Videos on the Social Sciences

Bontoc eulogy 2007

A personal and poignant docudrama that examines the Filipino experience at the 1904 St. Louis World's fair. The film focuses on the filmmaker's grandfather, an Igorot warrior, one of the 1,100 tribal natives displayed as anthropological 'specimens' in the Philippine village exhibit. A unique fusion of rare archival images, verite, and carefully orchestrated visual sequences shot in the present, the film is an innovative investigation of history, memory and the spectacle of the "other" in the turn-of-the-century America. 1 videodisc (69 min.)

MEDIA 10-4163

 

Bushman's secret c2006

Rehad Desai, Hartmut Keiper, Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), National Film and Video Foundation (South Africa), and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

South African filmmaker, Regad Desai, travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge. Hoodia, a cactus used by Bushmen for centuries, has caught the attention of a giant pharmaceutical company. 1 videodisc (65 min.)

MEDIA 10-1107

 

A Bushman story 2005

Wayne Derrick, Richard C Wawman, Discovery Channel (Firm), Essential TV (Firm), and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

Takes an in-depth look at the culture of the Jul'hoansi of Namibia, known as the Bushmen of the Kalahari. They live cooperatively in extended family groups. Their skills at tracking game are extraordinary. And they speak a fascinating language. 1 videodisc (50 min.)

MEDIA 10-887

 

Cannibal tours  c1987

This documentary explores differences and the similarities that emerge when western and New Guinean people meet within the context of organized "travel adventure tours".  This film offers a series of striking observations that exemplify the quandry of culture clash and the human sameness of people everywhere. 1 videocassette (77 min.)

MEDIA 10-4885

 

An Ecology of mind 1992

David Maybury-Lewis,  Michael Grant, and Richard Meech

Visit the Gabra of northern Kenya, whose unique relationship to their harsh environment is the key to their survival; the Makuna of Colombia, whose complex myths and rituals reveal for us a sophisticated ecological awareness; and a modern gardener who resists the Western world's control of nature with a new attitude about sowing Earth's garden. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-3412      2-1713

 

Fieldwork 2004

Explores the career of Walter Baldwin Spencer, whose studies of the Australian aborigines showed them to be a people with an extremely complex and subtle, rather than primitive, culture. 1 videodisc (53 min.)

MEDIA 10-4686

 

Guardians of the flutes c1996

Paul Reddish, Gilbert H Herdt, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, and Filmakers Library, inc

Discusses the Sambia people, a war-like tribe in the mountains of New guinea. 1 videodisc (55 min.)

MEDIA 10-1595

 

Herskovits at the heart of blackness  c2009

Llewellyn Smith, Vincent Aaron Brown, Christine Herbes-Sommers, Vital Pictures (Firm), Independent Television Service, and California Newsreel (Firm)

This documentary traces the career of Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering American anthropologist of African Studies and controversial intellectual who established the first African Studies Center at an American university and authored, The Myth of the Negro Past. Rarely seen archival footage, provocative animation, and unique photo montage re-enactments propel the story and interviews from leading scholars of race and culture forward. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

MEDIA 10-1525

 

A Kalahari family c2002

In 1951, Laurence and Lorna Marshall and their two children, Elizabeth and John, set out to find the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert. Their aim was to study and document their life and culture. While in Nyae Nyae the Marshall family documented everyday life as well as unusual events and activities, producing a massive body of work that continues to define the fields of anthropology and ethnographic filmmaking today. Encapsulating 50 years of Namibian history, A Kalahari Family represents a lifetime of documentation, research, and personal contact by filmmaker John Marshall. 2 videodiscs (340 min.)

MEDIA 10-4151

 

Kawelka Ongka's big moka c2008

Charlie Nairn, Andrew Strathern, Pattie Winter, Ernest Vincze, Shelagh Brady, Granada Television International, Pennsylvania State University, Media Sales, and Imparja Television

