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On the condition that the series never be shown in Papua New Guinea, the Baruya allowed a film crew to record an entire set of male initation rituals. The Baruya live in the eastern Highlands of Papua New...
A collection of films celebrating British folk customs and rural games, ranging from morris and maypole dancing, sword and step dances to Shrove Tuesday football games and the Padstow Obby Oss ceremony. The...
The stories of three men who refused to fight in WW1, and society’s attitudes raising questions about patriotism, politics and religion. The film and additional material are suitable as an educational...
A filmed portrait of Mbambim, the head of a patrilineage of 80 people living in a small Tyokossi village in North Togo, West Africa. Mbambim is a timid, unassuming man who shrinks from exercising authority...
SALUTE tells the story of Peter Norman, the Australian athlete, who stood on the podium with African-American runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, in the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, during the award...
In April 1968, the Board of Trustees of Columbia University decided to build a gymnasium on land where the Morningside Community Park stood. While members of this low income minority community rose in fierce...
In Papua New Guinea status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring them. The moka is a ceremony in which people, somethimes the whole tribe, give gifts to members of other tribes. The larger...
A study of the Gelede ritual which is found in Western Nigeria and amongst the Yoruba in Dahomey. The purpose of this ceremony is to propitiate the great mother and assure the placation of women with...
The Muria are a tribal group living in a relatively isolated area of central India. Their way of life differs from the general Indian pattern in many respects, particularly in the independence of spirit...
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