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  • 1
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    London, England :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (63 minutes) , 010237
    Keywords: Islamic art. ; Mosques. ; Religious articles. ; Bhutan ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This documentary is about the reconstruction of the Minbar of Saladin, an elaborately-decorated Islamic pulpit with historical, artistic, and religious significance.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016). , In English.
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  • 2
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005307
    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
    Series Statement: Forbidden rites
    Keywords: Human sacrifice. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The documentary gives insight into the ancient rituals and religious practices involved in human sacrifice. The Forbidden Rites trilogy explores cannibalism, head hunting and human sacrifice. This series includes first-hand accounts, expert interviews, and rarely seen footage. It reveals the legends behind man-eating tribes, headhunters in jungles of Ecuador and sheds light on the link between human sacrifice and salvation. The series looks at rituals considered important and acceptable to one society but regarded, particularly in the West, as unacceptable and even abhorrent. The aim is to look at the differences and get explanations from practitioners in other societies as to why such rituals worked for them.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 3
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    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: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Series Statement: Forbidden rites
    Keywords: North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The history of cannibalism around the world and its role in different culture, from ancient Britain to Papua New Guinea. The Forbidden Rites trilogy explores cannibalism, head hunting and human sacrifice. This series includes first-hand accounts, expert interviews, and rarely seen footage. It reveals the legends behind man-eating tribes, headhunters in jungles of Ecuador and sheds light on the link between human sacrifice and salvation. The series looks at rituals considered important and acceptable to one society but regarded, particularly in the West, as unacceptable and even abhorrent. The aim is to look at the differences and get explanations from practitioners in other societies as to why such rituals worked for them.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 4
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    London, England :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 minutes) , 005300
    Keywords: Beheading. ; Rites and ceremonies. ; Borneo. ; Ecuador. ; Sweden ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The history of human decapitation, featuring the story of two British engineers beheaded by rebels in modern Russia and the psychological and religious implications of contemporary headhunting in Borneo. The Forbidden Rites trilogy explores cannibalism, head hunting and human sacrifice. This series includes first-hand accounts, expert interviews, and rarely seen footage. It reveals the legends behind man-eating tribes, headhunters in jungles of Ecuador and sheds light on the link between human sacrifice and salvation. The series looks at rituals considered important and acceptable to one society but regarded, particularly in the West, as unacceptable and even abhorrent. The aim is to look at the differences and get explanations from practitioners in other societies as to why such rituals worked for them.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed November 06, 2015). , In English.
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  • 5
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    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English , Indonesian
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.).
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Series Statement: Fragile Earth
    Keywords: Rice Economic aspects ; Rice Irrigation ; Mathematical models. ; Bali (Indonesia : Province) Social life and customs. ; South Africa ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: A biologist and an anthropologist look at a Bali irrigation system and propose a computer model to explore the effect of changes in the traditional system.
    Note: "An Inca Production." , "Media Support and Development Centre, University of Manchester."--Original cassette. , Title on original container: The water goddess and the computer. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Indonesian with English subtitles.
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  • 6
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    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.).
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Series Statement: Fragile Earth
    Keywords: Piailug, Mau. ; Thomas, Stephen D. ; Ethnology ; Micronesians Social life and customs. ; Navigation ; France ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: Stephen Thomas sails with Mau Piailug to learn about navigation and life in Micronesia.
    Note: Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 7
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    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005340
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Series Statement: Strangers abroad ; 3
    Keywords: Boas, Franz, ; Anthropologists Biography. ; Bhutan ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: Central Television's major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop 'armchair theorising' and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. In 1883, a young German scientist - Franz Boas - arrived in the Canadian Arctic to map the coastline and indulge in his new interest the study of other cultures. As he charted Baffin Island, he recorded the lives and ideas of the Eskimo who helped him with his work. He became so absorbed by the common features that unite humans everywhere that he made the study of culture his life's work and did fieldwork in both the Arctic and the North West Coast of America among Indian tribes. Considered to be the founding father of American anthropology, Boas taught at Columbia University, encouraging his students to follow his example by actually working in the field.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 8
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    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.).
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Series Statement: Strangers abroad ; 6
    Keywords: Evans-Pritchard, E. E. ; Anthropologist Biography. ; Documentary films. ; Historical films. ; Nuer (African people) Religion. ; Witchcraft ; Zande (African people) Religion. ; Sudan Religious life and customs. ; Bhutan ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: Edward Evans-Pritchard was the first trained anthropologist to do work in Africa, where he lived among the Azande and studied their belief in witchcraft. Later, he worked with the Nuer tribe in the Sudan. His work on witchcraft caused philosophers to ask how rational thinking could be defined; his study of tribal organization intrigued political theorists; his attention to the sophisticated religious sentiments of so-called primitive peoples has strongly influenced theologians.
