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The 10,000 Embera Indians live in the headwaters of two rivers, the Baudo and the Atrato, in the Choco region of the coast of Colombia, South America. Whether fishing, hunting or growing food, the lives of...
Illustrates the changes brought about recently and violently through contact with the outside world, in the culture and society of the Cuiva Indians, hunter-gatherers in Colombia. The contrasting position of...
A study of traditional Chinese religion and custom, presented in the form of rather short sequences from a wide range of domestic, monastic and communal rituals. Made in Hong Kong.
The life of Central Australian nomads who still keep camels today. Scenes of the capture and nose-pegging of a wild camel, a contemporary ceremony and a cross-country journey to Papunya settlement. Unlike...
The Panare Indians of Venezuela have lived in almost daily contact with Creoles, Spanish-speaking peasants, for the last fifty years but remain distinctively Indian in their way of life. ‘In that time,...
A series of dances (eight in all) from Cape York, Australia. Carvings of the ancestral hero, sharks, wallabies, crocodiles, snakes, lizards and flying foxes are used in the dances. Also covers the...
Each year during the dry season, the Jie of North-eastern Uganda leave their homesteads and take their cattle to ‘nawi’, temporary cattle camps in the west, where fresh grazing is abundant. Note: There...
The Nuer, well known from the work of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard, live as transhumant herdsmen and millet farmers in the swamps and open plains close to the Nile and two of its major tributaries in the Sudan...
The search for the Kreen-Akrore tribe, in the Amazon jungles of Brazil, led by Orlando and Claudio Villas Boas, famed for their pioneering expeditions into uncharted areas of the Amazon basin where, for over...
Focuses on four Sadhus (holy men) as a means of portraying the variety of devotional paths open to religious Hindus and examining the Sadhus’ role in present-day Indian society. The bulk of the film...
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