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  1. Zoo Quest for a Dragon (6 Parts) (2009)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Biology; Geography; Media studies

    ZOO QUEST FOR A DRAGON, first broadcast in 1956, was the third in David Attenborough’s groundbreaking ZOO QUEST television natural history series. In these programmes he pioneered techniques in programme...

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  2. Behind the Screen (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Politics & government
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £6.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Looks at human rights abuses in the context of labour disputes, forcible evictions and restrictions on freedom of expression in Java and Bali, and looks at human rights violations in East Timor, Iran Jaya...

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  3. Isle of Temples, The: Bali (1994 Video)

    Director
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Producer
    Deben Bhattacharya
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance; Drama; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1995 sale: £29.95 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows the day-to-day life of the islanders of Bali, a Hindu island - their folksongs, gamelan orchestras and dance dramas. The temple is the focal point of each village where the villagers gather for...

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  4. Balinese Ritual Theatre (1991 Multimedia)

    Subject
    Drama
    Distribution
    Sale, 50 slides. b&w & col.

    The origins and practice of Balinese ritual theatre are examined. Its function in Balinese consciousness and culture as a channel through which the gods and ancestal spirits manifest themselves has ensured...

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  5. Goddess and the Computer, The (1989 Video)

    aka: Water Goddess and the Computer, The

    Director
    Steve Lansing; André Singer
    Subject
    Anthropology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (INCA, RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) (INCA) 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    Demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by religious authorities. A biologist and an anthropologist look at the...

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  6. Nini Pantun: Rice Cultivation and Rituals in Bali (1988 Video)

    Director
    U Ramseyer
    Subject
    Agriculture; Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 53 min., 1995 sale: DM140 (+p&p)

    On Bali, rice cultivation is an integral part of daily life with many material as well as religious aspects. The film shows both the technology of rice growing (irrigation, terrace construction, ploughing,...

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  7. Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Seance Observed (1981 Film)

    Director
    Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch; Linda Connor
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Balinese spirit medium, Jero Tapakan, views a video recording of a film featuring herself entitled A BALINESE TRANCE SEANCE. She comments on the film and explains the seance proceedings.

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  8. Four Films on a Healer in Central Bali (1980)

    Director
    Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch
    Subject
    Anthropology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £50.00

    Jero Tapakan, a Balinese spirit medium, goes into trance to give clients advice from the spirit world. The viewer has an intimate view of Jero’s household shrine, of the trance process and of Jero as an...

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  9. Bali: Cremation (1978 Film)

    Director
    Peter Ramsden
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Describes the sequence of events of a cremation in Bali, as well as exploring the ritual itself and the implications of the cremation for those involved.

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  10. Bali: Down from the Mountain (1978 Film)

    Director
    Peter Ramsden
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    About the use of water in Bali and its relation to purity. Shows sequences of stages of the ceremony for consecrating holy water and of the three-month ceremony for removing the impurities of birth.

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