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  1. Carrot and the Stick, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Susi Arnott
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    When they retired from selling insurance and teaching, John and Irene Brown volunteered to work overseas under a British aid programme. They were sent to expand a marketing project aimed at gardeners in the...

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  2. Muktuk (1983 Video)

    Director
    Graham Johnston
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 2000 sale: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shot on the mosquito-ridden shores of the Mackenzie Delta in Canada’s North-West Territories, the film deals with the annual beluga (white whale) hunt. Follows three families who have migrated 110 miles in...

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  3. Firth on Firth: Reflections of an Anthropologist (1993 Video)

    Director
    Rolf Husmann; Peter Loizos; Werner Sperschneider
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 49 minutes), £50.00

    Sir Raymond Firth, one of Britain’s most eminent anthropologists, in conversation with Peter Loizos. Firth looks back on memories of New Zealand, Tikopia, and Malaya and recalls other anthropologists. His...

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  4. Sakuddei, The (1974 Film, Video)

    Director
    John Sheppard
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Sakuddei live on the island of Siberut off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. They are a small community with their own distinctive language and social and religious life. The film draws a moving and...

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  5. Goddess and the Computer, The (1989 Video)

    aka: Water Goddess and the Computer, The

    Director
    Steve Lansing; André Singer
    Subject
    Anthropology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (INCA, RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) (INCA) 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    Demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by religious authorities. A biologist and an anthropologist look at the...

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  6. Polka (1986 Video)

    aka: Polka: Roots of Conjunto Accoridion Playing in South Texas

    Director
    Robert Boozajer Flaes; Maarten Rens
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Compares the accordion music of Chicano immigrants in southern Texas with the traditional music of accordion players in Austria. Without making any final judgements on the roots of ‘conjunto’ music of...

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  7. Basques of Santazi, The (1987 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Video cassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows the lives over one year, shot during three intervals, of two Basque shepherding families who live in Santazi, a village in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. It focuses on continuity and change in...

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  8. Stockman’s Strategy (1984 Video)

    Director
    David MacDougall; Judith MacDougall
    Producer
    David MacDougall; Judith MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Structured as a series of episodes, the film explores the philosophy of teaching and learning of Sunny Bancroft, manager of Collum Collum, a cattle station operated by Aborigines in northern New South Wales....

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  9. Mystery of the Frozen Tombs of Siberia, The: A Young Lady Emerges from the Ice (1994 Video)

    Director
    Françoise Lévie
    Subject
    Anthropology; Archaeology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Reports on events of the summer of 1993 when Russian archaeologists discovered a new burial, bringing to light the frozen body of a Scythian woman buried 250 years ago in the AltaÔ mountains. Also examines...

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  10. Copperworking in Santa Clara del Cobre, MichoacÁn, Mexico: Artisans Facing Change (1989 Video)

    Director
    Beate Engelbrecht
    Subject
    Anthropology; Crafts
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 52 minutes), £50.00

    Santa Clara del Cobre is a centre for the craft of copperworking, a craft originating from pre-Spanish times. As in colonial times, copper utensils are beaten into shape. In the 1940s the industry expanded...

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