    Note: Documentary. , Originally issued as motion picture in 1985. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 9
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    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (52 min.).
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Series Statement: Strangers abroad ; 2
    Keywords: Rivers, W. H. R. ; Torres Strait Islands. ; South Africa ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: Central Television’s major documentary series looks at the first anthropologists to stop ‘armchair theorising’ and go out to live among the peoples who so interested them. The six part series was filmed all over the world, from the frozen Canadian Arctic to the dry outback of Australia, from New Guinea to India, Africa to the South Pacific. The programme makers retraced the steps of the pioneering anthropologists in those countries and, by following the life story of each scholar, they reveal how social anthropology has contributed to our lives.
    Note: Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 10
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    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.).
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Series Statement: Strangers abroad ; 4
    Keywords: Malinowski, Bronislaw, ; France ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: Bronislaw Kaspar Malinowski was born into an aristocratic family in Poland in 1984. It was the chance reading of Frazer's Golden Bough that put him on the path of his future career. He pursuit anthropological training at London School of Economics and was awarded a doctorate for work on Australian Aborigines, based on data provided by Spencer and Gillen. Following a first field study among the Mailu off the New Guinea cost, using the well-tested formula of his predecessors, Spencer and Rivers, he moved 1915 to the Trobriands. There he abandoned the veranda and developed his style of fieldwork, which came to be called participant-observation: speaking the language, living in the community and becoming part of it, making a detailed record of all aspects of native life. Malinowski's intimate experience with Trobriand society generated a growing awareness of the myriad of links that hold society together.
    Note: Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 11
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    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.).
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2012. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Series Statement: Strangers abroad ; 5
    Keywords: Mead, Margaret, ; Child development Social aspects. ; Child development Social aspects. ; Child development Social aspects. ; Bali Island (Indonesia) Social life and customs. ; United States Social life and customs. ; South Africa ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: The most widely read, and best known anthropologist is probably Margaret Mead, an American who went study adolescence in the South Sea-Islands at the age of 23. Although her fieldwork has been criticised, she was nevertheless one of the foremost fieldworkers of her day. In America, Bali and New Guinea she examined child development, sex and temperament to see what role society has in making people what they are. Adolescence was a time of emotional stress and personal conflict in America and Europe. Mead claimed that in Samoa, adolescence was in many ways the most enjoyable and happy time of life.
    Note: Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 12
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005254
    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
    Series Statement: Strangers abroad
    Keywords: Spencer, Baldwin, ; Aboriginal Australians. ; Anthropologists. ; Anthropology Fieldwork. ; Anthropology Research. ; Anthropology. ; Australia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: Spencer represents the link between the armchair anthropologist and the modern fieldworking anthropologist. The series begins by following in the footstep of the British scientist. It shows his work with the Australian Aborigines – who had, up until then, been regarded as a step in the evolutionary ladder between Neolithic men and the 'civilised' Victorian. Spencer went to Australia in 1887 as Professor of Biology at Melbourne University. While there he was invited to join the Horn expedition, an ambitious project to explore Australia's still largely unknown interior. At Alice Springs, Spencer met Frank J. Gillen, the operator of the telegraphic station and an initiated elder of the Aranda tribe. It was Gillen's special place in Aboriginal society that enabled Spencer to document the world of this ancient and complex culture through books, glass-plate photographs, wax cylinder recordings and some of the earliest cine films shot outside Europe. Spencer and Gillen made several expeditions together; the data they collected fueled the theories of anthropologists around the world. Some of their film was used in the programme.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 13
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: Kazakh
    Pages: 1 online resource (55 min.). , 005500
    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: Kazakhs ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The Kazakhs of Xinjiang (Sinkiang) are one of the fifty-five national minorities that now live within the borders of the People's Republic of China. The policy of the Chinese Communist Party toward these people has been one of Sinofication, a neutralization of 'reactionary' local leaders and an alliance of Han Chinese with the indigenous culture. Xinjiang is a particularly sensitive area for the Chinese because of the traditional ties of the Kazakh with the Soviet Union. In 1962, some 50,000 Kazakhs and other non-Han peoples sought refuge in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic. Since then, the Sino-Soviet border has been closed, and until recently the entire area was off-limits to non-Chinese outsiders. This film offers unique ethnographic material about the Kazakh, as well as about Chinese policies in the years following the Cultural Revolution. The film follows the movement of the family of Abdul Gair, illustrated the cycles and tensions of present day Kazakhs, mixes detail of their traditional life as herders with suggestion of the effect of Chinese rule. The Chinese government allowed the filmmakers freedom to choose the subjects and people for the interviews and action sequences. Because of this, the film expresses, to a great extent, the view of the filmmaker, not of the Chinese government. Against a background of the Tienshan Mountains, the Kazakhs are shown branding yaks, milking mares, drinking kumis (fermented mare's milk), making their yearly move from winter to summer quarters, and setting up their felt-covered summer tents. Then, through the trip of Ahmed the production team leader to the brigade headquarters, the film portrays the relations between Kazakh and Han, showing the brigade's authority. Rather than livestock, formerly a mark of wealth being owned for individual profit, production and gain is now controlled by the brigade leaders. Women are given more freedom within the community. Kazakh children now have an opportunity for education in the Kazakh language, but the teaching is largely Party doctrine; they have health care, but this again is Chinese. Yet, despite pre-1977 restrictions on local religion and nomadic culture, and although Abdul Gair is himself a Party member, the Chinese do not, as yet, control the Kazakh. The Kazakh have retained their horses, not only as wealth, but as a means of freedom. Here, as in other cultures where a strong centralized government controls a minority, the continued cultural independence of the Kazakh is an open question. The Chinese policy is currently to move as many Han as possible from the overcrowded central areas of China to the less populated border areas such as Xinjiang. This film gives an understanding, not only of a Kazakh society, but also insights into current change, of the conflicts of domination and independence.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in China. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in Kazakh and English with English subtitles.
