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  • 1
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    Khyber (1979)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.). , 005332
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Afghan Wars. ; Ethnology ; Pushtuns History. ; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) History, Military. ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: For more than a century Britain was engaged in war with the Pashtun tribesmen of India's North West frontier. It began with the bloodiest massacre in the history of the British Empire when, in January 1842, some 17,000 British soldiers, women and children died in Gandamark, en route to the Khyber Pass. ‘Khyber’ tells the story of how the British experience in the North West Frontier was part of the Great Game, as Rudyard Kipling called it. It was never a successful game and rarely took cognisance of the wishes of the Pashtun tribes that bore the brunt of the different resulting wars. Looking at the history up to the Soviet invasion in 1979, Khyber features the final interview with Sir Olaf Caroe, last governor of the North West Frontier Province before partition, and with Field Marshall Sir Claude Auchinleck, last commander of the British Army in India. The film looks at the different perspectives of the conflicts by both British and Pashtun and provides fascinating parallels to what is happening in Afghanistan today.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2083007
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  • 2
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    Mission Hill and the miracle of Boston (1978)
    Watertown, MA :Documentary Educational Resources (DER),
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (66 min.). , 010615
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Urban renewal ; Mission Hill (Boston, Mass.) ; Boston (Mass.) Race relations. ; Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) Social conditions. ; Bhutan ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: Mission Hill and the Miracle of Boston is the story of urban renewal, racial conflict, and the struggle of a neighborhood to survive these changing times. Spokespeople include real estate developers, community activists, workers, and residents.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Boston in 1978. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2069561
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  • 3
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    Two video reports from China : acupuncture and herbal medicine (1978)
    Watertown, MA :Documentary Educational Resources (DER),
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.). , 005359
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Birth control ; Contraception ; Acupuncture ; Herbs Therapeutic use ; China Social life and customs. ; France ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: In response to an invitation from the Chinese government, twenty-three American family planning workers from the fields of medicine, public health, media and administration spent seventeen days during August and September of 1977 in the People's Republic of China studying its birth control, maternity and child care methods and facilities. This video contains two video reports made during this trip: In China Family Planning is No Private Matter (32 min), and Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (22 min). On this trip, they inquired about the government's methods of surveillance that were instrumental in conducting the declared policy of one child per family and observed its consequences in factories and communes. In their effort to comprehend the breadth of the government's health care policies, they recorded the extensive use of herbal therapy and acupuncture. Here is presented their recording of a birth by caesarian section using acupuncture as the sole anesthetic. Shortly afterward they talked with the mother as she celebrated the birth of a healthy son. The People-to-People China Trip was led by Phyllis Vineyard and Margaret Whitman, and was facilitated by Planned Parenthood USA as part of its exploration of the methods and consequences of family planning worldwide.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in 1977 in China. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2067498
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  • 4
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    Children of labor : a Finnish-American history (1977)
    Watertown, MA :Documentary Educational Resources (DER),
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.). , 005420
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Finnish Americans ; France ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: Featured at the 1977 New York Film Festival, Children of Labor is the story of how Finnish immigrants came into contact — and conflict — with industrial America. Three generations of Finnish-Americans recount how they coped with harsh realities by creating their own institutions: churches, temperance halls, socialist halls, and cooperatives. The film focuses on the people, their organizations, and the challenges posed by both McCarthy-era political repression and present-day Home Useism. At the same time, Children of Labor deals with questions that reverberate in the lives of most Americans, especially the sons and daughters of immigrants.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in 1977 in Minnesota. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2067467
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  • 5
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    The Eskimos of Pond Inlet (1977)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005324
