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  1. Man Without Pigs (1990 Video)

    Director
    Chris Owen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    John Waiko is the first Papua New Guinean to reach the status of professor. He travelled back from Australia to his home village to celebrate his achievement with his own people of the Binandere clan. When...

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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. People of Porgera (1984 Video)

    Director
    John Davis
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £27.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A film made of the Porgera people in Papua New Guinea before gold was discovered. Shows their courting ceremony, and a sing-sing; discusses marriage and bride price, wealth, debt and payback, salt, stone...

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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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