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Anthropology
Product Highlights : Anthropology
Myth of Naro as Told by Dedeheiwa (1975)
A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony
Out of the Mist
The New Boys
Twelve Canoes
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 | !Kung Short Films Between 1950 and 1958, John Marshall made four expeditions to film the Ju/'hoansi (a group of !Kung Bushmen) of the Nyae Nyae region of Namibia (then South West Africa). Marshall and his family, who together undertook an extensive multi-disciplinary study of Ju/'hoansi, spent the greatest amount of time with the… | $529.00ex GST
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 | 7 Colours 7 Colours is an innovative short dance film, a series of seven sequences, a kaleidoscope of colour, lighting effects and fluid body movement. Stephen Page from the Aboriginal and Islander Dance Theatre and Victoria Taylor, with her background at the Sydney Dance Company, bring two very different cultures together to… | $144.00ex GST
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 | A Calling to Care (2001) A Calling to Care is the inspiring story of 55 year-old Grace Stanley, a Canadian nurse who left her home and prestigious career behind to answer a calling halfway around the world in Karachi, Pakistan. Teaching nursing to local women in a strict Muslim culture that forbids them to even… | $204.00ex GST
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 | A Celebration of Origins (1992) The people of the Tana 'Ai region of Flores, Indonesia live in seven ceremonial domains, of which Wai Brama is the largest and the oldest. The people of Wai Brama are shifting cultivators, hunters and gatherers who, unlike their neighbors, have maintained their traditional ceremonial and social system. A Celebration… | $334.00ex GST
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 | A Chinese Farm Wife (1974) A Chinese Farm Wife gives us a peek into the life of Mrs. Li, a Taiwanese woman whose husband is a salaried factory worker. Along with the help of her eldest daughter and her neighbors, she runs their 3-acre farm, cultivating crops of tobacco and rice. In addition to her… | $204.00ex GST
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 | A Darker Side of Fair (2004) Shedding new light upon issues of global diversity, this documentary focuses on the extent to which a "fairness fetish" has permeated various levels of Indian society. Today in India fairness is a benchmark for beauty; marriages are decided on the basis of skin colour; and fair means "lucky" whereas dark… | $204.00ex GST
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 | A Garden Of Eden In Decay (The Africans Series) GARDEN OF EDEN IN DECAY - More than 70 million Africans suffer from malnutrition while their countries export food to Europe. Economic and agricultural failures and successes are examined in Algeria, Ghana, and Zimbabwe. (Visual Education Centre, Canada) | $120.00ex GST
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 | A Group of Women (1961) Ju/'hoan women often share an intimate sociability and spend many hours together discussing their lives, enjoying each other's company and children. In this short film, Ju/'hoan women rest, talk and nurse their babies while lying in the shade of a baobab tree. This film is a good illustration of "collective… | $149.00ex GST
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 | A Man Called "Bee": Studying The Yanomamo (1974) This is one of the few ethnographic films in which the anthropologist appears as one of the subjects, and as such it is a lively introduction to the nature of fieldwork. Napoleon Chagnon, who lived among the Yanomamo for 36 months over a period of eight years, is shown in… | $269.00ex GST
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 | A Place Called Los Pereyra In the impoverished and extremely isolated region of Northern Argentina known as “The Impenetrable”, the children of a tiny elementary school eagerly await an annual visit from their “Godmothers”: a charity mission from the city of Buenos Aires. When the “Godmothers” arrive, life in the hamlet of Los Pereyra changes… | $269.00ex GST
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 | A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony It’s early afternoon, May 1, 1955 — and Donald McWilliams finds himself with other British soldiers in Ndyeia Gorge in central Kenya. At their feet a Mau Mau fighter lies dying, mortally wounded by their gunfire. Above them all, the vast skies of the Rift Valley. McWilliams… | $339.00ex GST
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 | A Walbiri Fire Ceremony: Ngatjakula Originally shot in 1967, the footage in this film is re-examined ten years later by anthropologist Nicolas Peterson. Ngatjakula is one of the most spectacular ceremonies of central Australia, employing fire to inflict real and symbolic punishment on those responsible for a social transgression. It serves to resolve conflict and,… | $24.00ex GST
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