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    In:  Museum Worlds - Advances in Research Vol. 9, 1 (2021)
    ISSN: 2049-6737 , 2049-6729
    Titel der Quelle: Museum Worlds - Advances in Research
    Publ. der Quelle: Berghahn Journals
    Angaben zur Quelle: Vol. 9, 1 (2021)
    Keywords: American colonialism ; Ethnology ; Philippines ; ruination
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  • 2
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    Online Resource
    London, England :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: Spanish , English , South American Indian (Other)
    Pages: 1 online resource (86 minutes) , 012529
    Keywords: Palmer, John ; Anthropologists Biography. ; Mataco Indians Social life and customs. ; Indians of South America ; Indians of South America Civil rights ; Ethnology ; Bhutan ; Nonfiction films. ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: John Palmer arrived in a Wichí community, located in Argentina, thirty years ago as an anthropologist - today he has married a Wichí woman with whom he has five sons in the last 5 years, who babble English, Wichí, and Spanish words. As the legal advisor of the Lapacho Mocho community, and as a part of the family, he works to obtain Qatu's freedom, a member of the Wichí community who has been in jail for 5 years waiting for an oral hearing on a charge of abusing his wife's daughter. The film gains depth and impact from its more intimate domestic interludes involving John's wife Tojweya their young children - including a baby only weeks old. So while Palmer has achieved considerable eminence in his field, winning the Royal Anthropological Institute's Lucy Mair Medal in 2009, his immersion into Wichí culture, history and customs has become much more than a matter of academic ethnography.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016). , In Spanish, English, and Wichí (Mataco).Optional subtitles in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, Italian.
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  • 3
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    Online Resource
    London, England :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (58 minutes) , 005759
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Nightclubs ; Bhutan ; Ethnographic films.
    Abstract: Mirror Mirror is based on an audio-visual ethnography of London's queer Club Wotever. Begun in the autumn of 2003, it promoted itself as a club that welcomed all genders and sexualities - a counterpoise to London's mainstream segregated scenes.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed June 24, 2016). , In English.
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  • 4
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    Online Resource
    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (49 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
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Marriage customs and rites ; Jambi (Indonesia : Province) Social life and customs. ; Olakkemang (Indonesia) Social life and customs. ; Sumatra (Indonesia) Social life and customs. ; South Africa ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: "This film records the preparations for the wedding of two sisters in eastern Sumatra in December 1996. There is an emphasis on the importance of the role of women in the village. Ritual exchanges of textiles and cakes, and a series of purification rituals are shown"--Original container.
    Note: "For educational use only"--Original container. , Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 5
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    Online Resource
    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (26 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
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Matriarchy ; Na (Chinese people) Social life and customs. ; Naxi (Chinese people) ; Ireland ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: The Na are an ethnic group in south-east China. Their particularity is that all the members of each household are consanguineous relatives; their social organization is absolutely matrilineal and as incest is prohibited, like elsewhere, their sexual life mainly takes the form of nocturnal visits of men to women.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 23, 2013). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 6
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    Online Resource
    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (157 min.). , 023640
    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: Taiga nomads ; 1-3
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Evenki (Asian people) Economic conditions. ; Evenki (Asian people) Social conditions. ; Evenki (Asian people) Social life and customs. ; Nomads ; France ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: Taiga Nomads is a film series about the Evenki (previously the Tungus), a nomadic people scattered all over eastern Siberia, and living under harsh conditions in the Taiga, an area predominated by coniferous/larch forests and swamp lands. This series gives a picture of everyday life, during the four seasons the film crew lived with the main characters, consisting of three generations of members of the Archemku family.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 7
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    Online Resource
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (55 min.). , 005514
    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. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: A further visit to the Mursi of Southern Ethiopia, with whom contact was established 17 years ago, for an important coming of age ceremony which has had to be postponed many times. An elder of the Mursi faces his last and most important challenge -- to arrange this ceremony. The date has been finally set but life has been very difficult for the Mursi over the past few years owing to attacks by hostile tribes, drought, famine, disease and cattle raiders and even now the ceremony may not take palace. There was a meningitis epidemic from which many people died until a vaccination and treatment programme ended it. This time we visit the South, the heartland of the Mursi, but everyone is fearful for the future.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Omo Valley, Ethiopia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 8
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    Online Resource
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005305
    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 ; Manners and customs. ; Mende (African people) ; Sierra Leone Social life and customs. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: Granada Television’s major documentary series looks at various aspects of societies from around the world.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Sierra Leone. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 9
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    Online Resource
    London, England :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (68 min.) , 010716
    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: Ethnology ; Ethnology. ; Manners and customs. ; Papua New Guinea ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The Trobriand Islands lie off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The island society has a complex balance of male authority and female wealth. Magic spells and sorcery pervade everyday life. This programme focuses on two important events: the distribution of women's wealth after a death and the "month of play", a time of celebration following the yam harvest.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed October 28, 2014). , Previously released as DVD. , In English.
