Anthropology DVDs/Videos in the UMD Library
Listed below - most recent first - are videos and dvds on topics relevant to anthropology. To schedule a video for your class use the UMD Library Online Media Booking Request Form.
Quest For the Phoenicians. National Geographic, 2006. 1 videodisc 55 minutes. DVD 883
Young, Muslim, and French: Stories of Assimilation and Defiance. 2006. 1 videodisc 57 minutes. DVD 1051
The America of the Amish. Films Media Group. 2005. DVD 1019
Coming of Age: Ethnographic Profiles from a Global Perspective. Films For Humanities & Sciences, 2005. 1 videodisc 60 minutes. DVD 1028
The Search for Adam. National Geographic, 2005. 1 videodisc 51 minutes. DVD 1015
Voices of the World: The Extinction of Language and Linguistic Diversity. 2005. 1 videodisc 60 minutes. DVD 1123
The Corporation: A Documentary. Zeitgeist Films, 2004. 1 videodisc 145 minutes. A critique of modern business corporations in the international context. [Based on the book, "The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power" by Joel Baken] DVD 192
Coming Into America. PBS, 2004. 1 videodisc 60 minutes. This film presents current research that is challengint the traditional theory of how people first came to North America in prehistoric times. Instead of moving south from Alasa, early migrants may have come from more than one place including the Pacific coast, an Atlantic ice route, and the Beringian land bridge. DVD 145
Life and Death on the River Ganges. Films Media Group, 2004. 1 videodisc 50 minutes. DVD 982
Before We Ruled the Earth. Hunt
or Be Hunted. Discovery Channel, 2003. 1 videodisc ca. 49 minutes. Documentary
showing how hominids and early human managed to survive. Uses dramatic
reenactments, computer animation, and film of archaeological digs. DVD
94.
Before We Ruled the Earth. Mastering the Beasts. Discovery
Channel, 2003. 1 videodisk ca. 49 minutes. Continutination of Before
We Ruled the Earth: Hunt or Be Hunted. Includes timelines and
information on how information about early periods in the development of humans
is known. DVD 101
Man of Aran. Home Vision, 2003. 1 videodisc 77 minutes. DVD 1014
Muslims. Wellspring Media, 2003. 1 videodisc 120 minutes. Looks at what it means to be a Muslim in the 21st century and shows the influence of culture and politics on the religion of Islam. DVD 195
The Missing Link. Boston Video, 2002. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Scientists travel to South Africa, Latvia, Greenland, and Pennsylvania in search for fossilized remains of a creature that may be the missing link between fish and animals living on land. VC 4360
Mountain Gorilla. Warner Home Videos, 2002. 1 videodisc 39 minutes. Film about mountain gorillas in Rwanda emphasizing behaviors of adults and youth. DVD 339
Neanderthals on Trial. Boston Video, 2002. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. An exploration into the connections between Neanderthals and contemporary humans. VC 4333
Search for the First Human. PBS Home Video, 2002. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. 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. Suggests that if the bones do belong to upright-walking, hominid creatures, then current theories about the evolution of human beings may have to change. Also looks at new ideas about the development of upright walking in humans and proposes that bipedalism developed in tree areas, not in open savannah. VC 4465
Battle of the Gods. Films for the Science and Humanities, 2001. 1 DVD. Portrays Cortes' and the Spanish campaign to conquer the Aztecs, the fall of the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlán, and the killing of Montezuma. DVD 4580.
