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  1. Masks of Mer, The (2010)

    Director
    Michael Eaton
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 37 minutes), £50.00

    The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world’s first example of anthropological cinema. The MASKS OF MER tells the extraordinary story of this...

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  2. In Search of the Hamat’Sa: A Tale of Headhunting (2006)

    Director
    Aaron Glass
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 33 minutes), £50.00

    Produced in the Program for Culture and Media at New York University, The Hamat’sa (or "Cannibal Dance") is the most important and widely known ceremony of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British...

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  3. Three Films from Eastern Indonesia (2006)

    Director
    James J Fox; Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £50.00

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  4. Fatmawati’s Wedding: The Wedding of Two Sisters, The Preparations and Traditional Ceremonies (1998 Video)

    Director
    Fiona Kerlogue
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Records the preparations for the wedding of two sisters in eastern Sumatra in December 1996, emphasising the importance of the role of women in the village. Shows ritual exchanges of textiles and cakes, and...

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  5. Tayuban: Dancing the Spirit in Java (1996 Video)

    Director
    Felicia Hughes-Freeland
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows an annual ritual held in a Javanese village. After a distribution of food, men dance with professional female dancers. The allegedly sexual ethos makes these ‘tayuban’ unacceptable as national...

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  6. Celebration of Origins, A (1993 Video)

    Director
    Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch; E Douglas Lewis
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 45 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A portrait of a rarely performed cosmogenic ritual in the domain of Wai Brama in eastern Flores, Indonesia. The people are shifting cultivators, hunters and gatherers who have maintained their traditional...

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  7. Baruya Muka Archival (17 Parts) (1991 Video)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    Ian Dunlop
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Enquiries to RAI, Videocassette. VHS. col. 49, 55, 53, 23, 60, 54, 57, 29, 58, 28, 35, 41, 56, 48, 54, 50, 57 min.

    An archival film document in 17 parts of the Baruya initiation ceremony, filmed over a six-week period in 1979 and edited in 1990. The programme records the intense ritual activity of a full Muka or...

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  8. Death Ritual of Dhardo Rimpoche, The (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 42 min., 1998 sale: £34.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Records the funeral of Dhardo Riompoche, a highly regarded Buddhist lama. Hundreds of people were involved in the traditional Tibetan death ritual. Shows ten minutes of the Rimpoche performing a puja for...

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  9. Guardian of the Forces, The (1991 Video)

    Director
    Anne Laure Folly
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Introduces the world of Sikavi, a ‘fetish priest’ in Lome, Togo, who controls the spirits of several voodoos or gods. Explores the significance of sacrifice and possession in communicating with spirits...

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  10. Djungguwan at Gurka’Wuy (5 Parts) (1990 Video)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    Ian Dunlop
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, 5 videocassettes. VHS. col. 233 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT+p&p) each part

    A film about the Yolngu of north-east Arnhem land, their land and their religion. Dundiway Wanambi is a leader of the Marrakulu clan of Aboriginal of north-east Arnhem Land. In 1976 he invited Ian Dunlop to...

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