POSITIONS

Professor of Anthropology. Département d'anthropologie. Université de Montréal 1969-1994 (retired 1994)

Chairman, Association for Balkan Anthropology (sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York)

Occasional lecturer, Sofia University, New Bulgarian University

Co-ordinator, Balkan Charter, Commission on Visual Anthropology, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences

Co-ordinator, Bulgaria Social Assessment Studies, the World Bank, 1998

Research Director, World Bank Survey of the Elderly Pensioners in Bulgaria, 1998

Honorary director, the Institute for Regional Studies, New Bulgarian University ­ Sofia, 1998

Chairman, Commission on Visual Anthropology, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 1983-1993

Associate editor, Visual Anthropology, published by Gordon and Breach (Harwood), Science Publishers, London and New York, 1986-1993

Editor, CVA Review, published by the Commission on Visual Anthropology, 1984-1993

CITIZENSHIP ­ Canadian and Bulgarian

ADDRESS

P.O. Box 175
Sofia 1000
Bulgaria
Tel: (359.2) 66 37 21
Tel./Fax: (399.2) 963 07 50
e-mail: abalikci@mbox.cit.bg

EDUCATION

International School of Genève
Switzerland
Baccalaureat français, mention philosophie
Université de Genève
Switzerland
Lisence es Sciences economiques

Université de Genève
Switzerland
License es Sciences géographique
Columbia University Ph.D. in Anthropology

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Human ecology in arctic and arid zones (Canadian Arctic, Ethiopia, Afghanistan); anthropology and education; anthropology and museology; visual anthropology; interethnic relations (SW Bulgaria); the culture of poverty in post-socialist Bulgaria.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

- Recent research papers and films presented at professional meetings in Palermo, Nuoro, Sibiu, Ohrid, Sofia, Manchester, Budapest, Ljubliana, Berlin, Saarbrucken, Gottingen, Hamburg, Fribourg, Neuchatel, Athens, Belgrade, Graz, Washington, Aix en Province, Lyon, Freiburg, Moscow, Metz, Montreal, Bucharest. During August 29-31, 1996 the Association for Balkan Anthropology organised a major international conference in Sofia on the theme: "The Role of Ideology in Balkan Anthropology" . The conference proceedings will be published during 1998, Conference sponsored by: Wenner-Gren Foundation - NY, Open Society - Sofia, Göethe Institute

- The Sofia Ethnographic Films Festivals: October, House of Cinema, Sofia; 1997, 1998, 2000. The films festivals are organised by Asen Balikci and are sponsored by the French Cultural Institute and Goethe Institute.

- During September 1997 the Association for Balkan Anthropology organised it's second international conference in Bucharest on the theme: 'Migration, Borders, Identity in the Balkans.'

- Principal investigator: A Qualitative Assessment of the Living Standards of Bulgarian Elderly Pensioners. The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1998

- Coordinator, Social Assessment of Bulgaria, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 1999

- Visual Anthropology Workshop. Teaching anthropological film methods and ethnographic film making to 7 Gypsy trainees in Sliven. "Roma Portraits", 1998, 89 min. Sponsored by the Dutch Embassy, Sofia, 1997.

- Community study ­ the Pomaks ­ village Brestnitza, SW Bulgaria (socio-economic change, interethnic relations, symbolic geography). Sponsors: Open Society Foundation ­ Sofia, New Bulgarian University

- Visual Anthropology Project, village Brestnitza, production of a group of documentary ethnographic films; until November 1994: 42 hours of video records on Pomak social life and ritual. Two films completed: "Women of Brestnitza"' 43 min., sponsors: Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film (Göttingen), Norddeutsche Rundfunk (Hamburg), UFA ­ nonfiction (Berlin). Broadcast by NDR and WDR; "Old Ibrahim's World", 40 min., sponsored by IWF (Göttingen).

- Visual Anthropology Workshop, village Brestnitza, May- July 1994. Teaching anthropological field, methods and ethnographic video making to six natives trainees: Bulgarians, Pomaks, Gypsies. Sponsors: Canadian Development Fund, UNESCO, IWF; "Balkan Portraits", 72 min., Betacam SP.

