Videos on the Social Sciences

Alien from earth c2009

Simon Nasht, Annamaria Talas, Sarah Holt, Jay O Sanders, Essential Media (Firm), Real Pictures (Firm), WGBH Educational Foundation, WGBH Video (Firm), and Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Examines the discovery of strange and unknown miniature hominid fossil (Homo floresiensis) remains on the island of Flores, Indonesia. Looks at the scientific debate over whether these creatures, nicknamed "hobbits," are a type of dwarf race of humans, possibly suffering from a disease such as microcephaly, or an entirely new species. 1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.)

MEDIA 10-1588

 

Anthropology real people, real careers c2006

F. E Smiley, Michael Adair-Kriz, James MacLynn Wilce, Andrea Hunter, American Anthropological Association, Northern Arizona University, and Dept. of Anthropology

Looks at the broad array of jobs in the field of anthropology, chiefly through interviews with faculty and students at the Northern Arizona University Dept. of Anthropology. 1 videodisc (48 min.)

MEDIA 10-1841

 

Becoming human c2010

Graham Townsley, Jennifer White, Lance Lewman, WGBH Educational Foundation, PBS Distribution (Firm), and Shining Red Productions

"Where did we come from? What makes us human? NOVA's...investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Featuring interviews with world-renowned scientists, footage shot "in the trenches" as fossils were unearthed, and...computer-generated animation, [these programs] bring early hominids to life, examining how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today...In the first episode...encounter..."Selam," the amazingly complete remains of a 3 million year-old child, packed with clues to why we split from the apes, came down from the trees, and started walking upright...[T]he second episode investigates the riddle of "Turkana Boy" -- a tantalizing fossil of Homo erectus, the first ancestor to leave Africa and colonize the globe...[T]he final episode...explores the origins of "us" -- where modern humans and our capacities for art, invention, and survival came from, and what happened when we encountered the mysterious Neanderthals"--Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.)

MEDIA 10-1765

 

Chimpanzees c2003

Fred Kaufman, George Page, Hugo van Lawick , Michael Rosenberg, John Waters, Gil Domb, Bill Wallauer, Anne MacLeod, Karen Bass, John Sparks, Pelham Aldrich-Blake, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Questar, Inc, Partridge Films, British Broadcasting Corporation, and Television Service

The first program goes into Tanzania's Gombe National Park to observe the daily life of the chimpanzee clan Jane Goodall has known since the days of her research in the 1960s. The second program delves into the questions are chimps and other primates similar to us? How does their intelligence compare to our own? Answers are found both in the laboratory and in the wild. The program also goes to Central Zaire to observe pygmy chimps (bonobos) in the wild. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-584

 

Healers of Ghana c2005

J. Scott Dodds, Harold L Cannon, Edward Quarshie, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Explores the traditional medical practices of the Bono people of central Ghana and how their healers are accommodating the conflict between the arrival of Western medicine and their religious beliefs. Traditionally, Bono tribal priests undergo a painful spiritual possession, during which deities reveal to them the causes of illnesses, which plants to use to treat them, who is perpetrating witchcraft, and which villagers might be endangering society through improper behavior. 1 videodisc (58 min.)

MEDIA 10-889

 

Journey of man 2003

Jennifer Beamish, Clive Maltby, Spencer Wells, Tigress Productions, PBS Home Video, National Geographic Channel (Television station : Washington, D.C.), and Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

How did the human race populate the world? A group of geneticists have worked on the question for a decade, arriving at a startling conclusion: the "global family tree" can be traced to one African man who lived 60,000 years ago. Dr. Spencer Wells hosts this innovative series, featuring commentary by expert scientists, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. 1 videodisc (120 min.)

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Keep the river on your right a modern cannibal tale 2002

Discusses the life of anthropologist and gay activist, Tobias Schneebaum, and the time he spent among cannibalistic tribes in the 1960s. 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.)

MEDIA 10-5077

 

The language you cry in the story of a Mende song 1998

Alvaro Toepke, Angel Serrano, and California Newsreel (Firm)

Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and in the 1990s scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone. Dramatically demonstrates how African Americans retained links with their African past, and concludes with the visit of the Gullah family which had preserved the song to the Mende village, where villagers re-enact the ancient burial rites for them. 1 videodisc (52 min.)

MEDIA       DANA 10-755           1299

 

Lascaux pr© historie de l'art 2001

Lascaux is the richest of the decorated caves of prehistory. Who were the painters of Lascaux? This program explores the remarkable unity of style of certain images, and the contradictions between some figures perhaps painted over a period of time. 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-5244

 

Miss Goodall and the wild chimpanzees 1965

Describes the background of Jane Goodall and her studies as she observes and records the activities of wild chimpanzees in Africa. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 10-5305

 

Monkeys, apes, and man exploring the chasm 1971

Explains that from studies of primate social organization, use and manufacture of tools, ability to learn, and socialization has come an increased appreciation of mankind. 1 videocassette (ca. 25 min.)

