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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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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