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The making of a wide variety of pottery by the women of this village in Chambri lakes, Sepik district, New Guinea, which relies on trading pots for much of its subsistence. Explains the full process of...
A record of the kula ceremonial exchange of gifts in the Milne Bay and south Trobriand Islands areas of eastern Papua, concentrating on the ceremonial exchanges between chiefs and the making of the shell...
Describes the making of very large pots in the Amphlett Islands. The pots, which were exported to obtain sufficient food, played an important part in the utilitarian trade accompanying the Kula ceremonial...
A straightforward presentation of the daily life of a land dayak longhouse village as it was in about 1960, with material on the growing of rice, fishing, the collection of wild vegetables and fruits, food...
Shows a ceremony of the Hauka, a religious sect in West Africa, and explores questions of dependence, domination and synthesis. During trance possession the participants of the ceremony reflect traditional...
A general introduction to the people of the Trobriand Islands. Also covers gardening and associated magic, mortuary rites, Kula preparations, and the harvest season. Made mainly in the region of Omarakana...
Although the commentary is occasionally misleading, this study of the Hausa of Nigeria gives a vivid impression of village life a generation ago, showing agricultural and fishing activities, hut building and...
An examination of the lives of the Ainu people of Japan, who are racially and culturally different from their Japanese neighbours and who obtain their food mainly by hunting and gathering. The bear ceremony,...
In 1924 filmmakers Cooper and Schoedsack joined forces with journalist and sometime spy Harrison to film the Follows the annual migration of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of east Persia in search of grass for...
Describes Polynesian life in general with special reference to the ceremony of initiation to manhood, with its painful, and then almost defunct, tattooing operation. Filmed in Samoa.
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