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  • 10
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    Online Resource
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (55 min.). , 005456
    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 ; Kalash (Pakistan people) ; Pakistan Social life and customs. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The Kalasha are a tribal people, 3,000 strong, who live in the high valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The Kalasha are unique as a pagan people in this Islamic Republic. Joshi, their three day festival of song and dance, rituals and sacrifice and the re-telling of legends celebrates the coming of spring and encourages chivalrous romance between the sexes. All this provides a colourful focus for this film which explores the life and customs of the Kalasha. Before the menfolk depart to the high mountain pastures for the goats’ summer grazing they present the women with goats’ milk and bread that has been ritually purified. The women sing their thanks, praise and food and clamour for more. Whilst the men are away, the women stay in the narrow valleys, tending their tiny terraced fields of wheat, maize and millet. The Kalasha are worried that their way of life is under threat. The naively mortgaged land and walnut trees to their Chitrali Muslim neighbours, often in exchange for paltry loands. The Chitralis now covet the profits to be made from exploiting the cedar and holm oak which grow in the Kalasha valleys. The Pakistan government is aware of the problems and would like to safeguard the Kalashas’ existence as a flourishing minority culture and tourist industry. But a future as a ‘zoo people’ within a tourist park does not appeal to the Kalasha. They are happy to welcome tourists at their festivities and they appreciate interest in their customs, but they are pragmatic about its value to them.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Balanguru, Pakistan. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Kalash with English subtitles.
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  • 11
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    Online Resource
    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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  • 12
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    Online Resource
    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (67 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
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Samoa Social life and customs. ; France ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: This film is a valuable treatment of archival footage that George Milner shot while conducting field research in 1955 and 1959. The footage (eighteen minutes of the total film) focuses on traditional Samoan activities, such as fishing, cooking, house-building, hand-weaving, and bark-cloth making in preparation for the formal installation (saofa'i) of a Samoan matai (a male titleholder responsible for the welfare, prosperity and good behaviour of his extended family). This is one of the most important Samoan rites of passage. The ceremonies which validate his assumption of a new status are shown, both within the extended family and at the level of the village, whose existing titleholders formally acknowledge the new matai's right to a seat in council. Their approval is marked by the acceptance of gifts of goods and valuables, especially fine mats, which are of great importance. The musical sound track is of traditional songs recorded during the same period. Christina Toren, a South Pacific specialist, then interviews Reverend Lalomilo Kamu, a Samoan scholar currently at the University of Birmingham, about the previous footage and Samoan customs. In particular they discuss the formal preparation of a bowl of kava; the role of the taupou (ceremonial village virgin); the making of sinnet, the braided cord made from the fibres of coconut husk; the role of Samoan houses; cooking; the informal schooling of the young; the preparation of bark-cloth; and the process of hand-weaving. The interview provides a rare opportunity for viewers to hear a scholar from a filmed group comment on and explain the symbolism behind the pictures captured by the camera. The interview is quite detailed and is particularly useful for specialists in Polynesia or other regions of the South Pacific.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 23, 2013). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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  • 13
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    Online Resource
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (55 min.). , 005458
