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First-person narration (with Oxford accent) by the carver, who describes the complete process of making a hand-drum, from selecting the tree to carving the handle. Other demands for carvings are more briefly...
The object of the series of films was to create a scientific record of the traditional life of Aboriginal people in the Western Desert of Australia. They concentrate on the subsistence technology of the...
The rulers of Benin in Nigeria, the Oba, traditionally spend much of their time performing rituals designed to enhance their own power and the prosperity of their subjects. This film record of the rituals...
A detailed ethnographic study of the Miao tribe, who practice shifting agriculture, in northern Thailand. Shows details of Miao ritual, the cultivation of agricultural produce (maize, rice and the opium...
Shows in the traditional methods of iron smelting and forging used by the Madi of Uganda. In Eremi only one old man knows how to smelt iron. A younger man goes digging some eight miles away for iron ore,...
An ethnopsychiatric film of the management of psychiatric disorders by the Yoruba of Western Nigeria. Among the Yoruba, psychiatric disorder is widespread and a set of institutions has been developed to deal...
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