Lina Fruzzetti

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Lina Fruzzetti is an American cultural anthropologist and documentary filmmaker. She has been a professor of anthropology at Brown University since 1975. She has studied rural communities and gender relations in East Africa, India, and Tanzania, and she has made several ethnographic films. She writes and co-directs these films with her husband, Ákos Östör, a cultural anthropologist and professor emeritus at Wesleyan University. Since 2016 she has been a Fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru University Institute for Advanced Studies in New Delhi, India. Her 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). Singing Pictures, distributed by Documentary Educational Resources, won an award at the 2006 International Festival of Ethnological Film in Belgrade.