- Anthropological Adviser, Transferencia de Medias project, Instituto National Indigenista, Mexico, 1992.

- Principal investigator, social change and visual anthropological project among the native peoples of Siberia. Sponsored by the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Department of Culture and Communications, GNWT, The Institute of Ethnography (Academy of Sciences, U.S.S.R.), Moscow, The Foundation of Culture, Moscow, the National Science Foundation, the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, 1989-1992.

- Simon Honorary Professor, University of Manchester, 1988

- Visiting Professor, Department of Ethnography, Moesgaard, Aaarhus University, Denmark, 1988.

- Research consultant, Tagramiut Nipingat Inc. (Inuit Television System), 1987.
- Directeur d'études associé, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Marseille, 1987

- Coordinator, Museology Program, Université de Montréal , 1985-1986

- Visiting scholar, London School of Economics, 1982-1983.

- Director, Project on Pashtoon Pastoralism (Afghanistan), sponsored by National Film Board of Canada, National Geographic Society, Smithsonian Institution, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1973-1976.

- Staff Scientist (part time), Education Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1970-1972.

- Research Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, 1975-1978.

- Research Fellow, Peabody Museum, Harvard, 1969-1972.

- Associate Professor of Anthropology, Départemant d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal , 1964-1969.

- Co-chairman, Program in Ethnographic Film, sponsored by the American Anthropological Association and Wenner-Gren Foundation, 1966-1968.

- Senior Scientist, "Man: A Course of Study" Program, Education Development Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1963-1967.

- Principal investigator, Education Development Center, Ethnographic Film Project on the Netsilik Eskimos, 1963-1966.

- Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Départemant d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal , 1961-1964.

- Visiting Lecturer. McGill University, 1960-1961.

- Staff ethnologist, National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 1954-1961.

FIELDWORK:

1992-1998: Southwestern Bulgaria: interethnic relations (Turks, Bulgarians, Pomaks)

1991: Khazim River Ostyak, Western Siberia, Visual Anthropology Field Seminar, sponsored by the National Science Foundation

1990: Khazim River Ostyak, Western Siberia (acculturation), sponsored by the Siberian Section of the Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R.

1989: Sireniki Eskimos, Eastern Siberia (ethnographic film)

1989: Kantchalan Chukchi, Eastern Siberia (acculturation), sponsored by the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the Institute of Ethnography, Moscow

1983: Old Crow, Yukon (acculturation), sponsored by the Directorate on Multiculturalism, Canada

1978: Ladak (feasibility survey for the Smithsonian Institution)

1977: Hunza (feasibility survey for the Smithsonian Institution)

1973-1975: Pashtoon pastoralists, Afghanistan, sponsored by the National Geographic Society and the Smithsonian Institution

1969-1970: Danakil pastoralists in Ethiopia, sponsored by the Peabody Museum, Harvard University

1968: Ceylon fishermen (feasibility study for the Center for the Study of Man, Smithsonian Institution)

1965: Pelly Bay Eskimos (ethnographic film), sponsored by the National Science Foundation

1965: Malinke, Eastern Senegal (marriage, magic), in collaboration with C.R.A., Musée de l'Homme, Paris

1964: Pelly Bay Eskimos (ethnographic film) sponsored by the National Science Foundation

1963: Pelly Bay Eskimos (ethnographic film) sponsored by the National Science Foundation

1962: Village Skocivir, Yugoslav Macedonia (lineage structure, artifacts collection for the American Museum of Natural History), sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation

1961: Vunta Kutchin Indians, Yukon Territory (social units, ecological adaptation), sponsored by the Department of Indian Affairs

1960: Pelly Bay Eskimos, Arctic Coast (suicide, kinship, shamanism, and ecological adaptation) sponsored by the National Museum of Canada

1959: Pelly Bay Eskimos, Arctic Coast (artifacts collection for the National Museum of Canada), sponsored by the National Museum of Canada

1958: Povungnituk Eskimos, East Hudson Bay (community organization) sponsored by the National Museum of Canada

1957: Great Whale River Eskimos, East Hudson Bay (rapid social change) sponsored by the National Museum of Canada

