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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009)

    Producer
    Llewellyn Smith; Vincent Brown; Christine Herbes-Sommers
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 57 minutes), $195.00

    Who has the authority to define a culture? Is there "objective" scholarship and, if so, how does it become politicised? Race and scholarship collide in a new film on Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering...

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  5. Namekas: Music in Lake Chambri (1980 Film, Video)

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

    Shows the people of three villages on an island in Lake Chambri, adjacent to the Sepik river. Featured are the men’s sacred paired flutes, flute ensembles, slit drums and voice masks, which all have...

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  6. There is Nothing Wrong with My Uncle (2012)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 62 minutes), £50.00

    Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to the land of the Tarok people in Nigeria to observe the local death rituals and the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honouring the departed. This film provides a...

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  7. Maragoli (1976 Film, Video)

    Director
    Sandra Nichols
    Producer
    Sandra Nichols
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Looks at attitudes and changes in an area of Kenya, which is experiencing one of the world’s fastest rates of population growth. Based on research by Joseph Ssennyonga as part of the ‘Cross cultural...

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  8. In and out of Africa (1993 Video)

    Director
    Ilisa Barbash; Lucien Taylor
    Subject
    Anthropology; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 59 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    During the colonial period in the 1920s, European interest in collecting African art stimulated a transnational trade between Africa and the West. What has become a multi-million dollar trade lies largely in...

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  9. How to Study Cultures (4 Parts) (1997 Video)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 18, 24, 20, 22 min., 2001 sale: £32.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

    Series attempting to define and explain culture by looking at its elements, using examples from around the world. 1: How culture develops as a result of the geographical elements of topography, climate and...

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  10. Red Bowmen, The (1981 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Chris Owen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Each year a fertility ritual known as Ida is performed by the Umeda people who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sowanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Explores the complex symbolism...

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