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  • 14
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: Zande
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005243
    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: Witchcraft ; Witchcraft. ; Zande (African people) Religion. ; Sudan. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: 'Witchcraft among the Azande' is suitable for showing in undergraduate and graduate classes on topics of religion, philosophy, and African ethnography. It could also be stimulating to discussions of psychology and medicine. The success of the Granada series on public television in England indicates its appeal to a much wider audience as well. P. Leis Evans-Pritchard's book Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande has become a classic of both ethnography and theories of witchcraft. Now, anthropologist John Ryle and film-maker André Singer, who was himself one of Evans-Pritchard's students and has published on the Azande, have teamed together to produce the film Witchcraft among the Azande for Granada Television's Disappearing World series. Singer wanted to learn for himself the accuracy of Evans-Pritchard's analysis and to note the changes since the original fieldwork carried out between 1926 and 1930. Among the Azande, witchcraft is considered to be a major danger. They believe that witchcraft can be inherited and that a person can be a witch, causing others harm, without realising her or his influence. Because of this danger, effective means of diagnosing witchcraft are, for them, vital. One method is through the use of an oracle. Several kinds of oracles are explored in the film, the most important being benge, a poison which is fed to baby chickens. The chick's death or survival provides the oracle's answer. Azande also use benge to judge other evidence in a court before a chief. Anthropologists have long argued about the nature and significance of beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery and, more generally, about the similarities and differences between 'traditional' thought and Western science. This film treads a delicate path, exploring an explanation of reality incomprehensible to a majority of Westerners and, at the same time, trying to portray the Azande as a clear-thinking, and almost familiar group of people. In this aim the film succeeds by creating a tension whereby the oracle's answers are important to the viewers because they have become involved and are forming their own opinions about the guilt or innocence of the defendants. Zande is not a static society and much has changed since Evans-Pritchard's original fieldwork. The area filmed is influenced by Catholicism; people are Christian, but the church cannot give answers to many of the questions of the Azande people. The older people see their children abandoning traditional moral and other values. For this schism, the older people seem to blame the government more than the church as the church teaches a value system consonant with the traditional one. Yet, alongside the Christian influence and changes among the younger generation, the power of beliefs in witchcraft and oracles remains. If Singer wanted to give support to Evans-Pritchard's ethnography, he has done so with Witchcraft among the Azande.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in North Central Africa. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in Zande and English with English subtitles.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (39 min.). , 003852
    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: Afghans ; Ethnology ; Pushtuns Social life and customs. ; Refugees ; Pakistan Social life and customs. ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: There are twelve million Pathans. Bound by a common language, a common heritage and the unifying force of Islam, these proud and independent people do not acknowledge the geographical boundary which divides them between Afghanistan and Pakistan. This film was shot at the same time as Khyber in Pakistan, close to the Afghan border. The Pathans accept no imposed leadership, from without or from within. Their laws are the decisions of the democratic assembly of the village, known as the jirga. To disobey the jirga is to court heavy penalties against which there is no appeal. Their code of living is called pukhtunwali ­ the way of the Pathan. At its core are the principles of hospitality, personal honour and revenge. A man will fight to the death to avenge a wrong done to himself, his family or friends or, above all, his women. The film is noteworthy for the way in which it brings out the importance of these values. Their fierce loyalty, coupled with the independence of spirit which tolerates no formal leaders, makes the Pathans a formidable enemy, as the British once found out and, more recently, the Soviet invaders of Afghanistan have discovered.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Pakistan. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 16
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005309
    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 ; Refugees ; Afghanistan Exiles. ; Afghanistan History Soviet occupation, 1979-1989. ; Ireland ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This documentary by Akbar Ahmed and Andre Singer is about the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and tribal groups in the area.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Pakistan. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    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.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    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.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    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.
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