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  1. Women of Aibom (1961 Film)

    Director
    Boris Cook
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  2. Kula, The (1961 Film)

    Director
    Steve Szabo
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  3. Legend in Clay (1961 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  4. Land Dayaks of Sarawak, The (196 Film)

    Director
    William R Geddes
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  5. Maitres Fous, Les (1955 Film)

    aka: Mad Masters, The

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  6. Trobriand Islanders, The (1952 Film, Video)

    Director
    Harry A Powell
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  7. Hausa Village (1949 Film)

    Director
    Jean Duff
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  8. Ainu Bear Ceremony, The (1931 Video)

    Director
    N G Munro
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 27 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    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,...

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  9. Grass (1925 Film, Video)

    aka: Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life

    Director
    Merian C Cooper; Ernest B Schoedsack
    Producer
    Jesse L Lasky; Adolph Zukor
    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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...

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  10. Moana (1923 Film)

    Director
    Robert J Flaherty
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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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