MEDIA 10-5307

 

Nubia c2008

Leonard Jeffries, Tiiqay Grant, and Akhet Tours

"Dr. Leonard Jeffries ... retraces the history of Africans along the Nile."--Container. 1 videodisc (59 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2617

 

On cannibalism  2010?

King Kong meets the family photograph in this provocatively ironic film which explores the West's insatiable appetite for native bodies in museums, world's fairs and early films. A personal narrative about race and identity by an Indonesian-American videographer of Batak-Palembang descent. 1 videodisc (7 min.)

MEDIA 10-5452

 

The real Eve 2002

Andrew Piddington, Paul D. M Ashton, Amanda Theunissen, and Danny Glover

Using the latest DNA reconstructions and cutting edge technology, scientists investigate the location of the first woman in the human race. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-177

 

Secrets of the tribe 2010

José Padilha, Mike Chamberlain, Marcos Prado, Carol Nahra, Stampede Entertainment (Firm), Zazen Produēões, Avenue B Productions (Firm), and Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)

"The field of anthropology goes under the magnifying glass in this fiery investigation of the seminal research on Yanomami Indians. In the 1960s and '70s, a steady stream of anthropologists filed into the Amazon Basin to observe this "virgin" society untouched by modern life. Thirty years later, the events surrounding this infiltration have become a scandalous tale of academic ethics and infighting. The origins of violence and war and the accuracy of data gathering are hotly debated among the scholarly clan. Soon these disputes take on "Heart of Darkness" overtones as they decend into shadowy allegations of sexual and medical violation. Director José Padilha brilliantly employs two provocative strategies to raise unsettling questions about the boundaries of cultural encounters. He allows professors accused of heinous activities to defend themselves, and the Yanomamö to represent their side of the story. As this riveting excavation deconstructs anthropology's colonial legacy, it challenges our society's myths of objectivity and the very notion of "the other.""--Container. 1 videodisc (98 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3391

 

Timbuktu the untold story c2004

Timbuktu Educational Foundation

A documentary uncovering the buried legacy of Timbuktu. 1 videodisc (ca. 43 min.)

MEDIA 10-790

 

Adio kerida Goodbye dear love c2002

Ruth Behar, Elizabeth Peńa, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

Anthropologist Ruth Behar returns to her native Cuba to profile the island's remaining Sephardic Jews and her family's ties to them. 1 videocassette (82 min.)

MEDIA 2-7533

 

The African burial ground an American discovery 1994

Christopher Moore, David Kutz, Ruby Dee, and Ossie Davis

Explores the history and archeological excavation of a burial ground for African slaves discovered in lower Manhattan Island, New York, during construction of Federal office building in the summer of 1991. Relates also the effect of the discovery on understanding the role of Afro-Americans in colonial American life. 1 videocassette (118 min.)

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African influence on early Europe 1998

Richard Arsenault and David House

This program rethinks european history and the great influence Africa played in its development. 1 videocassette (ca. 20 min.)

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Ajishama the white ibis 2003

John Dickinson and Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)

Details the life and work, over a 30 year period, of José Maria Korta a Jesuit Missionary working with the indigenous people of the Amazon. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-6428

 

Alien from earth c2009

Simon Nasht, Annamaria Talas, Sarah Holt, Jay O Sanders, Essential Media (Firm), Real Pictures (Firm), WGBH Educational Foundation, WGBH Video (Firm), and Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

Examines the discovery of strange and unknown miniature hominid fossil (Homo floresiensis) remains on the island of Flores, Indonesia. Looks at the scientific debate over whether these creatures, nicknamed "hobbits," are a type of dwarf race of humans, possibly suffering from a disease such as microcephaly, or an entirely new species. 1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.)

MEDIA 10-1588

 

America's stone age explorers c2004

Gary Glassman, Nigel Levy, Peter Thomas, TV6 (Firm), British Broadcasting Corporation, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), WGBH Video (Firm), and WGBH Educational Foundation

Archaeological experts and others challenge the theory that the first Americans arrived in America around 13,500 years ago and suggest possibilites that they could have arrived even sooner. 1 videcassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-7401

 

Anthropology real people, real careers c2006

F. E Smiley, Michael Adair-Kriz, James MacLynn Wilce, Andrea Hunter, American Anthropological Association, Northern Arizona University, and Dept. of Anthropology

Looks at the broad array of jobs in the field of anthropology, chiefly through interviews with faculty and students at the Northern Arizona University Dept. of Anthropology. 1 videodisc (48 min.)

MEDIA 10-1841

 

Archeological dating retracing time 1976

Cynthia Irwin-Williams

Shows the processes by which the age of artifacts uncovered in an ancient Southwest American Indian pueblo site are determined by such methods as dendrochronology, archeomagnetic dating, obsidianhydration, and carbon 14 testing. 1 videocassette (18 min.)

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Artisans and trader 1993

Stacy Keach and Werner Bundschuh

The program investigates the processes that promote specialization and trade, and how these relate to social and political organization.  Particular attention is given to the energy sources that determine the economic patterns of ancient societies. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1894

 

Atlantico negro na rota dos Orixás = Black Atlantic : on the Orixás route 2001?