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Eskimos Social life and customs. ; Eskimos Social life and customs. ; Ethnology ; Pond Inlet (Nunavut : Inlet) ; Australia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: For the Eskimos of Pond Inlet ­ a new village in North Baffin Island in which they have been settled by the Canadian Government ­ the life of the semi-nomadic hunter has given way to that of wage-labourer, in what appears as a pre-fabricated 'township'. Although hunting provides an important supplement to the Eskimos' income, it is now a part-time activity, and since 1975 (ten years after the start of the government's housing programme) nobody has lived all year round in hunting camps. For the older inhabitants of Pond Inlet, the old way of life is still vivid (in 1935 only 37 Eskimos lived in the village) and their reminiscences and recollections form part of a powerful statement about the present situation. These statements take the form of monologues, or comments addressed to friends and family about the effects of fifty years of contact with whites. Apart from these 'interviews' with the Eskimos, the film accompanies one family ­ grandfather, father, mother and children ­ as they go out hunting seals and jigging for fish. The visual contrast between the splendours of the open spaces of snow and water and the township of Pond Inlet is a startling one which reinforces the Eskimos' statements. We also see one member of this family selling seal skins in a trade store, and captioned information is given about the cost of maintaining the hunter's equipment and what he can expect to earn in any one year. The material was filmed during a seven week period in June and July 1975. A sophisticated 'observational' style is used, with long takes, few pans, no commentary or formal interviews and full subtitling. Caption cards are used to good effect, conveying necessary information without intruding on the narrative. These 'technical' factors have important consequences for the film's anthropological value, not least because one of the aims was to enable the Eskimos to 'speak for themselves'. Although it would be naive to suggest that the 'people's voice' manages to override the exigencies of making such a film for a 52 minute television slot, the Eskimos did have a say in the making of the film, and one of them was also involved in the editing. The striking oratorical style of the Eskimos awakens the viewer to the point that in this film they are addressing the Whites, voicing their distrust, having overcome the fear with which they first encountered these 'visitors' to the people's land.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in 1975 in North Baffin Island, NT. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2086357
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  • 6
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    The Shilluk of southern Sudan (1976)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005324
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Shilluk (African people) Kings and rulers. ; Shilluk (African people) Rites and ceremonies. ; Shilluk (African people) Social life and customs. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This film presents a compelling visual and aural analysis of Shilluk kingship in 1975, and provides a very useful complement to Evans-Pritchard's 1948 text, The Divine Kingship of the Shilluk. Although the Reth (king) has been reduced to the status of second-class magistrate in dispute settlement by the Sundanese government, he is still the focus of political and national identity for a Shilluk people composed of competing territorial groupings. At the death of the Reth, his spirit passes into the Nile. This film follows the procession of priests as they carry the effigy of Nyikang, the 16th century founder of the Shilluk dynasty, and his son Dak on the pilgrimage from the Nile, retracing the movements of their conquest of the North, capturing the Reth and installing Nyikang. The journey is part of a spiritual renewal for the Shilluk, as well as a renewal of political unity which reaffirms the social order. The outcome of the journey is known, for the Reth-elect will be captured after a ritual battle, and only after being possessed by the spirit of Nyikang will he be installed as King. Thus, the office is seen to be more powerful than the man, and the continuity of divine kingship is affirmed. However, this is not simply a filmed version of the type of analysis provided in Evans-Pritchard's book, for it deals with the kingship in a quite different political context. For example, throughout the period which leads to his installation, the king-elect is guarded by Government police who are not Shilluk. It is apparent that the future king accedes to office with the 'support' of the Government, the 'mock' aspect of the ritual battle being somewhat confused by the very real presence of the guards and their disruptive effects on the proceedings. In any course on political anthropology this film is clearly crucial, and for those quick enough to appreciate it, the commentary carries a great deal of information and analysis. It is also rated highly for verbal and visual accuracy.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Shilluk with English subtitles.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2196423
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  • 7
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    Kwagh hir (1975)
    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (30 min.). , 003014
