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Looks at daily life in Long Bow, showing how the traditional way of life has been affected by political change, particulaly collectivisation and decollectivisation. An elaborate funeral is shown, and the...
During the 1970s and 1980s the recurrence of famine in rural areas of Africa resulted in many hundreds of thousands of deaths, notably in the Sahel, in Ethiopia and in Mozambique. Well publicised famine...
Filmed in south-east China (near Wuxi in Jiangsu province) follows the daily life of three Han peasant families living in communes. Concerned with the discontinuities the older generation have faced since...
Indicates the range of an opthalmic optician’s work from a routine eye examination to the use of machines such as the Tubinger Perimeter in the hospital service. A sequence on contact lens fitting is...
A chronicle of daily life in a village in Epirus, northern Greece. Although the village appears to be virtually self-sufficient, the truth is that its economic, social and family life depend on the outer...
Focuses on the life of one man, his two wives and seven children in order to portray the yearly cycle of the Ho people, a secluded tribe of the Mundari-speaking group living in the southern part of Bihar...
Provides a context to examine the complexity of apparently simple ‘primitive’ economies and to demonstrate that change is an integral part of any dynamic way of life not just an unfortunate...
Follows Kalliopi Kalogerou, who has spent her entire life in the Greek village in Epirus where she was born in 1900. A simple witness to the century, she has lived through Turkish domination and successive...
Documentary by Philip Trevelyan about the Page family who live together in a ramshackle house in the Sussex countryside, without gas, electricity or running water. The sons make a living as odd job men and...
The Kazakhs are horse-riding herders of sheep and yak, living on a vast territory administratively called East Wind Commune in Sinkiang province of China. For the first time a western television team was...
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