Renato Barbieri and João Acaiabe

"The waters of the Atlantic brought the slaves from Africa to Brazil, their bodies in chains but their souls still tied to mother Africa. This Brazilian-made film takes us to both shores, to how spiritual life, dance and song came with the captive people and took root in the new soil. Among the many traditions were the language and gods of Yoruba and Jejes from the Republic of Benin. Today, when Brazilians revisit Africa, they teach the Africans the culture that these descendants of slaves keep alive in Brazil. The documentary is a testimony to some of the ironies of the diaspora"--Container. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-5572

 

Baboon behavior 1979 made 1961

Shows baboons in their native habitat in Kenya, and compares their behavior with that of counterparts in human development. 1 videocassette (31 min.)

MEDIA 2-2740

 

Becoming human c2010

Graham Townsley, Jennifer White, Lance Lewman, WGBH Educational Foundation, PBS Distribution (Firm), and Shining Red Productions

"Where did we come from? What makes us human? NOVA's...investigation explores how new discoveries are transforming views of our earliest ancestors. Featuring interviews with world-renowned scientists, footage shot "in the trenches" as fossils were unearthed, and...computer-generated animation, [these programs] bring early hominids to life, examining how we became the creative and adaptable modern humans of today...In the first episode...encounter..."Selam," the amazingly complete remains of a 3 million year-old child, packed with clues to why we split from the apes, came down from the trees, and started walking upright...[T]he second episode investigates the riddle of "Turkana Boy" -- a tantalizing fossil of Homo erectus, the first ancestor to leave Africa and colonize the globe...[T]he final episode...explores the origins of "us" -- where modern humans and our capacities for art, invention, and survival came from, and what happened when we encountered the mysterious Neanderthals"--Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 180 min.)

MEDIA 10-1765

 

Beyond Africa 1989, 1981

Richard E Leakey and Peter Spry-Leverton

In this fourth part of a seven-part documentary, Richard Leakey, a noted anthropologist, traces the origins of our species as they moved into colder regions of Europe and Asia more than a million years ago. He tells the story of Peking Man and expounds on reasons why human beings began to speak. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-2196

 

Body detectives c2003

Sophie Rolfe, Robin Anderson, British Broadcasting Corporation, Clearcut Communications, Discovery Channel (Firm), and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

This clinical program travels to the world's first open-air crime lab with founder Bill Bass, of the University of Tennessee, for a close-up look at how cadavers decay. Three homicide cases that hinged on data and expertise gained at the Farm are presented, and Ph. D. students are filmed doing field work and body processing. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-6782

 

Builders of images Latin American cultural identity 1993

Juan Mandelbaum and Raul Julia

The role of writers, musicians and the theater are shown in preserving cultural identity and bring about social change in Latin America. Examples from Puerto Rico, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina are shown. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1919

 

The Buried mirror reflections on Spain and the New World 1991

Carlos Fuentes and Annie Dodds

For American Indians, the mirror symbolized power, the sun, the Earth, its four corners, and its people. Now, a "mirror" is being held up to the Old and New Worlds to reflect the diverse cultures of a Spanish-speaking countries and peoples, together with the themes, institutions, beliefs, and symbols that have endured or changed through time. 5 videocassettes (ca. 59 min. each)

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A Cave beneath the sea 1993

French divers, exploring an underwater tunnel 121 feet below the surface of the Mediterranean Sea, discovered a partially submerged cave filled with 18,000 year old rock paintings and engravings. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

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Chimpanzees c2003

Fred Kaufman, George Page, Hugo van Lawick , Michael Rosenberg, John Waters, Gil Domb, Bill Wallauer, Anne MacLeod, Karen Bass, John Sparks, Pelham Aldrich-Blake, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.), Questar, Inc, Partridge Films, British Broadcasting Corporation, and Television Service

The first program goes into Tanzania's Gombe National Park to observe the daily life of the chimpanzee clan Jane Goodall has known since the days of her research in the 1960s. The second program delves into the questions are chimps and other primates similar to us? How does their intelligence compare to our own? Answers are found both in the laboratory and in the wild. The program also goes to Central Zaire to observe pygmy chimps (bonobos) in the wild. 1 videodisc (112 min.)

MEDIA 10-584

 

Clever & greedy 2001

Adam Salkeld and David Strahan

Traces the concept of wealth back to its earliest origins. As these concepts developed the value of certain materials became established, and man saw a need for more sophisticated tools. 1 videocassette (51 min.)

