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  1. Legend in Clay (1961 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the making of very large pots in the Amphlett Islands. The pots, which were exported to obtain sufficient food, played an important part in the utilitarian trade accompanying the Kula ceremonial...

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  2. Yap...How Did You Know We’d Like TV? (1980 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Media studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 54 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    The small island of Yap was part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, known as Micronesia, a possession given to the United States as a ‘strategic trust’ after World War II. Traditional culture...

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  3. William Hodges: The Art of Exploration (2004)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £19.99

    The painter William Hodges is increasingly seen as a key figure in eighteenth-century British art and in its relationships with the wider world. In an age of colonial expansion Hodges accompanied Captain...

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  4. 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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  5. Paradise Precarious (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 29 min., 2000 sale: US$25.00 (VHS PAL)

    Shows the fragility of life on small island states such as Mauritius and how easily these paradise islands could be destroyed. Then looks at how governments can work with the private sector and citizens’...

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  6. Arctic Meltdown: Rising Seas (2007)

    Subject
    Biology; Environmental science

    A look at the early impact of global warming on two fragile ecosystems and cultures at opposite sides of the Globe. According to the world’s scientists, sea level rise is ‘arguably one of the world’s...

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  7. Oceans and Climates (1989)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Geography; Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 25 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    In late 1982 a surge of warm water swept across the surface of the Pacific depressing the nutrient rich upwelling water of Peru and causing the already over-fished anchovy fishery to collapse completely....

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  8. 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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  9. Across the World with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson (2012)

    Producer
    James Leo Meehan; Osa Johnson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Travel & tourism
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 mins.), $14.95

    As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, Osa and Martin Johnson describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South Pacific islands of Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the...

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  10. Galapagos Lives (1997)

    aka: Galapagos: Research in the Field

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (DVD-R, 30 minutes), £34.99 (CM)

    Against the stunning background of one of the Earth’s most inaccessible and unspoilt landscapes, the programme follows two scientific researchers. Beatrix Schramm is working against the clock to try and...

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