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Goodbye Old Man (1977 Film, Video)

aka: Good-Bye Old Man

Director

David MacDougall

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Ethnographic record of a pukumani (bereavement) ceremony of the Tiwi of Melville Island, off the coast of Australia. Made at the request of the Mangatopi family of Snake Bay, the ceremony was held for the...

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Narritjin at Djarrakpi (2 Parts) (1980 Video)

Director

Ian Dunlop

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50, 39 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) each part

Narritjin Maymuru and his family are establishing a small settlement at Djarrakip, an important Manggalili clan site on the northern head of Blue Mud Bay in the Northern Territory of Australia. Narritjin is...

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Sofia and Her People (1985 Video)

aka: Sofia’s People: Eventful Lives

Director

Peter Loizos

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 37 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows a Greek family from the village of Argaki, Cyprus, at three points in their lives. In the ‘ethnographic present’ of Nicosia, 1983, when they operate a successful family business, a bakery that...

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Family Moves Camp and Gathers Food, A 1 (1965 Film)

Director

Ian Dunlop

Producer

John Martin-Jones

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The object of the series of films was to create a scientific record of the traditional life of Aboriginal people in the Western Desert of Australia. They concentrate on the subsistence technology of the...

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Celso and Cora (1983 Film)

Director

Gary Kildea

Producer

Gary Kildea

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 109 minutes), £50.00

A portrait of a young couple and their two children living in Manila. They live in a squatters’ area in the city suburbs and scrape a living by selling cigarettes illegally outside a downtown hotel. The...

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Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears (2008)

Director

Simon Chambers

Subject

Social Studies; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 63 minutes), £50.00

East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing from pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her Bangladeshi...

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Sheepherder’s Homecoming, A (1996 Video)

Director

Birch Carpenter; Allen Moore; Louis Werner

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Documents a migrant worker’s experiences as a herder on a Nevada sheep ranch. Eventually he returns home to a welcoming family and an uncertain future, for he must find work, the lack of which led him to...

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Living with Boko Haram (2016)

Director

Trond Waage; Mouzamou Ahamadou

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

DVD (37 minutes), £50.00

Militant Islamic group Boko Haram’s violent insurgency is approaching Mogde, on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon, where Antoniette lives. In Kolbotn, near Oslo (Norway), lives her eldest son Vakote,...

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Fall of the Tsars, The (1993 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 52 min.

Footage of the Russia’s Royal Family showing its opulent life style, which contributed to its ultimate overthrow and slaughter.

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Desert People (1965 Video)

Director

Ian Dunlop

Producer

John Martin-Jones

Distribution

Hire, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 51 min.

A compilation of parts 1, 2 and 4 of the PEOPLE OF THE AUSTRALIAN WESTERN DESERT SERIES. Parts 1 & 2: A simple account of an average day in the lives of two families of the Western Desert of Australia. Most...

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