"Ongka, a Big Man of the Kawelka tribe in Papua New Guinea, has decided that he will arrange a moka to pay back a neighboring tribe that hosted a moka nearly 10 years ago. That tribe gave the Kawelka 400 pigs; Ongka wants to repay them with 600. In fact, 'moka' means 'interest,' the amount of pigs that is given above the amount originally distributed. The Kawelka are horticulturalists, raising pigs, yams and other vegetables and living in sedentary small villages and hamlets. ... The preparations for this moka have taken 5 years. Arranging for a moka is hard work for Ongka, his friends, his relatives, and for the women in the group who are taking care of the pigs. As a Big Man, Ongka has no real authority. He can only attempt to persuade other men to accept his plans, plots and machinations. Arranging for a moka involves haranguing other men to work hard so that the tribe will be successful, since all the men are expected to contribute, making speeches at small mokas that extoll the virtues of Kawelka society, and conspiring against other Big Men in the Kawelka tribe (Raima, for example) about who will be successful in fixing the date for the big moka ..."-- http://an11.blogspot.com/2008/04/ongka.html (as viewed on 03/08/2010). 1 videodisc (52 min.) :

MEDIA DANA 10-2344 209

 

The King does not lie the initiation of a priest of Shango 1992

Judith Illsley Gleason, Elisa Mereghetti, Yrmino Valdés, and Marco Mensa

Documentary showing the ritual and ceremony associated with the initiation of a priest of Shango, the Thundergod of the traditional Yoruba religion. Takes place in a contemporary Puerto Rican community among New World practitioners of the ancient religion, Santeria. 1 videocassette (43 min.)

MEDIA 10-3679  2-5573

 

The last Tasmanian 2007?

A search by Rhys Jones to discover and comprehend the life and death of the Tasmanian Aborigines. 1 videodisc (105 min.)

MEDIA 10-4730

 

Living memory six sketches of Mali today 2003

A documentary about Mali's ancient culture and the place of that culture in the modern country. The six sections are ritual arts, culture on display, style, architecture, contemporary artists and music. 1 videodisc (53 min.)

MEDIA 10-4645

 

Massai, Massai die ungleichen Brüder c2004

Soli Dreckmann, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

Describes the pastoral life of the Masai tribe in Africa. The program follows the life of a family over the course of seven years as a glimpse into the life of the Masai as they struggle with the challenges of modernity. 1 videodisc (53 min.)

MEDIA 10-618

 

Mirrors of the heart c1993

By looking at indigenous people in Bolivia and race relations on Hispaniola, one learns the complexity of identity in Latin America. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-4779

 

Off the verandah c2004

Examines the work of Bronislaw Malinowski, who studied the people of the Trobriands, a group of Pacific Islands, altering the idea that native peoples were primitive savages. 1 videodisc (52 min.)

MEDIA 10-4741

 

Please don't beat me, sir! c2011

"Over sixty million Indians belong to communities imprisoned by the British as "criminals by birth.' The Chhara of Ahmedabad, in Western India, are one of 198 such 'criminal tribes.' Declaring that they are 'born actors, ' not 'born criminals, ' a group of Chhara youth have turned to street theater in their fight against police brutality, corruption, and the stigma of criminality--a stigma internalized by their own grandparents. Please don't beat me, Sir! follows the lives of these young actors and their families as they take their struggle to the streets, hoping their plays will spark a revolution"--Container. 1 videodisc (75 min.)

MEDIA 10-4747

 

Reassemblage from the firelight to the screen 2007?

A documentary and visual study of women and family in rural Senegal. A reflection on filming and a critique of the anthropological eye. 1 videodisc (40 min.)

MEDIA 10-4294

 

The return of Sarah Bartman c2003

Chronicles the return of the remains of Sara Baartman, a Black woman who had been exhibited as a freak in early nineteenth-century Europe. 1 videodisc (55 min.)

MEDIA 10-4746

 

Rouch in reverse c2008?

The first film to look at European anthropology from the perspective of its subjects. Malian filmmaker and New York University professor, Manthia Diawara, examines the anthropological enterprise through the work of Jean Rouch, perhaps the most distinguished ethnographic filmmaker living today. The two discuss Rouch's work. 1 videodisc (51 min.)

MEDIA 10-4819

 

A spirit here today a scrapbook of Chopi village music 2013

Documents the lives and music of Mozambique's Chopi people, beginning with a visit by anthropologist Gei Zantzinger in 1973 and contrasting those scenes with what was left of the Chopi way of life some twenty years later. Describes the impact of sixteen years of civil war and four years of drought, emphasizing that these once self-sufficient people have kept their great sense of pride and a remarkable level of hope. 1 videodisc (44 min.)