    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: Tuvinians Social conditions. ; Tuvinians Social life and customs. ; Ethnology ; United Kingdom ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The Tuvinians live deep inside the Soviet Union, at the very centre of Asia. Tuva is geographically closer to Beijing than to Moscow. It only entered the USSR in 1944 and was closed to foreigners until 1988. According to the film-makers the last known British visitors were members of the Carruthers expedition in 1910-11. With 'glasnost', the new openness, a Disappearing World film crew was given permission to film the nomadic yak-herders of Mongun-Taiga, a rugged district on the border with Mongolia. Mongun-Taiga or 'sacred wilderness' is, even at its lowest point, 6,000 feet above sea level. Two huge mountains dominate the landscape and provide a stunning backdrop for the film, accompanied at times on the film sound track by the traditional throat singing. Arable farming is impossible and the inhabitants are dependent on the nomadic herding of yak, sheep, goats and horses. Families live alone or in groups of two to three felt tents (yurts). Following the seasons and the pastures, they move camp several times each year. The film looks at the methods the herders use to protect their children from destructive spirits. A child, dressed in a traditional frock, is revealed in the film to be a boy. This cross-dressing of the sexes continues until a child is three or four, when it is believed that its soul is more firmly attached to its body and not so easily stolen by spirits. Shamanic beliefs continue, despite state disapproval, and include worship of the spirits of mountains, purification by the water of sacred springs, sacrifice, and the use of animals in exorcism, omens and divination. The opportunities for modern Soviet life which attract many young people are countered by the pull of an independent Mongolia, which is much closer to the Tuvinians in culture and way of life. Under Gorbachev, new systems of herding have been introduced which allow families to work for themselves as well as the state farms. The herders, however, still have reservations about the new ways. 'How are you doing with perestroika?' asks the daughter of Chugluur-Ool, a herder. 'Perestroika's doing all right,' he replies. Part of what makes this film interesting is the film-makers' admission of the material they were not able to obtain. Continually throughout the film, the narrator mentions the confusion and frustration the film-makers felt. This gives a refreshing honesty to the film as a whole.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Tuva Region, Russia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Tuvan with English subtitles.
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  • 14
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    Online Resource
    Berkeley, CA :University of California, Berkeley,
    Language: Indonesian
    Pages: 1 online resource (26 min.). , 002625
    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: Ethnology. ; Ethnology ; Manners and customs. ; Sumba Island (Indonesia) Social life and customs. ; Indonesia ; France ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The eastern Indonesian island of Sumba is the last island in the Malay archipelago where the majority of the people still follow their ancestral religion, called marapu. This film, shot in 1986, focuses on a challenge to the authority of the spirits and ancestors in a village ritual to restore fertility after a fire and famine.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in 1986 in Manganipi-Kodi, Indonesia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in Indonesian and English with English subtitles.
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  • 15
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    Online Resource
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: Spanish
    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: Ethnology ; Sierra de Gredos (Spain) Economic conditions. ; Sierra de Gredos (Spain) Social life and customs. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The 130 villagers of Navalguijo in the Sierra de Gredos of Central Spain live in a village perched high in the mountains and they face an extreme climate with very cold winters and hot summers. The soil is acid and poor, and the steep slopes and short growing season mean that agriculture cannot provide a living. Collectively the villagers own summer pastures high in the mountains, and individually they hold smaller autumn pastures. With access to winter pastures across the mountains in the region of Extremadura, they are able to maintain a large herd of beef cattle, which form their main source of wealth and which are their dearest possessions. To make this film, the crew joined the village men on their trek to Extremadura, when they drive their cattle down the mountains. This cattle drive is a mixture of hard work and holiday, with passing round of leather wine bottles, story-telling and evening stopovers at favourite inns punctuating the long march. This film portrays a society whose ideals of village co-operation and the rigid and efficient organisation of tasks have given the village a strong sense of identity over generations. It remains to be seen if this sense of identity survives the breakdown of their isolation from the outside world as tourists discover 'hidden Spain' and better communications and roads bring increasing contact with the rest of the country.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Spain. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in Spanish and English with English subtitles.