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Folklore Performances. ; Masks ; Masquerades ; Tiv (African people) Folklore. ; France ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: Four million Tiv people form the major culture of the Benue state of southern Nigeria. They are popularly known as the greatest democrats in Africa as their society is based on fraternal cooperation between age mates rather than on authoritative chieftaincy. Men of an age work together on communal farming and house building and celebrate their achievements with feasts famed for the excellence of their music and dance. Their women create amongst the greatest dances in Nigeria within their extended family compounds. Each year, during the dry season, when there is little farm work, the leaders of the dance teams compose songs to record recent experiences and new features in their lives which they express in the rhythms and gestures of their dance. This flare for continuous invention reached great heights of creativity in the Tiv storytelling drama known as the Kwagh-hir. Kwagh-Hir (literally meaning "something magical") is a traditional Nigerian puppet theatre show of the Tiv tribe of central Nigeria. The Kwagh Hir performance is a mixture of: Storytelling, poetry, puppetry, music, dance, and drama. Traditionally the Kwagh-Hir group has consistently been organised into four different categories which are: the management, the musicians, the performers and the sculptors. There is normally a role that is suitable for different members of the entire community. An elderly man usually tends to be the leader of the Kwagh Hir group the Ter-u-Kwagh-Hir meaning father of Kwagh Hir. His job is to organise the group and settle any differences or disputes that may arise.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1879729
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  • 8
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    Masai manhood (1975)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.). , 005405
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Maasai (African people) ; Maasai (African people) Education. ; Maasai (African people) Social life and customs. ; Men, Masai Social conditions. ; Australia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This film was made after Masai Women and in the same area. Together the two films provide a vivid view of Masai men and women and their place in Masai society. The Masai are pastoral nomads in the East African rift valley with a social system which differentiates sharply between men and women and between age-sets. A particularly crucial distinction is made between men who are moran ('warriors') and more senior men classed as elders. After circumcision men live in the forest on the fringes of Masai society as moran debarred from marriage and excluded from crucial decision-making procedures. The film is focused on the life of the moran and on the dramatic eunoto ceremony which marks the important transition from warriorhood to full social maturity and the responsibilities of elderhood. The moran are given an opportunity in the film to talk about warriorhood and they sensitively strive to explain their ideals to the anthropologist. Their words are effectively translated in sub-titles. There is much valuable information in the film on the events leading up to the eunoto ceremony ­ including a fascinating sequence on the joking abuse directed by the moran at their mothers ­ and on the ritual procedures involved in the rite de passage itself. This may well be the last eunoto ceremony ever to be held as the pressures on the Masai to change their way of life are increasingly strong, and the film is important for the way in which it conveys the drama of the events and their significance both for the participants and for the Masai social system.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Kenya. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2083044
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  • 9
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    The Kirghiz of Afghanistan (1975)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (52 min.). , 005215
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Kyrgyz Economic conditions. ; Kyrgyz Social life and customs. ; Kyrgyz ; Afghanistan Social life and customs. ; Kyrgyzstan Social life and customs. ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The Kirghiz of Afghanistan are a group of some 2,000 pastoralists living on a bleak mountain plateau in a narrow isthmus of land between the borders of the Soviet Union and China. For nine months of the year heavy snows cover the ground, which was formerly used only by the Kirghiz for their summer pastures before the borders were closed, virtually terminating the contact of this group with other Kirghiz communities. Although the film shows dramatically the ten-day journey which lowland traders must make to reach this remote people, as well as scenes of a Kirghiz wedding and the traditional Central Asian sport of 'buzkashi' ­ demonstrating the horse-riding skills of the people ­ there is very little about the pastoral economy and society of the ordinary Kirghiz. The main reason for this is that the film focuses on the remarkable wealth and authority of their leader ­ the Khan ­ by far the wealthiest pastoralist on the plateau. Ninety-five Kirghiz families work for him as shepherds and herders. The film's principal concern is to show the way in which the Khan wields his power (using interviews with him and illustrative scenes) which thus turns The Kirghiz into a study of oppressive paternalism in this remote corner of the world. There is, however, some disagreement over the interpretation of the Khan's role.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Afghanistan. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2087700
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  • 10
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    Tides of the Delta : The Saga of Ozidi (1975)
    London, England :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (31 minutes) , 003005
    Keywords: Ijo (African people) ; Nigeria Social life and customs. ; Bhutan ; Documentary films. ; Ethnographic films.