MEDIA 10-4898

 

The spirit possession of Alejandro Mamani c2007, 1974

Hubert Smith, Norman N Miller, Neil Reichline, Thomas G Sanders, American Universities Field Staff, and Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)

In a Bolivian village, one of the village elders nears the end of his life. Believing himself possessed by evil spirits, he opens his heart to reveal his anguish. The film also depicts the actions and attitudes of his family and neighbors when the man draws up his will. His tragedy brings close every person's confrontation with old age, the unknown, and death. 1 videodisc (27 min.)

MEDIA 10-1910

 

Vanishing cultures : Bushmen of the Kalahari c2005

Jeffrey Hayes Kazmark, Barbara Dianne Savage, Paul Ely, Rhett Smith, Lisa Ely, Michael York, Chris Brooks, Megan Biesele, Rupert Isaacson, Springbok Films Production, and Tribal Trust Foundation

The film takes a look at the "fascinating history, brutal struggles and daunting challenges the Bushmen face in the 21st century.". 1 videodisc (58 min.)

MEDIA 10-1940

 

The Amish folk 1991

Examines the everyday life of old-order Amish in the Pennsylvania Dutch country of Southern Pennsylvania. 1 videocassette (32 min.)

DANA 748

 

The Art of living 1992

David Maybury-Lewis,  Richard Meech, and Michael Grant

Travel to the Wodaabe tribe of Niger and the Dogon people of Mali to witness the ways they celebrate life and death with acts of beauty and grace. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1714

 

At the threshold 1992

David Maybury-Lewis, Richard Meech, and Michael Grant

Return to Brazil where the values of the Xavante Indian brother are compared to modern views.  Also journey to the American Southwest to discover the firm sense of belonging that characterizes Native American peoples such as the Navajo. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1719

 

The Ax fight 1978-?, 1975

Timothy Asch and Napoleon A Chagnon

A four-part analysis of a fight in a Yanomamo Indian village between local descent groups. Includes an unedited record of the event; a slow-motion replay of the fight; a discussion of the kinship structure of the fight; and an edited version. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 203 2-1363

 

Baka people of the forest 1990

Phil Agland

Journey deep into an African rain forest for a rare and intimate look at the lives of the Baka, a semi-nomadic people who have wandered Central Africa for centuries.  To the outside world they are simply known as Pygmies, but in their natural environment they are the uncontested masters. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-983

 

A Balinese trance seance and, Jero on Jero, a Balinese trance seance observed 1986?

Linda Connor, Patsy Asch, and Timothy Asch

Contains two of the four short ethnographic films which were made about the Balinese healer named Jero Tapakan. 1 videocassette (48 min.)

DANA 699

 

Ballad of a mountain man the story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford 1989

David Hoffman

Story of North Carolinian Bascom Lamar Lunsford's work in collecting and preserving the songs, dances and customs of Appalachia. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-859

 

Bathing babies in three cultures 1988

Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead

A comparative series of sequences showing the interplay between mother and child in three different settings--bathing in the Sepik River in New Guinea, in a modern American bathroom, and in a mountain village of Bali in Indonesia. 1 videocassette (9 min.)

MEDIA 2-1994

 

Black harvest 1992

Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson

Features a joint business venture between Joe Leahy, a wealthy mixed-race coffee plantation owner, and the Ganiga, an aboriginal tribe in Papua New Guinea. When world coffee prices collapse, the workers' wages are drastically reduced and this leads to tribal warfare. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

MEDIA 2-2111

 

Le bouillon d'awara Awara soup 1995

Marie Clémence Blanc-Paes and Cesar Paes

Introduces the viewer to one of the world's most multi-cultural communities, a global village in the backcountry of French Guiana. 1 videocassette (71 min.)

MEDIA 2-3012

 

Bushman's secret c2006

Rehad Desai, Hartmut Keiper, Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), National Film and Video Foundation (South Africa), and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

South African filmmaker, Regad Desai, travels to the Kalahari to investigate global interest in ancient Bushmen knowledge. Hoodia, a cactus used by Bushmen for centuries, has caught the attention of a giant pharmaceutical company. 1 videodisc (65 min.)

MEDIA 10-1107

 

A Bushman story 2005

Wayne Derrick, Richard C Wawman, Discovery Channel (Firm), Essential TV (Firm), and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

Takes an in-depth look at the culture of the Jul'hoansi of Namibia, known as the Bushmen of the Kalahari. They live cooperatively in extended family groups. Their skills at tracking game are extraordinary. And they speak a fascinating language. 1 videodisc (50 min.)