1955: Macedonian Ethnic Group in Toronto (social organization and occupational orientations) sponsored by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration, Canada

HONORS & AWARDS

- Open Society ­ Sofia, research grants, 1996
- SSHRS grant, research on inter-ethnic relations, Bulgaria
- Musée de la Civilisation, Quèbec, publication grant, 1989 ­ 1994
- National Science Foundation grant, visual anthropology program for Siberia native peoples, 1991
- SSHRC grant, research in Western Siberia, 1990
- University of Palermo, Italy, 1989, academic collaboration grant
- Estonian Foundation for Culture, USSR, film production grant for Siberia, 1989
- Canadian Museum of Civilization, research and film production grant for Siberia, 1989
- Government of North West Territories (Dept. of Culture and Communication), film production grant for Siberia, 1989
- INTACH Institute, New Delhi, India, 1987, academic collaboration grant
- Ministry of Culture, Estonia, USSR, 1987, academic collaboration grant
- University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 1987, academic collaboration grant
- University of Palermo, Italy, 1987, academic collaboration grant
- Department of Indian Affairs, Canada, 1987, arctic conference organization grant
- Ministère des communications, Quèbec, 1987, arctic media research grant
- Government of the North West Territories, Canada, 1987, arctic media manual, research grant
- Canada Council 1986-1987, conference organization grant
- Secretary for State, Canada, 1987, conference organization grant, 1987
- SSHRC, grant for Brazil 1987, academic collaboration
- SSHRC, grant for China, 1986, academic collaboration
- Canadian Commission for UNESCO, grant, 1987
- Canadian Commission for UNESCO, grant, 1985, UNESCO (Paris)
- Directorate on Multiculturalism, grant, 1983
- Canada Council, grant, 1982-1983
- Smithsonian Institution, research grants, 1977, 1978, 1979
- National Film Board of Canada, film production subsidy, 1975-1979
- National Geographic Society, research grant, 1972
- Peabody Museum, Harvard University, research grant, 1969
- Canada Council, research grant, 1969
- Canada Council fellowship, 1968
- Canada Council research grant, 1965
- National Science Foundation, curriculum development grants, 1965-1968
- Ford Foundation, anthropological film grant, 1963
- Research Institute for the Study of Man (N.Y), research grant, 1962
- Wenner-Gren Foundation, research grant, 1962
- Canada Council, research grant, 1962
- Northern Research Coordination Centre, Ottawa, research grant, 1961
- Schiff Fellowship, Columbia University, 1958
- Canada Council Social Research Scholarship, 1957
- Canada Council for Scholarship, 1957
- Canadian Citizenship Branch, research grant, Ottawa, 1956

MEMBERSHIPS:

- Royal Society of Canada (Fellow)
- American Anthropological Association (Fellow)
- Member, Ethnic Committee, American Anthropological Association, 1977-1980
- Comité international du film éthnographique
- Canadian Anthropological Association

PUBLICATIONS:

Monographs

- Rémarques sur la structure du groupe éthnique Macédonien à Toronto. Typescript. National Museum of Canada: 225 pages. A short version published In The Canadian Family Tree. Government of Canada, 1967.
- The Structure of the Macedonian-Bulgarian Ethnic Group in Toronto. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, 1987. Bulgarian edition by "Nauka I Izkustvo" publishers, Sofia, 1992.
- Vunta Kutchin Social Change. Memoir of the Northern Research and Coorditation Centre. Government of Canada, Ottawa, 161 p. maps. Reviewed In The American Anthropologist, Vol. 65, N5, 1963, p. 1389.
- Development of Basic Socio-Economic Units in Two Eskimo Communities. National Museum of Canada, Ottawa, 112 p. maps, Bulletin 202. Reviewed In The American Anthropologist, Vol. 67, N3, 1965, p.805.
- The Netsilik Eskimo. Published by the American Museum of Natural History (280 pages). Foreward by Margaret Mead. Review In Harper's, Nov. 1970. Paperback edition, 1971. Second enlarged edition by Waveland Press,1989. Japanese edition by Rokko Co., 1992.
- Balkan Businessmen in Canada. LIL Publishers, Sofia, 1997 (in Bulgarian).

