ANTH 1200 - NWC INTRO TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY - SMITH, GREG - NWC RESERVES

In 1961, Robert Gardner organized an expedition to the Highlands of New Guinea to film the Dani people. He stayed for six months to create an essay on the themes of violence and death most dramatically witnessed within the intense ritual warfare between rival Dani villages, and ultimately on the role of violence in human life and culture. The end result was his seminal film, Dead birds. Twenty-eight years later, Gardner returned to the Dani villages...

"Dani sweet potatoes" was shot in 1963 by Karl G. Heider, a member of the Harvard Peabody Expedition as part of an ethnographic study of the Grand Valley Dani. The film follows the highly sophisticated process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Grand Valley Dani in West New Guinea. "Dani houses" was filmed in 1963 by Karl Heider, a member of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition, this documentary film observes both round and square house construction...