MEDIA 10-887

 

Cannibal tours 1987

Dennis O'Rourke

This documentary explores differences and the similarities that emerge when western and New Guinean people meet within the context of organized "travel adventure tours".  This film offers a series of striking observations that exemplify the quandry of culture clash and the human sameness of people everywhere. 1 videocassette (77 min.)

MEDIA 2-2625

 

Chronicle of a savanna marriage : a film 1997

Stig Holmqvist

A unique view of the life and culture of the Masai people in Africa. Follows the life of a young woman in the Masai culture of southern Kenya.  Considers puberty rites as well as female circumcision and polygamy. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-3911

 

De Bende van Rouch Rouch's gang 1998

Jean Rouch, Damouré Zika, Lam Ibrahim Dia, Moussa Hamidou, Tallou Mouzourane, and Joost Verhey

Follows the film crew of "Madame l'Eau" and provides a glimpse behind the scenes as director Jean Rouch and his four friends from Niger make their film.  This outsider's view of "Madame l'Eau" provides insight into how Rouch approaches his films. In most of his films, Jean Rouch has used his four African friends; Damouré Zika, Lam Ibrahim Dia and Tallou Mouzourane as actors and Moussa Hamidou as sound man.  Rouch has been their friend for more than forty years and this complex bond of friendship serves as the theme for this documentary. 1 videocassette (70 min.)

MEDIA 2-3868

 

Dead birds 198-?

Robert Gardner

Describes a photographic and ethnographic study, which was sponsored by the Peabody Museum from February 1961 to November 1963 of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Ballem, high in the mountains of western New Guinea. 3 videocassettes (83 min.)

DANA. DANA. DANA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 204 204 cassette 2 204 cassette 3 2-1323 cassette 1 2-1324 cassette 2 2-1325 cassette 3

 

Dervishes of Kurdistan 1987

Brian Moser, John Sheppard, Granada Television International, Iran, Vizarat-i Farhang va Hunar, and Filmakers Library, inc

Describes the rituals and beliefs of the Qadiri Dervishes, Kurds who live along the boarder between Iran and Iraq. Explores the intertwining of religious and political power in the culture. 1 videocassette (ca. 52 min.)

MEDIA 2-7519

 

Diary of a Maasai village 1984

Melissa Llewelyn-Davies

A study of life in a Maasai village as a representation of the Maasai people in Kenya. An attempt to describe a moment in the history of the Laibon's family. 5 videocassettes (ca. 300 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA. MEDIA 2-5139 cassette 1 2-5140 cassette 3 2-5141 cassette 3 2-5142 cassette 4 2-5143 cassette 5

 

An Ecology of mind  1992

David Maybury-Lewis, Michael Grant, and Richard Meech

Visit the Gabra of northern Kenya, whose unique relationship to their harsh environment is the key to their survival; the Makuna of Colombia, whose complex myths and rituals reveal for us a sophisticated ecological awareness; and a modern gardener who resists the Western world's control of nature with a new attitude about sowing Earth's garden. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1713

 

Fieldwork 1990, 1985

Bruce Dakowski and André Singer

Explores the career of Walter Baldwin Spencer, whose studies of the Australian aborigines showed them to be a people with an extremely complex and subtle, rather than primitive, culture. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-2517

 

The Garifuna journey c1998

Andrea E Leland, Kathy L Berger, Barbara Flores, Leland/Berger Productions, and New Day Films

Presents the history, the language, food, music, dance and spirituality of the Garifuna culture. 1 videocassette (46 min., 30 sec.)

MEDIA 2-6683

 

Guardians of the flutes c1996

Paul Reddish, Gilbert H Herdt, British Broadcasting Corporation, Television Service, and Filmakers Library, inc

Discusses the Sambia people, a war-like tribe in the mountains of New guinea. 1 videodisc (55 min.)

MEDIA 10-1595

 

The Hadza 198-?

An ethnographic film about an East African hunting and gathering tribe. The Hadza obtain their food from the wild produce of the land. Documents their way of life before resettlement. 1 videocassette (40 min.)

MEDIA 2-1945

 

The Herders of Mongun-Taiga 1994, 1989

John Sheppard

Examines the life of sheep herders in a remote region of an automous republic of the former Soviet Union. Mountainous terrain forms the dramatic backdrop against which a collective operates. Modern influences are changing the lives of the young people. 1 videocassette (ca. 52 min.)

