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  1. Swiss Yodelling - Thirty Years Later (2015)

    Producer
    Hugo Zemp
    Subject
    Anthropology; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 71 minutes + 21 minutes of extras), $340.00

    Thirty years after the first four documentaries, this film continues the research of the particular yodel style of the Muotatal, a Swiss alpine valley. In the 1980s, ethnomusicologist Hugo Zemp found the...

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  2. Talking Stone: Rock Art of the Cosos (2014)

    Director
    Paul Goldsmith
    Subject
    Archaeology; Art
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 53 minutes), $219.00 [Institutional rate]; $19.95 [Home use]

    Hidden away in the canyons of a top-secret military base on the edge of the Mojave Desert is the largest concentration of rock art in North America. Created over thousands of years by a now vanished culture,...

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  3. Dead Birds Re-Encountered (2014)

    Director
    Robert Gardner
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 46 minutes), $330

    In 1961, anthropologist Robert Gardner organised an expedition to the highlands of New Guinea to film the Dani people. He stayed for six months to create an essay on the themes of violence and death most...

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  4. Ameer Got His Gun (2011)

    Director
    Naomi Levari; Saar Yogev
    Subject
    Politics & government; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 58 minutes), $219.00 [Institutional rate]

    Documentary about Ameer Abu Ria, an eighteen year old Muslim Arab, who volunteers to enlist in the Israeli army, despite - like all Israeli Arabs - being exempt from service. Ameer believes that his...

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  5. Professional Foreigner, The: Asen Balilci and Visual Ethnography (2009)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Film & television production; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Asen Balikci has been a leading figure in making ethnographic films for many decades. In a series of talks between Balikci and filmmaker Rolf Husmann in different locations, the life and work of Asen Balikci...

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  6. (Un)veiled: Muslim Women Talk About Hijab (2009)

    Director
    Innes Hofman Kanna
    Subject
    Social Studies; Women’s studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (36 minutes), $145.00

    The film introduces the audience to ten Muslim women from various backgrounds who now live in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Their discussion about hijab, the headscarf, revolves around a lecture on the same...

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  7. 'It’s a Young Country’: Turkey and Akbank (2009)

    Director
    Charles K. Mann; Franco Sacchi
    Subject
    Social sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 18 minutes), $165.00 [Institutional rate]

    Commissioned to make a film for a teaching case at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, filmmaker Charles Mann drew upon seven years as a working economist in Turkey to produce a film that captures the...

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  8. Bushmen’s Secret (2006)

    Director
    Rehad Desai
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 65 minutes), $225.00

    When South African filmmaker Rehad Desai travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge, he meets Jan van der Westhuizen, a fascinating Khomani San traditional healer....

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  9. Architect and the Old Village, The (2006)

    Director
    Catarine Alves Costa
    Subject
    Anthropology; Architecture; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 70 minutes), $195.00

    Álvaro Siza Vieira, a famous visionary Portuguese architect, is called to coordinate the rehabilitation of the monuments and architectonic heritage of Cidade Velha (Old Village) in Santiago, one of the...

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  10. Shaktima No Veh (2006)

    Director
    Jayasinhji Jhala
    Subject
    Anthropology; Drama; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1, 60 minutes), $195.00

    The Goddess Shaktima is the most popular goddess in the region of Saurashtra (Western India) known as Jhalavad. This documentary presents the story of Shaktima as performed by the traditional muslim Bhavai...

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