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Shilluk of Southern Sudan, The (1975 Film, Video)

Director

Chris Curling

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An account of the rituals, mock battles and celebrations involved in the installation of the 32nd king of the Shilluk of southern Sudan, the most northern of the Nilotic peoples, whose dynasty was founded by...

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Maitres Fous, Les (1955 Film)

aka: Mad Masters, The

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows a ceremony of the Hauka, a religious sect in West Africa, and explores questions of dependence, domination and synthesis. During trance possession the participants of the ceremony reflect traditional...

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Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Seance Observed (1981 Film)

Director

Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch; Linda Connor

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Balinese spirit medium, Jero Tapakan, views a video recording of a film featuring herself entitled A BALINESE TRANCE SEANCE. She comments on the film and explains the seance proceedings.

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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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Kayapo: Fire of the Jaguar (1982 Film)

Director

Peter Ramsden

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses the use of fire as a symbolic reproduction of society. Shows these ideas through everyday life among the Kayapo of Brazil, through their telling of the jaguar myth and showing the ritual that...

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Joking Relationship, A (1966 Film)

Director

John K Marshall

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows a joking relationship between !Nai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great uncle, /Ti!kay. They flirt together under a baobab tree. The joking relationship is an important institution in !Kung...

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Pathans, The (1980 Film, Video)

Director

André Singer

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Bound by a common language and heritage and a fundamental belief in Islam, the Pathans have never acknowledged the political boundaries imposed by the states in which they live. Today the Pathans are...

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Tibetan New Year, A (1987 Video)

Director

Jon Jerstad

Producer

Jon Jerstad

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 43 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) (Meridian Trust) 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

Documents the Tibetan new year celebrations carried out by the monks of the only Bonpo community outside Tibet, located in the foothills of the Himalayas. Shows the enactment of the annual ceremony with the...

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Malta: Parish (1978 Film)

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Although Malta is industrialised, the social life of the community revolves around the church just as it did in rural Europe before the Industrial Revolution. Centres around eleven episodes that show the...

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Chole Island: A Woman’s Place (1978 Film)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Shows the relations between men and women in a Tanzanian community which seem to conform to the Islamic ideal of segregation. All Swahili rituals, including marriage, involve hospitality. While the men...

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