Episode Synopsis "Alan Macfarlane dancing in a Gurung village "

Filmed by Sarah Harrison in the village of Thak

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• A feast in a Gurung village in 1994
• AA10: Fieldwork - Questions from students and answers
• AA1: Fieldwork - Arriving in the Field
• AA2: Fieldwork - Living and communicating
• AA3: Fieldwork - Participation
• AA4: Fieldwork - Participation
• AA5: Fieldwork - Ethics
• AA6: Fieldwork - Recording information
• AA7: Fieldwork - Interviewing and oral history
• AA8: Fieldwork - Film recording - part 1
• AA9: Fieldwork - Film and sound recording - part 2
• Administering medicine in a Himalayan community
• Advice on fieldwork filming in the Himalayas - Alan Macfarlane
• Alan Macfarlane dancing in a Gurung village
• Alan Macfarlane in conversation with a local shaman (jhankri) in a Himalayan community
• Alan Macfarlane in Gurung costume in Pokhara in 1999
• Alan Macfarlane on his supervisor Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf's work and influence
• Alan Macfarlane talking to Dilmaya Gurung in a Himalayan village
• Alan Macfarlane working on anthropological notes in Himalayan village in 1999
• An evening with a Gurung family in 1992
• Arranging for a bank account for a village family - 1992
• Arriving in Thak, a Gurung village, in 1993
• Balloon football and a picnic in Pokhara in 1992
• Beating and winnowing rice - learning how to do
• Brother-sister blessings at the festival of Dashain in 1994 in Nepal
• Buddhist ritual - participating in the ritual in the Himalayas
• Bundling wood in a Gurung village in 1992
• Buying gold for younger female relatives in Pokhara
• Census taking in a Himalayan village
• Changes in film technologies and their effects on anthropological filming - Alan Macfarlane
• Checking the census in a Himalayan village
• Clearing fields and hoeing in a Himalayan village - learning how to do
• Clothing - adapting to wearing local clothes in the Himalayas
• Daughter visits a Himalayan village in 1994
• Dilmaya's memorial ritual in 1995 - participating in
• Driving to the Manaslu hotel in Kathmandu in 1993
• Early cameras and filming in Nepal - Alan Macfarlane
• Eating local food in the Himalayas
• Family picnic in Pokhara in 2000
• Fieldwork 1: Arriving
• Fieldwork diary - how it was kept in a Himalayan village
• Fieldwork in the Himalayas
• Film and fieldwork in the Himalayas - 1993
• Film-making among the Gurungs of central Nepal - Alan Macfarlane
• Flying from England and landing in Kathmandu in 1993
• Flying from Kathmandu to Pokhara in 1993
• Grinding in a quern in a Himalayan village - participating
• Gurung cultural centre - participating in its development in Pokhara
• Harvesting in a Himalayan village - participating
• Health and illness in a Himalayan village - reciprocating
• Hindu ritual - participating in one in a Himalayan community
• House and privacy - where one lives in a Himalayan community
• Housework in a Himalayan community - participating
• Interview of Bhuwansing Gurung - 1991
• Interview of Manu Gurung
• Leaving Pokhara - saying good-bye to family
• Looking at photos - sharing them in a Himalayan community
• Meeting up with family - Gurung family in Pokhara in the 1990's
• Multimedia book - the new potentials for combining film and text
• Mutual grooming in a Himalayan village - Gurungs and anthropologists
• Observing rituals in a Himalayan community
• Observing work in a Himalayan community
• Packing and going to Gatwick airport
• Packing and leaving a Himalayan community 1992-3
• Photographing in a Himalayan community
• Planting and ploughing - participation
• Playing with children in a Himalayan village
• Pokhara in 1993 and preparing for the fieldwork
• Premkumari and Sarah learning Gurung language
• Reflections on fieldwork among the Gurungs in 2014
• Reflections on fieldwork with the Gurungs in 2000 - Alan Macfarlane
• Reflections on forty years of fieldwork in a Himalayan community - Alan Macfarlane
• Reflections on using film in fieldwork - 2000
• Ritual dance - participation
• Sarah and the Thak database for film-making
• Sarah in conversation with Gurungs
• Sarah learning to weave in a Himalayan community
• Schools - teaching in a Himalayan community
• Shaman healing ritual for Alan Macfarlane
• Sweets and small gifts in a Himalayan community
• Taking fieldwork notes in a Himalayan community
• Thak time machine - working in a Himalayan community
• Thak tour - a tour of a Himalayan community
• The film interview project
• Two shamanic rituals in the Himalayas - observation
• Vajra bookshop talk in 2010 - 40 years in a mountain village
• Video filming in Nepal
• Village co-operative store in a Himalayan community
• Walking from Pokhara to Thak in 1993
• Watching sports and television in a Himalayan community
• What I have learnt from repeated visits to the Gurungs - 1999
• What I have learnt from the Gurungs - Alan Macfarlane
• Working with Badrasing Gurung
• Yarjung outlines a ritual - working with a shamanic expert