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  1. Himalayan Shaman of Northern Nepal (1967)

    Director
    John Hitchcock; Patricia Hitchcock
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The influence of the inner shamanic tradition is clearly shown as the shaman aids a client family by controlling spirits, foretelling the future and sucking out intrusive objects.

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  2. Managing Agent and Advisory Service

    Date
    10 Sep 2010, 16:36
    Author
    Gabriel
    Post Type
    Page

    The British Universities Film & Video Council and the Rights Department of the Open University ceased acting as the Managing Agent and Advisory Service for Moving Pictures and Sound Online (MAAS...

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  3. Himalayan Shaman of Southern Nepal (1967 Film, Video)

    Director
    John Hitchcock; Patricia Hitchcock
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Aspects of the life and ‘practice’ of a curer from the more Hinduised portion of the Nepalese Himalaya, who has come into contact with western medicine.

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  4. 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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  5. Karakorum Geotraverse (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 44 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    A complete traverse across the ‘Himalayan’ collision zone from Tibetan rocks near the Chinese border south to the foreland basin near Jhelum is exposed along the Karakorum Highway. Looks at the formation...

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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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