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  1. 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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  2. Reclaiming the Forest (1986 Film, Video)

    Director
    George Drion; Paul Henley
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The competition between national governments, itinerant gold-miners, and indigenous inhabitants for control of an area of South American rain forest. Shows the potential conflict betwen the interests of the...

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  3. 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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  4. Every Day is Not a Feast Day (1980 Video)

    aka: Den Einai Pasxa Katha Mera

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 110 minutes), £24.00

    A chronicle of daily life in a village in Epirus, northern Greece. Although the village appears to be virtually self-sufficient, the truth is that its economic, social and family life depend on the outer...

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  5. Ileksen (1978 Video)

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

    Shows the election campaign, election day and the formation of a government in 1977 in Papua New Guinea, the first after the country became independent of Australia in 1975. The dominant impression is one of...

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  6. Sprouts of Capitalism in China, The (1997 Video)

    Director
    Wen-jie Qin
    Subject
    Anthropology; Economics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: US$220.00 (+p&p) PAL version

    Tells the story of one of China’s newly rich entrepreneurs, Yang Dacquan, of Pengzhou City in Sichuan. Mr Yang came from a rich gentry family and was given away as an infant when his family disintegrated...

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  7. Sons of Haji Omar (1978 Film)

    Director
    Timothy Asch; Asen Balikci; Eugene Boyko; David Newman; Richard Sorensen
    Producer
    Don Hopkins; Douglas MacDonald; Michael McKennirey
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtun tribal group in north-eastern Afghanistan. The film focuses on this family: Haji Omar, the patriarch, a wealthy settled nomad, determined on...

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  8. Bushmen’s Secret (2006)

    Director
    Rehad Desai
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 65 minutes), $225.00

    When South African filmmaker Rehad Desai travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge, he meets Jan van der Westhuizen, a fascinating Khomani San traditional healer....

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  9. Kinship and Descent (2 Parts) (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 2 x 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p) each part

    Part 1: Although kinship and descent are not particularly significant organising principles in Western cultures, these cultures do incorporate kinship and descent considerations in some ways. This programme...

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  10. Vulnerable Life, A (1993 Video)

    Director
    Patti Langton
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 24 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    All families in Indian villages are vulnerable to some extent,and those in the Bijnor district of Tuuar Pradesh are no exception. The film shows three families with differing lifestyles, one Muslim and two...

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