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  1. Bathing Babies in Three Cultures (1954 Film)

    Producer
    Gregory Bateson; Margaret Mead
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A comparative series of sequences showing the interplay between mother and child in three different settings - bathing in the Sepik River in New Guinea, in a modern American bathroom, and in a mountain...

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  2. Women of Aibom (1961 Film)

    Director
    Boris Cook
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The making of a wide variety of pottery by the women of this village in Chambri lakes, Sepik district, New Guinea, which relies on trading pots for much of its subsistence. Explains the full process of...

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  3. 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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  4. Assault on the Sepik (1974 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 19 min.

    All species of pine trees are susceptible to attack by the wood wasp, ‘Sirex noctillio’. When Sirex was first discovered on the Australian mainland in 1961, the softwood plantations of Southern Australia...

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  5. Garden Days: Village in Papua New Guinea (1988 Video)

    Director
    Jon Jerstad; Ariane Lewis
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A record of Rauit village, Sepik Inland, Papua New Guinea, chiefly from the woman’s point of view. Opens with the final stages of a ritual called ‘malyi’ with a masked dancer performing and the...

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  6. Global Cooperation (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £47.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Four case studies illustrate how development aid is being used in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam to achieve global cooperation between nations, illustrating how appropriate aid involves working with local...

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  7. Cannibal Tours (1988 Video)

    Director
    Dennis O’Rourke
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 70 min., 1999 sale: £150.00 (inclusive)

    The ‘natives’ on the banks of the River Sepik in Papua New Guinea discuss the lives of Western tourists sailing thorough the jungle on a luxury cruiser, The ‘Melanesian Explorer’. The film raises the...

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  8. 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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