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Ax Fight, The (1975 Film)

Director

Timothy Asch

Producer

Timothy Asch

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Four views of a fight among the Yanomamo of Venezuela. The first is an unedited version of the fight as filmed by the cameraman soon after he arrived. The second is an analysis of the ritual context of the...

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Feast, The (1967 Film)

Director

Timothy Asch; Napoleon A Chagnon

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Set among the Yanomamo Indians of morthern Brazil and southern Venezuela, the feast cements an alliance between previously hostile villages for the purpose of attacking a third. (The action is first...

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Uncle Poison (1998 Video)

aka: Tio Veneno

Director

Ricardo Leizaola

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (inclusive)

A portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community’s Easter celebrations in modern Caracas, Venezuela. Shows the role of healer Benito Reyes as mediator between the social,...

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Clearing in the Jungle, A (1970 Film)

Director

Charles Nairn

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes2), £30.00

The Panare Indians of Venezuela have lived in almost daily contact with Creoles, Spanish-speaking peasants, for the last fifty years but remain distinctively Indian in their way of life. ‘In that time,...

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Panare, The: Scenes from the Frontier (1982 Film)

Producer

Chris Curling; Melissa Llewelyn-Davies

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In Venezuela today 2000 Panare Indians continue to live in much the same way as they have done for centuries. They depend for their survival on the game and fish they hunt daily, and they live a communal...

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Revolution Will Not Be Televised, The (2007)

aka: Chavez: Inside the Coup

Director

Kim Bartley; Donnacha O’Briain

Subject

Media studies; Politics & government

An intimate profile of the charismatic and unconventional Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the coup attempt against him in April 2002, and his dramatic return to power some 48 hours later. 75 minutes

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Disappearing World: Volume 1 (2010)

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 790 minutes), £12.00

Granada’s landmark anthropological series, broadcast over three decades, remains a benchmark of cutting-edge documentary making. A series of internationally acclaimed, award-winning films offer intimate...

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Music for a Missing Film

Director

Luciano Zubillaga

Subject

Art; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 259 minutes), £12.99

Luciano Zubillaga’s MUSIC FOR A MISSING FILM traces the spiritual and material remnants of the lost film El HUERCO, made in Venezuela in 1962, through exploring the aesthetics of film restoration,...

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Who is to Blame for the Refugee Crisis? (2015)

Director

Abby Martin

Producer

Mike Prysner

Subject

Politics & government; Social Studies

Extended news report. Today 60 million human beings are displaced from war and extreme poverty. Many European countries are responding to the crisis with racist hysteria and police state measures. Abby...

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Writing Panare - Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork (1996 Video)

Director

Paul Henley

Subject

Anthropology; Linguistics

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has been commissioned by the Venezuelan government to prepare reading primers in Panare as part of their literacy programme. She is shown gathering a range of materials...

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