Need help finding ethnographic films online? Check out the online database Ethnographic Video Online available to all IU Bloomington users (on or off campus).
Ethnographic Video Online is a comprehensive online resource containing over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork. It’s also a resource for a study of the discipline itself: By placing examples of traditional ethnographic methodologies alongside indigenous-made films representing previously overlooked perspectives, scholars, teachers and students of anthropology can gain a sense of the discipline’s history and of its future direction. Ethnographic Video Online includes:
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Classic ethnographic films central to the history of the discipline;
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Contemporary counterpoints and follow-up studies;
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Films made by and for indigenous communities; and
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Archives of work from major visual anthropology programs.