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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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