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  1. Trobriand Islanders, The (1952 Film, Video)

    Director
    Harry A Powell
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A general introduction to the people of the Trobriand Islands. Also covers gardening and associated magic, mortuary rites, Kula preparations, and the harvest season. Made mainly in the region of Omarakana...

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  2. Kama Wosi: Music in the Trobriand Islands (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Led McLaren
    Producer
    Led McLaren
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Set in three inland villages on the largest of the Trobriand Islands. The poetry of songs and the art of singing are a major part of the Trobriand aesthetic traditions. Through the translation of song...

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  3. Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (1975 Film)

    Director
    Jerry W Leach
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £37.50

    An ethnographic film about cricket as played in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. In the first half the people explain how to play the game and tell why they changed it over the last 70 years. The...

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  4. Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea (1990 Video)

    Director
    David Wason
    Producer
    David Wason
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The inhabitants of the Trobriand Islands off the coast of Papua New Guinea, a group of small tropical atolls, are renowned for their rich yam production and the high drama of their harvest activities. Some...

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  5. Kula, The (1961 Film)

    Director
    Steve Szabo
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A record of the kula ceremonial exchange of gifts in the Milne Bay and south Trobriand Islands areas of eastern Papua, concentrating on the ceremonial exchanges between chiefs and the making of the shell...

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  6. Economic Anthropology (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    From the equal distribution of all goods among the !Kung to the balanced reciprocity of the Yonomamo and the Trobriand Islanders, the economies of many non-Western societies are shown to be based on...

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  7. Namekas: Music in Lake Chambri (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Les McLaren
    Producer
    Les McLaren
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the people of three villages on an island in Lake Chambri, adjacent to the Sepik river. Featured are the men’s sacred paired flutes, flute ensembles, slit drums and voice masks, which all have...

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  8. Garden Island, The (1968 Film)

    Director
    Steve Szabo
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An introduction, illustrating some of Malinowski’s material, to the ethnography of the Trobriand Islands in eastern Papua, showing gardening methods, magic, harvest, and dances, including among the latter...

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  9. Strangers Abroad (6 Parts) (1985 Video)

    aka: Strangers Abroad: Pioneers of Social Anthropology

    Director
    André Singer
    Producer
    André Singer
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (6 x 52 minutes), £60.00 each part or £300 the series

    Series on the first anthropologists to go out to live among the peoples who interested them. Retraces the steps of these pioneering anthropologists in the countries where they worked and, through their...

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