    Abstract: This documentary is about the Ijo people of Nigeria. The performance is a celebration of the Ijo hero Ozidi.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016). , In English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?MARC;3233314
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  • 11
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    Disappearing world.; Masai women (1974)
    London, England :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (55 min.) , 005401
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Maasai (African people) ; Women, Maasai ; Women, Maasai. ; Kenya. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The Masai are cattle herders living in the East African rift valley: they grow no crops and are proud of being a non-agricultural people. Cattle are the all-important source of wealth and social status, and Masai love their cattle, composing poems to them. However, it is the men who have exclusive control over rights to cattle, and women are dependent, throughout their lives, on a man – father, husband or son – for rights of access to property. A woman's status as 'daughter', 'wife' or 'mother' is therefore crucial and this film examines with depth and sensitivity the social construction of womanhood in Masai society, concentrating upon women's attitudes to their own lives. The film details a series of events in women's lives, from their circumcision ceremonies which mark their transition from girlhood to womanhood, to the moment when they proudly watch their sons make the transition to elderhood in the eunoto ceremony.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed October 28, 2014). , Previously released as DVD. , In English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2083074
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  • 12
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    The Kawelka : Ongka’s big moka (1974)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (55 min.). , 005443
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Ceremonial exchange ; Ethnology ; Kawelka (Papua New Guinean people) Social life and customs. ; Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs. ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: Ongka is a charismatic big-man of the Kawelka tribe who live scattered in the Western highlands, north of Mount Hagen, in New Guinea. The film focuses on the motivations and efforts involved in organising a big ceremonial gift-exchange or moka planned to take place sometime in 1974. Ongka has spent nearly five years preparing for this ceremonial exchange, using all his big-man skills of oratory and persuasion in order to try to assemble what he hopes will be a huge gift of 600 pigs, some cows, some cassowaries, a motorcycle, a truck and £5,500 in cash. As an example of the big-man familiar from written texts, Ongka is memorable, and the film manages to convey through this main character the importance of pigs, of exchange and of prestige in the life of these Highlanders. The film-crew never in fact managed to film the big moka, as the conspiratorial and complex manoeuvres involved in setting the date thwarted their plans. But we are shown Ongka replacing tee-shirt and shorts with his ceremonial feathers and setting off to a little moka where he collects pigs he 'invested' with his wife's father. The interview with Ongka's wife raises the issue of the sexual division of labour and the importance of the wife's labour in pig-rearing and moka preparation, as well as the role of women in the establishment of a big-man.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Papua New Guinea. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2086420
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  • 13
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    Hudson shad (1974)
    Watertown, MA :Documentary Educational Resources (DER),
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (18 min.). , 001800
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Fishes Effect of water pollution on. ; Hudson (N.Y.) ; France ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: Folk music legend and environmental activist Pete Seeger, in despair over the pollution of his beloved Hudson River, launched a project to clean it up in the sixties. In Hudson Shad, Seeger and others in the River Keepers, make a statement about our responsibility for keeping the waters of the river clean enough for the shad to thrive.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in 1974 in Hudson, NY. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2068113
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  • 14
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    In search of cool ground. : the Mursi trilogy; Part 1,: The Mursi (1974)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.). , 005409
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Murzu (African people) ; Ethiopia Social life and customs. ; Ethiopia. ; Australia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: What made this trilogy special was that, unlike most television reportage, it had a temporal dimension. That is to say, it offered not a brutal, intrusive and uncomprehending snapshot, but a sympathetic, well-informed and thoughtful history of ten difficult years in the life of a tribe. Its insight derived from an anthropologist, David Turton, who has been studying the Mursi for years and who was able to provide the absolutely essential explanations of the mysterious events filmed by the Granada crew. This is the kind of illumination which is often provided by books or by personal experience, but almost never by television. This is a trilogy about aspects of the culture of two groups of people, the Kwegu and the Mursi, in Ethiopia. The titles are THE MURSI, THE KWEGU, THE MIGRANTS.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Ethiopia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Mursi with English subtitles.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2192184