MEDIA 2-5780

 

Coming of age 1990, 1985

Bruce Dakowski and André Singer

Explores the life and career of Margaret Mead, from her early field work on adolescence in Samoa th her long-term study of childhood and the effects of western influence on the native people of New Guinea. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-2521

 

The Compulsive communicators 1981

Richard Brock, John Sparks, and David Attenborough

Naturalist David Attenborough traces the origins of homo sapiens back three million years to our origins in Africa. He also traces the development of cooperative hunting, agriculture, and animal domestication to man's unique ability to communicate. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-1939

 

A conversation with Koko c1999

Bonnie K Brennan, Robert Visty, Martin Sheen, Visty/Brennan Productions, Gorilla Foundation, and WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Documents Koko's ability to understand English and communicate using facial expression, body language, and a vocabulary of over 1,000 word signs based on American Sign Language. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 2-7136

 

The Creative revolution 1994

Donald C Johanson, Peter Jones, and Lauren Seeley Aguirre

Fifty thousand generations ago the hunter-gatherers then living in Afica began to paint, carve, talk, travel, trade, and bury their dead.  Scientists continue to debate the reasons for this sudden transformation.  Don Johanson sets out to retrace the migration of our ancient ancestors from Africa, to Asia, to Europe and even to Australia.  Prehistoric art and cave paintings are investigated in an effort to find clues about how and when our ancestors became modern human beings. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-2417

 

Crime and human nature 1987

Richard J Herrnstein

Are criminality and antisocial aggressive behavior due to nature or nurture?  Can adult criminal behavior be predicted in the antisocial behavior of children, weak attachment to family and fatalism about the future?  Experts address these questions. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

MEDIA 2-5122

 

Cultural identity vs. acculturation implications for theory, research, and practice 2002

There in ongoing discussion regarding the impact of acculturation on cultural identity development. Featuring the commentary of Manuel Ramirez, this video questions whether acculturation to mainstream culture means the inevitable relinquishment of ethnic identity. It provides historical and contemporary perspectives on the issue for indibiduals of Mexican heritage. 1 videocassette (45 min.)

MEDIA 2-6282

 

Dance and human history 1974

Alan Lomax

Introduces the work of Alan Lomax and his colleagues in developing choreometrics, a cross-cultural method of studying the relationship of dance style to social structure.  Shows how the group, including Forrestine Paulay and Irmgard Bartenieff, analyzed dance films from all over the world and established a connection between patterns of movement and patterns of culture. 1 videocassette (40 min.)

MEDIA 2-5339

 

Dancing 1993

Rhoda Grauer and Raoul Trujillo

This series explores dance as of form of communication and expression in a variety of cultural contexts. Examples span the spectrum from staged ballet dancing to urban street dance to traditional myth and ritual. 8 videocassettes (58 min. ea.)

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Darwin's theory today 1992

Graeme Dunckham and Martin Lucas

Examines the modifications and adaptations to Darwin's theory of natural selection, to determine whether the resulting synthesis is indeed still Darwin's theory. 1 videocassette (26 min.)

MEDIA 2-2870

 

Der menschen forscher = The anthropologist 1992

Andrea Gschwendtner, Kark Marcovics, Stefan Rager, Peter Suchy, Peter Raab, Fritz Pokorny, Thomas Strobl, and Herr Kurt

This is a provocative and powerful film interweaving drama with documentary to profile famed Austrian anthropologist Rudolf Pöch.  A major figure in the history of 20th-century European anthropology, Pöch did field work in New Guinea and the Kalahari, and during World War I, did research in POW camps studying the physical attributes of Russian prisoners.  He used these studies to substantiate his theories on racial purity and superiority later used by the Nazis. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-2720

 

Early stone tools 1967

Clyde B Smith, Anthony Ostroff, University of California (System), and Extension Media Center

Professor François Bordes at the University of Bordeaux in France demonstrates some of the percussion flaking techniques which early man and his predecessors may have used to produce a variety of tools. Shows actual prehistoric tools from such sites as Olduvai Gorge, Clacton by the Sea, and various Neanderthal sites. Uses animation to show how the development of these tools parallels the evolution of man himself from his Australopithecine forebears to Homo sapiens. 1 videocassette (20 min.)

MEDIA D-7

 

Everything is relatives 1990, 1985

Bruce Dakowski and André Singer

Explores the life and career of William Halse Rivers, whose work with the islands of the Torres Straits north of Australia and the Todas of southern India revealed the centrality of family relationships to many societies, and whose attempts to bring scientific methods to the new field of anthroplolgy greatly influenced the work of his successors. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-2519

 

Evolution 2001

Liam Neeson, John Hemingway, and Michelle Nicholasen

This film examines forces that may have contributed to the breakthrough, allowing us to prevail over other hominids, the Neanderthals, who co-existed with us for tens of thousands of years. And we explore where this power of mind may lead us, as the culture we create overtakes our own biological evolution. 1 videocassette ( 60 min.)

MEDIA 2-5979

 

Evolution and human equality 1987

Paul Rocklin

Using paleontology, evolutionary biology, genetics, the history of science, and social history, Gould tells the fascinating story of how racial differences have been misunderstood by scientists from pre-Darwinian days to the present to justify oppression, exploitation, and persecution. He describes how new genetic research methods confirm the African origins of homo sapiens. 1 videocassette (42 min.)

