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  1. Village Voices: 40 Years of Rural Transformation in South India (1999 Video)

    Director
    Beate Engelbrecht
    Subject
    Anthropology; Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: DM85 (+p&p)

    Examines rural development by observing the different developmental paths of two villages, following the introduction of an irrigation system begun in the 1930s in the Mysore district in South India. An...

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  2. Mycology. 2: Higher Fungi (1994 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, LaserVision Active Play (interactive) videodisc. PAL. col. 70 min., 1996 sale: £200.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Covers ascomycetes and basidiomycetes. Provides a readily available extensive audio-visual archive of mycological phenomena, many of which are documented on film for the first time. With around 350 film...

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  3. Cell Biology III: Cellular Responses and Interactions (1993 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, LaserVision videodisc. b&w/col. 70 min., 1996 sale: £210.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Cinematographic sequences and supplementary freeze frames are organised in chapters with comprehensive menus and subject indexes integrated in the disc. When linked to a computer, the disc can form the basis...

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  4. Firth on Firth: Reflections of an Anthropologist (1993 Video)

    Director
    Rolf Husmann; Peter Loizos; Werner Sperschneider
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 49 minutes), £50.00

    Sir Raymond Firth, one of Britain’s most eminent anthropologists, in conversation with Peter Loizos. Firth looks back on memories of New Zealand, Tikopia, and Malaya and recalls other anthropologists. His...

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  5. 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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  6. Foutura: A Lobi Potter Tells Her Story (1993 Video)

    Director
    Beate Engelbrecht; Klaus Schneider
    Subject
    Anthropology; Crafts
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 55 min., 1995 sale: DM179 (+p&p)

    Foutura, a 65-year-old woman in Burkina Faso, has produced various kinds of pots all her life, learning the different techniques at certain stsages in her life. Today she is recognised in her village s...

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  7. Semana Santa: The Holy Week in Patamban (1992 Video)

    Director
    Beate Engelbrecht
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 130 min., 1995 sale: DM390 (+p&p)

    Filmed in Purhépecha, Michoacán, Mexico. As in a passion play the villagers celebrate Holy Week, acting efffigies as well as certain people. Catholic liturgy and folk religion are combined in the ritual...

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  8. Motility: The Movement of Cilia and Flagella (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 16 min., 1996 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Flagella and cilia facilitate the locomotion and transportation of material through mammals. The principal structure of the axonem of flagella and cilia is identical, and is shown using electron microscopic...

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  9. Nuba Wrestling (1991 Video)

    Director
    Rolf Husmann; Werner Sperschneider
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI FVL) Sale (IWF), Videocassette. VHS. col. 43 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) - RAI

    Looks at the weekly wrestling tournaments of the Sudanese Nuba migrants in Khartoum. Usually these take place between the northern and southern Nuba men. The sport helps them strengthen their ethnic identity...

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  10. Tick ‘Ixodes Ricinus’ And Lyme Disease, The (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Biology; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1996 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Using time-lapse micro and macro techniques, the film describes Lyme disease and shows the infection, removal of ticks, a documentation of patients with symptoms at different stages of the disease, and the...

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