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  • 16
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    Online Resource
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: Romani
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.). , 005335
    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 ; Romanies ; Hungary Social life and customs. ; Ireland ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: 'Across the Tracks' is a gripping film for the general viewer ... It is beautifully filmed in observational style (lingering scenes of muddy courtyards) with enough subtitled interview material to provide context. Rom is the word that describes Vlach Gypsies, unassimilated descendents of Gypsy slaves in Wallachia in Romania in the 19th century. A larger group, the Romungro, are more obviously part of Hungarian society: they speak Hungarian, not Romany. Romungros are the people who play violins in restaurants; 'true' Rom, the Vlach, wouldn't dream of it. The total Gypsy population in Hungary forms 3% of the Hungarian population the same proportion as people of Asian or Caribbean origin in Britain. This Disappearing World film explores the Vlach Gypsies' position in socialist Hungary through the eyes of three related families. Maron and her husband Jozi work in conventional jobs where work is compulsory: this is the fundamental first principle of the 'official' economy. Maron and Jozi use their income to improve their impoverished lives. They are becoming more like the gazo — the contemptuous Romany term for all Hungarians, meaning 'peasants'. Jozi's first wife, Terez, and her husband Mokus try to realise their dreams in a more Gypsy-like fashion. Terez scavenges in rubbish bins for bread to fatten pigs which she hopes to sell for Mokus to buy horses. Mokus reluctantly works in a factory but wants to be a horse dealer like his brother-in-law Sera. He is disqualified from work by a dubious disability, and instead buys and sells horses, 'turning money around, so that more comes to me.' The market is central to the Gypsy economy, but is not seen as a means of accumulating wealth. The market exists to circulate wealth, to ensure money passes through as many hands as possible – so that all may benefit from it. If a Gypsy acquires money, he is expected to celebrate with his friends, his 'brothers'. Horses are like temporary bank deposits, ready to be exchanged or cashed in when a 'brother' needs money. This film provides an interesting view of the tensions between the Hungarian state and the Gypsies, and of the complex contradictions of the Gypsies' lives. It is recommended for classes in anthropology, sociology, European studies, ethnicity, ecology, and political studies.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Hungary. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in Romani and English with English subtitles.
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    Online Resource
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: Indonesian
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005303
    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 ; Whaling ; Lamalera (Indonesia) Social life and customs. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The Whale Hunters of Lamalera was filmed over a period of four weeks during June 1987. Lamalera is a village which is perched on the rocky slopes of an active volcano on the southern coast of the island of Lembata, in Nusa Tenggara Timur in eastern Indonesia. An anonymous Portuguese document of 1624 describes the islanders as hunting whales with harpoons for their oil, and implies that they collected and sold ambergris. This report confirms that whaling took place in the waters of the Suva Sea at least two centuries before the appearance of American and English whaling ships at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The film follows the daily life of the villagers of Lamalera, a community of about 1500 people. The Christian Mission has been in place in the community for a hundred years, schools have been established and a training workshop teaches carpentry. It is a fishing village in a region where most communities support themselves by agriculture. Lamalera has very little productive land, so the villagers have to fish in order to survive. Their preferred quarry is sperm whale. Catching sperm whale with hand-thrown harpoons from small open boats powered by muscle and palm-leaf sail is no easy task, and the hunt is by no means uneven between man and whale. The tail flukes of a whale can smash the timbers of the boats and many boats are temporarily disabled by their prey. Harpooners have been disabled and killed. But the attraction of the whale is its size. The flesh of the whale (and shark and manta ray) is cut into strips and sun dried in the village. The meat is then carried to small markets where it is bartered with mountain villagers. One strip of dried fish or meat is equivalent to twelve ears of maize, twelve bananas, twelve pieces of dried sweet potatoes, twelve sections of sugar cane, or twelve sirih peppers plus twelve pinang nuts. Commercial whaling is banned throughout much of the world, but subsistence whaling is permitted by International Whaling Commission regulations in Alaska, the USA, the USSR and Greenland. Indonesia is not, however, a signatory to the IWC. Seven whales were caught in Lamalera in 1987.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in Indonesian and English with English subtitles.