MUSIC 319

 

Herskovits at the heart of blackness  c2009

Llewellyn Smith, Vincent Aaron Brown, Christine Herbes-Sommers, Vital Pictures (Firm), Independent Television Service, and California Newsreel (Firm)

This documentary traces the career of Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering American anthropologist of African Studies and controversial intellectual who established the first African Studies Center at an American university and authored, The Myth of the Negro Past. Rarely seen archival footage, provocative animation, and unique photo montage re-enactments propel the story and interviews from leading scholars of race and culture forward. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

MEDIA 10-1525

 

Hopi, songs of the fourth world 1983

Pat Ferrero and Ronnie Gilbert

An in-depth look at the meaning of the Hopi way, a philosophy of living in balance with nature. Describes the Hopi philosophy of life, death, and renewal as revealed in the interweaving life cycle of humans and corn plants. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MEDIA 2-1280

 

Inagina the last house of iron 1997

Eric Huysecom, Armen Godel, Bernard Agustoni, Douglas Fowley, and Jessi Téssougué

Eric Huysecom and Bernard Agustoni work with 13 Dogon master smelters to recreate the building of a traditional iron smelting furnace in Mali. The film describes in detail every aspect of the event, from the selection of the site of the reconstruction which is the oldest remaining furnace site in the region, last active in 1961, to the final result. 1 videocassette (54 min.)

MEDIA 2-3895

 

An Initiation "kut" for a Korean shaman 1991

Laurel Kendall, Diana S Lee, Kim Pongsun, An Hosun, Kwan Myongnyo, and Yi Jin

Shamans in Korean society are generally women and are generally consulted by women.  They are frequently those who have been "set apart" by bad life experiences.  This film depicts portions of a two-day initiation ritual for a young woman, whose spirit mother and whoese family believe she is destined to be a shaman.  Music, rituals and life experiences of shamans are depicted and discussed. 1 videocassette (37 min.)

MEDIA 2-3528

 

Ishi the last Yahi  1992

Jed Riffe, Lina Hunt, and Pamela Roberts

A portrait of Ishi, a Yahi Indian, believed to be the last person in North America to have spent most of his life leading a totally aboriginal existence. 1 videocassette (57 min.) sd., col. with b&w sequences ;

DANA. MEDIA 233 2-2221

 

Jaguar 1996?

Jean Rouch, Pierre Braunberger, and Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)

Three young men from the savannah of Niger leave their homeland to seek wealth and adventure on the coast and in the cities of Ghana. 1 videocassette (93 min.)

MEDIA 2-6620

 

Jero Tapakan the Balinese healer 1986

Four ethnographic films on one videocassette about a Balinese healer. 1 videocassette (103 min.)

MEDIA 2-532

 

Joe Leahy's neighbors 1988

Robin Anderson and Bob Connolly

The sequel to "First contact" by filmmakers Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson concerns Australian prospector and explorer Leahy's mixed-race son Joe. Never recognized by his father, Joe has pursued a course of Western life and has risen to affluence. But he lives amongst the Ganiga tribe, who envy his success and question the means by which he got his land. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

DANA 706

 

The Kawelka Ongka's big Moka 1991, 1974

Charlie Nairn, Andrew Strathern, and Pattie Winter

In Papua New Guinea, status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring them.  This program explores the Moka, a ceremony in which people. sometimes whole tribes, give gifts to members of other tribes.  The larger the gift, the greater the victory over the recipient.  Follows one individual, Ongka, as he prepares for the giving of his moka. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

DANA 209

 

The Kayapo 1994, 1987

Terence J Turner and  Mike Beckham

Documents life among the Kayapo Indians of central Brazil, a fiercely independent tribe, some of whom were forced to become "businessmen" or see their traditional way of life destroyed when gold was discovered on their land in 1982. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

MUSIC    MEDIA 391           2-6837

 

Kenya the Masai homeland 1998

Davide Demichaels and Christopher Johnes

Explores the vast national parks of Samburu and Masai Mara, the indigeous people who inhabit them and their diverse wildlife.  Visit Mt. Kenya (Kilimanjaro), Nairobi, coastal resorts along the Indian Ocean, the Chalbi Desert, Turkana Lake and Rift Valley.  Also studied are the lives and traditions of the main ethnic groups and remaining tribes of Kenya. 1 videocassette (25 min.)

