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Follows a group of women and children as they gather berries and roots. Younger women bait a nest of wasps. Note: the material for the film was shot in the 1950s.
Discusses the use of fire as a symbolic reproduction of society. Shows these ideas through everyday life among the Kayapo of Brazil, through their telling of the jaguar myth and showing the ritual that...
Shows a joking relationship between !Nai, the young wife of /Gunda, and her great uncle, /Ti!kay. They flirt together under a baobab tree. The joking relationship is an important institution in !Kung...
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...
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...
Made for television film. An avant garde interpretation of Richard III with emphasis on the women. The original production was performed at the Teatro Quirino di Rome with the same cast as the television...
Although Malta is industrialised, the social life of the community revolves around the church just as it did in rural Europe before the Industrial Revolution. Centres around eleven episodes that show the...
Shows the relations between men and women in a Tanzanian community which seem to conform to the Islamic ideal of segregation. All Swahili rituals, including marriage, involve hospitality. While the men...
Construction of a hunting kit from raw materials and preparation of poisonous larvae and plants to coat arrow shafts. Use of equipment during a hunt. Note: The material for the film was shot in the 1950s.
Looks at the effect of the changing status of women in Egypt and their outlook and attitudes to the problems of modern life and economic reality. Examines the consequences of work for four women: a factory...
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