Articles about the films
Introduction: Aboriginal ceremonies in Central Australia
The Origins of Theatre: Victor Turner, Durkheim, Van Gennep
Film Reviews from The American Anthropologist
Films
Coniston Muster
Scenes of the annual roundup on a cattle ranch in Central Australia from a time when most of the stockmen were Indigenes. (1970)
Nomads
Maiz
Roger Sandall’s Films and Contemporary Anthropology by Lorraine Mortimer, Indiana University Press, 2019. Available from bookstores and online.
FILMS
AUSTRALIA
Coniston Muster
Making a Bark Canoe
Camels and the Pitjantjara
Walbiri fire Ceremony
DVDs or Vimeo on Demand from Ronin Films
https://www.roninfilms.com.au/person/9705/roger-sandall.html
INDIA
Various licence options to purchase DVDs include institutional, home use, school and library
A Zenana
https://store.der.org/a-zenana-p230.aspx
Tragada Bhavai: A rural theater troupe of Gujarat
https://store.der.org/tragada-bhavai-p344.aspx
Bharvad Predicament
https://store.der.org/the-bharvad-predicament-p223.aspx
Close Encounters of No Kind
https://store.der.org/close-encounters-of-no-kind-p920.aspx
Nomads
MEXICO
Maiz
An Australian writer living in Sydney, Roger Sandall is the author of The Culture Cult (2001), a study of romantic primitivism and its effects. His work has appeared in a number of places including Commentary, The American Interest, Encounter, The New Criterion, The American, Sight and Sound, Quadrant, Art International, The New Lugano Review, The Salisbury Review, Merkur, Mankind, Visual Anthropology, and Social Science and Modern Society.