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  1. Doctors of Two Worlds (1989 Video)

    Director
    Natasha Solomons
    Subject
    Anthropology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In the Bolivian highlands an English doctor is setting up a network of health care for remote mountain villages. While teaching the inhabitants the essentials of Western medicine the doctor is confronted...

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  2. Goddess and the Computer, The (1989 Video)

    aka: Water Goddess and the Computer, The

    Director
    Steve Lansing; André Singer
    Subject
    Anthropology; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (INCA, RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 52 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) (INCA) 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    Demonstrates how in Bali, development projects can threaten a carefully balanced ecological irrigation system that is maintained by religious authorities. A biologist and an anthropologist look at the...

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  3. Herders of Mongun-Taiga, The (1989 Video)

    Director
    John Sheppard
    Producer
    John Sheppard
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI) Sale (Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The Tuvanians live deep inside the Soviet Union at the centre of Asia. With ‘glasnost’, the new openness, a film crew was allowed to film the nomadic yak herders of Mongun-Taiga, a rugged district on the...

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  4. Imbalu: Ritual of Manhood of the Gisu of Uganda (1989 Film, Video)

    Director
    Richard Hawkins
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Documentary about the male circumcision ritual among the Gisu of Uganda. The narrative follows one male participant through the ritual and contrasts his hopes and anxieties on this important day of his life...

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  5. Kayapo, The: Out of the Forest (1989 Video)

    Director
    Michael Beckham
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (c/o Concord) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Early in 1989 the Kayapo rallied other Brazilian Indians to attend a re-unification of the tribes at Altamira - the proposed site of a massive hydro-electric dam that will flood large parts of the Xingu...

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  6. Last Navigator, The (1989 Video)

    Director
    André Singer
    Producer
    Martin Pick
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI, INCA), Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) INCA 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) RAI

    Concerns the clash of two cultures and two technologies. The technology is navigation, traditional and Western, and the cultures are Satawal, one of the Caroline Islands in Micronesia, and the United States....

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  7. Matai Samoa (1989 Video)

    Director
    George Milner
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 65 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A treatment of archival footage shot by George Milner of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 1955 and 1959 while gathering material for his ‘Samoan Dictionary’. The...

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  8. Villagers of the Sierra de Gredos (1989 Video)

    Director
    Peter Carr
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (RAI)

    The 130 villagers of Navalguijo in the Sierra de Gredos of central Spain live in a village high in the mountains and face an extreme climate with poor soil. With access to winter pastures across the...

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  9. Across the Tracks: The Vlach Gypsies of Hungary (1988 Video)

    aka: Vlach Gypsies

    Director
    John Blake
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI, Granada), Videocassette. VHS. col. 51 min., 2005 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) (Granada)

    Vlach gypsies are unassimilated descendents of gypsy slaves in Wallachia in Romania in the 19th century. Explores the gypsies’ position in socialist Hungary through the eyes of three related families,...

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  10. Blooms of Banjeli, The: Technology and Gender in West African Ironmaking (1988 Video)

    Director
    Carlyn Saltman
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 29 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Carolyn Saltman and two historians went into the village of Banjeli in 1985 to try to recreate on film the traditional iron smelting techniques (which are no longer used) of the area. The result is an...

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