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  1. Future with AIDS, A (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2000 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the very different cultural attitudes to sexuality in India, Brazil and Zambia, and explores appropriate approaches to education and prevention of AIDS. Focuses on innovative outreach projects aimed...

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  2. Amji-Kin: The Run of the World (1993 Video)

    Director
    Jürgen Dieckert; Jakob Mehringer; Oldenburg; Regen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 42 min., 1995 sale: DM130 (+p&p)

    Among the Canela Indians of north-east Brazil, log races for men and women are an almost daily sporting activity, strongly connected with their mythology and ritual life. Introduces Canela culture and then...

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  3. Dreams from the Forest (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Dreams, myths and rituals are an essential part of life for the Mehinacu, one of the several Indian groups living in the Xingu Reserve in central Brazil. But since the white man discovered them nearly 50...

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  4. Feast, The (1967 Film)

    Director
    Timothy Asch; Napoleon A Chagnon
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Set among the Yanomamo Indians of morthern Brazil and southern Venezuela, the feast cements an alliance between previously hostile villages for the purpose of attacking a third. (The action is first...

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  5. Brazil: Shadows on the Street (1995 Video)

    Producer
    Darren Bender
    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1999 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Focuses on Brazilian street children and the Candelária massacre of July 1993 in which seven street children and a youth were gunned down outside Candelária church in downtown Rio de Janeiro. Follows the...

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  6. Kayapo: Fire of the Jaguar (1982 Film)

    Director
    Peter Ramsden
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Discusses the use of fire as a symbolic reproduction of society. Shows these ideas through everyday life among the Kayapo of Brazil, through their telling of the jaguar myth and showing the ritual that...

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  7. Contact: The Yanomami Indians of Brazil (1990 Video)

    Director
    Geoffrey O’Connor
    Distribution
    Sale, Video cassette. Standard formats. col. 28 min.

    Introduces the Amazon goldrush and shows the impact on the Yanomami Indians. Includes graphic footage of the devastating effects of mines, air traffic and disease on the Yanomami people. The various...

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  8. Neighbourhood of Coelhos, The (1982 Film)

    Director
    Jaime Martin-Escobla
    Subject
    Architecture; Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the lives of the inhabitants of Coelhos, a slum built over swampland in the city of Recife, Brazil, and describes an urban development project intended to relieve their plight. Illustrates the...

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  9. Seeds of Change (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at solutions for the crisis in agriculture that is affecting north-east Brazil, where rain forests have been destroyed, slash-and-burn farming practices have degraded soil structures, and drought leads...

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  10. Carlinhos Brown, Bahia Beat (2003)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 106 minutes), £18.99

    Carlinhos Brown is a successful musician but still lives in Candeal, Brazil where he remains deeply rooted in the street culture which has been the inspiration for his Afro-Brazilian music. He has set up and...

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