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  1. Fatmawati’s Wedding: The Wedding of Two Sisters, The Preparations and Traditional Ceremonies (1998 Video)

    Director
    Fiona Kerlogue
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Records the preparations for the wedding of two sisters in eastern Sumatra in December 1996, emphasising the importance of the role of women in the village. Shows ritual exchanges of textiles and cakes, and...

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  2. Sinsin: Spirits on Stage (1998 Video)

    aka: Sinsin: Le Theatre des Genies: La Dramaturgie Rituelle de Punang-Iraraj

    Director
    Charles MacDonald
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 34 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    In Punang, a small coastal area in the southern part of Pulawan island off the Philippines, a young woman, Miming, undergoes the first ceremony of her ‘sinsin’ ritual cycle. In undergoing this ritual she...

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  3. Drake and son (1997 Video)

    Director
    Tim Clements
    Producer
    Tim Clements
    Subject
    Agriculture; Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 32 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    The story of a British man, Michael, who was born in his father’s farmhouse, works on his father’s farm and lives in a cottage just one field away, which he bought from his father when he got married. It...

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  4. Even Memories (1997 Video)

    aka: Hasta la Memoria, Siempre

    Director
    Rodrigo Vazquez
    Subject
    Anthropology; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Sons and daughters of ‘disappeared’ people in La Plata City, Argentina, carry on their parents’ fight-and-resist legacy at the time of the 20th anniversary of the military coup. Lucia Garcia, a...

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  5. Road, The (1997 Video)

    Director
    Jackie Waldock
    Producer
    Karin Farnsworth; Jackie Waldock
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 16 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows a group of gypsies, exploring perceptions of traditional travelling lie versus the reality of being a gypsy in Britain today, using a montage of images and voices to create a picture of a close and...

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  6. Silk, Muthappar and Vhs: Portraits from South India (1997 Video)

    aka: Seide, Muthappar und Vhs: Portr‰ts aus SÜdindien

    Director
    Damaris Lüthi
    Producer
    Ulrich Grossenbacher
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 63 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Presents three portraits of ‘ordinary’ people in the town of Nagercoil, southern India: Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings, with a daily routine that revolves around the...

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  7. Uncle John (1997 Video)

    Director
    Juliet Jordan
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A film by Juliet Jordan about her Uncle John. She says: ‘Uncle John was a keen and prolific amateur film-maker and my father kept the reels of film and sound that John left behind when he died. Using these...

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  8. Insight (1996 Video)

    Director
    Georg Misch
    Subject
    Psychology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 9 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    An account of an attempt to represent the world as it appears to a man who has lost his sight. The world around him is a blur, but strong visual images of the things that are important to him live on in his...

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  9. Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi (1995 Video)

    Director
    Philippa Deveson; Ian Dunlop
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 40 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    A series of interviews with an Australian Aboriginal, Dundiwuy Wanambi, filmed over 12 years between 1970 and 1982, showing the struggles of one man in the face of the huge changes brought about by the...

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  10. Aeroplane Dance (1994 Video)

    aka: Ka-Wayawayama

    Director
    Trevor Graham
    Subject
    Anthropology; Dance
    Distribution
    Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 58 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Records the ‘ky-wayawayama’ or ‘aeroplane dance’ of the Yanyuwa people of the Borroloola area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The dance was came about after an American bomber crashed in the...

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