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  1. Nuba Wrestling (1991 Video)

    Director
    Rolf Husmann; Werner Sperschneider
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI FVL) Sale (IWF), Videocassette. VHS. col. 43 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) - RAI

    Looks at the weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum. Usually these take place between the northern and southern Nuba men. The sport helps them strengthen their ethnic identity...

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  2. Photo Wallahs (1991 Video)

    Director
    Judith MacDougall
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An exploration of the cultural and personal meanings of photographs in a hill station in northern India. The ‘photo wallahs’ are the local photographers of Mussoorie, a town that once attracted Indian...

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  3. Smoke (1991 Video)

    Director
    Maarten Rens
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 28 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Deals with fish smoking in Monnickendam, a small town near Amsterdam. Using archival footage, interviewing old fishermen, and contrasting the traditional and the modern industrial way to smoke fish, the film...

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  4. 1700 Metres from the Future (1990 Video)

    Director
    Ulla Boje Rasmussen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, minutes), £50.00

    Inhabitants of the isolated settlement of Gásadalur on the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic discuss the planned tunnel that will connect them to the other islands, talking about their outlooks on the...

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  5. Carrot and the Stick, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Susi Arnott
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    When they retired from selling insurance and teaching, John and Irene Brown volunteered to work overseas under a British aid programme. They were sent to expand a marketing project aimed at gardeners in the...

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  6. Charcoal-Makers (1990 Video)

    aka: Ta Karbouna

    Director
    Colette Piault
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 30 minutes), £24.00

    Describes the technical process of charcoal making in the Greek mountains of Epirus. The charcoal-makers, who have sometimes come from distant places with their families, rent themselves and their work out...

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  7. Condor and the Bull, The (1990 Video)

    Director
    Peter Getzels; Harriet Gordon
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 56 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Villagers from remote hamlets high in the Andes join together with people from the roadside village of Ocongate to celebrate the Peruvian independence day. Festivities require that a wild condor be captured...

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  8. Djungguwan at Gurka’Wuy (5 Parts) (1990 Video)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    Ian Dunlop
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, 5 videocassettes. VHS. col. 233 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT+p&p) each part

    A film about the Yolngu of north-east Arnhem land, their land and their religion. Dundiway Wanambi is a leader of the Marrakulu clan of Aboriginal of north-east Arnhem Land. In 1976 he invited Ian Dunlop to...

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  9. And Women Wove It in a Basket (1989 Film)

    Director
    Bushra Azzouz; Marlene Farnum; Nettie Kuneki
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An oral history of Klickitat basket-weaver Nettie Jackson Kuneki, and an exploration of Klickitat River culture within an investigation of documentary practice and cultural preservation. The film attempts to...

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  10. Copperworking in Santa Clara del Cobre, MichoacÁn, Mexico: Artisans Facing Change (1989 Video)

    Director
    Beate Engelbrecht
    Subject
    Anthropology; Crafts
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 52 minutes), £50.00

    Santa Clara del Cobre is a centre for the craft of copperworking, a craft originating from pre-Spanish times. As in colonial times, copper utensils are beaten into shape. In the 1940s the industry expanded...

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