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Hugh Brody

Hugh Brody is a Britishanthropologist, writer, direc-tor and lecturer. He was born in 1943 and educated atTrinity College, Oxford. He taught social anthropology atQueens University Belfast. He is an Honorary Associateof theScott Polar Research Instituteat theUniversity ofCambridge, and an Associate of the School for Compar-ative Literature at theUniversity of Toronto.

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Tribe of Idaho in relation to the building of the Bliss Damon theSnake Riverin the 1950s.[11]

Since 1997, Brody has worked on projects in southernAfrica. This began when he helped co-ordinate back-ground research for theKhomani SanLand Claim in

South Africas southernKalahari. This work led to film-ing many aspects of the claim, including its aftermath.In 2008, accompanied by the Canadian cinematographerKirk Tougas, he filmed the beneficiaries of the claim asthey reflected upon how it had changed their lives in thenine years since the claim was accepted. Working withthe UK NGO Open Channels, and funded by the UKcharity Comic Relief, Brody also led projects with and forSan inNamibiaandBotswana. The film work in SouthAfrica led to the DVD Tracks Across Sand[12] four anda half hours of film edited by long-term collaborationora-tor Haida Paul shot in the course of land claims research,oral historyand language research in the northern Cape

of South Africa. This was being released in 2012/13.[13]

2 Writer

As a writer, Brody has published many essays and a col-lection of short stories, as well as his non-fiction books.His stories, Means of Escape, was hailed byDoris Less-ing, who wrote: I recommend these tales to all connois-seurs of the short story, for they are unique in flavourand style, altogether unusual, and will stay in my mem-

ory like elegiac and lyrical songs or poems. Beautiful.The Canadian writer M. T. Kelly described the collec-tion as Intense, deeply felt, charged fiction...A masterfulaccomplishment.[14] Brody has also written a number ofscreenplays, one of which, co-authored withMichael Ig-natieff, became the film1919.[15]

Canadian philosopher George Woodcock describedMaps and Dreams(1981) as an impressive attempt todispel popular errors about peoples whom anthropol-ogists used condescendingly to call primitive hunters.Brody is also seeking to prove that hunting economies cancontinue to be viable even in modern North America, and

that the way of life associated with them is worth preserv-ing. (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v04/n09/george-woodcock/dreams-of-fair-game)

In 2000, Brody published The Other Side of Eden:Hunter-Gatherers, Farmers and the Shaping of the World.This is a book that puts together experience of and think-ing about many of the fields of travel and anthropologythat have been at the centre of Brodys work. It looks atthe relationship between culture and language, the waythe agricultural way of life is at the core of the mythicideas of human universality to be found inGenesis, andthe way hunting cultures have been wrongly identified

as nomadic pointing out that it is agriculture, withits inherent tendency to produce surplus population andpropensity forcolonial expansionand warfare, that is the

most mobile of ways of life.The Other Side of Edentakesa very wide view of history and cultures, yet is rooted inclosely observed anthropology, much of it from Brodysown field experience.[16]

3 Filmmaker

In 1975, Brodys filmmaking began with his work forITVs The Series of Disappearing World, going with di-rectorMichael Grigsbyto the Inuit community of PondInlet, where they made the film The Peoples Land, Es-kimos of Pond Inlet.[17] This led to Brody directing doc-umentaries, first in Canada (working withFirst Nationsin many parts of the country), as well as in the UK andAustralia. These include the award winningHunters AndBombers, a film that follows theInnuresistance to low

level flying in Labrador from CFB Goose Bay.

[18]

Healso made On Indian Land, a film with theGitksanandWetsuwet'en of northern British Columbia, and Time Im-memorial, the opening film in the series As Long As TheRivers Flow.[19] All his work with Canadian First Nationsdepends on a non-narration, intimate style: the people inthe films are the films, which go deep into the experienceand points of view of indigenous peoples and often intotheir grief, and ways of dealing with loss.

