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  1. World of the Goddess, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Marija Gimbutas
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION IN UK, Videocassette. VHS. col. 103 min.

    Marija Gimbutas, professor of archaeology at UCLA, looks at the culture, religious beliefs, symbolism and mythology of the prehistoric, pre-patriarchal cultures of Old Europe, who revered the Great Goddess...

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  2. Goddess Remembered (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1994 hire: £10.00 1994 sale: £40.00

    Explores the evidence of a widespread early civilisation based primarily on human cooperation. Includes the caves of Paleolithic France, the subterranean temples of Neolithic Malta, the mysterious earthworks...

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  3. Bridewealth for a Goddess (2000 Video)

    Director
    Chris Owen
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 72 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Documents the last performance of the ritual for the fertility goddess Amb Kor. Shot over a period of 15 years, the anthropologists/filmmakers have been participant-observers durng a time of pivotal change...

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  4. Durga: The Goddess Comes to London (2008)

    Director
    David Wallace; Wayne Derrick; Jeremy Jeffs
    Producer
    Aaron Young
    Subject
    Religious studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 45 minutes), £12.99

    Documentary which tells how Indian craftsmen, directed by sculptor Nemai Chandra Pal came to London, to construct a giant tableau of the goddess, Durga, and her family in the Great Court of the British...

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  5. Goddess and the Computer, The (1989 Video)

    aka: Water Goddess and the Computer, The

    Director
    Steve Lansing; André Singer
    Subject
    Anthropology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (INCA, RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) (INCA) 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    Demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by religious authorities. A biologist and an anthropologist look at the...

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  6. Shaktima No Veh (2006)

    Director
    Jayasinhji Jhala
    Subject
    Anthropology; Drama; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 60 minutes), $195.00

    The Goddess Shaktima is the most popular goddess in the region of Saurashtra (Western India) known as Jhalavad. This documentary presents the story of Shaktima as performed by the traditional muslim Bhavai...

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  7. Goddess of the Earth (1985 Video)

    Producer
    John Groom
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Examines the Dr James Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis which argues that life itself actively controls the environment to enhance its own chances of survival and that the earth an all living things upon it are...

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  8. Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (2005)

    Subject
    Archaeology; Classical studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 45 minutes), £14.99

    John Romer explores the influence of ancient eastern civilisations. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in what now is Iraq, were rumoured to be part of the palace of Nebuchadnezzar. Today, scientists believe...

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  9. Liliane Lijn (2005)

    Subject
    Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 29 minutes), £13.99

    Science and Surrealism, ancient myths, Buddhism and feminism are among the frameworks of ideas important to Liliane Lijn’s art. In Paris at the end of the 1950s, in Greece and New York, and in England...

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  10. Robert Graves: The Spoken Word (2009)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, Audio (CD, 68 minutes), £10.00

    Over a long career Robert Graves proved a prolific writer across a variety of genres, producing historical novels, classical translations and criticism, but he regarded himself as primarily a poet. Drawing...

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