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  1. Bushman, The: Polyphonies from the Kalahari Desert (2003)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52minutes), £19.99

    A performance by The Bushman of Namibia at the Festival L’Imaginaire. The group are Ju’hoansi and live in the north of the Kalahari. Each community has its own musical repertoires using hand-clapping,...

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  2. Sundanese Culture Alive (1988 Video)

    aka: Sundanese Popular Culture Alive

    Director
    Jean Hellwig
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance; Music
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 46 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows the richness of Sundanese art, concentrating on the performing arts, particularly on the place of Jaipongan, a new style of music and dancing invented around 1978 on Western Java. The roots of...

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  3. Buddha and the Rice Planters (198 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An exploration of the culture of the people of Sri Lanka. Shows the the daily life of villagers - cultivating their rice fields, visiting the market and attending a variety of ceremonies. All aspects of...

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  4. Marimba Music of Mexico (1967 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Although in Guatemala and in Chiapas the marimba is often played by Indians in the mountains, most Latin-Americans have come to associate the marimba with the music of the mestizos, people of mixed Indian...

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  5. Sacred Harp Singers (1984 Video)

    Director
    Mark Brice
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 85 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A moving portrait of harp singers Leonard and Mazine Lacy. Sacred harp music is a kind of harmonised plainsong practiced in rural America. This film was shot in Sand Mountain, Alabama.

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  6. Faces of the Forest: The Santals of West Bengal (1994 Video)

    Director
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Producer
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £29.95 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the aboriginal community of the Santals, its social habits, religious ceremonies, and the day-to-day life of a village situated at the borders of West Bengal and Bihar. Rich in traditional songs,...

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  7. Festivals: Sindanomoy: Where the Sun is Born (1985 Video)

    Director
    Sylvia Moore
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £20.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Shows four annual festivals of peasants in southern Colombia, and relates the music of the festivals to the religious and social aspects of country life.

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  8. Dor, Low is Better (1987 Video)

    Director
    Robert Boonzajer-Flaes
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 47 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An experimental approach to the comparative study of cultures: the monks of a Tibetan monastery compare their own flutes with the Swiss alphorn and the Dutch windhorn introduced to them by the...

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  9. N/Um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !kung Bushmen (1966 Film)

    Director
    John K Marshall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The medicine dance is one activity in !Kung life that draws people together in groups that are not shaped by family, band, or close friendship. The dance is essentially a curing ritual but is not solemn; the...

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  10. Festa for San Gabriel, A (198 Video)

    Director
    Gregory Barrow; Paul Sant Cassia
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 43 min.

    Documents aspects of the preparations for the annual village festa in honour of the patron saints (The Madonna and St Gabriel) of a village in Malta. Looks at the week prior to the celebration and the festa...

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