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  • 15
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    Heal the whole man (1974)
    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (50 min.). , 004955
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Rolong (African people) ; France ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: The 'Barolong boo Ratshidi' are one of the group of Tswana peoples, who together form a culturally homogeneous population of over two million. The Barolong themselves number about 75000 and are one of the southernmost of the Tswana chiefdoms. The international boundary between South Africa and Botswana now divides this formerly united nation into two political communities, the smaller in south-east Botswana and the larger in the northern Cape Province of South Africa where this film was made. After the Union of South Africa was created in 1910 the Barolong were rapidly incorporated into the wider national economy. Soon, most adult males were compelled to enter the migrant labour market and were exposed to the cultural melting pot of the burgeoning industrial cities. Yet, despite rapid change in their social horizons, they were restricted, like other blacks, from any meaningful participation in white urban culture and its political institutions. Not surprisingly cultural change among the Baralong has been markedly uneven and the selective adoption of western forms has been accompanied by a perpetuation of much of their traditional corpus of belief and practice. The cultural diversity is perhaps most dramatically exemplified in the context of ritual and cosmology. The Barolong share the keenness of other black peoples in southern Africa for assimilating elements drawn from the various Christian denominations with which they have made contact. The chiefdom accommodates numerous churches, each comprising a number of individual congregations. Religious organisations here are prone to rapid subdivision, the splinter groups retaining the emphasis upon elaborate ritual and uniform, and upon complicated leadership hierarchies which are found in the parent churches. Leaders in those churches are widely regarded as the educated elite; but while they formally condemn traditional ritual practice, nearly all Barolong continue to conduct their lives in terms of traditional cosmology. Beliefs in sorcery, pollution and ancestral potency flourish, and are expressed in the ritual of most the churches. The film examines Barolong religious syncretism in the context of the modern socio-political predicament. Two main types of religious organisation may be distinguished: the larger churches, whose form approximates that of the original mission church; and the smaller, highly factious groups, whose structure and ritual activities combine American fundamentalism with indigenous practice. The film attempts to show how seemingly irrational belief and action make sense when viewed in their proper context. The apparently bizarre syncretistic religion of the Barolong can be seen as part of the universal human quest to impose order and meaning upon everyday experience.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Baralong with English subtitles.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1879504
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    Planning for floods (1974)
    Watertown, MA :Documentary Educational Resources (DER),
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (29 min.). , 002854
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Flood damage prevention. ; Global warming. ; Hudson (N.Y.) ; Rapid City (S.D.) ; Mississippi River. ; France ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The distribution and use of Planning for Floods by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) spread the message of public environmental responsibility well beyond the immediate community of the Mississippi River. It anticipates by more than 30 years the present concerns about global warming.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in 1974 in Hudson, NY. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2068126
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    The Mehinacu (1974)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005308
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Acculturation ; Ethnology ; Indians of South America ; Mehinacu Indians. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The Mehinacu live near the head-waters of the River Xingu in Central Brazil, in a single village within the protective confines of the Xingu National Park. Although the film concentrates upon the most exotic aspects of Mehinacu life, focusing on a series of rituals concerned with the planting and harvesting of the piqui tree, these rites are firmly located in their social context. Relations between the sexes in this society are formalised in an astonishing abundance of ritual, celebration, dances and games, performed to ensure fertile soil and good crops. Many sequences deal with the daily life of the Mehinacu, showing, for example, the sexual division of labour, with men fishing and women preparing manioc. The use of subtitled interviews provides a depth and sensitivity in the film's approach which helps to underline the concern with the fact that these Indians are seriously threatened by a road which is being cut through their territory. One of the highlights of the film is an interview with a Mehinacu elder who tells of the origin myth of the sacred flutes, a myth which is part of a complex belief system that will be lost if the Mehinacu, who are such a small group, are not able to survive under the pressures of the outside world. The film could be used to stimulate discussions of sex role differences, sexual division of labour in particular societies, and the connection between ritual and social relationships.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Xingu National Park, Brazil. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Mehinaku with English subtitles.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2196056