MEDIA 2-5124

 

Keďta! l'héritage du griot = The heritage of the griot 1995

Dani Kouyaté, Claude Gilaizeau, Sotigui Kouyaté, Hamed Dicko, and Seydou Boro

The film presents a dramatization of one of the most important works of African oral tradition, the Sundjata Epic, framed in the story of a djéliba, a master griot or bard, who arrives at the home of a young boy to teach him "the meaning of his name."   The legend of the boy's distant ancestor, Sundjata Keďta, who rose from unpromising beginnings to found the great of Milian trading empire of the 13th cent., initiates the boy into the traditions his family has rejected. 1 videocassette (97 min.)

DANA. MEDIA 1296 2-2888

 

Khmer court dance 1992, 1995

Sam-Ang Sam, Naomi Hawes Bishop, S. a. m. Chan Moly, John Melville Bishop, Paul Cravath, H. a. y. Somaly, S. a. m. Malene, Sophiline Shapiro, Nareine Sokhon, and Sam-Oeun Tes

Five authentic Khmer court dances, some with ritual significance, accompanied by a traditional pin peat musical ensemble. The dances are introduced by Paul Cravath, who discusses their historical background (illustrated by sculptural reliefs), symbolism, religious functions, and other points of interest. 1 videocassette (74 min.)

MUSIC 321

 

The King does not lie the initiation of a priest of Shango 1992

Judith Illsley Gleason, Elisa Mereghetti, Yrmino Valdés, and Marco Mensa

Documentary showing the ritual and ceremony associated with the initiation of a priest of Shango, the Thundergod of the traditional Yoruba religion. Takes place in a contemporary Puerto Rican community among New World practitioners of the ancient religion, Santeria. 1 videocassette (43 min.)

MEDIA 2-5573

 

Little injustices Laura Nader looks at the law 1988

Laura Nader

Anthropologist Laura Nader narrates this cross-cultural study of institutionalized conflict resolution. Shows how, in a remote Mexican village, face-to-face conflict among a small population demands swift and effective redress for injustices, while in the United States consumers with defective products are lost in a morass of frustrating claims, slow and costly legal action, ineffective public agencies, and unresponsive corporate entities . 1 videocassette (59 min.)

MEDIA 2-957

 

The lost warriors a bride's story 2001

Ben Ulum

This segment provides an introduction to the Afar by recording two major life events: the arranged marriage of a most reluctant bride and the initiation of a nervous would-be warrior. 1 videocassette (54 min.)

MEDIA 2-1814

Les Maitres fous 199-?

Jean Rouch, Pierre Braunberger, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), Institut fran?cais d'Afrique noire, Interama Video Classics (Firm), Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), and Contemporary Films/McGraw-Hill

This film documents the Haouka cult, a religious movement which was widespread in Ghana from the 1920's to the 1950's. Shows devotees living and working in Accra and participating in a primitive tribal ceremony. 1 videocassette (29 min.)

MEDIA 2-7852

 

A Man called Bee studying the Yanomamo [sic] 1974

Timothy Asch and Napoleon A Chagnon

Provides basic anthropological field data on the Yanoama Indians of southern Venezuela and describes the field methods used by anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon by following him as he collects this data. 1 videocassette (43 min.)

MEDIA 2-2002

 

Masai women 1981

Chris Curling and Melissa Llewelyn-Davies

An ethnographic view of Masai culture and society, focusing on the preparation of young Masai girls for marriage and life in their society. Probes, through a candid interview with an older woman, the feelings of the Masai women about polygamy and their inability to own property. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-3893

 

Massai, Massai die ungleichen Brüder c2004

Soli Dreckmann, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

Describes the pastoral life of the Masai tribe in Africa. The program follows the life of a family over the course of seven years as a glimpse into the life of the Masai as they struggle with the challenges of modernity. 1 videodisc (53 min.)

MEDIA 10-618

 

Mirrors of the heart 1993

Lourdes Portillo

By looking at indigenous people in Bolivia and race relations on Hispaniola, one learns the complexity of identity in Latin America. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1916

 

Mistaken identity 1992

David Maybury-Lewis, Richard Meech, and Michael Grant

In "Mistaken Identity," explore different views of life and death through scenes taken from the family life of an abortion counselor in Canada, a boy's initiation into manhood in a Brazilian Xavante tribe, a high school girl's attemted suicide, and an Indonesian Sumbanese tribesman's relationship to his dead relatives. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1712

 

Moko Jumbie dancing spirit 1991

Karen Kramer

Shows the art, craft, dance and history of the traditional stilt walkers. 1 videocassette (15 min.)