His film The Washing of Tears made with theMowachaht-Muchalaht people of Gold River, on the westcoast ofVancouver Island, is an exploration of how one

community looked to their fractured heritage to deal withextremes of dispossession and grief.[20]

Hugh Brody and Michael Ignatieffs screenplay 1919wasfilmed in 1983 and released in 1984. It explores his-tory, memory and the place of psycho-analysis in an un-derstanding of both the self and the 20th century. JohnBerger, in his introduction to the Faber and Faber edi-tion of the screenplay, wrote: Nineteen Nineteen speaksdirectly to what we know about life, composed inextri-cably of the most intimate movements of the heart, acci-dent, and the remorseless movement of history.PhillipFrench, reviewing the film for Londons The Observer

noted: With Nineteen Nineteen, cinemas relationshipto psychoanalysis has come of age. This is the first greatfilm about the subject. The film had a remarkable cast,starringPaul Scofield,Maria Schell,Diana Quick,ClareHigginsand the youngColin Firth.[21]

Brodys films for British television include EnglandsHenry Moore, a project that was conceived by writer andpolitical commentatorAnthony Barnett. It explores Bar-netts exposition of the links betweenMooreswork andthe place of Britain in the world. In 200203 Brodymade Inside Australia, a journey withAntony Gormleyinto the Australian western desert to follow the installa-tion of one of Gormleys most remarkable and visuallystunning pieces of work.[22]

In 200508, Brody made a film in a prison in British

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Columbia,The Meaning of Life,[23] in which he exploresthe use of aboriginal culture as a means of rehabilitation.At the centre of this film are accounts that inmates giveof their lives and attempts at rehabilitation. In 2012, hefinished work on a 4-hour DVD, Tracks Across Sand,[12]

which shows in 17 segments the results of filming with the

Khomani San as they develop and then cope with their1999 land claim.[24]

4 Works

4.1 Filmography

The Peoples Land: Eskimos of Pond InletITV:Granada, London, 1976 (research, collaborationwith Mike Grigsby) 55 minutes.

A Conemara FamilyBBC: Bristol / London, 1980(research, collaboration with Melissal Llewelyn-Davis) 58 minutes.

Treaty 8 CountryTreaty 8bands /National FilmBoard of Canada(NFB) Vancouver, 1981 (director,collaboration with Anne Cubitt) 44 minutes.

People of the Islands Channel 4: London, 1982(director) 80 minutes.

1919 British Film Institute: London 1985 (co-writer, director). 90 minutes.

On Indian Land GWTC: Hazelton, BritishColumbia / Channel 4: London, 1986 (co-producer,director) 54 minutes.

Englands Henry Moore Channel 4: London, 1988(director) 65 minutes.

Hunters and Bombers NFB: Montreal / Channel 4:London, 1990 (co-director) 56 minutes.

Time Immemorial Tamarack: Toronto / NFB:Montreal, 1991 (director) 61 minutes.

A Washing of Tears Nootka Sound & PictureCo./NFB: 1993 (director)

Cosmic Africa directed byCraig Foster, Aland Pic-tures, Cosmos Films, IDC South Africa, 2002 (co-writer)

Inside Australia Artemis Films International: 2004

The Meaning of Life HR Brody Ltd: 2008[23]

Tracks Across Sand 2012 (director), a DVD con-

taining sixteen films (total 4.5hours) made as a com-munityproject with theKhomani San of theSouth-ern Kalahari.[12]

4.2 Books

Gola: Life and Last Days of an Island Community

(with F.H.A. Aalen). Cork: Mercier, 1969.

Indians on Skid Row. Ottawa: NSRG, 1971.

Inishkillane: Change and Decline in the West of Ire-

land. London: Allen Lane, 1973, Penguin, 1974,Norman & Hobhouse, 1981, Faber & Faber, 1986;New York: Schocken, 1975; Vancouver: Douglas &McIntyre, 1981.

