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  1. Ritual Journeys (2011)

    Director
    Dawa T Lepcha
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £50.00

    The film is an intimate portrait of Merayk, an 80 years old Lepcha shaman or Padim. Merayk lives with his family in Dzongu, a Lepcha reserve in North Sikkim. He performs healing rituals for individuals as...

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  2. The Listening Experience

    Date
    7 Nov 2014, 13:42
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    The Royal College of Music and The Open University have created the Listening Experience Database (LED), an ambitious three-year project, funded by the AHRC, to document the impact of music on people’s...

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  3. Wheel of Time (2007)

    Director
    Werner Herzog
    Subject
    Film studies; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 81 minutes), £19.99

    Herzog’s documentary film about the largest Buddhist ritual to promote peace and tolerance, held by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Bodh Gaya, India and Graz, Austria in 2002. The film includes exclusive...

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  4. Life After Death (2012)

    Subject
    Philosophy; Religious studies; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £49.00 (DVD), £20.00 (1 Year Digital Licence), £49.00 (3 Year Digital Licence)

    Ideas about the soul and the afterlife, of sin and God’s purpose have shaped human thinking for thousands of years. Religious rituals remain embedded in the major events of our lives. In this...

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  5. Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life (2012)

    Subject
    Religious studies; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 150 minutes), £585.00

    Ideas about the soul and the afterlife, of sin and God’s purpose have shaped human thinking for thousands of years. Religious rituals remain embedded in the major events of our lives. In this...

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  6. Bridewealth for a Goddess (2000 Video)

    Director
    Chris Owen
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 72 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Documents the last performance of the ritual for the fertility goddess Amb Kor. Shot over a period of 15 years, the anthropologists/filmmakers have been participant-observers durng a time of pivotal change...

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  7. Masks of Mer, The (2010)

    Director
    Michael Eaton
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 37 minutes), £50.00

    The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world’s first example of anthropological cinema. The MASKS OF MER tells the extraordinary story of this...

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