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    Online Resource
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: Austronesian (Other)
    Pages: 1 online resource (55 min.). , 005441
    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 ; Solomon Islanders Religion. ; Solomon Islanders Social life and customs. ; Malaita (Solomon Islands) Social life and customs. ; Australia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: Pierre Miranda and a team from Granada Television have made a fine film exploring the troubled realities of the people of the lagoon in the 1980s. This film focuses on the people of Lau lagoon in the Solomon Islands who live on artificial islands near the island of Malaita. These islands are built of coral rubble and the people moved to them in an attempt to escape the dangers of malaria and enemies, and to find better fishing. The film focuses on change and conflict. The concept of 'custom' is vital to the islanders' identity, yet this is being eroded, particularly by Christian missionaries. The conflict between Christian and Pagan now pervades daily life, creating divisions in families and eroding knowledge of traditional life. Two 'custom' priests recently committed ritual suicide, one by swimming under a canoe containing women and the other by deliberately making a mistake in a ceremony. Within weeks, both priests physically died. The despair in the ability of 'custom' to continue that these priests must have felt is presented visually throughout the film. Few of the islanders remember more than a fraction of the hundreds of traditional spirits and the young are turning more and more to the traditions and commodities of Western culture. That this theme is a common one makes it no less powerful or relevant. Spurred by the presence of the Disappearing World camera crew, the islanders built a house in which to store their traditional and ritual objects. A commendable act of preservation on the part of the islanders, but at the same time the implications of their act are saddening. They are taking their ritual things out of the sphere of living, daily tradition and placing them in the realm of objective history. The Lau is recommended for courses in anthropology, sociology, development, culture change, Melanesia, religion, and ecology.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Malaita, Solomon Islands. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in Lau and English with English subtitles.
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  • 19
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    Online Resource
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (55 min.). , 005455
    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: Cayapo Indians Social life and customs. ; Ethnology ; Ethnology. ; Indians of South America Social life and customs. ; Indians of South America Social life and customs. ; Brazil. ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This film focuses on the conflicts and determination of a group of people trying to survive and maintain their ethnic identity in the face of almost overpowering odds. The film contrasts the reactions of two groups of Kayapo to outside influence. The Kapot have opposed contact and resisted both non-indigenous Brazilian settlers and gold miners. The Gorotire, by contrast, were invaded by gold miners who strip-mined their land and polluted their rivers. The miners paid the Gorotire very little for the destruction until 1985 when the Gorotire forced the miners to raise the commission by 5% when 200 warriors seized the airstrip. This commission amounts to two million dollars per year for the tribe and the tribe is learning to cope with the money, both with the problems it brings and the power it gives. They have trained several of their number to deal effectively with the outside world on behalf of the rest of the tribe and they now run a plane (and hire a pilot) to patrol their land against intruders. The Kapot, in their own way, are also trying to assert their identity and independence. This portion of the film shows the Kapot in the traditional activities of building and dismantling a hunting camp. The hunters returning with the tortoises they have caught are a particularly impressive sight. The now famous Chief Rop-ni is featured as a leader of the Kapot and he states eloquently his opposition to the Gorotire's acceptance of the gold miners. Despite their adherence to tradition, however, the Kapot use modern technology – video, radios, etc. – to protect their interests and record their rituals. This is a political film and would be excellent for courses in anthropology, Latin American studies, ecology, development, and international politics.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Brazil. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005304
    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: The Migrants is the third film in the trilogy In Search of Cool Ground made for Granada Television's Disappearing World series. It is about a drought-induced migration of Mursi from their traditional territory in the Omo valley to the Mago valley, about fifty miles away. This migration has brought them, for the first time, into contact with the market economy of the Ethiopian Highlands. David Turton notes that, when he first met the Mursi, men were seldom, and women never, seen at the highland markets. Now the Mago migrants, and especially women, are familiar figures in the weekly market at Berka, just four hours' walk from their new settlements. With their foothold in the pastoral economy weakening (tsetse flies make the Mago area quite unsuitable for cattle herding) and their dependence on market exchange growing, the migrants are in the process of becoming settled agriculturalists, like their highland neighbours, the Ari. By tracing the present and likely impact of this move on the lives of the migrants, the film shows how they are beginning to carve out a new ethnic identity for themselves, as well as a new home.
    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.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (49 min.). , 004921
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Diary of a Maasai village ; episode 3
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Ethnology. ; Maasai (African people) Social life and customs. ; Manners and customs. ; Kenya Social life and customs. ; Kenya. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This documentary, directed by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies, is about gender relationships in a Kenyan Maasai village.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Maasai with English subtitles.
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    London :British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (47 min.). , 004715
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Diary of a Maasai village ; episode 5
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Ethnology. ; Maasai (African people) Social life and customs. ; Manners and customs. ; Kenya Social life and customs. ; Kenya. ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This documentary, directed by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies, is about a ceremony called the 'ox of ilbaa' which takes place in a Kenyan Maasai village.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Kenya. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Maasai with English subtitles.
