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  1. Unity Through Culture (2011)

    Director
    Christian Suhr; Ton Otto
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Soanin Killangit is determined to unite the people and attract international tourism through the revival of culture on Baluan Island, Manus, Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific. He organises the largest...

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  2. World’s Lost Tribes (2008)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 360 minutes), £29.99

    Six-part documentary series in which extreme travellers Mark Anstice and Olly Steed venture into the jungles of West Papua to live with the Kombai tribe, who were discovered only 25 years ago. Largely cut...

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  3. First Contact (2007)

    Director
    Mark Anstice
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 60 minutes), £195.00

    The dense lowland swamps of New Guinea and the outer reaches of the Amazon Basin are home to the last groups of ‘uncontacted’ hunter-gatherer tribes still in existence. They are the few human beings that...

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  4. Letter to the Death (2004)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 62 minutes), £50.00

    About the encounter between tradition and modernity in a small village of Papua New Guinea. Three exceptional men rival with each other in the field of rituals and artistic creation in order to win over...

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  5. Bridewealth for a Goddess (2000 Video)

    Director
    Chris Owen
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 72 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Documents the last performance of the ritual for the fertility goddess Amb Kor. Shot over a period of 15 years, the anthropologists/filmmakers have been participant-observers durng a time of pivotal change...

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  6. Global Cooperation (1998 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1999 sale: £47.00 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    Four case studies illustrate how development aid is being used in Papua New Guinea and Vietnam to achieve global cooperation between nations, illustrating how appropriate aid involves working with local...

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  7. Advertising Missionaries (1996)

    Subject
    Development studies; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 52 minutes), US$ 150.00

    In Papua New Guinea where over three quarters of the population cannot be reached by regular advertising media, markets are being developed by other means. A theatre group travels the remote highlands...

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  8. Pepsi War (1992 Video)

    Director
    Charlie Clay
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The post-colonial period in Papua New Guinea has seen a resurgance in tribal warfare. This film follows the story of a fight between two clans, which developed from a dispute over cola bottles.

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  9. Baruya Muka Archival (17 Parts) (1991 Video)

    Director
    Ian Dunlop
    Producer
    Ian Dunlop
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Enquiries to RAI, Videocassette. VHS. col. 49, 55, 53, 23, 60, 54, 57, 29, 58, 28, 35, 41, 56, 48, 54, 50, 57 min.

    An archival film document in 17 parts of the Baruya initiation ceremony, filmed over a six-week period in 1979 and edited in 1990. The programme records the intense ritual activity of a full Muka or...

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  10. Impact of Development (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 43 min., 1997 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Looks at the changes brought about by the development of a billion dollar gold mine on the indigenous people of Porgera, in one of the more remote areas of Papua New Guinea. As the government of PNG looks...

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