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  1. Uncanny Strangers: Catering for Nature Conservation in Southwest Madagascar (2009)

    Director
    David Picard
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 46 minutes), £50.00

    Filmed in a fishing village in the South-West of Madagascar, UNCANNY STRANGERS provides insight into the relationships between the villagers and various human and non-human ‘strangers’ - ancestor and...

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  2. Holy Hustlers (2009)

    Director
    Richard Werbner
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 53 minutes), £50.00

    Charismatic, street-wise young men, living in Botswana’s capital, command the prophetic domain in Eloyi, their Apostolic faith-healing church, at a time of escalating crisis. Bitter, sinful accusations...

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  3. Calcutta Calling (2008)

    Director
    André Hörmann
    Subject
    Business studies; Geography
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 17 minutes), £15.00

    "Business Process Outsourcing" is the fastest growing industry in the world. In India, approximately 350,000 people are currently working in call centres to maintain the contact between western companies and...

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  4. Art of Regret, The (2008)

    Director
    Judith MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology; Art; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Photography is known in China as the "Art of Regret". In the rapidly changing city of Kunming, people are ambivalent about whether they want photography to be a medium of preservation and evidence, or of...

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  5. Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears (2008)

    Director
    Simon Chambers
    Subject
    Social Studies; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 63 minutes), £50.00

    East London Muslim girl Shahanara is changing from pink hot pants into a sari to meet her husband at the airport. She has only met him once before, when she was married in a union arranged by her Bangladeshi...

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  6. Black Mountain (2008)

    Director
    Charlotte Whitby-Coles; Amin Hajee
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 84 minutes), £50.00

    A once unremarkable site of multi-faith pilgrimage to a Sufi Saint has been transformed and its local history rewritten. This film documents the journey of Charlotte, a student undertaking her PhD research...

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  7. Sermiligaag 65°54’n, 36°22’w (2008)

    Director
    Anni Seitz
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

    The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few...

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  8. Born (2008)

    Director
    Judith Kurutac; Andy Lawrence
    Subject
    Anthropology; Medical sciences; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 56 minutes), £50.00

    This documentary was made by Andy Lawrence in collaboration with independent midwife Judith Kurutac. They met in Kurutac’s thirteenth year of practice when she supported Lawrence’s partner, Helen...

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  9. Gandhi’s Children (2008)

    Director
    David MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 185 minutes), £50.00 (£15 hire)

    A monolithic building on the outskirts of Delhi provides food and shelter for 350 boys. Some are orphans, some have been abandoned, others have run away from home. About half are held under a court order,...

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  10. Beautiful Dachau (2008)

    Director
    Alan Marcus
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 30 minutes), £50.00 (buy); £15.00 (hire)

    'Beautiful Dachau’ is an experimental documentary that observes streams of visitors to the Dachau concentration camp, now a popular tourist attraction. 800,000 people visit the site annually. The film is...

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