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  1. Migrant Way, The (1970 Film)

    Director
    P Neal
    Producer
    B Hauser
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The problems of the nomadic peasants of north-eastern Brazil, showing a resettlement scheme and a land reclamation scheme.

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  2. Pygmies, The (1974 Film)

    Director
    Herbert Risz
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A study of how the Pygmies of the Congo (Brazzaville) live. Deals with their relationship with government officials and with their sedentary Bantu neighbours. The Pygmies, reluctant to change, discuss...

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  3. 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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  4. San Soldiers (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The San people of southern Africa are struggling to avoid extinction amid warfare in South Africa, Namibia and Angola. This film examines the persecution of these landless people, whose traditional nomadic...

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  5. Let Our Songs Live (1993 Video)

    Director
    Mats Brolin; Anna Cnattingius
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

    This film was made at the invitation of the Sirionó Indians living in Ibiato, a small village with 500 inhabitants in the rainforest of northern Bolivia. The Sirionó call themselves ‘Mbía’ (people)....

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  6. Last Nomads of the Yayla (2006)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 51 minutes), £14.99

    Documentary. The Yayla is the name given to the summer pastures in the high Taurus mountains in Southern Turkey. The film reveals the way of life in the Yayla and shows in detail how the nomads milk their...

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  7. Depending on Heaven (1988 Video)

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

    Focuses on the Mongols living in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. In two 28-minute parts: 1) follows the life of a nomadic Mongol family on their yearly journey following the herds across north...

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  8. Saltmen of Tibet, The (1998)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 109 minutes), $29.99

    Shot under extreme conditions, this film documents the ancient traditions and day-to-day rituals of a Tibetan nomadic community. Filmmaker Ulrike Koch reveals a realm untainted by the tides of foreign...

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  9. Glass Beadmaking in Turkey and Ghana (2006)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 45 minutes), £14.99

    Documentary. This DVD shows two traditional methods of glass beadmaking and shows in detail how beautiful handcrafted beads are produced. In Turkey, glass beads are made in a furnace and the technique is...

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  10. Herders of Mongun-Taiga, The (1989 Video)

    Director
    John Sheppard
    Producer
    John Sheppard
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI) Sale (Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Tuvanians live deep inside the Soviet Union at the centre of Asia. With ‘glasnost’, the new openness, a film crew was allowed to film the nomadic yak herders of Mongun-Taiga, a rugged district on the...

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