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  1. Sang des Femmes, Le (2011)

    aka: Blood of Women, The

    Director
    Christian Lajoumard
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes), £20.00

    The Pokot people live in a small region straddling the border of Uganda and Kenya. This film presents the consequences of female genital mutilation through the testimonies of Pokot women, doctors and social...

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  2. Shooting Freetown (2011)

    Director
    Kieran Hanson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 29 minutes), £15.00

    A decade since Sierra Leone’s devastating civil war, from the ashes rises a new dawn of creativity in audio-visual media. Inspired by Jean Rouch’s ‘shared anthropology’ and ‘ethno-fiction’,...

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  3. Allan Baldwin: In Frame (2011)

    Director
    Allan Baldwin
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 52 minutes)

    In the 60s Allan Baldwin, then a young photographer, travelled through Aotearoa (New Zealand), obsessed with preserving the image of the moko, a Maori tattoo put on the chins of the Kuia women. Allan Baldwin...

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  4. Birdwatchers (2010)

    aka: (Terra Degli Uomini Rossi, La

    Director
    Marco Bechis
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 108 minutes), £15.99

    A drama in which a group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland.In Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, the farming classes lead a wealthy and leisurely existence....

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  5. 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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  6. African Journey with David Dimbleby (2010)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 2 x 60 minutes), £195.00 each part or £438.75 the set

    Africa is the most culturally and ethnically diverse continent on the planet. But the peoples of Africa are widely regarded as victims of hunger, disease, poverty and conflict and the vast continent in which...

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  7. Ancient Worlds (2010)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Archaeology; Classical studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £24.99

    A six-part odyssey tracing the development of Western civilisation - from the first cities of Mesopotamia to the fall of the Roman Empire. Academic and archaeologist Richard Miles travels through the Middle...

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  8. Happy People: A Year in Taiga (2010)

    Director
    Dmitri Vasyukov
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

    A film profiling a year in the lives of the people in the village of Bakhtin along the Yenisei River in Siberian Taiga. Werner Herzog, who narrates the film, edited down the four hour television documentary...

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  9. Manenberg (2010)

    Director
    Karen Waltorp; Christian Vium
    Subject
    Anthropology; Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 54 minutes), £50.00

    MANENBERG is the debut documentary film by directors and anthropologists Karen Waltorp and Christian Vium, who have lived and done extensive research in Manenberg a suburb outside Cape Town - since 2005. The...

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  10. Lumina Amintirii (2010)

    aka: In the Light of Memory

    Director
    Alyssa Grossman
    Subject
    Anthropology; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 40 minutes), £50.00

    LUMINA AMINTIRII explores evocations of memory in contemporary post-socialist Bucharest, nearly twenty years after the fall of Romanian communism. The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of the oldest...

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