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    Life chances : four families in a Greek Cypriot village. (1974)
    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (40 min.). , 003933
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Economic development ; Families ; Social change ; Women Social conditions ; Cyprus Social conditions. ; Cyprus Social life and customs. ; France ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: A careful account of social change in a prosperous Greek Cypriot village, which follows four closely related families before the Turkish made them all refugees. Their lives reflect the possibilities available to individuals and families in the village society.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;1879781
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    Kataragama : a god for all seasons (1973)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.). , 005332
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Hinduism ; Kārttikeya (Hindu deity) ; Kataragama (Sri Lanka) Religious life and customs. ; Sri Lanka Religious life and customs. ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: In ever-increasing numbers Sinhalese of all religions (Muslims, Christians and Buddhists) are turning to Kataragama, an ancient Hindu God, at times of trouble and desperation. Once a year pilgrims make the journey to Kataragama's shrine in southeast Sri Lanka (Ceylon) to fulfil vows by performing acts of penance and worship in payment for a favour received. Kataragama is called on to help with a wide range of problems (unemployment, sickness, examinations, personal relationships) and is appealed to by people of all social backgrounds, notably the growing middle class and urban dwellers. A good third of the film is concerned with the annual festival, showing the often gruesome and sensational acts which the pilgrims perform including fire-walking, and the piercing of body and tongue with needles – all acts designed to obtain forgiveness and grace. One man is suspended from hooks in his back – a self-torture undertaken with apparent joy by a man who, like many others that perform such acts, feels himself (after a time) to be possessed by the God's spirit. These rather sensational acts are interwoven with the story of a peasant family whose son has disappeared, leading them eventually to seek help from Kataragama. The unfolding of this personal drama (with reconstruction of early episodes, and voice-over to detail their thoughts and feelings) forms the context for the events we see at the festival. The effect of the interweaving of these two 'stories' is to place the otherwise purely exotic spectacle of the pilgrims' acts of penance within a universally understandable social context – that of the despair of a family whose young son is lost. The unplanned return of the boy, apparently in response to the family's appeal to Kataragama, provides a dramatic and moving finale to a film which has been compared in some respects to the great Italian neo-realist films. Clearly this film is an important one both for anthropologists and those concerned with ethnographic film per se.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Sri Lanka. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2192194
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    The dervishes of Kurdistan (1973)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (59 min.). , 005858
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Dervishes. ; Kurds Social life and customs. ; Qādirīyah ; Sufism ; Iran. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: A community of Kurds residing in Iran on the border with Iraq forms the subject of this film. Many of the inhabitants of the community are refugees from Kurdish areas of Iraq and the villagers are Qadiri Dervishes – followers of an ecstatic mystical cult of Islam. The unusual manifestations of the Qadiri Dervish faith are explored in this film, both in the context of religious ceremonies and everyday life, with the main focus on the spiritual and temporal power wielded by their leader, Sheikh Hussein. For the Durvishes, Hussein is the direct representative of Allah and, therefore, by serving the Sheikh they are also serving God. In rituals presided over by him they have the power to carry out acts which would normally be harmful, such as having electricity passed through their bodies, eating glass, handling poisonous snakes and skewering their faces. The film includes interviews, not only with members of the cult, but also with the local mullah (representative of orthodox Islam), in an attempt to explore the difference between those two manifestations of the same faith. The film is visually compelling, especially the sequences showing religious celebration and ceremony.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Baiveh, Iran. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2193670
