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  1. Face Values. Part 6: The Common Bond (1978 Film)

    Director
    David Cordingley
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The series attempts to present social anthropology to a wide audience and aims to show the basic similarities between people of different cultures and to suggest, through the deployment of material from...

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  2. Whicker’s World Volume 1

    Subject
    Media studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 275 minutes), £6.27

    A cultural icon, consummate interviewer and guiding light behind some of the most popular documentaries ever made, Alan Whicker’s quiet brand of incisive, insightful television journalism has enthralled...

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  3. 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep (2010)

    Director
    Ben Hopkin
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 85 minutes), £14.99

    Ben Hopkins’ documentary 37 USES FOR A DEAD SHEEP provides a glimpse at the lifestyles, mores, and background of the Pamir Kirghiz, a nomadic tribe from the central Asia. Documentarist Hopkins teams up...

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  4. Kama Wosi: Music in the Trobriand Islands (1980 Film, Video)

    Director
    Led McLaren
    Producer
    Led McLaren
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Set in three inland villages on the largest of the Trobriand Islands. The poetry of songs and the art of singing are a major part of the Trobriand aesthetic traditions. Through the translation of song...

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  5. Good Woman of Bangkok, The (1991 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Dennis O’Rourke; Glenys Rowe
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 82 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    An intimate portrait of a reluctant Third-World prostitute, Aoi, who caters for the enthusiastic First-World clientele crowding the bars of Thailand each night. She shares details of life as a prostitute and...

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  6. Nanook of the North (1922 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A study of the Eskimos of Ungava in the Cape Dufferin area of the Hudson Bay Territory of northern Canada. A detailed description of the constant battle with a hostile environment; accounts of walrus and...

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  7. Ileksen (1978 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Producer
    Gary Kildea; Dennis O’Rourke
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 54 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    Shows the election campaign, election day and the formation of a government in 1977 in Papua New Guinea, the first after the country became independent of Australia in 1975. The dominant impression is one of...

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  8. Inside China: The Newest Revolution (1983 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    André Singer
    Subject
    Anthropology; Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Filmed in two Han communities around the city of Wuxi in south-east China. Looks at the new emphasis on material incentives after years of Maoist austerity. Four women sing ‘we exchanged our chickens for a...

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  9. Sound of Rushing Water, The (1973 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Shuar (also known by the derogatory name of Jivaro) live in the rainforest of eastern Ecuador. They recount the history of their resistance to the Inca and Spanish Empires, and tell of their present...

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  10. Rites: Female Circumcision and Infibulation (1990 Video)

    Director
    Penny Dedman
    Producer
    Penny Dedman
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £23.00

    Female genetial mutilation (FGM) has been commonplace throughout history. In many parts of the world women and girls are horribly mutilated by loving female relatives or respected medical practitioners. This...

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