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  1. 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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  2. Christopher’s Movie Matinée: Haphazard Adventures in Flower Power Cinema (1968)

    Director
    Mort Ransen
    Subject
    History; Social Studies

    In 1968, in Yorkville (Toronto), the NFB provided a group of hippies with cameras, film and a few NFB film crew members so they could make a film illustrating their lives and their world. The footage they...

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  3. Lévi-Strauss at Unesco’s 60th Anniversary (2008)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Philosophy; Politics & government

    A video recording of a speech given by Claude Lévi-Strauss on 16 November 2005 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of UNESCO’s foundation, streamed as part of the online version of the UNESCO Courier...

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  4. Surviving Chau (2006)

    Director
    Mainak Bhaumik
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance; Development studies; Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 50 minutes), $195.00

    This documentary maps the evolution of the ancient ethnic dance form of Chau - an athletic dance of India done by men in masks - from an anthropological and sociological perspective. In addition to following...

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  5. Linguists, The (2008)

    Director
    Seth Kramer; Daniel A. Miller; Jeremy Newberger
    Subject
    Anthropology; Languages
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 65 minutes), $300.00

    Like modern-day explorers, the two academics featured in The Linguists travel to forgotten places around the globe to unearth rare treasures—in this case, endangered languages. On a shoestring budget,...

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