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Excavating the Bible. Volume three, The ancient tunnels of Jerusalem ; The mysterious mosaic of the Galilees 1999

Sharon Shaveet, David C Lewis, and Reuven D Miller

"Travel underneath Jerusalem to subterranean tunnels that weave underground passageways below the Holy City.  Follow in the footsteps of King David.  A beautiful mosaic of a women's face is discovered at an archeological dig in an ancient city near Nazareth.  Thought to be the house of Joachim and Anne, the parents of Mary , this archeological site with the intriguing mosaic lead to new questions concerning the life of early Christians, Jews and Pgaans in the Galilee.". 1 videocassette (ca. 55 min.)

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The Excavations at La Venta 198-?

Aline Evans

Reviews the large scale excavations of the Olmec site of La Venta begun in 1955. Includes a study of the earlier investigations in 1942 and 1943, with representative examples of primitive sculptures, carvings, and constructions found at the excavation site. 1 videocassette (29 min.)

MEDIA 2-1328

 

The Fall of the Maya 1993

Marianna Edmunds, Francois Valcour, Pierre Charbonneau, John Rhys-Davies, and Albert Jordan

The mystery of the Maya civilization is explained through the archaeological findings of the ancient city of Cop n in the Honduras' jungle. 1 videocassette (23 min.)

MEDIA 2-3110

 

The family of man. Death 1971

John Percival, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, and Time-Life Films

Examines some of the customs associatd with death in different societies. 1 videocassette (47 min.)

MEDIA D-100

 

Fire eyes female circumcision 1994

Soraya Mire

Explores the socio-economic, psychological, and medical consequences of this ancient custom which affects more than 80 million women worldwide. 1 videocassette (60 min.) sd., col. ; 1/2 in

MEDIA 2-3857

 

The first Americans 1977, made 1969

Craig B Fisher

Traces early man's migration from the Siberian tundra across the Bering Land Bridge into North and South America. Shows how archeologists and anthropologists try to answer the many questions about America's ancestors. 1 videocassette (ca. 53 min.)

MEDIA D-13

 

First contact 1982

Bob Connolly, Robin Anderson, and Richard Oxenburgh

Describes the discovery of a flourishing native population in the interier highlands of New Guinea in 1930 in what has been thought to be an uninhabited area. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. Includes still photographs taken by a member of the expedition and contemporary footage of the island's terrain. 1 videocassette (54 min.)

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The first family 1981

Donald C Johanson, Milton B Hoffman, and Hugh Danaceau

Tells of the 1974 discovery in Ethiopia of the oldest, most complete skeleton of human ancestry and the discovery in 1975 of the remains of thirteen persons believed to be three million years old. Curator of physical anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and American leader of the exploration team, Donald C. Johanson, discusses the significance of the discovery. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA D-203

 

Flintknapping 1989

Bruce Bradley and Merrie Winkler

The process of stone tool manufacture, as practiced by prehistoric hunters, is demonstrated and explained by Dr. Bradley, an internationally renowned expert and archaeologist. 1 videocassette (45 min.)

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Forest of bliss 1985

Robert Gardner and Ákos Östör

"Forest of Bliss is a film whose subjects are the ancient city of Benares, India -- and the ceremonies, rituals, and industries associated with death"--Container. 1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.)

MEDIA 2-5603

 

Four families 198-?

Margaret Mead, Ian MacNeil, Fali Bilimoria , William Novik, and John Buss

A comparison of child rearing practices in India, France, Japan and Canada. Margaret Mead discusses how the upbringing of a child contributes to a distinctive national character, using as an example a year-old child in a family of a farmer of average means. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1996

 

Franz Boas, 1858-1942 1988

T. W Timreck

A documentary on anthropologist Franz Boas, focusing on his fieldwork with the Kwakiutl, his teaching career at Columbia University and Barnard College, and his outstanding theoretical contributions to the field of anthropology. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-967

Giving birth four portraits 197-

Julie Gustafson, John Reilly, Margaret Mead, and Frédérick Leboyer

Documents four alternatives in childbirth. Includes a hospital delivery with medication, a home birth with the Leboyer method, an emergency caesarean delivery and a midwife delivery in the hospital with the Lamaze method. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA D-297

 

Healers of Ghana c2005

J. Scott Dodds, Harold L Cannon, Edward Quarshie, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Explores the traditional medical practices of the Bono people of central Ghana and how their healers are accommodating the conflict between the arrival of Western medicine and their religious beliefs. Traditionally, Bono tribal priests undergo a painful spiritual possession, during which deities reveal to them the causes of illnesses, which plants to use to treat them, who is perpetrating witchcraft, and which villagers might be endangering society through improper behavior. 1 videodisc (58 min.)

MEDIA 10-889

 

The human hambone 2005

Mark Morgan, Cameron Burr, Ed Bedrosian, Sam McGrier, Radioactive (Musician), Click the Supah Latin, Artis the Spoonman, Derique McGee, Birdman, Keith Terry, Sandy Silva, Bob Moses, Larry M Schwarz, Guy Davis, Jimmy Slyde, Andrew Nemr, Open Road Media (Firm), and First Run/Icarus Films

Highlights the talents of a wide variety of both amateur and professional musicians and dancers throughout North America who use every part of the human body to make music. Also examines body music within an anthropological and biological framework, demonstrating how the body is filled with natural "clocks," which account for the fundamental human connection with rhythm. 1 videodisc (47 min.)

