LibGuides: Ethnography: Finding media

Video

We have access to well over 12,000 videos and DVDs in physical copy-- browse or search through our film and video holdings. Please note that videos are housed in various library locations, and circulation policies vary per title.

We also have thousands of streaming film and video titles as well! Find them below.

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
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A video streaming service providing access to independent and documentary films, current.
Current; Kanopy is a video streaming collection of films from a large group of film producers including the Criterion Collection, PBS, Kino Lorber Edu, Documentary Educational Resources Collection, BBC Active Collection, and many others.
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive resource for visual anthropology, provides access to more than 2,000 hours of film, including raw field footage, crafted ethnographies, and documentaries.
Intended to be a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. Contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. International in scope and thematic areas include: language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, and sex, gender, and family roles.

Images

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to 2.5 million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, social sciences, and history of science
ARTstor is a digital library of close to two million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, social sciences, and history of science with a set of tools to view,-present, and manage images.
Luna Insight This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to the Brown University Instructional Image Collection and Luna Commons
Web browser LUNA allows viewing and exporting of images, including the contents of the Brown University Instructional Image Collection. LUNA also provides free access to the Luna Commons, image resources contributed by other institutional users of this software.

For more information about finding and using images, please see the guide for Finding and Using Images.