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Magical Death (1973 Film)

Director
Timothy Asch; Napoleon Chagnon

Subject
Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution
Film (16mm)

Focuses on the role of the shaman (Dedeheiw in this case) in curing his Yanomamo co-villagers and sending sickness to enemy villages. The use of hallucinogenic snuff is shown in its daily context....
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Cuyagua (2 Parts) (1987 Video)

Director
Paul Henley

Subject
Anthropology

Distribution
Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col 52, 56 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

The people of Cuyagua, a small village on the Venezuelan Caribbean coast, are descended from African slaves brought to work on the local cacao plantation in the 18th century. Some villagers still work on the...
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War on Democracy, The (2008)

Director
John Pilger; Chris Martin

Subject
Politics & government

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £19.99

Focusing on the political state of Latin America, the film is a rebuke of both the United States’ intervention in foreign countries’ domestic politics, and its war on terrorism. John Pilger’s 2007...
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South of the Border (2010)

Director
Oliver Stone

Subject
Geography; Politics & government

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £9.99

Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is a hero in Latin America for his willingness to stand up to the United States (both the government and the private sector) and his desire to use the nation’s petroleum...
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Journeys to the Bottom of the Sea (2000 Video)

Director
Paul Bradshaw; Sian Griffiths; Tim Lambert; Danielle Peck; Mike Rossiter

Producer
Will Aslett

Subject
Archaeology; History

Distribution
Sale, 2 videocassettes. VHS. col. 295 min., 2000 sale: £19.99 (inclusive) set

Series looking at the exploration of shipwrecks. In six parts on two videocassettes, narrated by Ian McShane. Video 1: 1) The Mystery of the M1 (director Tim Lambert): Richard Larn dives to solve the mystery...
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Tribe, Series 1-3 (2007)

Subject
Anthropology

Distribution
Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 900 minutes), £34.99

Compiilation of the three series of television programmes in which Bruce Parry goes to live with some of the world’s oldest indigenous people in the most remote parts of the planet, shedding the trappings...
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