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  1. Highland Maya, The: A Case Study in Economic Anthropology (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Looks at the complex interweaving of economics and religion known as the ‘cargo’ system, which is found among the Highland Maya of Mexico and Guatemala.

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  2. Latest additions to the Moving Image Gateway

    Date
    18 Dec 2012, 23:39
    Author
    Andrew Ormsby
    Post Type
    Post

    The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,250 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments,...

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  3. Economic Anthropology (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    From the equal distribution of all goods among the !Kung to the balanced reciprocity of the Yonomamo and the Trobriand Islanders, the economies of many non-Western societies are shown to be based on...

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  4. Your Steps Will Be Close to Mine (1994 Video)

    Director
    Svetlana Sokolova
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. col. VHS. 30 min., 1998 sale: 30 ecu (+p&p)

    Looks at the social and economic split between Russians and the indiginous people of Yakutia, resulting from the recent upsurge of economic activity in Siberia, stimulated by foreign investment. Also tells...

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  5. Sex and Marriage (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    In many cultures marriage is not just a pact between man and woman for sexual access and procreation. Customs are unique within societies and are often related to the economy.

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  6. Viracocha (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Mestizos and campesinos are linked by an exploitative economic system that heightens their mutual contempt. Market days and fiestas provide opportunities for Mestizos, alternately benign and abusive, to...

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  7. Age Seven in the Ussr (1992)

    Director
    Michael Apted
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 64 minutes), £40.00

    A portrait of the former Soviet Union painted by seven-year-old children from the length and breadth of the USSR. At a time of breathtaking and devastating political and economic change, how do Soviet...

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  8. Amazon (2008)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

    In this series, anthropologist and adventurer Bruce Parry journeys the length and breadth of the largest river in the world - the Amazon. Tracing the giant river from its origins high in the Andes to its...

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  9. Return to the Brouck, The Fenland, Forty Years on (2010)

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

    In 1970, documentary filmmaker Colette Piault and her colleagues produced a film on the lives of a group of young people living in the Brouck (the Audomarois Fenland) area of Northern France. Forty years...

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  10. Brouck, Le (1972 Video)

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 38 minutes), £20.00

    Looks at a precise moment of consciousness of socio-economic agricultural problems faced by eight young fenlanders from Saint-Omer, Pas de Calais, a moment when French farmers were tempted to replace...

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