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    The Meo (1972)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (55 min.). , 005432
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Hmong (Asian people) Social life and customs. ; Hmong (Asian people) ; Laos History. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: Over the last three thousand years the Meo (Miao or Hmong) have migrated south from north and central China to avoid oppression and protect their way of life. Today they live in scattered mountain villages in south China and south-east Asia; and the 250,000 of them who live in the Kingdom of Laos have suffered greater losses, relative to their numbers, in the Indo-China wars than any other single group. In 1972, when this film was made, the Vietnam war was still at its peak; therefore it is not surprising that a fairly straightforward ethnographic account is combined with a more journalistic analysis of the political situation. Indeed it would be difficult to approach a discussion of the Meo without such an emphasis, and the review in RAIN (listed below) is a useful supplement to this. In effect, the film's narrative divides into two parts first we are introduced to a village which managed to remain neutral and avoid the worst effects of the war (which was why the anthropologist chose it for his fieldwork). The daily life and material culture of the Meo people are shown as they sow rice using slash-and-burn agricultural methods, distil opium for sale and entertainment, and discuss with the anthropologist their fear of conscription and its effects on other villages. Two rituals are shown ( the shaman who performed them was the close friend of the anthropologist) one to banish a nightmare, the other to exorcise the spirit of a man which haunts the house of the brother who accidentally killed him while out hunting. In the second part of the film we see the Meo who live in American-run refugee camps (which is the majority of them), far removed form the village life of their fellows. The interviews with some of the Meo pilots who fly American B28 bombers over their homeland emphasise the tragic absurdities of such a war; for these Meo are not sure exactly who the 'enemy' are, each one giving vague answers to the interviewer's questions.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in China and Laos. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2087704
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    The Tuareg (1972)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.). , 005420
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Tuaregs Social life and customs. ; Tuaregs History. ; Tuaregs. ; Algeria. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This film is about a group of nomadic Tuareg living high up in the Hoggar Mountains near Tamanrasset in Algeria. The main focus of the film is the collapse of the former economic basis of their camps. In 1962 the Algerian government banned the system of slavery and contract labour which had helped to keep the Tuareg camps supplied with grain. Now, instead of undertaking 500 mile long trading journeys to Niger, Tuareg buy grain in Tamanrasset with money obtained form selling cheap leather goods to the burgeoning tourist trade. The commentary, by Jeremy Keenan, also introduces aspects of the Tuareg kinship system, and material about the social life of the group. The second part of the film concentrates on the devastating effects of the recent drought on this way of life. The pasture is now so poor that camps have to move more frequently, and so traditional patterns of life are being abandoned in favour of a sedentary existence as cultivators alongside the Tuareg's former slaves.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2191030
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    Embera : the end of the road (1971)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (55 min.). , 005055
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Embera Indians. ; Indians of South America ; Australia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The way of life of the 10,000 Embera Indians who live in the Choco region of Colombia, South American, is threatened by the encroachments of Negro Libres (descendants of freed slaves) and by the expansion of the Pan-American highway which cuts through their land. The film's main concern is to show the effects of interaction between the Embera river dwellers and two groups of outsiders the Libres with whom they trade, and the local Catholic mission which administers education, religion and civil justice. Although the Embera are exploited by the Libres (who, for example, sell them hunting dogs at very high prices) both groups are poor and largely without rights in Colombian society. In an interview, the Embera explain to the anthropologist that they want protection from the physical attacks of the Libres and legal rights over the land which they have inhabited for many years. Sequences such as this bring out the Embera's plight they are caught between the bulldozers and the banknotes of the Libres. We are shown the material culture and way of life of the Indians (canoe building, pot making, hunting, curing rituals) but not in a romanticised way, and the polemical organisation of the film allows the ethnographic details of the life of these river Indians to be placed in a wide social and economic context.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Choco, Colombia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2192147
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    War of the gods (1971)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (68 min.). , 010731
