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- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Academic Video Online delivers more than 67,000 titles spanning a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. It includes documentaries, films, demonstrations, and other content types.
- Ethnographic Video Online, Volume I-II: Foundational Films This link opens in a new window Contains classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries and shorts from every continent, providing teachers visual support to introduce and contextualize hundreds of cultural groups and practices around the world.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new window Kanopy is a provider of documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases available as streaming video. Clips from the videos can be embedded in presentations or shown in class. Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
- Penn Museum Anthropological and Archaeological Films (University of Pennsylvania) In its 120-year history, the University of Pennsylvania Museum has collected nearly one million objects, many obtained directly through its own field excavations or anthropological research. This collection on the Internet Archive represents a portion of the motion picture film collection housed at the Museum.
Selected Films
- A Taste of Turkey (streaming, Academic Video Online) The Land of Sultans and the Empire of Taste Turkey is home to two of the world's favorite foods, yogurt and kebab. Turkey's culture has a long and diverse history dating back to the Ottoman Empire and has been enhanced by the foods of different people and regions
- Feast on Dubai (streaming, Academic Video Online) The culinary landscape of Dubai is one where cultures and cuisines from all corners of the globe have converged for decades, creating a food scene as diverse as the city itself.
- The Fish Fall in Love (dvd) Writer/director Ali Raffi's colorful Iranian romance of food and friendship centers on Atieh's efforts to maintain her restaurant on the Caspian coast after her fiance makes gestures hinting he might close it down. Teaming up with helpful friends, Atieh concocts an unprecedented feast to prove her culinary expertise. Based on a folk tale from the classic "One Thousand and One Nights"; Golshifteh Farahani, Reza Kianian star. Soundtrack: Persian; Subtitles: English.
- Pickles, Inc.: Arab-Israeli Women Launch a Business (dvd) While many Arab widows lead a cloistered and restricted life, often living below the poverty line, in 2003, eight widows in the Galilean village of Tamra started a daring business venture - the Azka Pickle Cooperative - seeking financial independence for themselves and their children. This PBS Wide Angle report follows the women as they establish a tiny pickle factory and market their product to local stores
Library of Congress Webcasts
- Cuisine and Culture in the Arab World Author Amy Riolo discusses cuisine and culture in the Arab world. Speaker Biography: Amy Riolo is a cookbook author, food historian, culinary expert, lecturer, team building facilitator specializing in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine.
- Understanding Egyptian Cuisine & Culture In this lecture, Amy Riolo defines Egyptian cuisine, explains how the food is central to Egyptian culture, and talks about food throughout Egyptian history. Speaker Biography: Amy Riolo is an internationally recognized expert known for fusing the worlds of cuisine, culture and history in her work. An award-winning author, popular lecturer, food historian, food writer, culinary consultant and cooking instructor, she was dubbed the "Cook to the Kings" by a Cairo newspaper in 2008.
- The Sultan's Kitchen: A History of Turkish Cuisine Sheilah Kaufman shares her great passion for richly flavored, no-fuss food in this presentation on the history of Turkish cooking. Speaker Biography: Sheilah Kaufman is a traveling cooking instructor, food writer and author of 26 cookbooks, including "A Taste of Turkish Cuisine" and "The Turkish Cookbook. "
- The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt discusses their book "The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey."
- Cultural & Historical Perspectives on Iraqi Cuisine Two award-winning authors -- Annia Ciezadlo and Nawal Nasrallah -- discuss their work and Iraqi cuisine.
- Najmieh Batmanglij: 2015 National Book Festival Najmieh Batmanglij discusses "Food of Life: Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