Articles

- Rémarques sur l'étude des valeurs en anthropologie culturelle. Anthropologica, No.1, pp. 84-103 (1955).

- Note sur le Midewiwin. Anthropologica, No. 2, pp.165-228 (1956).

- Two attempts at Community Organization Among the Eastern Hudson Bay Eskimos. Anthropologica, N.S. Vol.1, pp.1-14. Republished In Eskimo of Canadian Arctic, V. Valentine and F. Vallee, eds. Van Nostrand, 1968 (1956).

- Bio-bibliography of Diamond Jenness. Anthropologica, No.4, pp.37-47 (1957).

- Anthropological fieldwork at Great Whale River and Povungnituk. The Arctic Cicular. Vol. XI, Ottawa, pp.68-71 (1958).

- Relations inter-éthniques à la Grande rivière de la Baleine, Baie d'Hudson, 2957, Bullétin No.173. National Museum of Canada, pp.64-107 (1959).

- Some Acculturative Trends among the Eastern Hudson Bay Eskimos. Akten das 34. Internatinalen Amerikanistenkongresses. Wien, pp.504-513 (1960). Republished In Anthropologica, Vol.2, pp.139-153 (1960). Republished In Perspectives on the North American Indians, M. Nagler, ed. McClelland and Stewart, Torornto, pp.14-27 (1972).

- A Note on the "Poor Kayak" of the Western Labrador Eskimo. Man, article 5 (1960).

- "Ethnic Relations and the Marginal Man in Canada: A Comment". Human Organization, Vol. 19, No.4, pp.170-171 (1960).

- Suicidal Behaviour among the Netsilik Eskimos. Canadian Society: Sociological Perspective. B. Blishen, ed. MacMillan Co. and Free Press of Glencoe, pp.575-588. Republished in French In Actes du Vie Congres International des Sciences Anthropologiques et Ethnologiques, Paris, Tome II (2e volume), pp.511-516 (1961).

- Family Organization of the Vunta Kutchin. Arctic Anthropology (University of Wisconsin), Vol. 1, No2, pp. 62-69 (1963).

- Community Pattering in Two Northern Trading Posts. Anthropologica, Vol.V, No.1, pp.33-45 (1963).

- Shamanistic Behaviour among the Netsilic Eskimos. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, winter 1963, vol. 19, pp. 380-396. Republished In Matic, Witchcraft and Curing. J. Middleton, ed. Doubleday, New York (1967).

- Le régime matrimonial des Eskimaux Netsilik. L'Homme (Paris), winter 1963, pp. 89-101 (1963). Republished in German In Die Braut Museum Koln, 1985.

- Les Esquimaux de la péninsule de Labrador: études éthnographiques. National Museum of Canada, Bullétin 194, pp.262-280. English version published In Malaurie and Rousseau, eds. Le Nouveau Quebec, Mouton, Paris (1964).

- Parenté et mariage dans une ville de Macédoine yougoslave. In The Proceedings of the VIIth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Moscow (1964).

- Quarrels in a Balkan Village. American Anthropologist, December 1965, Vol.67, No. 6, part I, pp.1456-1469 (1965).

- Ethnographic Filming and the Netsilik Eskimos. ESI Quarterly Report, Spring-Summer, pp. 19-33. Republished in Polar Record (Cambridge University) 1970, No. 94 (1966).

- Female Infanticide on the Arctic Coast. Man, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp.615-625 (1967). Republished In Perspectives on the North American Indians. M. Nagler, ed. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, pp. 176-189 (1972).

- Bad Friends. Human Organization, Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 191-200 (1968). Republished In Bobb-Merrils Reprints in Anthropology (1970). Republished In Perspectives on the North American Indians. M. Nagler, ed. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, pp. 57-72 (1972).

- The Netsilik Eskimos: Adaptive Processes. Article No. 8, Man the Hunter, R. Lee and I. Devore, eds. Chicago: Aldine (1968). Republished In General Anthropology. J. Aceves and H. King, General Learning Press, New York.

- A Comparative Study on Subsistence Ecology and Social Systems: the King Bushmen and the Netsilik Eskimos. Published In The Proceeding of the VIIIth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Tokyo (1968).

