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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Timothy Asch (1932–1994)

    Date
    12 Sep 2014, 10:17
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Visual Anthropology at the University of Southern California, Timothy Asch made several groundbreaking documentaries and was a champion for the use of...

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  8. 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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  9. Shakespeare Globe Player Goes Live

    Date
    8 Jun 2015, 08:07
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    In November 2014 Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre launched its new video on-demand platform. Emma Draper provides an overview of the service that now offers more than 50 titles to view. About the author: Emma...

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  10. Shakespeare and World Cinema

    Date
    27 Mar 2013, 12:18
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen’s University, Belfast, author of Shakespeare and World Cinema, explores the contemporary significance of Shakespeare cinema outside the Hollywood and UK mainstream. About...

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