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  1. Mystery of the Frozen Tombs of Siberia, The: A Young Lady Emerges from the Ice (1994 Video)

    Director
    Françoise Lévie
    Subject
    Anthropology; Archaeology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Reports on events of the summer of 1993 when Russian archaeologists discovered a new burial, bringing to light the frozen body of a Scythian woman buried 250 years ago in the AltaÔ mountains. Also examines...

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  2. Amchi (2013)

    Director
    Eda Elif Tibet
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £39.00

    For centuries the only medical system accessible to people in Ladakh was the Amchi, the traditional doctor following ‘Sowa Rigpa’, Tibetan medicine. 84% of Ladakh’s population lives in villages and...

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  3. Tingvong: A Lepcha Village in Sikkim (2006)

    Director
    Dawa T Lepcha
    Subject
    Agriculture; Anthropology; Development studies; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Ilustrates the changes the Lepcha of the Dzongu reserve, North Sikkim, have been through in the last 60 years. From the 1940s, the Lepcha of Tingvong village gradually abandoned hunting, gathering and the...

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  4. Holy Hustlers (2009)

    Director
    Richard Werbner
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

    Charismatic, street-wise young men, living in Botswana’s capital, command the prophetic domain in Eloyi, their Apostolic faith-healing church, at a time of escalating crisis. Bitter, sinful accusations...

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  5. Day of Rest (1970 Video)

    Director
    Peter Fry
    Producer
    Michael Clarke
    Subject
    Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale (video - BUFVC), Videocassette. Standard formats. b&w. 25 min., 1996 sale: £24.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A description of three of the Christian sects of the Shona and Ndebele immigrants from Southern Rhodesia, who came to live in Zambia between 1957 and 1964. It examines their position in 1969, the effects of...

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  6. Matai Samoa (1989 Video)

    Director
    George Milner
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 65 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A treatment of archival footage shot by George Milner of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1955 and 1959 while gathering material for his ‘Samoan Dictionary’. The...

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  7. Between Memories (2015)

    Director
    Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
    Subject
    Anthropology; History
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 34 minutes), £15.00

    Eudosia is still searching for her husband’s remains in the highlands of Ayacucho; Lucero has been in prison for 25 years now for the crime of terrorism against the Peruvian state; since 2009 the commandos...

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  8. How Art Made the World (5 Parts) (2005)

    Subject
    Art; Classical studies; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £19.99

    Fusing anthropology, politics, neuro-biology, archaeology and religion, this series of five programmes looks at how and why human beings create images and tells the epic story of how the images that we...

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  9. Viewfinder - Latest Edition

    Date
    9 Oct 2009, 17:47
    Author
    Luis Carrasqueiro
    Post Type
    Post

    Viewfinder 75 was published in May 2009 and includes the supplement Media Online Focus (download MOF in PDF format). Contents of this issue JUST THE FACTS Timothy Boon's recently published book Films of...

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  10. Scaffolding (1972 Film)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    John Martin-Jones
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    On the condition that the series never be shown in Papua New Guinea, the Baruya allowed a film crew to record an entire set of male initation rituals. The Baruya live in the eastern Highlands of Papua New...

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