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  1. Maragoli (1976 Film, Video)

    Director
    Sandra Nichols
    Producer
    Sandra Nichols
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at attitudes and changes in an area of Kenya, which is experiencing one of the world’s fastest rates of population growth. Based on research by Joseph Ssennyonga as part of the ‘Cross cultural...

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  2. Red Bowmen, The (1981 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Chris Owen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Each year a fertility ritual known as Ida is performed by the Umeda people who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sowanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Explores the complex symbolism...

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  3. Indian Pilgrimage, An: Kashi (1976 Film)

    Director
    Mira Reym Binford; Michael Camerini
    Producer
    Mira Reym Binford; Michael Camerini
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Follows a South Indian Brahman, an accountant in an engineering firm, as he and his family perform the traditional ancestor rites at Kashi (Benares). Examines the living tradition of Orthodox Hinduism in the...

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  4. Herders of Mongun-Taiga, The (1989 Video)

    Director
    John Sheppard
    Producer
    John Sheppard
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI) Sale (Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Tuvanians live deep inside the Soviet Union at the centre of Asia. With ‘glasnost’, the new openness, a film crew was allowed to film the nomadic yak herders of Mongun-Taiga, a rugged district on the...

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  5. Sakuddei, The (1974 Film, Video)

    Director
    John Sheppard
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Sakuddei live on the island of Siberut off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. They are a small community with their own distinctive language and social and religious life. The film draws a moving and...

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  6. Mehinacu, The (1974 Film, Video)

    Director
    Carlos Pasini
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Mehinacu are one of several Indian groups living near the headwaters of the River Xingu in the Xingu National Park in central Brazil. Relations between the sexes in this society are formalised in an...

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  7. Chole Island: Circumcision (1978 Film)

    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Male circumcision is the centre of a ritual which marks a stage in the male life cycle. Concerns an Islamic group in Tanzania and shows a part of the typical pattern of these rites - separation from the old,...

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  8. Curing Ceremony, A (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A medicine man may go into a trance without the stimulus of dancing to treat someone who urgently needs his attention. /Ti!kay treats Sha//gai, a young pregnant woman who is about to have a miscarriage. Made...

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  9. Polka (1986 Video)

    aka: Polka: Roots of Conjunto Accoridion Playing in South Texas

    Director
    Robert Boozajer Flaes; Maarten Rens
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Compares the accordion music of Chicano immigrants in southern Texas with the traditional music of accordion players in Austria. Without making any final judgements on the roots of ‘conjunto’ music of...

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  10. Witchcraft Among the Azande (1982 Video)

    aka: Azande, The

    Director
    André Singer
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, VHS (PAL, 52 minutes), £8.00 (hire), £50.00 (sale)

    A study of the Azande of the Sudan who today live a life of obscurity, dominated by magic, oracles and spells. Discusses how their beliefs influence their reactions to such events as an illness, a spoiled...

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