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  1. Happy People: A Year in Taiga (2010)

    Director
    Dmitri Vasyukov
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 90 minutes), £15.99

    A film profiling a year in the lives of the people in the village of Bakhtin along the Yenisei River in Siberian Taiga. Werner Herzog, who narrates the film, edited down the four hour television documentary...

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  2. Environment 1 (1999 Video)

    Subject
    Development studies; Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale - see BEYOND RED, Videocassette. VHS. col. 26 min., See: BEYOND RED

    Three 8-minute films: 1) THE CIVIL ENGINEER: The story of one man’s efforts to restore a water supply to the farmers of Armenia’s Karat province. The death of communism led to a breakdown in the water...

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  3. Siberia (1997 Video)

    Director
    Ian Paul
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2000 hire: £5.00 (+p&p) for 2 weeks

    Adventurer Ray Mears visits the Evenk people, nomadic reindeer herders who live in traditional teepees on a diet of reindeer, fish and a few edible plants in the freezing Arctic climate in the taiga forest...

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  4. Yukhagir Stories (1997 Video)

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

    The Yukhagirs are one of the small indigenous peoples of Northern Siberia. This film, shot in the village of Nelemnoye, explores what it means to be a Yukhagir.

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  5. Ice Mummies (3 Parts) (1996 Video)

    Producer
    Tim Haines; Andrew Thompson
    Subject
    Archaeology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 3 x 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p) each 2000 sale: £150.00 (+VAT +p&p) series

    1 (producer Andrew Thompson): In Siberia in 1993 archaeologists found the body of a young woman whose flesh, clothes and possessions were preserved by the permafrost. From her frozen body are emerging clues...

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  6. Last Mammoth, The (1994 Video)

    Producer
    Kate O’Sullivan
    Subject
    Geology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Follows scientists’ quest for mammoth fossils in order to establish the reasons why the animal, an ancient relative of the elephant, finally became extinct. Fossil finds in the Siberian Arctic indicate...

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  7. Mystery of the Frozen Tombs of Siberia, The: A Young Lady Emerges from the Ice (1994 Video)

    Director
    Françoise Lévie
    Subject
    Anthropology; Archaeology
    Distribution
    Hire (RAI Film & Video Library) Sale (RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col. 44 min., 2000 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Reports on events of the summer of 1993 when Russian archaeologists discovered a new burial, bringing to light the frozen body of a Scythian woman buried 250 years ago in the AltaÔ mountains. Also examines...

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  8. Siberian Shaman (1994 Video)

    Director
    Eduard Poljakov
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. col. VHS. 25 min., 1998 sale: 25 ecu (+p&p)

    Portrays a Siberian shaman belonging to the Nganassan people who live in the north of Central Siberia, showing what the shaman’s tasks consist of and how they are fulfilled. Discusses the concept of the...

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  9. Your Steps Will Be Close to Mine (1994 Video)

    Director
    Svetlana Sokolova
    Subject
    Anthropology; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. col. VHS. 30 min., 1998 sale: 30 ecu (+p&p)

    Looks at the social and economic split between Russians and the indiginous people of Yakutia, resulting from the recent upsurge of economic activity in Siberia, stimulated by foreign investment. Also tells...

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  10. Taiga Nomads (3 Parts) (1992 Video)

    Director
    Heimo Lappalainen
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Hire, Videocassette. VHS. col. 3 x 50 min., 1999 hire: £15.00 (+VAT +p&p) each part

    Documentary series about the Evenki (formerly the Tungus), who are scattered all over eastern Siberia. They are a nomadic tribe who move with the household and reindeer throughout the year, never having a...

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