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  1. Guardian of the Forces, The (1991 Video)

    Director
    Anne Laure Folly
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Introduces the world of Sikavi, a ‘fetish priest’ in Lome, Togo, who controls the spirits of several voodoos or gods. Explores the significance of sacrifice and possession in communicating with spirits...

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  2. Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi (1995 Video)

    Director
    Philippa Deveson; Ian Dunlop
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A series of interviews with an Australian Aboriginal, Dundiwuy Wanambi, filmed over 12 years between 1970 and 1982, showing the struggles of one man in the face of the huge changes brought about by the...

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  3. John the Eel Trapper (1982 Video)

    Director
    Toni de Bromhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    John, a solitary character, makes his living by trapping eels in the numerous canals of East Anglia. His is seen at work and narrating his own story. He is always on the run because eel trapping is illegal....

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  4. Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Gisu of Uganda (1989 Film, Video)

    Director
    Richard Hawkins
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Documentary about the male circumcision ritual among the Gisu of Uganda. The narrative follows one male participant through the ritual and contrasts his hopes and anxieties on this important day of his life...

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  5. 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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  6. Dancer and the Dance, The (1988 Video)

    Director
    Felicia Hughes-Freeland
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Javanese palace dancing has long attracted outsiders by its exotic costume and effortless grace of movement. These first impressions belie the physical and intellectual rigor which are the reality of the...

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  7. Dor, Low is Better (1987 Video)

    Director
    Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn introduced to them by the...

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  8. Life Chances: Four Families in a Greek Cypriot Village (1974 Film, Video)

    Director
    Peter Loizos
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, following four closely related families before the Turks made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities available to...

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  9. Blooms of Banjeli, The: Technology and Gender in West African Ironmaking (1988 Video)

    Director
    Carlyn Saltman
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Carolyn Saltman and two historians went into the village of Banjeli in 1985 to try to recreate on film the traditional iron smelting techniques (which are no longer used) of the area. The result is an...

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  10. 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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