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  1. Jains, The: A Religious Community in India (1985 Video)

    Director
    Marcus Banks; Caroline Humphrey; James Laidlaw
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

    Looks at life of the Jain community in the city of Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Description of ancient and modern temples. Interviews with monks and nuns, and with believers who come to the temple to make...

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  2. Spirit of Stone (1973 Film)

    Producer
    Al Brown
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the efforts being made to decipher the meaning and determine the dates of the Peterboro petroglyphs at Stoney Lake, Canada. It is the largest glyph site in eastern North America featuring hundreds...

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  3. Semana Santa: The Holy Week in Patamban (1992 Video)

    Director
    Beate Engelbrecht
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 130 min., 1995 sale: DM390 (+p&p)

    Filmed in Purhépecha, Michoacán, Mexico. As in a passion play the villagers celebrate Holy Week, acting efffigies as well as certain people. Catholic liturgy and folk religion are combined in the ritual...

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  4. Magic and Catholicism (1974 Film)

    Director
    Hubert Smith
    Producer
    Norman N Miller
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The people of the Bolivian highlands blend in thought and practice the religion of their ancestors and that of their conquerors. A fatal automobile accident, coincident with the festival of Santiago,...

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  5. Echoes from Tibet (198 Video)

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

    Set in the high snow ranges of the Western Himalayas, the film shows the life and culture of Tibetan and Ladakhi villages: social and religious customs, Buddhist religion and Tibetan script, agriculture; a...

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  6. Cosmic Dance of Shiva, The (199 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., £25.00 (+VAT + p&p)

    Shiva, the Hindu god of creation, is also the lord of dancers. The timeless quality of Indian art is shown here through Shiva’s dance, which emphasises the unity of all creative activities of man, whether...

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  7. Magical Death (1973 Film)

    Director
    Timothy Asch; Napoleon Chagnon
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Focuses on the role of the shaman (Dedeheiw‰ in this case) in curing his Yanomamo co-villagers and sending sickness to enemy villages. The use of hallucinogenic snuff is shown in its daily context....

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  8. Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim (2006)

    Director
    Dawa T Lepcha
    Subject
    Agriculture; Anthropology; Development studies; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Ilustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting, gathering and the...

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  9. Barbara and Her Friends in Candombleland (1977 Video)

    Director
    Carmen Opipari; Sylvie Timbert
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In the divine Afro-Brazilian cult Candomble is an initiation religion centred around possession. The filmmakers concentrate on children in the suburbs of Sao Paulo (Brazil) who introduce and guide us to this...

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  10. Heal the Whole Man (1974 Film)

    Director
    Paul Robinson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 50 minutes), £50.00

    Shows healing and religion amongst the Barolong, a Bantu tribe of South Africa. Christianity has combined with ancestor worship, and churchgoers secretly use witch doctors when in trouble. In black South...

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