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    London :British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (52 min.). , 005219
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Diary of a Maasai village ; episode 2
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Ethnology. ; Maasai (African people) Social life and customs. ; Manners and customs. ; Kenya Social life and customs. ; Kenya. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This documentary, directed by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies, is about stealing goats and making reparation in a Kenyan Maasai village.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Kenya. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Maasai with English subtitles.
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    London :British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (50 min.). , 005013
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Diary of a Maasai village ; episode 4
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Ethnology. ; Maasai (African people) Social life and customs. ; Manners and customs. ; Kenya Social life and customs. ; Kenya. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This documentary, directed by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies, is about the journeys of two wives to villages in the Maasai region of Kenya.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Kenya. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Maasai with English subtitles.
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    London :British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (52 min.). , 005148
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Diary of a Maasai village ; episode 1
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Ethnology. ; Maasai (African people) Social life and customs. ; Manners and customs. ; Kenya Social life and customs. ; Kenya. ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: This documentary, directed by Melissa Llewelyn-Davies, is about cattle and legal issues in a Kenyan Maasai Village.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Kenya. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Maasai with English subtitles.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (57 min.). , 005704
    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 ; Kwegu (African people) ; Ethiopia Social life and customs. ; Ethiopia. ; Australia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: 'The Kwegu' is an entirely tasteful and dignified presentation of the harsh realities of subsistence living, and it may help us understand how, even in stateless societies, dominated groups come to accept their domination as part of the natural order. The Kwegu are hunters and cultivators who live along the banks of the River Omo in Southwestern Ethiopia. They are experts on the river, manipulating their dugout canoes through a swift current where falling overboard could mean delivery into the jaws of a crocodile. The Mursi are cattle herders and cultivators who live with the Kwegu for several months of the year. This film is about the relationship between these two groups of people. The Mursi number about 5,000 and the Kwegu about 500. Both groups cultivate flood land along the Omo during the dry season, when the Mursi may also bring their cattle to the river. But the Kwegu keep themselves separate from the Mursi; they speak their own language among themselves, although they are bilingual and communicate with the Mursi only in Mursi. When the Mursi and Kwegu share a village, the Kwegu houses usually form a separate cluster. When a Kwegu marries, a vital part of the bridewealth is livestock. But since the Kwegu do not keep cattle, a system of exchange has developed whereby the Kwegu perform services in exchange for Mursi cattle. In addition to providing bridewealth cattle, the Mursi patron protects 'his' Kwegu from other Mursi and acts on his behalf in bridewealth negotiations. In return the Kwegu provides his patron with honey and game meat and is available to ferry him and his family across the Omo when needed. This is a vital economic service, since the Mursi cultivate on both banks of the river and yet do not, unlike the Kwegu, live at the Omo all the year round. The Kwegu are therefore 'guardians' of the canoes as well as ferrymen. There is some debate about the nature of the Mursi-Kwegu relationship. The anthropologist advisor for the film, David Turton, sees the relationship as one of domination. The Mursi depend economically on the Kwegu more than the Kwegu do on them, and yet the Kwegu see themselves as dependent, in a different, more extreme sense, on the Mursi they cannot marry without the aid of Mursi patron. The Mursi exploit the economic services of the Kwegu through their control of Kwegu marriage. Jean Lydall, in her review of the film in RAIN (June 1982), suggests another interpretation for the exchange of services. She wonders if indeed the Kwegu are not making the Mursi 'pay through the nose' for the services they require. This film suggests that far from being second-class citizens, the Kwegu are sharp manipulators who have acquired protection and material wealth by making their services indispensable to the Mursi. Turton defended his interpretation in a reply to Lydall (RAIN, No. 51, pp. 10–12) and has more recently provided a more detailed description and analysis of the Mursi-Kwegu relationship, following the same argument as developed in the film but including much additional ethnographic information (Turton, 1986). The Kwegu won the Grand Prix du Festival at the Festival International du Film de Grand Reportage in Paris. This film is the second part of a trilogy, In Search of Cool Ground. The film is particularly recommended for courses in anthropology, African studies, patron–client relationships, ethnicity and multi-cultural studies.
    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.
