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Barrie Machin
Barrie Machin is an anthropologist, poet, artist and author, with several epublications to his credit.He has lectured at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and the University of...view moreBarrie Machin is an anthropologist, poet, artist and author, with several epublications to his credit.He has lectured at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and the University of Western Australia and since 1989 has worked as an independent filmmaker and consultant. He made films in Greece, Sri Lanka, India, Brazil, Japan and Australia. His film Iramudun won the Blue ribbon in cultural studies at the American Film Festival in 1984 and a major prize at the International Anthropology Film Festival in Parnu Estonia.He was the first anthropologist to produce a single system super 8 full-length ethnographic documentary Passing Shadows: Death Ritual in Western Crete and the first to use video extensively in field research and film production. In 1989 He received the Anthropos-Omega award for lifetime contribution to visual anthropology at the same time as Jean Rouch, Claudine de France and Karl Heider. Altogether he has spent 34 years in field research.He has been President of the West Australian Anthropology Society, elected member of the Association of Commonwealth Anthropologists, elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society.view less