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  1. Samsara (2013)

    Director
    Ron Fricke
    Producer
    Mark Magidson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL), £24.99

    Following in the same template as 1992’s BARAKA (also directed by Fricke), SAMSARA is a study in the ways humanity works as a collective and as individuals, with the cycle of human existence providing the...

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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. Leaving Greece (2013)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 minutes), £50.00

    A film about friendship and the European Union refugee policy, which tells the personal story of three Afghan refugees living in Greece. When entering the EU for the first time, a refugee must submit an...

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  4. Virtual Me: Gender and Identity in World of Warcraft (2013)

    Director
    Trent Monahan; Sarah Prothero; Jennifer Torson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 11 minutes), £20.00

    VIRTUAL ME examines the experiences of players of the online game World of Warcraft, focusing specifically on their experience and understanding of issues surrounding gender and identity within their virtual...

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  5. 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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  6. Manuscripts of Timbuktu, The (2012)

    Director
    Zola Maseko
    Producer
    David Max Brown
    Subject
    Anthropology; Arabic studies; Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 52 minutes), $195.00

    A film on how the legendary Timbuktu became one of the world’s leading scholarly and trading centres during the 12 - 15th centuries. It dispels the myth that Africa had no science or written culture before...

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  7. Woven Lives: Contemporary Textiles from Ancient Oaxacan Traditions (2012)

    aka: Vidas Enretejidas

    Director
    Carolyn Kallenborne
    Subject
    Anthropology; Crafts
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 76 minutes), £162.00

    Examines how traditional art and design play an active role in the cultural sustainability of the Zapotec communities in Oaxaca. Traces the development of the weaving process from the first people in the...

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  8. There is Nothing Wrong with My Uncle (2012)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 62 minutes), £50.00

    Nigerian writer Dul Johnson returns to the land of the Tarok people in Nigeria to observe the local death rituals and the Tarok ways of dealing with grief and honouring the departed. This film provides a...

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  9. 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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  10. Across the World with Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson (2012)

    Producer
    James Leo Meehan; Osa Johnson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Travel & tourism
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 mins.), $14.95

    As if they were showing their film to a few friends in their home, Osa and Martin Johnson describe their trip across the world, which begins in the South Pacific islands of Hawaii, Samoa, Australia, the...

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