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  1. Spirit of the Gypsies (1999 Video)

    Director
    Jeremy Sandford
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 75 min., 2000 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A study of gypsy music, which includes portraits of the Stow-on-the-Wold Gypsy Horse Fair and Romany campsites. Linked with Romany folk songs and portraits of families and individuals such as Dave Rawlings,...

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  2. Latest additions to the BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

    Date
    4 Jun 2013, 10:54
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,350 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries...

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  3. Masks, Fetishes and Other Obsessions: A Voyage into Traditional African Art (2008)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 52 minutes), £120 [University rate]

    Lekha Sarkar explores the myths and stereotypes associated with traditional African masks and through them their associated cultures. She traces her journey to Togo and the Cameroon, to High priests,...

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  4. Goshen (2015)

    aka: Goshen: Places of Refuge for the Running People

    Director
    Dana Richardson; Sarah Zentz
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 85 minutes), £110.00

    Feature-length documentary depicting the lifestyle of the indigenous Tarahumara, a light-footed running tribe who are striving to maintain their ancient culture in the depths of Mexico’s Copper Canyons....

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  5. Morning, Ma’Am (1997 Video)

    Director
    Ann Richardson
    Producer
    Ann Richardson
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 2000 hire: £10.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A personal document by Ann Richardson of her time in Delhi. Her two most regular daily companions were Manju and Seema, aged 11 and 12, who came to clean her flat. The girls were at first a little cautious...

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  6. Disappearing World: Volume 1 (2010)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 790 minutes), £12.00

    Granada’s landmark anthropological series, broadcast over three decades, remains a benchmark of cutting-edge documentary making. A series of internationally acclaimed, award-winning films offer intimate...

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  7. Water Once a Day (1985)

    aka: Water Once a Day: Town Women of Cape Verde

    Director
    Tamara Wyss
    Subject
    Anthropology; Environmental science; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 46 minutes), £20.00

    In a poor suburb on the outskirts of the capital of Cape Verde, where one standpipe serves 3,000 people, and then only for three hours a day, Balila, who is 53 and blind, sells water. She has had a hard...

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  8. Gods and Satans (2005)

    aka: Dieux et Satans

    Director
    Martine Jounet; Gerard Nougarol
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 87 minutes), £50.00

    Among the Wana people, semi-nomads from the Indonesian forest of Sulawesi, Indo Pino is a shaman recognized by everybody. Her nephew, who is also a shaman’s son, converted to Christianity and is now...

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  9. 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep (2010)

    Director
    Ben Hopkin
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 85 minutes), £14.99

    Ben Hopkins’ documentary 37 USES FOR A DEAD SHEEP provides a glimpse at the lifestyles, mores, and background of the Pamir Kirghiz, a nomadic tribe from the central Asia. Documentarist Hopkins teams up...

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  10. Dead Birds (1972 Film)

    Director
    Robert Gardner
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 85 minutes), $295.00

    A record of ritualised warfare, made among the Dugun Dani of the Baliem Valley in West New Guinea. The film also describes the everyday lives of a man and a boy. The film was shot in 1971 before the area...

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