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  1. Art of Regret, The (2008)

    Director
    Judith MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology; Art; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Photography is known in China as the "Art of Regret". In the rapidly changing city of Kunming, people are ambivalent about whether they want photography to be a medium of preservation and evidence, or of...

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  2. Warrior Marks (1993 Video)

    Director
    Pratibha Parmar
    Producer
    Alice Walker
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 54 min.

    Writer Alice Walker travels from California to England, Gambia and Senegal, meeting women who are fighting against the practice of female genital mutilation. The film examines some of the cultural and...

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  3. Candlelit Landscape (1995 Video)

    Director
    Jakub Barua
    Producer
    Parminder Vir
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1996 sale: (+VAT +p&p)

    Jakub Barua is a film-maker of Kenyan and Polish origin. Observing the Polish Easter and the memories of the Polish side of his family his video letter answers the question posed by his cousin in Kenya....

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  4. Waiting for Harry (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Kim McKenzie
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 57 minutes), £50.00

    About the preparations and organisational difficulties of the final and most involved stage of the sequence of mortuary rites practised by the Anbarra group of Australian aborigines. The conduct of each part...

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  5. Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi (1995 Video)

    Director
    Philippa Deveson; Ian Dunlop
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A series of interviews with an Australian Aboriginal, Dundiwuy Wanambi, filmed over 12 years between 1970 and 1982, showing the struggles of one man in the face of the huge changes brought about by the...

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  6. Photo Wallahs (1991 Video)

    Director
    Judith MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An exploration of the cultural and personal meanings of photographs in a hill station in northern India. The ‘photo wallahs’ are the local photographers of Mussoorie, a town that once attracted Indian...

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  7. Khumi Lives (2010)

    Director
    Ittukgula Changma
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies

    Khumi is the smallest of the indigenous groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of southeastern Bangladesh. In today’s age of globalization, changes are occurring in the animist Khumi peoples’ religion,...

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  8. Goshen (2015)

    aka: Goshen: Places of Refuge for the Running People

    Director
    Dana Richardson; Sarah Zentz
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 85 minutes), £110.00

    Feature-length documentary depicting the lifestyle of the indigenous Tarahumara, a light-footed running tribe who are striving to maintain their ancient culture in the depths of Mexico’s Copper Canyons....

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  9. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford...is Shut, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Celia Lowenstein
    Producer
    Tariq Ali
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min.

    The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, is an impressive collection of artifacts of many peoples of the world. Formed by an old-fashioned colonialist, it confirms the cultural imagination of humankind. Contributors...

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  10. Couldn’t Be Fairer (1982 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 54 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    Depicts the problems of alcoholism, racial violence and political oppression that Queensland Aboriginal people have to confront and overcome in their efforts to gain land rights and a standard of living...

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