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  1. Cannibalism (1999)

    Director
    André Singer; Tom Sheahan
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    This film explores the history of cannibalism around the world and its role in different culture, from ancient Britain to Papua New Guinea, including first-hand accounts, expert interviews and rarely seen...

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  2. Last of the Caravans (2008)

    Director
    Michael Steineck
    Subject
    Anthropology; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £17.99

    1.5 million TUAREGS are scattered across the Sahara desert in North Africa, one of the earth’s most hostile environments to mankind. Over thousands of years the resilient Tuaregs have adapted well to the...

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  3. Art of Myths, The (Vol 1) (2007)

    aka: Arts du Mythe, Les

    Director
    Philippe Truffault
    Subject
    Anthropology; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 234 minutes), £24.99

    The stories behind some of the great artworks and artefacts from cultures of the world. Initially derided as curios of ‘primitive’ art, and even though they served as inspirations for some of the great...

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  4. In Search of the Hamat’Sa: A Tale of Headhunting (2006)

    Director
    Aaron Glass
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 33 minutes), £50.00

    Produced in the Program for Culture and Media at New York University, The Hamat’sa (or "Cannibal Dance") is the most important and widely known ceremony of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British...

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  5. Magical Death (1973 Film)

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

    Focuses on the role of the shaman (Dedeheiw‰ in this case) in curing his Yanomamo co-villagers and sending sickness to enemy villages. The use of hallucinogenic snuff is shown in its daily context....

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  6. Sermiligaag 65°54’n, 36°22’w (2008)

    Director
    Anni Seitz
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

    The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few...

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  7. Silk, Muthappar and Vhs: Portraits from South India (1997 Video)

    aka: Seide, Muthappar und Vhs: Portr‰ts aus SÜdindien

    Director
    Damaris Lüthi
    Producer
    Ulrich Grossenbacher
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 63 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Presents three portraits of ‘ordinary’ people in the town of Nagercoil, southern India: Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings, with a daily routine that revolves around the...

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  8. Breaking the Chains (2015)

    Director
    Erminia Colucci
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

    The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and almost...

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  9. Breeding Cells (2009)

    aka: Schwangere Zellen

    Director
    Anna Straube; Gregor Gaida; Mirren Artola; Saskia Warzeka
    Subject
    Anthropology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 39 minutes), £20.00

    Filmed in the ward of reproductional medicine at Charite Hospital in Berlin, this video looks at the procedures involved in a fertility clinic through an experimental anthropological gaze. Concerned with the...

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  10. Serindia: The Forgotten Oases of the Silk Roads (1998 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Archaeology; History
    Distribution
    CD-ROM

    A multimedia exploration of the experiences of explorers who discovered the last of the forgotten civilisations: Serindia, the sacred land of Buddhism. Once the heart of a flourishing silk trade, it was...

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