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  1. Hoy Fok and the Island School (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A fourteen-year-old boy living with his family in a fishing junk near a small island in Hong Kong territory reflects on his visits to an ancient harbour town, on his experience in school, and on his future.

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  2. Kentu (1975 Film)

    Director
    Herbert Risz
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Emanicipation of women in sub-Saharan Africa is rather different from in the West. This film studies five women and their families in the Congo who have rejected the idea of love and the couple as the basis...

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  3. Three Island Women (1975 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A young, a middle-aged and an old woman all agree that life on a small Chinese island in Hong Kong waters is better for them than in the past. Participating fully in the island’s decision-making and...

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  4. Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response to Colonialism (1975 Film)

    Director
    Jerry W Leach
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sports science
    Distribution
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    An ethnographic film about cricket as played in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. In the first half the people explain how to play the game and tell why they changed it over the last 70 years. The...

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  5. Women of the Toubou (1975 Film)

    Producer
    Anne Balfour-Fraser
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Examines the way of life of the Toubou, a nomadic tribe living in the Sahara desert. Looks in particular at the role of women in the tribe.

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  6. Boran Women (1974 Film)

    Director
    James Blue; David MacDougall
    Producer
    Norman N Miller
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows how the availability of education and other aspects of modernisation are changing Boran women’s attitudes even while they maintain their traditional and influential roles in a herding culture.

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  7. Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974 Video)

    Director
    Tony Lanzelo; Boyce Richardson
    Producer
    Len Chatwin; Colin Low
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows the way of life of the Cree Indians of Northern Quebec, as exemplified by three hunting families in their winter hunting quarters, at a time when the traditional Cree hunting grounds were threatened...

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  8. Kawelka, The: Ongka’s Big Moka (1974 Film, Video)

    Director
    Charlie Nairn
    Producer
    Charlie Nairn
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In Papua New Guinea status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring them. The moka is a ceremony in which people, somethimes the whole tribe, give gifts to members of other tribes. The larger...

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  9. Magic and Catholicism (1974 Film)

    Director
    Hubert Smith
    Producer
    Norman N Miller
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The people of the Bolivian highlands blend in thought and practice the religion of their ancestors and that of their conquerors. A fatal automobile accident, coincident with the festival of Santiago,...

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  10. Mehinacu, The (1974 Film, Video)

    Director
    Carlos Pasini
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The Mehinacu are one of several Indian groups living near the headwaters of the River Xingu in the Xingu National Park in central Brazil. Relations between the sexes in this society are formalised in an...

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