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Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village (1984 Video)

Director

Richard Gordon; Carma Hinton

Subject

Anthropology; Women’s studies

Distribution

Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

Concerns the women of the village, Long Bow, who are the subject of the William Hinton books ‘Shenfan’ and Fanshen’. The title refers to the enduring attitude in rural China that while a boy is ‘big...

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Village Life and Music in Hungary (198 Video)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Folk songs, dances and instrumental music from Hungarian villages, paralleling gypsy music.

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Dimanche en Anjou (1993 Video)

Producer

Betty Talks

Subject

French studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min.

Contrasts Sunday in a French village with Sunday in a town. All is peaceful in the village in the early morning, while the town is bustling with people going ot market. During the day, roles are reversed,...

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Caught in a Web (2017)

aka: Caught in a Web Trilogy

Director

Toni de Bromhead

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (52 minutes (each film)), £50.00

Three films comparing and contrasting aspects of life in a Dorset community in the Bride Valley and in Villes-sur-Auzon, a French village in Provence. The first film in the trilogy is A VILLAGE HERITAGE...

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Village Voices: 40 Years of Rural Transformation in South India (1999 Video)

Director

Beate Engelbrecht

Subject

Anthropology; Development studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: DM85 (+p&p)

Examines rural development by observing the different developmental paths of two villages, following the introduction of an irrigation system begun in the 1930s in the Mysore district in South India. An...

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Little Waterfall (2003)

Director

Joshka Wessels

Subject

Anthropology; Arabic studies; Archaeology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 52 minutes), £50.00

Shallalah Saghirah ('Little Waterfall’) is a small village of about twenty households located in the Khanasser valley, in north Syria. The village has no electricity and still uses an ancient system, known...

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Village Under the Forest, The (2013)

Director

Mark J Kaplan

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £39.50

Unfolding as a personal meditation from the Jewish Diaspora, this programme explores the hidden remains of the destroyed Palestinian village of Lubya, which lies under a purposely cultivated forest...

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Hausa Village (1949 Film)

Director

Jean Duff

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Although the commentary is occasionally misleading, this study of the Hausa of Nigeria gives a vivid impression of village life a generation ago, showing agricultural and fishing activities, hut building and...

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All Under Heaven: Life in a Chinese Village (1985 Video)

Director

Richard Gordon; Carma Hinton

Distribution

Hire or sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 58 min.

Looks at daily life in Long Bow, showing how the traditional way of life has been affected by political change, particulaly collectivisation and decollectivisation. An elaborate funeral is shown, and the...

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Afghan Village, An (1974 Film)

Director

Herbert DeGioia; David Hancock

Producer

Denis Borrow

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Daily life in the village of Aq Kupruk in Afghanistan. Note: Printed materials intended to complement the observational approach used in the filming of this series are in preparation.

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