WGF - Support for Film and Media Projects
Part of: Wenner-Gren Foundation
Other Keywords
Socio-Cultural •
Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship •
Wealth •
Gender •
Gypsies •
arranged marriages
Investigation Types
Ethnographic Research
Geographic Keywords
Europe •
Romania •
Transylvania •
Europe (Continent) •
Africa (Continent) •
Romania (Country) •
Republic of Moldova (Country) •
Arad (State / Territory) •
Hajdu-Bihar (State / Territory) •
Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg (State / Territory)
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Taxtaja thaj Tokmeala: Invisible Chalices and Conspicuous Marriages (WGF - Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2017)
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This resource is an application for the Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The Romanian Gypsy population of Cortorari keep to conspicuously arranging their children's marriages despite repeated attempts at national and European level to eradicate the practice. Contrary to folk and policy-makers' representations of Roma marriages as cursory alliances enforced by adults on pubescent children ensuing in premature sexual intercourse, Cortorari experience their...
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Walpole Street (WGF - Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2019)
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This resource is an application for the Fejos Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This is a collective film project based on my field-work in Sierra Leone, amongst polio-disabled people living in self-sustaining communities. Through the story of a young disabled boy, Manish, the film captures how historical time and its macro-political work (war and peacebuilding) shape the micro-realities of individual lives. Manish is a war-survivor and he squats with many of his...