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  1. Why is Mr W. Laughing? (2017)

    Director
    Jana Papenbroock
    Subject
    Anthropology; Art; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 minutes), £50.00

    Documentary which takes us on a collaborative journey through the pictorial worlds of three artists with different disabilities. The film, which focuses on their aesthetic obsessions, uses an eclectic mix of...

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  2. Arab Londoners - Migrants and British Identity (2015)

    Producer
    Jayne Egerton
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies

    Podcast. THINKING ALOUD is a BBC 4 radio discussion series first broadcast in 1998 and hosted by Laurie Taylor focusing on the latest social science research. In this edition Professor Taylor talks to Ramy...

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  3. 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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  4. Chocolate Farmer, The (2012)

    Director
    Rohan Fernando
    Subject
    Agriculture; Anthropology; Development studies; Environmental science; Geography

    An unspoiled corner of southern Belize, where cocoa farmer and father Eladio Pop manually works his plantation in the tradition of his Mayan ancestors: as a steward of the land. The film captures a year in...

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  5. Boy Mir, The: Ten Years in Afghanistan (2012)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Producer
    Amanda Wilkie; Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £12.99

    Phil Grabsky’s documentary was filmed over the course of ten years and follows the life of an Afghani boy, Mir, growing up in the years after the fall of the Taliban in 2002. The film traces his journey...

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  6. Dinka: Legendary Cattle Keepers of Sudan (2011)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies

    In 30 years, award-wining photographers and National Geographic grantees Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have travelled over 270,000 miles through 40 countries in Africa to document more than 150 cultures....

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  7. Debate, A: Who was the Hobbit (2011)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Archaeology; Biology

    Found on an obscure island, the tiny, small-brained, big-footed, "Homo florensiencsis," or "the hobbit," is unlike any other discovery. Where did this being come from, and who are its ancestors? In this...

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  8. Khumi Lives (2010)

    Director
    Ittukgula Changma
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies

    Khumi is the smallest of the indigenous groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of southeastern Bangladesh. In today’s age of globalization, changes are occurring in the animist Khumi peoples’ religion,...

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  9. 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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  10. Lévi-Strauss at Unesco’s 60th Anniversary (2008)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Philosophy; Politics & government

    A video recording of a speech given by Claude Lévi-Strauss on 16 November 2005 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of UNESCO’s foundation, streamed as part of the online version of the UNESCO Courier...

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