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  1. After the Drought: A Peasant Family in West Africa (1976 Film)

    Director
    Kristian Palvden; Aage Peterson; O G Sven
    Producer
    Willy Rohoe
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    About a peasant family living in the village of Piela - a loosely nucleated settlement of compounds with little centrality - in the central part of Upper Volta, who make their living primarily by farming,...

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  2. Bothy, The (1976 Video)

    Director
    John Macpherson
    Producer
    James Shiach
    Subject
    Agriculture; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 17 min.

    The recording of a bothy group at Adamston Farm, Huntly.

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  3. Barefoot Doctors of Rural China (1975 Film)

    Director
    Diane Li
    Subject
    Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An overview of Chinese medical care before 1976. Concentrates on rural China and demonstrates the effect of Mao Zedong’s June 1965 directive ‘in medical care put the emphasis on the countryside’....

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  4. Children Know, The (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The deep division in Andean society between campesinos and mestizos, rural and townspeople, begins at birth, is perpetuated by the schools, and continues through life. Evidence of discrimination’s physical...

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  5. Ho, The: People of the Rice Pot (1975 Film)

    Director
    Michael Yorke; Valerie Yorke
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Focuses on the life of one man, his two wives and seven children in order to portray the yearly cycle of the Ho people, a secluded tribe of the Mundari-speaking group living in the southern part of Bihar...

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  6. Indian Pilgrimage, An: Village Man, City Man (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Deals with the way in which one man, Shripal, views his life as a city man whose kinship ties and duties still bind him to his natal village. Shripal now works in a New Delhi cloth factory, 400 miles west of...

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  7. Island in the China Sea (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Economics
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Tai a Chau is a home for both farmers and fishermen, who live aboard small junks and use the island as a permanent harbour. The daily routines of Mr Wong, a fisherman, and Mr Ng, a farmer, are representative...

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  8. Rural Co-Operative, The (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Tsao Tung Farmers Association typifies rural co-operatives in Taiwan. It is the centre of social, leisure and economic activities for the ,600 families who own the co-operative and rely on it for...

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  9. They Call Him Ah Kung (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Ah Kung, like most of his schoolmates, will inherit the family farm. Yet he may choose to leave farming, attracted by industry and the urban life style. Ah Kung’s personal dilemma symbolises a national...

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  10. Wheat Cycle (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In Afghanistan the people and their labour are bound to the land in the cycle of activities from the sowing to the harvesting of wheat. Without narration or sub-titles, the film conveys a sense of unity...

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