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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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    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: Cushitic (Other)
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.). , 005352
    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: Camels. ; Nomads ; Rendille (African people) Social life and customs. ; Ethnology ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The Rendille are camel herders who live in villages and camps dotted over 10,000 square miles of desert and scrub bush in Northern Kenya. As the terrain they occupy is so dry, the Rendille grow no crops and their cultural and economic life is centred on their animals. As with other pastoral peoples, the Rendille have to be sensitive to the ever-shifting relationship between humans, animals and 'natural' resources in order to maintain a suitable balance between them. Throughout the year the Rendille have to follow the grazing and rains, dividing their herds between camel camps and semi-permanent village settlements. Long-term planning and decision-making are therefore crucial and this film brings out the manner in which the elders make their decisions. Each man gives his opinion and is listened to attentively until eventually a consensus is reached. The role of the sexual division of labour and the age-set system is explained in commentary, interviews and visual sequences, in a way which allows the viewer insights in the various interacting levels of Rendille social structure. Sequences detailing the ritual activities surrounding the naapo ceremony (which marks a young man's transition to elderhood) are given towards the end of the film, after explanation of the fact that young men have to live in camel camps for about 14 years, while girls look after sheep and goats living in settlements with women and elders. In this way the building of symbolic villages by moran, each man making his own 'home' with stones representative of wife and children before sacrificing a goat, is denied status as exotic spectacle the subtitled comments of the naapo participants convey their feelings of embarrassment and uncertainty about the ritual procedure and allow a visual statement to be made about the relationship of ritual to every-day life. The importance of the purely visual images in conveying a sense of vast desert space, of a daily life filled with the movement and sight of camels, sheep and goats, and of the social effects of village layout, is not to be underestimated. Although this colour film could be criticised for at times beautifying and softening the rough edges of pastoral life, its power as a statement of what it means to exist as a Rendille is very much a property of the camera work. The skilled usage of cinema verite techniques, combined with full subtitling of interviews, gives to this film an integrity and sensitivity which serves to reinforce its concern for the Rendille and its anxiety that for the Kenyan authorities the Rendille are a problem and an embarrassment.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Kenya. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in Rendille and English with English subtitles.
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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: 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.
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    Language: Mongolian
    Pages: 1 online resource (58 min.). , 005742
    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: Ethnology ; Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The second of two films on Mongolia made by Granada Television in 1974­-75 looks at life in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia and home of a quarter of the population. The city celebrates the 53rd anniversary of the socialist revolution with parades, festivals, wrestling and archery contests, and a remarkable horse-race. (The child jockeys are usually between 7 and 12 years old.) The film returns to a shepherd's camp on a collective for the traditional celebration of Tsagan Sar, the lunar New Year festival now known as the Herdsman's New Year.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in Mongolian and English with Mongolian subtitles.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    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.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    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.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    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.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: Austronesian (Other)
    Pages: 1 online resource (54 min.). , 005335
    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 ; Ethnology. ; Sakudei (Indonesian people) ; Indonesia. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The Sakuddei are a small and ethnically separate community living on the island of Siberut off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia. Their distinctive way of life and elaborate religious ceremonies, centred on the umah (ceremonial house) are under threat from the Indonesian government which wishes to 'civilise' the Sakuddei. These people are also threatened by a timber company from the Philippines which has been granted a logging concession in the Sakuddei's territory. The first part of the film contains strikingly photographed scenes of ritual life in the umah, while in the second part there is an interview with a representative of the government who wants to send the Sakuddei children to school in a government village on the coast. The adults fear that the children will lose touch with their own customs and identity if placed in such an institution. Their concern forms part of a moving and dramatic film which explores the contrast between the Sakuddei's way of life and the various pressures of modern Indonesian society on them: Islam, money, police, administrators and the lumber companies.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Siberut, Indonesia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in Mentawai and English with English subtitles.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    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.
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    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    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.
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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    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.
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    Online Resource
    London, UK :Royal Anthropological Institute,
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (58 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
    Keywords: Ethnology ; Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea) Social life and customs. ; Ireland ; Nonfiction films.
    Abstract: The Trobriand Islands, regarded as anthropology's most sacred place, lie off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The island society has a complex balance of male authority and female wealth. Magic spells and sorcery pervade everyday life. This program focuses on two important events: the distribution of women's wealth after a death, and the "month of play", a time of celebration following the yam harvest.
    Note: "Media Support and Development Centre, University of Manchester"---original cassette label. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
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