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  1. Appeal from the Rainforest, An (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 10 min.

    Shows the effects of mining in the rain forest. Davi Yanomami makes the first-ever visit by a Yanomami spokesperson to Europe, to appeal for acknowledgement of Yonomami land rights. He also collects the...

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  2. Barbara Bentley on the plight of the Forest Indians (1978)

    Genre
    Interview

    Barbara Bentley, Director of Survival International, describes the plight of the Forest Indians in Paraguay. The Indians are hunted and rounded up by people establishing ranches in the area, and sold into...

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  3. Blood on the Cross (1996 Video)

    Director
    Mark Davis
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

    Mark Davis investigates the role of the International Red Cross, the British military and South African mercinaries in the murder of civilians in the highlands of West Papua (Irian Jaya).

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  4. Siberia (1997 Video)

    Director
    Ian Paul
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

    Adventurer Ray Mears visits the Evenk people, nomadic reindeer herders who live in traditional teepees on a diet of reindeer, fish and a few edible plants in the freezing Arctic climate in the taiga forest...

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  5. Return from Extinction (1998 Video)

    Director
    Adrian Cowell
    Producer
    Adrian Cowell
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. 60 min.

    First programme in a trilogy documenting the fight for survival of an ancient tribe agains the relentless advance of modern man. This programme concerns the various threats to the Amazonian Panara by contact...

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  6. Namibian Tribes: A Bushman’s Story (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

    Looks at daily life in a ‘Bushman’ community in Namibia.

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  7. Secret Country, The (1986 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

    John Pilger’s account of the colonisation of Australia and the struggle for Aboriginal land rights in the past and present.

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  8. First Nations First (1993 Video)

    Director
    Paolo Ducasse; Damien Rea
    Producer
    Paolo Ducasse; Damien Rea
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire (SI) Sale (TVE), Videocassette. VHS. col. 21 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Made to promote the ‘UN Decade of Indigenous People’, the film looks at the fundamental questions affecting the survival of indigenous peoples, who currently number 300 million, living in over 70...

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  9. Women in the Mines (1996 Video)

    Director
    Tess Fajardo
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

    Highlights women’s perspectives as large-scale mining dislocates indigenous communities in the Philippines from land they have inhabited and managed for centuries.

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  10. Price of Progress, The (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min.

    Documents the effects of World Bank-funded projects on the environment and tribal peoples worldwide. These projects include the Poloroeste project in South America (building a road through a Brazilian rain...

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