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Barasana Indians. ; Ethnology ; Indians of South America ; Macú Indians (Papury River watershed) ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: While relying on a polemical stance directed against the cultural genocide wrought by missionaries, War of the Gods also contains a wealth of information and detail about Amazonian Indian cosmology, social life and sexual division of labour. Two groups of Indians from the Vaupes region of Colombia are shown, the Maku, who live mainly by hunting and gathering, and the sedentary Barasana, who live mainly by farming. The film contrasts the belief systems and way of life of the Indians, presented by the anthropologists who worked and lived with them, with those of Protestant and Catholic missionaries. The Protestants, North American Fundamentalists from the Summer Institute of Linguistics, are said to have used their organisation as a cover in order to be allowed to work with the Indians, because open Protestant missionary activity would not have been acceptable to the authorities. No attempt is made to gloss over the complexities of contact between Whites and Indians. The Barasana themselves want change, and the missionaries' influence is undoubtedly more beneficial to the Indians than that of rubber gatherers. Included in this film is an interview — using voice-over — with a Maku shaman, and there are scenes from the Barasana moloka, the communal house which is a centre of social and domestic activity. The climax of the film is a contrasting look at a church service at the S.I.L. headquarters, a Barasana ritual dance (accompanied by the ritual use of the hallucinogen yage), and a Mass at the Catholic mission attended by some of the Indians who took part in the ritual dance. Some missionaries who have seen this film consider that its editing is unfair to the S.I.L., but the head of another important missionary organisation has said that it should be screened during missionary training courses.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Vaupes, Colombia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2197874
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    Last of the Cuiva (1971)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (66 min.). , 010625
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Cuiba Indians Social life and customs. ; Ethnology ; Indians of South America ; Colombia Social life and customs. ; Australia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The film focuses on recent changes in the culture and society of the Cuiva, hunters and gatherers in a remote forest region of south-eastern Colombia, brought about through contact with Colombian settlers. Two groups of Cuiva are shown: one is relatively isolated, while the other has had extensive contacts with the settlers. The first group live a nomadic life moving frequently; the men hunt and fish, the women gather. The second group has been drawn into the Colombian economy, working occasionally for the ranchers to earn money to buy trade goods. The film also usefully includes interviews with white ranchers, showing their racist attitudes to the Indians, whom in the past they feared and on whose land they are now continually encroaching. The basic incompatibility between the economic systems of the Cuiva (based on communal distribution of food, gift-giving and receiving), and that of the settlers who attempt to survive within the world-capitalist market, is startlingly illustrated. Unlike later films in the series, The Last of the Cuiva relies on a moving commentary recorded during filming by the French-Canadian anthropologist, Bernard Arcand, who emphasises that the traditional way of life of the Cuiva (whom he describes, following Sahlins, as exemplifying the 'original affluent society') will be seriously damaged by these contacts with whites. Rather than giving a more conventional anthropological description, Arcand's commentary is a humanist plea for the survival of hunter-gatherer groups, and carries an implicit criticism of western lifestyles.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Colombia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Spanish.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2192233
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    A clearing in the jungle (1970)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (40 min.). , 004017
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Indians of South America ; Indians of South America. ; Panare Indians. ; Venezuela. ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: In common with many other Indian groups in South America, the culture of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is threatened by their almost daily contact with neighbouring creoles, Spanish-speaking peasants. However, in spite of nearly fifty years of interaction, their culture has remained distinctively Indian. The film focuses on activities of their daily life, such as making cassava, preparing blow-darts, hunting and gathering. The Indians strongly resented the presence of the camera-crew; indeed, as Dumont points out early in the film, they were loath to reveal details of their belief-system even to him, although he had been living with them for eighteen months. This was the first and the shortest of the films in the Disappearing World series. Although useful and interesting, it is relatively superficial and its commentary contains some anthropological oddities; it cannot be compared with the much more sophisticated films made later in the series.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Venezuela. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2191083
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