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  1. Breaking the Chains (2015)

    Director
    Erminia Colucci
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 64 minutes), £50.00

    The practice of using shackles and chains to physically restrain people with mental illness (known as pasung) is widespread in Indonesia (as in many other developing/low middle income countries) and almost...

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  2. Dinka: Legendary Cattle Keepers of Sudan (2011)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Media studies

    In 30 years, award-wining photographers and National Geographic grantees Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have travelled over 270,000 miles through 40 countries in Africa to document more than 150 cultures....

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  3. Masks of Mer, The (2010)

    Director
    Michael Eaton
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 37 minutes), £50.00

    The film Alfred Haddon made in 1898 in the Torres Straits, lasting for less than a minute, is the world’s first example of anthropological cinema. The MASKS OF MER tells the extraordinary story of this...

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  4. Professional Foreigner, The: Asen Balilci and Visual Ethnography (2009)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Film & television production; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 60 minutes), £50.00

    Asen Balikci has been a leading figure in making ethnographic films for many decades. In a series of talks between Balikci and filmmaker Rolf Husmann in different locations, the life and work of Asen Balikci...

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  5. Uncanny Strangers: Catering for Nature Conservation in Southwest Madagascar (2009)

    Director
    David Picard
    Subject
    Anthropology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 46 minutes), £50.00

    Filmed in a fishing village in the South-West of Madagascar, UNCANNY STRANGERS provides insight into the relationships between the villagers and various human and non-human ‘strangers’ - ancestor and...

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  6. After the Rains Came: Seven Short Stories About Objects and Lifeworlds (2006)

    Director
    Sarah Thomas
    Subject
    Anthropology

    Sarah Thomas directed and edited ‘After The Rains Came: Seven short stories about objects and lifeworlds’ as part of her MA Visual Anthropology ethnographic research among the cow herding Samburu people...

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  7. How the Myth was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty’s "Man of Aran" (1979)

    Director
    George C Stoney
    Subject
    Anthropology; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 58 minutes), $219.00 [Institutional rate]

    George C. Stoney revisits the island made famous in Robert Flaherty’s documentary MAN OF ARAN, and speaks with some of the surviving islanders who took part in the original film, asking them about their...

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  8. Romance of the Far, Fur Country, The (1920)

    Subject
    Anthropology; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 120 minutes), $35.00 (home use)

    'The Romance of the Far Fur Country’ was first released in 1920, two years before the ‘Nanook of the North’. It is a silent documentary depicting Arctic fur trappers in 1919 and was made to commemorate...

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  9. Jean Rouch

    Director
    Jean Rouch
    Subject
    Anthropology; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 660 minutes), 55 euros

    A 4-DVD collection of the films of anthropologist Jean Rouch, with short introductions by Bernard Surugue to put each film in historical context. NB French language only. DVD 1 - Ciné-Transe Includes: Les...

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