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Tibetan New Year, A (1987 Video)

Director

Jon Jerstad

Producer

Jon Jerstad

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 43 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) (Meridian Trust) 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

Documents the Tibetan new year celebrations carried out by the monks of the only Bonpo community outside Tibet, located in the foothills of the Himalayas. Shows the enactment of the annual ceremony with the...

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Blooms of Banjeli, The: Technology and Gender in West African Ironmaking (1988 Video)

Director

Carlyn Saltman

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Carolyn Saltman and two historians went into the village of Banjeli in 1985 to try to recreate on film the traditional iron smelting techniques (which are no longer used) of the area. The result is an...

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Tracking the Pale Fox: Studies on the Dogon (1983 Video)

Director

Luc de Heusch

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 48 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Presents the history of research on the Dogon since the famous 1931 expedition of Marcel Griaule, establishing the original expedition in the context of French anthropology at the time. Jean Rouch,...

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Trobriand Islanders, The (1952 Film, Video)

Director

Harry A Powell

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A general introduction to the people of the Trobriand Islands. Also covers gardening and associated magic, mortuary rites, Kula preparations, and the harvest season. Made mainly in the region of Omarakana...

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Doctors of Two Worlds (1989 Video)

Director

Natasha Solomons

Subject

Anthropology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is confronted...

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Mongolia: City in the Steppes (1975 Film, Video)

Director

Brian Moser

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Examines some of the traditions which survive in present-day Mongolia. Nadam, the anniversary of the Revolution, is celebrated with horse races, wrestling and archery, and early in the year herdsmen (the...

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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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Tuktu (1985 Video)

Director

Graham Johnston

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Tuktu is the Kuvanmiit Eskimo word for caribou. The film traces the early evolution of Ambler, founded in the mid-1950s on the Kobuk River in Alaska. Change and development characterise life in this village...

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Goodbye Old Man (1977 Film, Video)

aka: Good-Bye Old Man

Director

David MacDougall

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Ethnographic record of a pukumani (bereavement) ceremony of the Tiwi of Melville Island, off the coast of Australia. Made at the request of the Mangatopi family of Snake Bay, the ceremony was held for the...

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Ainu Bear Ceremony, The (1931 Video)

Director

N G Munro

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 27 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

An examination of the lives of the Ainu people of Japan, who are racially and culturally different from their Japanese neighbours and who obtain their food mainly by hunting and gathering. The bear ceremony,...

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