The Peoples Land. London and Toronto: Penguin,1975, 1977, 1983; New York: Penguin, 1977; Van-couver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991 (with new intro-duction).

Maps and Dreams. Vancouver: Douglas & McIn-

tyre. 1981, 1988 (with new introduction); London:Norman & Hobhouse, 1981, Faber & Faber, 1986.London and Toronto: Penguin, 1983; New York:Pantheon, 1983. (Reissued Long Grove, IL: Wave-land Press, 1998)

Nineteen Nineteen (with Michael Ignatieff). London:Faber & Faber, 1985.

Living Arctic. London: Faber & Faber, 1987; Van-couver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1990.

Means of Escape. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre,1991; London: Faber & Faber, 1991.

The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the

Shaping of the World. Vancouver: Douglas & McIn-tyre / London: Faber and Faber / New York: Farrar,Straus & Giroux, 2000. Paperback: Canada, 2001,UK and USA, 2002. Dutch, Chinese and Japanesetranslations, 2002-3

4.3 Essays

Inuit Land Use and Occupancyand Inummarit, The

Real People in: Inuit Land Use and Occupancy Re-port, Volumes, 1 & 2, editor Milton Freeman, Ot-tawa: DIAND, 1976.

Industrial Impact in the Canadian North PolarRecord, Cambridge, 1977.

Eskimo: A Language With a Future Polar Record,Cambridge, 1977

Continuity and Change: The Inuit and Settlers of

Labrador in Our Footsteps are Everywhere, editorCarol Bryce-Bennett, Ottawa: DIAND, 1978

Alcohol Etudes InuitNo. 1, Quebec: Laval, 1979

Jims JourneyGrantaNo 10, 1983.

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On Indian Land: The Gitksan-Wetsuwet'en BritishColumbia: New Catalyst, 1987

Introduction to Stikine, The Great River, by GaryFiegehen, Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1991

The Power of the Image in

Imaging the Arctic, J CH King and Henrietta Lidchi, London: British Mu-

seum 1998

Nomads And Settlers in Town And Country, edi-tors Anthony Barnett andRoger Scruton, London:Jonathon Cape, 1998

Taking the Words from their Mouths Index on Cen-sorship, Vol. 4, 1999, p 42-47.

Introduction to Seasons of the Arcticphotographsby Paul Nicklen, Vancouver/Toronto: GreystoneBooks, 2000, p xv xxv.

In conversation with Hugh Brody, interview byEleanor Wachtel, Brick, Number 68, Fall 2001, p22-27.

Atanarjuat the fast runner, a discussion ofZacharias Kunuk's film, Open Democracy Website,February 2002.

Inside Lake Ballard in Antony Gormleys InsideAustralia, London: Thames and Hudson, 2005, p18 53

Forward to Robert Semeniuks Among the Inuit,Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2007

Without Stories We Are Lost in The Journals ofKnud Rasmussen. Editor Gillian Robinson, Canada:IsumaProductions, 2008

Stations of Life, an essay about inequality,Resurgence, September / October 2008

The anthropology of ourselves inOne And Other:The Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London:Thames and Hudson, 2010

Gaddafi and the TuaregOpen Democracy, Octo-ber 2011

1 December 1961: Fly the Flag of IndependenceOpen Democracy, November 2011

5 Nominations, awards, and hon-

ours

1991: Catholic Film Critics Award winner forHunters and Bombers[25]

1985: Golden Bearaward nomination at the35thBerlin International Film Festivalfor1919[26]

6 Research

Brody is currently leading a research program on therole played bySto:loyouth in the development of theircommunities.[1]

7 Personal life

Brody lives with actress Juliet Stevensonand they havetwo children.[27]

8 References

[1] University of the Fraser Valley: Research Chairs

[2] Inishkillane, first published by Allen Lane and thePenguinPress, 1973. Subsequent editions: Shocken, New York,1974; Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver; Faber & Faber,London, Gola, published b y IRL:Mercier, Cork, 1969.

