to expel illness and other evil at the end of...
Collection: Digital Himalaya Films & Video
Institution: Department of Social Anthropology
Created: Wed 13 Jan 2016
Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin discuss changing film technologies
Filmed in Cambridge in 2010 by Xu Bei, Alan Macfarlane and Mark Turin discuss the changing film technologies they have used in their projects.
Collection: Reflections on Cambridge
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 21 Aug 2012
Alison Richard
Interview of Alison Richard, Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, on her life and work both in administration and as a biological anthropologist. Interview of Alison...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 12 Apr 2011
Among the Sherpas of Nepal
An excerpt from "Among the Sherpas", filmed in Nepal by Fürer-Haimendorf in 1971.
Collection: Fürer-Haimendorf Collection
Institution: Faculty of Human, Social and Political Science
Created: Sun 14 Aug 2016
Ancestor Halls of Cambridge
A film made in summer 2010 of Alan Macfarlane, filmed by Xu Bei, talking about well-known figures in Cambridge.
Collection: Reflections on Cambridge
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 27 Mar 2018
Ancestor Objects
Alan Macfarlane describes some of the objects which he donated to the Department of Social Anthropology in 2010, including objects belonging to Edmund Leach, Meyer Fortes, Marilyn...
Collection: Reflections on Cambridge
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 7 Aug 2012
André Singer
Interview of the anthropologist and film maker André Singer on 22 April 2015, interviewed by Alan Macfarlane and edited by Sarah Harrison
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Sat 11 Jul 2015
Andrew Vayda
An interview of Andrew Vayda by Dr Patricia Kelly Spurles on 5th April 2008 and transcribed by Ian Luddington (both of Mount Allison University). Generously supported by the...
Collection: Film Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Tue 19 Jul 2011
Angel of the Aboriginals
Angel of the Aboriginals is a documentary film about the life of anthropologist and tribal activist Dr Verrier Elwin.
Collection: Digital Himalaya Films & Video
Institution: Department of Social Anthropology
Created: Wed 13 Jan 2016
Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC: Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo: City Wide Adhan as heard from Al-Azhar Park...
Five times a day in the 83 square mile city of Cairo, over 30,000 muezzins call out the adhan, or call to prayer, calling believers to come and to pray. This Dhurh (mid-day) adhan...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 25 May 2011
Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC: Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo: City Wide Adhan as heard from between Masgid...
Five times a day in the 83 square mile city of Cairo, over 30,000 muezzins call out the adhan, or call to prayer, calling believers to come and to pray. This Dhurh (mid-day) adhan...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 25 May 2011
Anna Kipervaser, On Look Films, LLC: Voices and Faces of the Adhan: Cairo: City Wide Adhan as heard from near Masgid...
Five times a day in the 83 square mile city of Cairo, over 30,000 muezzins call out the adhan, or call to prayer, calling believers to come and to pray. This ‘Asr (afternoon)...
Collection: World Oral Literature Project Collections
Institution: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Created: Wed 25 May 2011