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  1. Orphans of Passage: Udule (1993 Video)

    Director
    Bruce MacDonald
    Producer
    Bruce MacDonald
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In 1987 the Uduk people of southern Sudan fled from their homes and from Africa’s longest-running war. On the road, with children lost and scattered, the Uduk are struggling to piece together their lives.

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  2. We Are All Neighbours (1992 Video)

    aka: War: We Are All Neighbours

    Director
    Debbie Christie
    Producer
    Debbie Christie
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Anthropologist Tone Bringa filmed ordinary people in a mixed Catholic-Muslim village in outside Sarajevo, Bosnia, over the space of three weeks, showing how the stress of war causes good neighbours to become...

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  3. 35 Up (1991)

    Director
    Michael Apted
    Producer
    Michael Apted
    Subject
    Psychology; Social Studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £30.00

    Follows on from SEVEN UP, SEVEN PLUS SEVEN, TWENTY-ONE UP and 28 UP. The fifth in a series in which 14 children from a cross-section of society were interviewed at the ages of seven (in 1964), 14, 21 and 28....

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  4. Albanians of Rrogam, The (1991 Video)

    Director
    David Wason
    Producer
    David Wason
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the village of Rrogam, about 45 houses in a valley in northern Albania. The Rrogamis only settled there after World War 2, moving from the village of Thethi across the mountains. Looks at the...

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  5. Cakchiquel Maya of San Antonio PalopÓ (1991 Video)

    Director
    Bruce MacDonald
    Producer
    Bruce MacDonald
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Mayan Indians of the village of San Antonio Palopó on the shores of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala live in much the same way as their 16th-century Mayan ancestors. Yet, with economic development, things are...

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  6. Dead Men Talk (1991 Video)

    Director
    David Hart
    Producer
    David Hart
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 1993 price: £20.00

    Looks at new scientific techniques in dating fossils. These have recently shown some fossil remains to be tens of thousands of years older than had previously been supposed. The controversial conclusions...

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  7. Land is Bad, The: The Mursi (1991 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    This is Leslie Woodhead’s fourth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985. He has filmed the continuing story of a people as they fight to maintain their identity...

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  8. Nitha (1991 Video)

    Director
    Leslie Woodhead
    Producer
    Leslie Woodhead
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    This is Leslie Woodhead’s fifth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985, made at the same time as THE LAND IS BAD. The nitha is an ‘age set ceremony’ of the Mursi...

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  9. Kalasha, The: Rites of Spring (1990 Video)

    Director
    John Sheppard
    Producer
    John Sheppard
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the small Kalasha tribe who live in the Hindu Kush mountains of Pakistan, the last people of the region to have resisted conversion to Islam. Their relgion is is closely connected with an alpine...

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  10. Mende of Kpuawala Village, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Bruce MacDonald
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Mende of Sierra Leone are mainly rice farmers, who also grow some cash crops. The film shows that development projects and their timetables favoured by the new chief can sometimes clash with local values...

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