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  1. 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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  2. Mongolia: On the Edge of the Gobi (1976 Film, Video)

    Director
    Brian Moser
    Subject
    Agriculture; Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    For the past 60 years Mongolia, under the supervision of the People’s Revolutionary Party, has been undergoing a process of transformation from a feudal society to a modern industrial one. The film-makers...

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  3. Aeroplane Dance (1994 Video)

    aka: Ka-Wayawayama

    Director
    Trevor Graham
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Records the ‘ky-wayawayama’ or ‘aeroplane dance’ of the Yanyuwa people of the Borroloola area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The dance was came about after an American bomber crashed in the...

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  4. Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (1975 Film)

    Director
    Jerry W Leach
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sports science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £37.50

    An ethnographic film about cricket as played in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. In the first half the people explain how to play the game and tell why they changed it over the last 70 years. The...

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  5. Garden Days: Village in Papua New Guinea (1988 Video)

    Director
    Jon Jerstad; Ariane Lewis
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A record of Rauit village, Sepik Inland, Papua New Guinea, chiefly from the woman’s point of view. Opens with the final stages of a ritual called ‘malyi’ with a masked dancer performing and the...

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  6. 1700 Metres from the Future (1990 Video)

    Director
    Ulla Boje Rasmussen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, minutes), £50.00

    Inhabitants of the isolated settlement of Gásadalur on the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic discuss the planned tunnel that will connect them to the other islands, talking about their outlooks on the...

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  7. Kayapo, The: Out of the Forest (1989 Video)

    Director
    Michael Beckham
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (c/o Concord) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Early in 1989 the Kayapo rallied other Brazilian Indians to attend a re-unification of the tribes at Altamira - the proposed site of a massive hydro-electric dam that will flood large parts of the Xingu...

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  8. Takeover (1979 Film, Video)

    Director
    David McDougall; Judith McDougall
    Producer
    David McDougall; Judith McDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    On 13 March 1978 the Queensland government announced its intention to take over management of the Aurukan Aboriginal Reserve from the Uniting Church. The people of Aurukun complained bitterly, fearing that...

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  9. Lessons from Gulam: Asian Music in Bradford (1986 Film, Video)

    Director
    John Baily
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Bradford has a community of 60,000 Muslim Asians. The film is a detailed study of musical culture and education within this community. Gulam Musa is the principal character and he is shown as a teachers and...

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  10. Kazakhs of China, The (1983 Video)

    aka: Inside China: The Kazakhs

    Director
    André Singer
    Producer
    André Singer
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Kazakhs are horse-riding herders of sheep and yak, living on a vast territory administratively called East Wind Commune in Sinkiang province of China. For the first time a western television team was...

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