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Looks at the complex interweaving of economics and religion known as the ‘cargo’ system, which is found among the Highland Maya of Mexico and Guatemala.
From the equal distribution of all goods among the !Kung to the balanced reciprocity of the Yonomamo and the Trobriand Islanders, the economies of many non-Western societies are shown to be based on...
Looks at the social and economic split between Russians and the indiginous people of Yakutia, resulting from the recent upsurge of economic activity in Siberia, stimulated by foreign investment. Also tells...
In many cultures marriage is not just a pact between man and woman for sexual access and procreation. Customs are unique within societies and are often related to the economy.
Mestizos and campesinos are linked by an exploitative economic system that heightens their mutual contempt. Market days and fiestas provide opportunities for Mestizos, alternately benign and abusive, to...
A portrait of the former Soviet Union painted by seven-year-old children from the length and breadth of the USSR. At a time of breathtaking and devastating political and economic change, how do Soviet...
In this series, anthropologist and adventurer Bruce Parry journeys the length and breadth of the largest river in the world - the Amazon. Tracing the giant river from its origins high in the Andes to its...
In 1970, documentary filmmaker Colette Piault and her colleagues produced a film on the lives of a group of young people living in the Brouck (the Audomarois Fenland) area of Northern France. Forty years...
Looks at a precise moment of consciousness of socio-economic agricultural problems faced by eight young fenlanders from Saint-Omer, Pas de Calais, a moment when French farmers were tempted to replace...
Ephtim D. is a 73-year-old retired Bulgarian postman. He lives with his wife in a three-bedroom suburban apartment and experiences constant difficulties surviving on a small pension. As a socialist he feels...
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