Marmaris Kultur

Based on the pioneering work of Prof. Dr. lrenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt and Prof. Dr. Hans Hass begun in the 1960s, as many as 205 films on Human Ethology and Ethnology have been published based on the resources resources of the Film Archive of Human Ethology of the Max-Planck-Society in co-operation with the Institute for Scientific Film (Institut flier den Wissenschaftlichen Film, IWF) in Goettingen, Germany and most recently with the Federal Austrian Institute for Scientific Film (Osterreichisches Bundesinstitut flier den Wis
senschaftlichen Film, OWF) in Vienna, Austria. Most of the published films were included in the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica (EC) of the IWF, either because they met the rigid standards for scientific documentation or because they were judged to be of great importance for the scientific community. Each of these films documents a certain scene of primitive life in detail. The films are accompanied by publications in which the verbal interactions and songs are transcribed and all important side information is collated. Much of this data—including clips, supporting materials, and a complete catalogue of films houses in the archive—are to found at this web site. The films in question
record unstaged and undisturbed social interactions of everyday life, rituals and other activities—and thus provide documentation that will prove continually valuable to anthropologists and ethnologists through the years.