[3] Indians on Skid Rowwas published by DIAND, Ottawa,1971, as a report in its Northern Science Research Groupseries

[4] The peoples champion, The Guardian, profile, 27 January2001.

[5] See the three volume, Report of the Inuit Land Use andOccupancy Project, ed Milton Freeman, Ottawa: DIAND,1976

[6] See: Continuity and change: The Inuit settlers ofLabrador. In C. Bryce-Bennett (Ed.), Our Footsteps AreEverywhere. Ottawa, ON: DIAND, 1978

[7] The Berger Inquiry evidence was published in part asessays in The Polar Record, see Industrial impact inthe Canadian north. Polar Record, 18(115), 333339.Requires log-in(1977), and Eskimo: A language with afuture?Polar Record, 18(117), 587592.

[8] See Northern Homeland, Northern Frontier, The Reportof the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, first publishedas a Canadian government report in 1978, and then as a

book by Douglas & MacIntyre, Vancouver, 1987.[9] See Google Books reviews. Maps And Dreams was first

published by Dougas & MacIntyre, Vancouver, and Nor-man and Hobhouse, UK, 1981. It has been in print since,in several editions and translations. Douglas & MacIn-tyre published an edition with a new introduction (1988).Faber & Faber, London, have published it in paperback.

[10] See Sardar Sarovar, the Report of the Independent Re-view, first published by Resource Futures International,Ottawa, 1992. Also Bergers account of the Review:American University International Law Review, Volume9, Issue 1, 1993,

[11] See Michael Mirande, Sustainable Natural ResourceDevelopment, Legal Dispute,and Indigenous Peoples:Problem-Solving across Cultures, 11 TUL. ENVTL. L.J.

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33, 44 (1997). As one of the lawyers engaged by theIdaho Power Company, Mirande has analysed the orig-inality, nature and some of the challenges of the SnakeRiver Independent Review.

[12] Tracks Across Sand

[13] Information on this: University of the Fraser Valley, andFace To Face Media, 30 Nov / 3 December 2012. SeeHugh Brody DVDon KhomaniSan to premiere in Chilli-wack Nov 30 and Hugh Brody DVD on Kalahari bushmento premiere in Chilliwack

[14] Published by Faber & Faber, London, and Douglas &MacIntyre, Vancouver, 1985. Quotes from jacket of pa-perback editions.

[15] The Screenplay for Nineteen Nineteen was published byFaber and Faber, London, in 1985. John Berger wrote anafterword, included in the Faber and Faber edition.

[16] The Other Side of Eden: Hunter-gatheres, Farmers andthe Shaping of the Worldwas first published by Douglasand MacIntyre, Vancouver, Canada, Faber and Faber,London, in 2000. Subsequent editions and translationshave paperback UK and Canada; hardback, Farrar StrausGiroux, New York, 2001), as well Chinese, Japanese andDutch editions

[17] The Eskimos of Pond Inlet

[18] For the National Film Board of Canadas informationabout Hunters And Bombers see: Hunters and Bombers.

[19] For information about As Long As The Rivers Flow, andTime Immemorial, the opening film in the series, see: AsLong as the Rivers Flowand the NFB information:TimeImmemorial

[20] For NFB information about The Washing of Tears, see:The Washing of Tears

[21] For information about Nineteen Nineteen see the BritishFilm Institute site:Nineteen Nineteen

[22] For information about Englands Henry Moore see:Englands Henry Moore: The sculptures of the greatestEnglishmanand for Inside Australia: Inside Australia

[23] The Meaning of Life

[24] For details about bothMeaning of LifeandTracks AcrossSandsee:Biographies of Key Personnel

[25] Hugh Brodyat the Internet Movie Database

[26] Berlinale: 1985 Programme. berlinale.de. Retrieved 9January 2011.

[27] Juliet Stevenson: 'I'd much rather live a useful life than berich'

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