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Himalayan High Jumpers

Date released

4 May 1931

Series name

Pathe Pictorial

Issue no

683

NoS ID

348714

NoS synopsis: Zoo footage - Himalayan mountain goats run around on mini cliffs.

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Trading Societies of Western Nepal (1972 Film)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

Discusses the traditional trans-Himalayan trade links the relatively low-altitude, grain-growing regions of Nepal with high-altitude Tibet, the traditional source of most of the salt and wool imported by...

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Haider (2014 Film)

aka: Hamlet

Director

Vishal Bhardwaj

Bollywood version of Hamlet. Ophelia is a young journalist, Polonious a policeman, Laertes works for a multinational and Hamlet is a philosophy student from Kasmir, the former Himalayan province. The film...

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Daba: Na Shaman (1999 Video)

Director

Hua Cai

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

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

After more than a quarter century without any form of religious ceremony, the Na, an ethnic group living on the Himalayan plateau, began again to openly practise their religion in the early 1990s. Their...

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How to Study Cultures (4 Parts) (1997 Video)

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 18, 24, 20, 22 min., 2001 sale: £32.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

Series attempting to define and explain culture by looking at its elements, using examples from around the world. 1: How culture develops as a result of the geographical elements of topography, climate and...

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Tibetan Book of the Dead, The (2005)

Subject

Philosophy; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0, 91 minutes), £19.99

A two-part exploration of ancient teachings on death and dying which visualise the afterlife according to Tibetan philosophy and are central to Buddhist culture. Narrated by Leonard Cohen.

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Mai (1975)

Subject

Psychology; Sociology

Distribution

Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £10.00 (+p&p)

An affectionate film portrait of an irrepressible "eccentric", Mai Finglass, who makes you question the sanity of conformity. Born in India around 1890 from Irish-Persian parents, Mai Finglass as a young...

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Tribe, Series 1-3 (2007)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £34.99

Compiilation of the three series of television programmes in which Bruce Parry goes to live with some of the world’s oldest indigenous people in the most remote parts of the planet, shedding the trappings...

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People and Plants Series (5 Parts) (2001)

Subject

Biology; Development studies; Environmental science

Distribution

Sale, VHS (27, 25, 10, 26, 25 minutes), £13.00 (+p&p)each

A series of 5 videos designed to demonstrate practical methodologies in applied ethnobiology.

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