- Charr Fishing among the Arviligjuamiut. In Charrs, Salmonid Fishes of the Cenus Salvelinus, E. Balon, ed. Dr. W. Junk Publishers, The Hague, 1980.

- Sons of Haji Omar: a Study Guide. State University of Pennsylvania, 1982, Audio-visual Services.

- The Netsilik Inuit Today. In Etudes/Inuit/Studies, Vol. 2, No.1, 1978.

- Les contradictions au sein des bandes de chasseurs-cueilleurs. In Anthroplologie et Societes, Vol. 4, No.3, 1980.

- L'idéologie et l'organisation de la résistence afghane. In Le Monde Diplomatique, septembre 1980.

- Tristes arctiques. . In Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 1982.

- Ronald Reagan on Science Instruction. . In Etudes/Inuit/Studies 1982. Republished In Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association, 1982.

- "Faux combats, tristres arènes" un commentaire. In Récherches Amérindiennes au Quèbec, Vol. X, No. 1-2, 1980.

- Les misérabilisme dans le cinéma éthnographique, reponse à B. Emond. In Récherches Amerindiennes au Quèbec, Vol. X, No. 4, 1981.

- L'anthropologie au Canada. In Anthropologie et Société, 1982.

- Les "souffrances" des juives montréalais. Le Devoir, 23 fevrier 1982.

- Segmentary Lineage Theory and Sheikhanzai Practice: a Comment. In Nomadic Peoples. IUAES, No. 11, 1982.

- Pastoralism and Class Differentiation among the Lakenhei. In Journal of Asian and African Studies, XVI, 1-2, 1981, pp. 150-157.

- Ethnographic Filming in Afghanistan: A Case of Ethics. In Royal Anthropological Institute Newsletter, 1982.

- L'anthropologie visuelle au Canada. In Consience et enquête: l'éthnologie des réalités canadiennes, M.A. Tremblay, éditeur, Musée National de l'Homme, collection Mercure, Ottawa, 1983, pp. 262-271.

- The Problem of the Ethnographic Real: a Comment. In Current Anthropology, Vol. 23, No. 3, p. 320, 1983.

- Donnés historiques sur les Malinke de Bantata. In Objets et Mondes. Musée de l'Homme, Paris (1972).

- The Hunter's Ecology. In Nature in the Round, Nigel Calder, ed. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London (1973).
- Reconstructing Cultures on Film. In Principles of Visual Anthropology, P. Hockings, ed. Mouton, IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (1975). Republished in Spanish, University of Lima., Peru

- The Netsilik Eskimos. In Handbook of North American Indians, Smithsonian Institution, Vol. 5, The Arctic, 1985, pp. 415-431.

- Folklore Research in Afghanistan. Published in Persian In Journal of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Afghanistan, 1975.

- Village Buzkashi. In Natural History, February 1978. Republished In Teaching about Writing, University of Denver Press, 1985.

- Transformation of Knowledge. Canadian Commission for UNESCO, Ottawa, 1984.

- Une expérience pédagogique en anthropologique. In L'anthropologie en France, G. Condominas, ed., CNRS, Paris, 1979.

- A Survey of Pastoral Nomadism in Northeastern Afghanistan. In National Geographic Society research Reports, Vol. 13, Washington, D.C., 1981, pp.83-89.

- Politic Leadership among Lakenkhei Pakhtuns. Presented at LSE seminar.

- Female Possession among Lakenkhei Pakhtuns. Presented at Cambridge University seminar.

- Anthropologists and Ethnographic Filmmaking. In Anthropological Filmmaking, J.
Rollwagen, ed. Harwood, New York, 1988, pp. 31-49. Spanish version published by University of Lima, Peru.

- Ethnographic film and Museums. In MUSEUM-UNESCO, No. 145, 1985, pp. 16-25. French, Russian and Spanish versions published by UNESCO. Portuguese version published by University of Campinas, Brasil; Italian version by University of Palermo; Chinese version published in Folklore Journal-China.

- Nanook at ses fréres. In Le Monde, 15-16 juillet 1984.