MEDIA 2-5717

 

Mundo milagroso (Miraculous world) 1995?

Monica Delgado, Michael Van Wagenen, and Kels Goodman

An exploration of the mixture of Spanish Catholicism and Indian mysticism found in Texan communities along the Rio Grande River, where various saints and religious figures have made appearances to a receptive public. 1 videocassette (27 min.)

MEDIA 2-5708

 

Nanook of the North 1976

Robert Joseph Flaherty and Robert Joseph Flaherty

Presents a documentary, based on the book entitled My Eskimo friends, Nanook of the North, by Robert Flaherty, on the saga of an Eskimo family pitting their strength against a vast and inhospitable Arctic. Juxtaposes their struggle for survival against the elements with the warmth of the little family as they go about their daily affairs. With captions. 1 videocassette (69 min.)

DANA. DANA. MEDIA 212 212 2-1216

 

Nubia and the mysteries of Kush 2001

Judith McCray, Reynelda Muse, Juneteenth Productions, University of California (System), and Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning

Archaeologists explore ancient Nubia, a region which spanned the southern part of Egypt and the northern part of the Sudan, and its golden age, the kingdom of Kush which existed from approximately 800 B.C. to 350 A.D. They display and discuss the results of excavations, including pottery, pyramids and other buildings. 1 videocassette (27 min.)

MEDIA 2-7135

 

Patterns of subsistence food foragers and pastoralists 1983, 1994

Mari Womack, Ira R Abrams, and Kate Porter Lewis

A study of various subsistence patterns from hunting-gathering to the production of food.  The African !Kung women, the Mbuti pygmy men, the Netsilik Eskimos, the Nuer tribe, and the Iranian Basseri are examined. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-2613

 

Powaqqatsi life in transition 1990

Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Godfrey Reggio, Mel Lawrence, and Lawrence Taub

A visual collage with scenes from various cultures around the world showing how the lure of technology and of mega-cities is affecting small-scale indigenous cultures. 1 videocassette (100 min.)

MEDIA 2-1213

 

Rituales sonoros Candombe = Ritual rhythms : Candombe 1999

Mabel Maio, Franca Gonzalez, MG Producciones, and Latin American Video Archives

Filmed in Uruguay, this production highlights Candombe, the African influenced music and dance of the Rio de la Plata region of Argentina and Uruguay. 1 videocassette (48 min.)

MEDIA 2-6965

 

The Shackles of tradition 1990

Bruce Dakowski, André Singer, Central Independent Television, and Films for the Humanities (Firm)

Explores the life and career of Franz Boas, from his early fieldwork among the Inuit and the Indians of the Canadian Pacific coast, to his work as the first American social scientist to challenge the notions of racial inferiority prevalent at the beginning of the twentieth century. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA. MEDIA 2-2518   2-5552

 

Sharkcallers of Kontu 1986

Dennis O'Rourke

Examines the villagers of Kontu, in Papua, New Guinea, who, for centuries, have gone to sea in canoes to call, trap, and kill sharks, which are believed to contain the spirits of their ancestors. 1 videocassette (55 min.)

MEDIA 2-2473

 

Le silence de la fôret The forest  2003

Bassek Ba Kobhio, Didier Ouénangaré, Marcel Beaulieu, Eriq Ebouaney, Sonia Zembourou, Philippe Maury, Nadčge Beausson-Diagne, Etienne Goyémidé , Films Terre Africaine, Centre national du cinéma (Gabon), Ecrans noirs (Organization), and California Newsreel (Firm)

Focuses on what happens when a European-educated African interacts with the mythic rainforest people incorrectly and pejoratively known as "pygmies". It is about the difficulty for even the most well-intentioned person to know and respect the "other". 1 videocassette (93 min.)

MEDIA 2-6910

 

The song of the Hamar herdsman celebration of the favourite ox of Southern Ethiopia Ivo Strecker, Jean Lydall, Institut f©or den Wissenschaftlichen Film (G©śttingen, Germany), and S©odwestfunk (Baden-Baden, Germany)

The good fortune of the Hamar is thought to be determine by a mans favorite ox.This video provides insight into the meaning of songs and dances composed to glorify the ox. 1 videocassette (ca. 48 min.)