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Iceman 1992

Katharine Everett, Peter Thomas, and Sheila Hairston

"Five thousand years ago, a man perished in an alpine mountain storm. In 1991, his frozen body was found, along with artifacts of his vanished way of life. The program covers the international effort to unlock the secrets of this astonishing discovery"--Container. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-2512

 

In the beginning 1989, 1981

Richard E Leakey and  Peter Spry-Leverton

Explains how mankind's superbly adaptable nature has contributed to our transformation from tree-dwelling, four-footed, vegetarian primates to upright, omnivorous toolmakers. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-2193

 

Inventing reality 1/2 in

David Maybury-Lewis,  Richard Meech, and Michael Grant

We are shown how in Mexico and Canada the certainties of science can combine with natural conceptions of physical disease both in the tribal world of the shaman and in the thinking of modern medical science. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1717

 

Journey of man c2004

Jennifer Beamish, Clive Maltby, Spencer Wells, Tigress Productions, PBS Home Video, PBS Video, and National Geographic Channel (Television station : Washington, D.C.)

Through the science of genetics scientists are able to answer the question"where did we come from?". 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)

MEDIA 2-7151

 

The language you cry in the story of a Mende song 1998

Alvaro Toepke, Angel Serrano, and California Newsreel (Firm)

Traces the history of a burial song of the Mende people brought by slaves to the rice plantations of the Southeast coast of the United States over two hundred years ago, and preserved among the Gullah people there. In the 1930s a pioneering Black linguist, Lorenzo Turner, recognized its origin, and in the 1990s scholars Joe Opala and Cynthia Schmidt discovered that the song was still remembered in a remote village in Sierra Leone. Dramatically demonstrates how African Americans retained links with their African past, and concludes with the visit of the Gullah family which had preserved the song to the Mende village, where villagers re-enact the ancient burial rites for them. 1 videodisc (52 min.)

MEDIA       DANA 10-755           1299

 

The Last Tasmanian ancestors 1988

Tom Haydon, Rhys Jones, Jim Allen, and Leo McKern

Describes the migration of the Australian aborigines to the island of Tasmania 12,000 years ago. Anthropologist Dr. Rhys Jones and historian Dr. Jim Allen retrace the 200-mile journey, examine the societal regression of these people and discuss some of the possible causes. 1 videocassette (17 min.)

MEDIA 2-1999

 

Listen to the silence 2001

Peter Bischoff, John Collins, Brian Patterson, Loke Film (Firm), and Filmakers Library, inc

Taking off from the peace of nature, the singing cicadas, and the simple routines of the workday, this program explores a kaleidoscope of musical examples from Ghana: children's games and their musical bands; traditional drums; sensual dances; trance dances; animated funeral music, and other examples from the Ewe, Ashanti, Ga, and Frafra peoples of Ghana. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7719

 

The Living Maya 1999?

Hubert Smith

A four part series which chronicles the everyday life of a present-day Mayan family as it tries to cope with modern society. Shows the stresses induced by the fact that farming is no longer the only male occupation available. Includes traditional rituals and actual conversations. 4 videocassettes (232 min.)

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Lost tribes of Israel 2000

Tudor Parfitt, Chris Hale, David Espar, and Liev Schreiber

South Africa's Lemba people claim to be descendants of Jews and one of the lost tribes of Israel. In this program, anthropologist Tudor Parfitt investigates the Lemba's claim through genetic testing and attempts to retrace their migration. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-5802

 

Lucy in disguise 1981

David Smeltzer, David Prince, and David Kanzeg

A documentary film about human evolution. Tells about the discovery and analysis of Lucy, the most complete fossil skeleton of a human ancestor ever discovered. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

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Magical curing 1988

William E Mitchell

[Pt. 1] Introduction to Wape society -- [pt. 2] Niyel demon curing festival -- [pt. 3] Epilo's koyil demon exorcism and funeral -- [pt. 4] Mani demon hunting and curing festivalsA black and white film consisting of footage shot between 1970 and 1972 by anthropologist William E. Mitchell, filming alone, during fieldwork with the Wape people of the West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.  All of the depicted events were filmed as they naturally occurred, without direction. 1 videocassette (27 min.)

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Margaret Mead an observer observed 1995

Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Alan Berliner, Robert Seidman, Nancy Marchand, and Gail Jansen

Dealing with the controversies as well as the accomplishments of Margaret Mead's life, this program weaves together a story of a scientist, adventurer and international celebrity whose ideas shaped how we think about ourselves. 1 videocassette (85 min.)

MEDIA 2-2971

 

Margaret Mead taking note 1988

Ann Peck

Margaret Mead became a world-renowned anthropologist through her studies of children and families. This comprehensive documentary chronicles Mead's life and career as a humanist, scholar and scientist, and her qualities as a researcher, thinker, teacher, friend, wife and mother. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-963

 

Masks from many cultures 1992

Tom Hubbard

"Masks from different regions of the world and from diverse cultures are presented in this program.  This overview includes images of over 100 masks which are combined with sequences of dances and festivals where masks are worn...Among the masks presented are examples from New Guinea, Bali, China, Tibet, Japan, Korea, Africa, Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, as well as a variety of masks by North American Indians."--Container. 1 videocassette (21 min.)

