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  1. Touching (1975)

    Subject
    Psychology

    Sociologist and anthropologist Dr Ashley Montagu discusses the key concepts of his book ‘Touching’, illustrating the importance of early tactile experiences and the use of touching in encounter therapy.

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  2. Kingdoms of Bronze (1975 Film)

    Director
    David Collison
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    With the conquest by the British of the city states of Benin in 1897, the bronzes used in many of the ceremonies designed to honor the Oba (the divine ruler) were released onto the art market and now fetch...

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  3. Wasp Nest, The (1966 Film)

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

    Follows a group of women and children as they gather berries and roots. Younger women bait a nest of wasps. Note: the material for the film was shot in the 1950s.

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  4. Dor, Low is Better (1987 Video)

    Director
    Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn introduced to them by the...

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  5. We Are All Neighbours (1992 Video)

    aka: War: We Are All Neighbours

    Director
    Debbie Christie
    Producer
    Debbie Christie
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Anthropologist Tone Bringa filmed ordinary people in a mixed Catholic-Muslim village in outside Sarajevo, Bosnia, over the space of three weeks, showing how the stress of war causes good neighbours to become...

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  6. Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009)

    Producer
    Llewellyn Smith; Vincent Brown; Christine Herbes-Sommers
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 57 minutes), $195.00

    Who has the authority to define a culture? Is there "objective" scholarship and, if so, how does it become politicised? Race and scholarship collide in a new film on Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering...

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  7. Tracking the Pale Fox: Studies on the Dogon (1983 Video)

    Director
    Luc de Heusch
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 48 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Presents the history of research on the Dogon since the famous 1931 expedition of Marcel Griaule, establishing the original expedition in the context of French anthropology at the time. Jean Rouch,...

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  8. Kung Hunting Equipment (1966 Film)

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

    Construction of a hunting kit from raw materials and preparation of poisonous larvae and plants to coat arrow shafts. Use of equipment during a hunt. Note: The material for the film was shot in the 1950s.

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  9. Autism: Life Among Strangers (2010)

    Subject
    Medical sciences; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 43 minutes), £24.99

    This documentary features Dale Henderson who, until the age of 18 months, appeared to be like every other toddler. When he began to withdraw into himself, stopped interacting with others and began to do...

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  10. Firth on Firth: Reflections of an Anthropologist (1993 Video)

    Director
    Rolf Husmann; Peter Loizos; Werner Sperschneider
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 49 minutes), £50.00

    Sir Raymond Firth, one of Britain’s most eminent anthropologists, in conversation with Peter Loizos. Firth looks back on memories of New Zealand, Tikopia, and Malaya and recalls other anthropologists. His...

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