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Goddess and the Computer, The (1989 Video)

aka: Water Goddess and the Computer, The

Director

Steve Lansing; André Singer

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (INCA, RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) (INCA) 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

Demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by religious authorities. A biologist and an anthropologist look at the...

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Dancer and the Dance, The (1988 Video)

Director

Felicia Hughes-Freeland

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Javanese palace dancing has long attracted outsiders by its exotic costume and effortless grace of movement. These first impressions belie the physical and intellectual rigor which are the reality of the...

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Sundanese Culture Alive (1988 Video)

aka: Sundanese Popular Culture Alive

Director

Jean Hellwig

Subject

Anthropology; Dance; Music

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 46 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

Shows the richness of Sundanese art, concentrating on the performing arts, particularly on the place of Jaipongan, a new style of music and dancing invented around 1978 on Western Java. The roots of...

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Whale Hunters of Lamalera, The (1988 Video)

Director

John Blake

Producer

John Blake

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

Follows the daily life of the Lamaholot, whale hunters from the village of Lamalera on the Indonesian island of Lembata, a community of 1500 people. The villagers have to fish to survive - their preferred...

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Jero on Jero: A Balinese Trance Seance Observed (1981 Film)

Director

Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch; Linda Connor

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Balinese spirit medium, Jero Tapakan, views a video recording of a film featuring herself entitled A BALINESE TRANCE SEANCE. She comments on the film and explains the seance proceedings.

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Four Films on a Healer in Central Bali (1980)

Director

Patsy Asch; Timothy Asch

Subject

Anthropology; Medical sciences

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 103 minutes), £50.00

Jero Tapakan, a Balinese spirit medium, goes into trance to give clients advice from the spirit world. The viewer has an intimate view of Jero’s household shrine, of the trance process and of Jero as an...

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Bali: Cremation (1978 Film)

Director

Peter Ramsden

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Describes the sequence of events of a cremation in Bali, as well as exploring the ritual itself and the implications of the cremation for those involved.

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Bali: Down from the Mountain (1978 Film)

Director

Peter Ramsden

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

About the use of water in Bali and its relation to purity. Shows sequences of stages of the ceremony for consecrating holy water and of the three-month ceremony for removing the impurities of birth.

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Klana Topeng: Classical Mask Dance from Yogyakarta, Java (1978 Video)

Subject

Dance

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 23 min.

Klana Topeng, the love dance of the proud King Klono, is one of the classical Javanese solo dances. It derives from the Wayang Kulit, the original large mask-play developed in Central Java. The Wayang Kulit...

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Sakuddei, The (1974 Film, Video)

Director

John Sheppard

Subject

Anthropology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

The Sakuddei live on the island of Siberut off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. They are a small community with their own distinctive language and social and religious life. The film draws a moving and...

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