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  1. South of the Border (2010)

    Director
    Oliver Stone
    Subject
    Geography; Politics & government
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 75 minutes), £9.99

    Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is a hero in Latin America for his willingness to stand up to the United States (both the government and the private sector) and his desire to use the nation’s petroleum...

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  2. Disappearing World: Volume 1 (2010)

    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 790 minutes), £12.00

    Granada’s landmark anthropological series, broadcast over three decades, remains a benchmark of cutting-edge documentary making. A series of internationally acclaimed, award-winning films offer intimate...

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  3. Uncle Poison (1998 Video)

    aka: Tio Veneno

    Director
    Ricardo Leizaola
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 60 min., 2000 sale: £25.00 (inclusive)

    A portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community’s Easter celebrations in modern Caracas, Venezuela. Shows the role of healer Benito Reyes as mediator between the social,...

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  4. Writing Panare - Portrait of a Linguist on Fieldwork (1996 Video)

    Director
    Paul Henley
    Subject
    Anthropology; Linguistics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 2001 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has been commissioned by the Venezuelan government to prepare reading primers in Panare as part of their literacy programme. She is shown gathering a range of materials...

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  5. Cuyagua (2 Parts) (1987 Video)

    Director
    Paul Henley
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - RAI), Videocassette. VHS. col 52, 56 min., 2000 sale: £50.00 (+VAT +p&p) each

    The people of Cuyagua, a small village on the Venezuelan Caribbean coast, are descended from African slaves brought to work on the local cacao plantation in the 18th century. Some villagers still work on the...

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  6. Panare, The: Scenes from the Frontier (1982 Film)

    Producer
    Chris Curling; Melissa Llewelyn-Davies
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    In Venezuela today 2000 Panare Indians continue to live in much the same way as they have done for centuries. They depend for their survival on the game and fish they hunt daily, and they live a communal...

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  7. Ax Fight, The (1975 Film)

    Director
    Timothy Asch
    Producer
    Timothy Asch
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Four views of a fight among the Yanomamo of Venezuela. The first is an unedited version of the fight as filmed by the cameraman soon after he arrived. The second is an analysis of the ritual context of the...

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  8. Magical Death (1973 Film)

    Director
    Timothy Asch; Napoleon Chagnon
    Subject
    Anthropology; Religious studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Focuses on the role of the shaman (Dedeheiw‰ in this case) in curing his Yanomamo co-villagers and sending sickness to enemy villages. The use of hallucinogenic snuff is shown in its daily context....

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  9. Clearing in the Jungle, A (1970 Film)

    Director
    Charles Nairn
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 40 minutes2), £30.00

    The Panare Indians of Venezuela have lived in almost daily contact with Creoles, Spanish-speaking peasants, for the last fifty years but remain distinctively Indian in their way of life. ‘In that time,...

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  10. Feast, The (1967 Film)

    Director
    Timothy Asch; Napoleon A Chagnon
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Set among the Yanomamo Indians of morthern Brazil and southern Venezuela, the feast cements an alliance between previously hostile villages for the purpose of attacking a third. (The action is first...

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