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  1. Shilluk of Southern Sudan, The (1975 Film, Video)

    Director
    Chris Curling
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An account of the rituals, mock battles and celebrations involved in the installation of the 32nd king of the Shilluk of southern Sudan, the most northern of the Nilotic peoples, whose dynasty was founded by...

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  2. Photo Wallahs (1991 Video)

    Director
    Judith MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An exploration of the cultural and personal meanings of photographs in a hill station in northern India. The ‘photo wallahs’ are the local photographers of Mussoorie, a town that once attracted Indian...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Red Bowmen, The (1981 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Chris Owen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Each year a fertility ritual known as Ida is performed by the Umeda people who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sowanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Explores the complex symbolism...

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  7. 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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  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. Condor and the Bull, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Peter Getzels; Harriet Gordon
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Villagers from remote hamlets high in the Andes join together with people from the roadside village of Ocongate to celebrate the Peruvian independence day. Festivities require that a wild condor be captured...

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  10. 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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