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  1. Wild West, The (2 Parts) (1995 Video)

    Director
    Ric Burns
    Producer
    Lisa Ades; Ric Burns
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 214, 215 min., 1995 sale: £12.99 (inclusive) each volume

    A series examining the history of the Native Americans as white Americans moved west in the mid-19th century. The programmes combine archival phogtographs, period paintings and early motion picture footage...

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  2. Alejandro Mamani: A Case Study in Psychological Anthropology (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Alejandro Mamani, an elderly Aymara Indian, is the subject of this ethnographic study of mental illness and the approach of death.

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  3. Aymara, The: A Case Study in Social Stratification (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Out OF Distribution, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.75 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    In Northern Bolivia, where the heterogeneous population is socially and economically stratified, the inequalities of a sharp class division between the Spanish-speaking mestizos and the subordinate Aymara...

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  4. Gene Hunters (1994 Video)

    Director
    Ian Taylor
    Producer
    Luke Holland
    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 52 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    Scientists are collecting blood samples from the Ahuaco and Asario Indians who live in the remote rain forests of northeern Columbia in order to provide DNA for the Human Genome Biodiversity Project. The aim...

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  5. Spirit Hunters, The (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 1995 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

    A study of the Machiguenga Indians of Peru who believe all rainforest plants and animals evolve from their ancestors and therefore possess human souls and spirits.

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  6. Standing Alone (1994 Video)

    Director
    Colin Low
    Producer
    Tom Daly
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min.

    An autobiographical study of 25 years of the life of Pete Standing Alone, a Blood Indian, from his early days as an oil-rig roughneck, rodeo rider and cowboy, to the present as an Indian concerned with...

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  7. Two Worlds of the Innu (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

    A portrait of two Innu families in eastern Canada, caught between the shamanistic hunting life of their nomadic ancestors and the nightmare world of the modern villages where the government is trying to...

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  8. Amji-Kin: The Run of the World (1993 Video)

    Director
    Jürgen Dieckert; Jakob Mehringer; Oldenburg; Regen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 42 min., 1995 sale: DM130 (+p&p)

    Among the Canela Indians of north-east Brazil, log races for men and women are an almost daily sporting activity, strongly connected with their mythology and ritual life. Introduces Canela culture and then...

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  9. Aymaras Forever (1993 Video)

    Director
    Michel Régnier
    Producer
    Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min.

    Documents the lives of the Aymara Indians, who live on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, who live at subsistence level in a lush landscape and have revived some of their ancestral farming techniques.

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  10. Dreams from the Forest (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1996 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Dreams, myths and rituals are an essential part of life for the Mehinacu, one of the several Indian groups living in the Xingu Reserve in central Brazil. But since the white man discovered them nearly 50...

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