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  1. To Live with Herds (1972 Film, Video)

    Director
    David MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    About a dry-season homestead among the Jie, the semi-nomadic people in North-eastern Uganda. At the time the film was made there was a famine, and their view of the reasons for this and possible solutions...

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  2. Afghan Nomads: The Maldar (1975 Film)

    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    At dawn the caravan descends on Aq Kupruk from the foothills of the Hindu Kush. In their camp and in commerce with the townspeople, the Maldar reveal the mixture of faith and distrust that has kept nomads...

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  3. Afghan Village, An (1974 Film)

    Director
    Herbert DeGioia; David Hancock
    Producer
    Denis Borrow
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Daily life in the village of Aq Kupruk in Afghanistan. Note: Printed materials intended to complement the observational approach used in the filming of this series are in preparation.

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  4. Lorang’s Way (1980 Video)

    Director
    David MacDougall; Judith MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (film or video - RAI Film & Video Library Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 69 min., 1995 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) video 2000 hire: £39.00 (+VAT +p&p) film 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) video

    The Turkana are a group of semi-nomadic pastoralists who inhabit a harsh environment of dry thorn country in north-western Kenya. The film focuses upon a Turkana elder who serves not only as the subject of a...

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  5. Nagayati: Arts and Architecture Among the Gabra Nomads of Kenya (1991 Video)

    Director
    Peter Oud
    Producer
    Peter Oud
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    NAGAYATI, which means ‘be in peace’, explores the arts and architecture of the Gabra nomads in northern Kenya. The Gabra are one of the nomadic peoples living in the desert of the central part of...

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  6. Wodaabe, The (1988 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (film - RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (video - RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Wodabee follow their herds across the borders of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon in search of pasture. The droughts that have ravaged the Sahel since the late 1960s have devastated Wodaabe cattle...

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  7. Grass (1925 Film, Video)

    aka: Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life

    Director
    Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack
    Producer
    Jesse L Lasky; Adolph Zukor
    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In 1924 filmmakers Cooper and Schoedsack joined forces with journalist and sometime spy Harrison to film the Follows the annual migration of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of east Persia in search of grass for...

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  8. 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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  9. Taiga Nomads (3 Parts) (1992 Video)

    Director
    Heimo Lappalainen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 50 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) each part

    Documentary series about the Evenki (formerly the Tungus), who are scattered all over eastern Siberia. They are a nomadic tribe who move with the household and reindeer throughout the year, never having a...

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  10. Ascent of Man, The (13 Parts) (1973 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Biology; History; Philosophy
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 650 minutes), £36.99

    A classic13-part series in which Jacob Bronowski examines the intellectual, cultural, and scientific breakthroughs in man’s four-million-year evolution. He discusses the importance of new ideas and how...

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