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  1. Dances with Llamas (1997 Video)

    Producer
    John Bulmer
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1997 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Charts the preparations for Tinku, the raucous annual festival in Tamacuri, an ancient village high in the Bolivian Andes and home to the Macha people. Tinku is a chaotic, deadly affair banned by the village...

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  2. Under the Blue Flag (1995 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 120 min., 2000 sale: £18.00 (inc. VAT +p&p) DEDU

    A video-based resource pack to illustrate the complex role of the United Nations in responding to conflict and problems around the world. The four 30-minute programmes are: 1) The Great Disaster: the history...

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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. Children’s News (2 Parts) (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Social welfare
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1997 sale: £15.00 (+VAT inc. p&p)

    Two programmes looking at how the world’s governments are responding to UNICEF’S call to ratify and implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child. They chart the progress of global ratification...

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  5. 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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  6. Let Our Songs Live (1993 Video)

    Director
    Mats Brolin; Anna Cnattingius
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

    This film was made at the invitation of the Sirionó Indians living in Ibiato, a small village with 500 inhabitants in the rainforest of northern Bolivia. The Sirionó call themselves ‘Mbía’ (people)....

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  7. 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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  8. Simplemente Jenny (1979 Film)

    Director
    Helena Solberg-Ladd
    Subject
    Development studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    About women in Latin America and the cultural values that shape their lives - image and reality - the models of society and the facts of poverty and violence. Focuses on three adolescent girls in a...

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  9. Chuquiago (1977 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Geography
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Four separate but related stories of four Bolivians living in the capital, La Paz. Each focuses on a central character from a different class: Iscio, an Indian boy; Johnny, a 20-year-old bricklayer’s son;...

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  10. Andean Women (1976 Film)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Aymará women embody a common paradox. The cultural ideal is that women should be subservient to men, and assigned tasks appropriate to their inferior strength and intelligence. In fact, they perform many...

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