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  1. Mountain Building in the Western Himalayas (1990 Video)

    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1999 sale £85.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Evidence for two mountain-building processes: magmatism at continental margins and crustal thickening following continental collision, with the Karakorum geotraverse in the Himalayas as example. Discusses...

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  2. Glance of Genius, The: B H Hodgson in the Himalayas (1983 Video)

    Director
    Tristram Riley-Smith
    Producer
    Tristram Riley-Smith
    Subject
    Anthropology; History
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 42 min.

    B H Hodgson (1800-1894) was renowned in the 19th century as a diplomat, linguist, zoologist, ethnologist and collector. He spent almost 40 years living in the Himalayas - mainly in Nepal and Darjeeling -...

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  3. Wonders of the Monsoon (2014)

    Subject
    Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £19.99

    This series explores human and animal life in the regions of the world affected by the monsoon - from the northern shores of Australia to the highes peaks of the Himalayas, the deserts of Northern India to...

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  4. Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh and Paradise with Side Effects (1993)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 100 minutes), £19.95

    ANCIENT FUTURES; EARNING FROM LADKH. Ladakh is a wildly beautiful desert land in the western Himalayas, with few resources and an extreme climate. Yet there is an ancient and thriving culture. Traditions of...

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  5. Chanting Lama, The (199 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., £25.00 (+VAT + p&p)

    Aims to show the essence of the cultural life of Tibetan Buddhists by examining their religious rites. Shows the main temple in Dharamsala, and scenes from Benares, Darjeeling and the western Himalayas, with...

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  6. Echoes from Tibet (198 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Set in the high snow ranges of the Western Himalayas, the film shows the life and culture of Tibetan and Ladakhi villages: social and religious customs, Buddhist religion and Tibetan script, agriculture; a...

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  7. Trading Societies of Western Nepal (1972 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

    Discusses the traditional trans-Himalayan trade links the relatively low-altitude, grain-growing regions of Nepal with high-altitude Tibet, the traditional source of most of the salt and wool imported by...

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  8. Adaptable Kingdom, The: Music and Dance in Nepal (1994)

    Director
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Producer
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 30 minutes), £19.95

    A film on the Hindu kingdom in the Himalayas where tribal animism, Buddhism and Hinduism live in harmony. In the folklore of Nepal, religious mask dances accompanied by the sound of large barrel drums...

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  9. Tibetan New Year, A (1987 Video)

    Director
    Jon Jerstad
    Producer
    Jon Jerstad
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 43 min., 1997 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p) (Meridian Trust) 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    Documents the Tibetan new year celebrations carried out by the monks of the only Bonpo community outside Tibet, located in the foothills of the Himalayas. Shows the enactment of the annual ceremony with the...

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  10. Frontiers of Geology (1988 Video)

    Producer
    David Jackson
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Illustrates meteorite research, including an appraisal of Halley’s Comet; meteorite collecting in the Antarctic; the OU research related to the origin of SNC meteorites which have possibly come from Mars;...

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