MEDIA 2-7422

 

Sound, music, and the environment 1998

Fritz Weaver, Steven Fischler, Joel Sucher, Martin D Toub, Diane U Eisenberg, and Dorothea E Hast

"What do different cultures mean by music? This program explores the definition of music from the sine wave to poetic metaphor, and the impact of the cultural environment on musics as different as Bosnian ganga and becarac singing; Tuvan throat singing; Irish, West African, Trinidadian, and Japanese musics, and Western chamber music, jazz, and rock."--Faculty manual. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

MEDIA 2-3646

 

Spirit doctors 1996

Monica Delgado and Michael Van Wagenen

Follows three healers going about their daily work among Mexican-Americans in the lower Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas, where the folk healing tradition still flourishes. 1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.)

MEDIA 2-5658

 

The Spirit of the mask 1992

Peter von Puttkamer

This documentary explores the spiritual and psychological powers rarely--seen ceremonies as well as commentary by important Indian spiritual leaders, and relates how these traditions were historically repressed by Christian Europeans. The program also considers the role of masks in other cultures and examines the meaning of tribal art both to indigenous cultures and to the contemporary West. 1 videocassette (50 min.)

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Surviving in Africa 1994

Donald C Johanson, Peter Jones, and Lenora Johanson

Paleoanthropologist Don Johanson sets out to disprove that early man's larger brain and reliance on technology are the by-products of the ability to hunt.  He embarks on a journey across the Serengeti savanna of East Africa to attempt to reconstruct early man's survival behaviors.  He finds food not by hunting but by scavenging off the leftovers of lions and leopards. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-2416

 

Sweet sorghum an ethnographer's daughter remembers life in Hamar, Southern Ethiopia 1994

Rosie Strecker, Ivo A Strecker, Kaira Strecker, and Rolf Husmann

The intimacy of shared family life and childhood relationships between the Hamar people of Ethiopia and an anthropologist's children is revealed as we also learn about the important role sorghum plays in the Hamar diet. 1 videocassette (32 min.)

MEDIA 2-3870

 

Taking pictures 1996

Les McLaren and Annie Stiven

Australian documentary filmmakers explore the issues and pitfalls of filming across cultural boundaries through interviews and samples of their films of Papua New Guinea. It also covers the work of indigenous Papua New Guinea filmmakers and their own experience making sense of film and culture. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-5430

 

The Three worlds of Bali 1988

Ira R Abrams

Anthropologist Steve Lansing guides the viewer on an exploration of the Indonesian, temple-based, civilization of Bali, which is coming to terms with the technological West. Shows how Balinese religion unites and involves the people at every level of society. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-968

 

Tong tana : en resa till Borneos inres A journey to the heart of Borneo 1990

Jan Röed

A film about deforestation and the Penans of Borneo and their advocate, Bruno Manser. 1 videocassette (84 min.)

MEDIA 2-1281

 

Touching the timeless 1992

David Maybury-Lewis, Richard Meech, and Michael Grant

Accompany the Huichol tribe of Mexico on their annual pilgrimage to collect peyote, the sacred food of the gods, and visit the house of a Navajo medicine man who invites the spirits into his world through sand painting, chanting, and "walking in beauty.". 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-1715

 

Trance and dance in Bali 1988

Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, Jane Belo, and Josef Bohmer

Explores the themes of trance and dance in the rituals and religion of Bali.  The famous Kris Dance is performed. 1 videocassette (22 min.)

MEDIA 2-1961

 

The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea 1991

David Watson and Annette B Weiner

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 woman's wealth after a death and the "month of play", a time of celebration following the island harvest. 1 videocassette (52 min.)

MEDIA 2-1406

 

The Turtle people 198-?

Brian Weiss and James Ward

A case study of the ecological and cultural changes that result from so-called development. Shows the Miskito Indians of eastern Nicaragun who have depended on the sea turtle for food in the past and are now hunting the turtles to sell for cash. 1 videocassette (26 min.)

MEDIA 2-1785

 

Yanomani homecoming 1992

Lisa Truitt, Peter Schnall, and Betsy Ames 

An anthropologist from the U.S., Ken Good, marries a Yanomani woman, Yarima and brings her to his home in New Jersey where they have three children together. This film shows the couple and their children returning to the land of the Yanomani for a visit. 1 videocassette (37 min.)

MEDIA 2-1964