Lina Fruzzetti
Lina Fruzzetti is an American cultural anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. Since 1975, she has been a professor of anthropology at Brown University in the United States.[1] Apart from having published ethnographic studies about rural communities and gender relations in East Africa, India and Tanzania, she is the author of several ethnographic films.[2] These films were written and co-directed with her husband, Ákos Östör, cultural anthropologist and professor emeritus of anthropology at Wesleyan University.[3] Since 2016 Fruzzetti is also a Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru University Institute for Advanced Studies (JNIAS) in New Delhi, India.
Ethnographic films[edit]
Fruzzetti's ethnographic films include Seed and Earth (1994), Fishers of Dar (2002), Singing Pictures (2005), Songs of a Sorrowful Man (2009) and In My Mother's House (2016).[4] Singing Pictures, distributed by Documentary Educational Resources, won an award at the XV International Festival of Ethnological Film (Belgrade November 1–5, 2006).[5]
Academic publications[edit]
- Culture and change along the Blue Nile : courts, markets, and strategies for development Boulder : Westview Press, 1990. xxi, 230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. ISBN 0-8133-7788-9
- The gift of a virgin : women, marriage, and ritual in a Bengali society New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1982. xi, 178 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0-8135-0939-4
- Kinship and ritual in Bengal : anthropological essays / Lina Fruzzetti, Akos Ostor. New Delhi : South Asian Publishers, c1984. x, 244 p. ; 23 cm.
Related filmmakers[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Lina Fruzzetti | Center for Contemporary South Asia". watson.brown.edu. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- ^ "Anthropologist Lina Fruzzetti and Tanzania". 1997-06-06. Archived from the original on 1997-06-06. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- ^ "Lina Fruzzetti | DER Filmmaker Bio". www.der.org. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- ^ "In My Mother's House". Documentary Educational Resources Online Store. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
- ^ "Awards". XV International Festival of Ethnological Film. Ethnographic Museum (Belgrade). November 2006. Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2010-10-19.
