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Missionary Ship for Service in the Islands of Melanesia

Date released

28 Jul 1932

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

214

NoS ID

138954

Story no

7 / 9

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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Land Divers of Melanesia (1973 Film)

Director

Robert Gardner

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Salient features of intact culture of Bunlap villagers on Pentecost Island in the New Hebrides. Relation between yam agriculture and ceremonies such as land-diving. Details of diving as men anchor their feet...

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Peoples and Cultures of the World

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 744 minutes), £54.99

This course offers an opportunity to survey the full scope of the field of cultural anthropology. Professor Fischer examines the contributions of the profession’s most noted scholars, from founders and...

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Lau of Malaita, The (1987 Video)

Director

Leslie Woodhead

Producer

Leslie Woodhead

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI) Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Focuses on the Lau people of Lau lagoon in the Solomon Islands. They live on artificial islands near the island of Malaita, islands built on coral rubble. The Lau moved to them in an attempt to escape the...

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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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