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Charts the preparations for Tinku, the raucous annual festival in Tamacuri, an ancient village high in the Bolivian Andes and home to the Macha people. Tinku is a chaotic, deadly affair banned by the village...
A video-based resource pack to illustrate the complex role of the United Nations in responding to conflict and problems around the world. The four 30-minute programmes are: 1) The Great Disaster: the history...
In Northern Bolivia, where the heterogeneous population is socially and economically stratified, the inequalities of a sharp class division between the Spanish-speaking mestizos and the subordinate Aymara...
Two programmes looking at how the world’s governments are responding to UNICEF’S call to ratify and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child. They chart the progress of global ratification...
Documents the lives of the Aymara Indians, who live on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, who live at subsistence level in a lush landscape and have revived some of their ancestral farming techniques.
This film was made at the invitation of the Sirionó Indians living in Ibiato, a small village with 500 inhabitants in the rainforest of northern Bolivia. The Sirionó call themselves ‘Mbía’ (people)....
In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is confronted...
About women in Latin America and the cultural values that shape their lives - image and reality - the models of society and the facts of poverty and violence. Focuses on three adolescent girls in a...
Four separate but related stories of four Bolivians living in the capital, La Paz. Each focuses on a central character from a different class: Iscio, an Indian boy; Johnny, a 20-year-old bricklayer’s son;...
Aymará women embody a common paradox. The cultural ideal is that women should be subservient to men, and assigned tasks appropriate to their inferior strength and intelligence. In fact, they perform many...
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