Links for Film Selections from Seeing Anthropology 1st Ed.

A Man Called Bee
See the film study guide. Substantive reviews of this 1974 video on a Yanomami are also available online.

The Feast
See the film study guide with map, photos, and critical thinking questions about Yanomamo culture.

Keepers of the Flame
Read this comprehensive review of Napoleon Chagnon's ethnographic filmmaking and ethnographic films in general. See also a biographical perspective on ethnographic filmmaker Timothy Asch.

The Ax Fight
An interesting photo essay on life in a Yanomamo village uses stills to complement the video. See also a review perspective and Bill Nichols' 1996 critical essay on "The Ax Fight: What Really Happened?"

Releasing the Spirits
See the film study guide on Balinese funerary practices. For related, carefully annotated films on Asian Religions, visit the Wong Audiovisual Center Mediagraphy.

Neighborhood Tokyo
See reviews of Theodore Bestor's 1989 book on the development of Japan's national culture which this video is based. For related well-documented films on urban life see "Film and Video: A Collection of Reviews for the Teaching of Urban Anthropology."