- Entrévue avec Michel Brault. In Anthropologia Visualis, Vol. 1, 1985, pp. 7-17.

- The Legacy of Margaret Mead: the Case of Visual Anthropology. In the Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological Research, Vienna, Vol. 8q 1987, pp.37-42; published in Italian In Journal of Italian Folklore, 1987] published in Serbo-Croatian, Museum Ljubliana, 1987.

- The Alaskan Eskimos at the Crossroads. In Reviews of Anthropology, 1986, pp. 120-127.

- Quelques expériences de térrain. In the Proceeding of the Royal Society of Canada, 1986, pp. 17-25.

- Theory and Ethnography in the Canadian Arctic. In Etudes/Inuit/Studies, 1990.

- Notes sur Amassalik. In Objets et Mondes, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, 1987.
- Old Crow, éthnographie et histoire. In Récherches Amerindiennes au Quèbec, Vol. XVI, 1986, pp. 1-28.

- Le stereotype des Eskimaux chez les èlèves du niveau primaire. In Etudes/Inuit/Studies, Vol.8, No. 2, 1985, pp. 139-145.

- Anthropology, Film and the Arctic Peoples. In Anthropology Today, April 1989, pp. 4-11.

- Tenure and Transhumance: Stratification and Pastoralism among the Lakenkhei. In The World of Pastoralism, J.Calaty & D. Johnson, ed. Guilford Publications, N.Y., 1990, pp. 301-322.

- Some recent activities of the Commission on Visual Anthropology. In Living Traditions in Art, Lynn Hart, ed. McGill University, 1990, pp.39-48.

- New Trends in Visual Anthropology. In Proceeding of the Zagreb Congress, IUAES, published by Slovenian Academy of Sciences, Ljubliana, 1988, pp.12-20. Republished by Educational Unit, S.A.C., Ahmedabad, India.

- Kurze Anmerkungen zu Robert Gardners fimen. In Rituale von Leben und Tod, R. Kapter, W. Petermann, R. Thoms, editors Trickster Verlag, Muchen, 1989, pp. 34-40.

- Les renniculteurs thouktches: des administrateurs russes. In Questions sibériènnes, UNESCO, CNRS, Paris, 1990, pp. 61-67.

- A Tribute to John Marshall. Published by Trickster Verlag, 1991, pp. 189-195.

- Ethnographic film recording in the culture history museums. Published In Anthropologia Visuale in Museo 2, Museo etnografoco Luigi Pigorini, Roma, 1991, 17 pages.

- Siberian Seminar. In: Cultural Survival Quarterly, Winter, 1992.

- Cultural Ecology. Foreword. In Bulgarian. T. Boneva, ed., Lotos Publishers, Sofia, 1997, pp. 6-19.

- The "Bulgarian Ethnography" of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Some Critical Comments. In Ethnologia Balkanica, Vol. 2, 1998, pp. 121-126.

- Qualitative Survey of Poverty in Macedonia ­ World Bank. ­ Sociologicheski pregled, Vol.4, 1998 (in Bulgarian).

- Homage to Timothy Asch. To be published by Melbourne University, Australia.

- Pomak Identity: National Prescriptions and Native Assumptions. Ethnologia Balkanica, Vol. 3 (1999), pp.51-57.

MAN: A COURSE OF STUDY

In collaboration with Jerome B. Bruner and Irven DeVore (Harvard University). A one-year anthropology course for upper elementary grades produced by Education Development Center with Grants from National Science Foundation. Distributed by Curriculum Development Associates, Washington, in over 5, 000 schools in the USA, Ontario, England, Australia. Review article In Scientific American, April 1976 (The Textbook Controversy).

ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ON THE TRADITIONAL LIFE OF THE NETSILIK ESKIMOS

( A. Balikci, film director and scientific supervisor) produced by the Education Development Center (Newton, Massachusetts) and the National Film Board of Canada under grants from the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation: 10 _ hours of edited films with original Eskimo sound track, 1968. Films shown on CBS national network, Norddeutsche Rundfunk, Dutch TV, BBC, CBC, over 150 television bookings around the world. Reviews in the American Anthropologist, etc.