DANA 729

 

Miss Goodall and the wild chimpanzees 1965

Orson Welles, Marshall Flaum, and Jane Goodall

Describes the background of Jane Goodall and her studies as she observes and records the activities of wild chimpanzees in Africa. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-1673

 

Monkeys, apes, and man exploring the chasm 1971

Jeff Myrow and Leslie Nielsen

Explains that from studies of primate social organization, use and manufacture of tools, ability to learn, and socialization has come an increased appreciation of mankind. 1 videocassette (ca. 25 min.)

MEDIA 2-1671

 

Neanderthals on trial 2002

Mark J Davis and Joe Morton

Neanderthals on trial takes a look at one of the most contentious debates in human origin. How and are we related to these prehistoric cave-dwellers? Shows how science works, and how investigators sometimes fool themselves into seeing what they want to see. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-5803

 

A New era 1989, 1981

Richard E Leakey and Peter Spry-Leverton

Details the emergence of our species, Homo sapiens, and explores some of the art our ancestors left behind, including the beautiful cave of Lascaux. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-2197

 

New worlds 1993

Stacy Keach and Sam Low

This program charts the intellectual impact of the European discovery of the New World and the ways in which their discovery influenced both the emergence of anthropology and archaeology as disciplines. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1892

 

Nganga kiyangala Congo religion in Cuba 1991

Luis G Cabrera, Tato Qui~nones, and Luis A Soto

This documentary discusses the maintenance of African religious practice and custom in Cuba and the West Indies. 1 videocassette (33 min.)

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Off the verandah 1990, 1985

Bruce Dakowski and André Singer

Explores the career of Bronislaw Malinowski, who substantially altered the methods of anthropological field work through his own activities among the natives of the Trobriand Islands in the Pacific. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

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One small step 1989, 1981

Richard E Leakey and Peter Spry-Leverton

The oldest human footprints in the world were unearthed near Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.  Also discussed are the famous "Lucy" skeleton, Ethiopian fossils, and the controversy over the nature of ancient upright creatures. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-2194

 

Passing girl; riverside an essay on camera work 1997

Nathan Kwame Braun, Catherine Cole, and Kusum Agromma

A young American ethnolographic researcher in Ghana discusses issues raised by filming, the ways he uses his subjects and the ways they use him as well. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-3903

 

Patterns of subsistence the food producers 1983, 1994

Mari Womach, William Jordan, Ira R Abrams, John Bishop, and Kate Porter Lewis

Societies emerged based on the cultivation of plants.  Methods of intensive agriculture, using irrigation systems, draft animals, fertilizer, mechanized agriculture and their effects on social organization, specialization of labor, social stratification, and the rise of government organizations are discussed. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-2614

 

A Poor man shames us all 1992

David Maybury-Lewis, Richard Meech, and Michael Grant

Explore the alternative views of wealth and society that are exhibited in the lives of tribal cultures. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1716

 

The Primates ; Upright man 1981

David Attenborough, Richard Brock, and John Sparks

In the first program naturalist David Attenborough gives an insight into the conditions of man's emergence through the evolution of the African apes.  In the second progam Attenborough gives an insight into the evolution of man.  He trades the emergence of the homo sapiens back to five to ten million years ago to our origins in the African plains. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1938

 

The real Eve 2002

Andrew Piddington, Paul D. M Ashton, Amanda Theunissen, and Danny Glover

Using the latest DNA reconstructions and cutting edge technology, scientists investigate the location of the first woman in the human race. 1 videodisc (103 min.)

MEDIA 10-177

 

The Roar of the gods 1978

Angel Hurtado and José Gómez Sicre

Examines various pre-Columbian stone monoliths found in the area of San Agustín, Colombia, and explains their anthropological meaning. 1 videocassette (20 min.)

MEDIA 2-982

 

Rouch in reverse 1995

Jean Rouch, Manthia Diawara, and Parminder Vir

French ethnologist/filmmaker, Jean Rouch discusses his work with Manthia Diawara. Includes a cross-section of Rouch's work with clips from his documentary Les Maitres Fous, his cinema verite classic, Chronique D'ete, and his pioneering masterpiece Moi, Un Noir (Treichville). Throughout the interview Diawara places Rouch's films in the context of the on-going struggle of Africans to construct their own vision of modernity. 1 videocassette (51 min.)

