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  1. Psychological Anthropology (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Focuses on enculuration, the process through which culture is passed from one generation to the next. Shows cross-cultural examples of child-rearing, socialisation, and mental illness and healing.

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  2. Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film

    Date
    4 Jun 2014, 13:50
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Memories of the Origins of Ethnographic Film edited by Beate Engelbrecht (Peter Lang,  Frankfurt, 2007), 504 pages, ISBN: 978-3631507353, £35.80. About the Author: Susanne Hammacher is the Film Officer...

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  3. Religion and Magic (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    No culture has existed without religion, however, religious practices and beliefs vary widely. This programme defines religion from the viewpoint of anthropology and describes psychological and social...

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  4. Highland Maya, The: A Case Study in Economic Anthropology (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Looks at the complex interweaving of economics and religion known as the ‘cargo’ system, which is found among the Highland Maya of Mexico and Guatemala.

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  5. Economic Anthropology (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    From the equal distribution of all goods among the !Kung to the balanced reciprocity of the Yonomamo and the Trobriand Islanders, the economies of many non-Western societies are shown to be based on...

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  6. Alejandro Mamani: A Case Study in Psychological Anthropology (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Alejandro Mamani, an elderly Aymara Indian, is the subject of this ethnographic study of mental illness and the approach of death.

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  7. Drum is Made, A: A Study of Yoruba Drum Carving (1979 Video)

    Producer
    Darius L Thieme; Mary S Thieme
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Out of Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 24 min.

    Shows the construction of an iyá‡lu dundun by a Nigerian craftsman from selection of a tree, carving and hollowing of the log to the preparation of goat skins for the drum head. The finished drum is then...

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  8. Navaho: The Last Red Indians (1973 Film)

    Producer
    Michael Barnes
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the survival of the traditional way of life of the Navaho Indian on a remote plateau in North America. In particular, looks at various primitive methods of medicine, many of which white doctors claim...

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  9. Political Organisation (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Profiles the four major forms of political organisation: bands, tribes, chiefdoms and states.

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  10. Family and Household (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Looks at the concepts of family and household from a cross-cultural perspective and examines the basic functions performed by the family and household units.

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