- At the Caribou Crossing Place (early autumn)
- At the Autumn River Camp (late autumn)
- At the Winter Sea-Ice Camp
- At the Spring Sea-Ice Camp
- Jigging for Lake Trout (late winter)
- Staking Seal on the Spring Ice (spring)
- Group Hunting on the Spring Ice (spring)
- Building a Kayak (early summer)
- Fishing at the Stone Weir (mid-summer)
- Esquimaux (A. Balikci, scientific supervisor) directed by Gilles Blais and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, 1970
- The Netsilik Eskimo Today, National Film Board of Canada, 1972
- Eskimo: Fight for Life; CBS, BBC

ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS ON PASTORAL NOMADISM AND RURAL LIFE, AFGHANISTAN

- Sons of Haji Omar, 58 min., color, English commentary, produced by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Film Board of Canada. Shorter version produced by Institut fur Film and Bild, W. Germany. Shown on PBS, CBC, BBC, Japan TV, W. German TV, Australia TV, Israel TV etc., 1989, Study Guide (20p.)distributed by State University of Pennsylvania.

ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM ON BERING STRAIT ESKIMOS, EASTERN SIBERIA

- Chronicle of Sireniki, 56 min., color, English commentary, produced by Pixart (Montreal) and Esti Kulturfilm (Tallinn) for "La Sept" (Paris), sponsored by Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa and Institute of Ethnography, Moscow

ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM ON KAZIM VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR FOR THE NATIVE PEOPLES OF SIBERIA

- Siberia trough Siberian Eyes, 56 min. English commentary, produced by KVAC-TV, University of Fairbanks, Alaska, in cooperation with the Association for Ugri Salvation, Siberia. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation

FILMS IN BULGARIA

- ALLAHS BULGARISCHE TOCHTER, 45 min., German version broadcast by NDR - Hamburg, Oct. 1995.Sponsored by Institut fur den Wissenschaflichen Film and GEO-FILM-Berlin - UFA.
- POMAK WOMEN - produced by IWF, Göttingen, final completion - May 1996
- OLD IBRAHIM'S WORLD - produced by IWF, Göttingen, final completion - June 1996
- BALKAN PORTRAITS - 72 min, a visual anthropology seminar in a multicultural setting, SW Bulgaria, English subtitles, sponsored by UNESCO, IWF - Göttingen, and Canadian Development Fund, 1996.
- ROMA PORTRAITS - 89 min, a visual anthropology seminar for the Roma in Bulgaria, English subtitles, 1998. Sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Embassy, Sofia
- EPHTIM D. - PORTRAIT OF A BULGARIAN PENSIONER, 56 min. English subtitles,
- 1999, sponsored by the World Bank, Washington D.C. Broadcast on Dutch TV. Distributed by DER, Washington, D.C.

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

1958 Ethnographic artifacts (Eskimo) from Povungnituk for the National Museum of Canada. In Inuit Legends from Povungnituk, Quebec. Bulletin 235, National Museum of Man, Ottawa, 1975.

1960 Ethnographic artifacts (Eskimo) from Pelly Bay for the National Museum of Canada

1962 Ethnographic artifacts from Macedonia for the American Museum of Natural History, partially published in Costumes of the East, by W. Fairservis, American Museum of Natural History, 1971.

1970 Ethnographic artifacts from Ethiopia for the Université de Montréal

FILM AWARDS

- Canadian Science Film Association, award for outstanding achievement, 1970
- The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ­ Emmy Award, 1971
- Cine ­ Golden Eagle, 1971
- The Christophers ­ Christopher Award, 1971
- American Film Festival ­ Blue Ribbon Award, 1971
- Atlanta Film Festival ­ Gold Medal, 1971
- Margaret Mead Festival (American Museum of Natural History), September 1979
- Grad Prix, First Soviet Visual Anthropology Festival, Parnu, Esthonia, USSR, 1987
- Award for Excellence, Society for Visual Anthropology (American Anthropological Association ), Chicago, 1991
- Award for Lifetime Achievement, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 1998
- Deventer Foundation (Holland) prize, Sibiu, 1998
- Award of Commendation, Society for Viual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, San Francisco 2000