MEDIA 2-3616

 

Science or sacrilege Native Americans, archaeology & the law 1996

Nicholas Nicastro and Marilyn Richvin

Discusses the issue of the controversy between Indians and scientists on the excavations and study of Indian burial grounds and remains. Examines the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation act (NAGPRA) passed in 1990, its underlying moral and political issues, its practical consequences, and the prospects for science in the post-NAGPRA world. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

MEDIA 2-2987

 

Search for the first human 2002

Ben Bowie, Lucy McDowell, Noddy Sahota, and Liev Schreiber

Examines the implications of Orrorin tugenensis, a group of six million year-old fossils found in the Tugen Hills of Kenya, which may shed light on the origins of humankind. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

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Secrets of lost empires 1997

Robin Brightwell, Stacy Keach, and Beth Hopper

The old pyramid (container title: Pyramid) -- Obelisk -- Colosseum -- Stonehenge -- IncaTeams of experts visit five archeological sites to determine how, with limited technology, ancient people were able to construct engineering wonders.  Teams test hypotheses in constructing pyramids, obelisks, a canopy over the Colosseum, Stonehenge, and Incan cities. 5 videocasettes (300 min.)

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Settling down 1989, 1981

Richard E Leakey and Peter Spry-Leverton

Richard Leakey traces one of the most fundamental changes our species has experienced: the shift from a nomadic hunter-gatherer way of life to the settled villager and farmer. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-2198

 

The Shock of the other 1992

David Maybury-Lewis and Adrian Malone

Learn how the Western world's desire to remake other societies into its own image has robbed our modern world of the gifts of other cultures.  Understand the need to protect other cultures that are threatened by industrial expansion.  Host David Maybury-Lewis offers a personal meditation on "the other"--the people of cultures foreign to us--and what we can learn from them. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1710

 

Signs and symbols 1993

Stacy Keach and Sheila Bernard

The program demonstrates how archaeologists detect forms of ancient communication, then interpret symbolic meanings and reconstruct symbolic behavior behind the communication. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1895

 

Slavery's buried past 1996

Michael L Blakey, Bill Kurtis, and Molly Bedell

This show focuses on Michael Blakey, a Howard University biological anthropologist, as he does research on human skeletons found in an 18th Century slave graveyard uncovered in New York City in 1991. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

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The story of Lucy 1994

Donald C Johanson, Peter Jones, and Michael Gunton

In 1974 Don Johanson unearthed Lucy, at almost 3 million years of age, our oldest human ancestor.  Lucy's tiny three-and-a-half-foot skeleton set the world of paleoanthropology on its ear.  Lucy walked upright and provided evidence that walking upright, not a larger brain, was the key difference between early man and the ape.  In this film Johanson recounts his discovery of Lucy as he returns to the site of his find in Ethiopia and expounds upon the important information it still continues to generate. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-2415

 

Strange beliefs 1990, 1985

André Singer and Bruce Dakowski

Explores the career of Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard and his work on witchcraft amongst the Nuer and Azanda tribes in the Sudan. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-2522

 

Strange relations 1992

Michael Grant, Richard Meech, and David Maybury-Lewis

Demonstrates, through the intimate scenes of western societies and tribal peoples and the thoughtful analysis of David Maybury-Lewis, how individuals can discover a balance between personal desires and social needs in the context of a loving and nurturing family. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1711

 

The Survival of the species 1989, 1981

Richard E Leakey and Peter Spry-Leverton

Richard Leakey examines the crucial behavior patterns that, over millions of years, made us what we are.  He also looks at new evidence that suggests the human animal will survive. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-2199

 

Thor Heyerdahl across the sea of time 1996

Christopher Warren, Ed Fields, and Gavin MacFaden

Presents the epic story of Heyerdahl's trip across the ocean in the Kon-Tiki to prove that ancient mariners could cross the world's oceans. Includes actual expedition footage and interviews with Heyerdahl and his crew members. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-4267

 

Thunder in the skies 1978

Mick Jackson, David Kennard, and James Burke

Host James Burke details many of the changes in building construction and energy usage which occurred when the climate of Europe changed dramatically in the 13th century. He shows how the scarcity of firewood contributed to the invention of the steam engine, which was the predecessor of gasoline-powered engines used today. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-2495

 

The Tightrope of power 1992

David Maybury-Lewis, Michael Grant, and Richard Meech

Contrasts the Western forms of state to the tribal practice of democracy through consensus. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1718

 

Timbuktu the untold story c2004

Timbuktu Educational Foundation

A documentary uncovering the buried legacy of Timbuktu. 1 videodisc (ca. 43 min.)

MEDIA 10-790

 

The Western tradition 1989

Eugen Joseph Weber, Carol Greenwald, Art Cohen, Andrew Jablon, Harlan Reiniger, and Karen Silverstein

Program 51. The technological revolution -- Program 52. Toward the futureThese programs discuss the speed with which modern life has changed, and consider the future of Western civilization. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

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Work 1999

Vincent Leduc, Guylaine Laframboise, Bernard Montas, and George Morris

"This program examines work from the early egalitarian hunter/gatherer and agrarian societies to the modern world--a world of multinationals and child slavery, of leisure and hard labor.  Noted anthropologists, such as Professor Herbert Applebaum of SUNY, offer insights into how work has evolved and the challenges faced today, when millions are unemployed, and the economic disparity between the First and Third Worlds is becoming ever greater."--Container. 1 videocassette (53 min.)

MEDIA 2-5943