The Barcelona Blueprint. City Life Series 9. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Once the industrial heart of the region of Catalonia in Spain, Barcelona was becoming a failed European city when a visionary local government decided to radically redevelop the city in the run for the 1992 Olympics. It is now considered a model 21st century city, combining historic buildings with modern architecture. This programs takes a tour of Barcelona's seafront and listens to a studio debate on the issues facing cities and those who live in them. This debate was part of the Special Session of the UN General Assembly held in New York in 2001. VC 4557
Brazil: Winning Against AIDS. City Life Series 16. TVE, 2001. 1 videcassette 27 minutes. HIV/AIDS sufferers in Brazil today get the same treatment as HIV/AIDS sufferers in the USA and Europe-the same free antiretroviral drugs, clinical care, and monitoring and all is based on Brazil producing its own medications. This has given the lie to the drug companies' arguments and suggests Brazil may be a model for AIDS treatment elsewhere? This program examines whether it can be replicated in other countries. VC 4564
Chichén Itzá : At the Mouth of the Amazon. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2001. 1 videodisk 27 minutes. Views the city of Chichen Itza, one of the major examples of Mayan - Toltec civilization in Yucatan including the Pyramid of Kukulcán, El Caracol, the Well of Sacrifice, and the Temple of Warriors. Uses archaeological footage and computer recreation. DVD 108
City Life. City Life Series 1. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Follows Marta Suplicy, the mayor of São Paulo, Brazil, as she visits schools, hospitals, favelas, and a shelter for battered women, in her quest to improve the living conditions of the city. VC 4547
Doing the Right Thing. City Life Series 7. TVE, 2001.1 videocasssette 30 minutes. Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul, was once an ordinary, dirty, Brazilian port city. Through a direct democracy program known as the "participatory budget," transformation has taken place, including a fallen unemployment rate, an excellent public transportation system, and the dramatic improvement of poor neighborhoods. This program traces the experiences of two women, both born in poor slum areas, who have risen through this program as neighborhood leaders. VC 4555
A Fistful of Rice. City Life Series 12. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 28 minutes. Nine out of every ten children in Nepal suffer from some form of malnutrition, which ironically goes unnoticed. This program examines the complex causes and effects of protein energy malnutrition through the stories of people in Nepal who live with it on a daily basis. It also looks at ways of changing attitudes toward food and gender. VC 4560
Gaza Under Siege. City Life Series 10. TVE, 2001.1 videocasssette 30 minutes. The Gaza Strip is home to a million Palestinians, most of whom are refugees whose parents and grandparents went there in 1948 after Israel moved in. In this program, we meet Reyidh and Sabah, members of one refugee family trying to cope. This program also examines why the United Nations fails to criticize Israel's aggression and denies Palestinian statehood. VC 4558
The Global Banquet. MaryKnoll World Productions, 2001. 1 videocassette 50 minutes. Examines corporate farming and the impact of globalization on the food system. Part 1. Who's Invited?--Part 2. What's On the Menu? VC 4770
The Health Protestors. City Life Series 3. TVE, 2001.1 videocasssette 30 minutes. Frustrated doctors, health professionals, and civil rights activists from around the world met in Dhaka in December 2000 at the People's Health Assembly to draw up their demands for health care in a new People's Health Charter. This program follows the process, from a 50,000-person rally in Calcutta, to late-night drafting sessions, to the final publication of the charter on the last day of the Assembly. VC 4551
Holy Smoke: Cambodians Fight Tobacco. City Life Series 22. TVE, 2001.1 videocasssette 30 minutes. Developing countries like Cambodia bear the brunt of aggressive marketing techniques by huge multinational tobacco companies. There are no health warnings on tobacco products in Cambodia and no bans on sales to minors. However, since the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime, previously suppressed religion has asserted itself as an instrument of change. Buddhist monks are now spearheading the campaign to persuade Cambodians to give up tobacco. VC 4570
Lines in the Dust. City Life Series 20. TVE, 2001. 1 videocasssette 30 minutes. In a small village in northern Ghana, a group of men and women discuss their daily chores with the help of a chart they've drawn in the dust. This village is part of a program called Reflect, which aims to reach the 900 million illiterate adults across the world. Reflect uses participants' own knowledge and experience as starting points for learning. Lines in the dust looks at this program in Ghana and India, and how it not only teaches people to read, write, and work with numbers, the participants are also changing ideas about men's and women's separate workloads, standing up for their rights, earning more money for their families, and becoming self-assured. VC 4568
Lost King of the Maya. Boston Video, 2001. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Archaeologists and historians explore Mayan culture of 1600 years ago focusing on Copan, a site in Honduras, and Yax K'uk Mo, a Mayan king. VC 4357
The Maasai and Agents of Change. Filmmakers Library, 2001. 1 videocassette 32 minutes. Documentary on Masai people in Kenya filmed by one of their warriors. Includes lifestyles and ceremonies as well as the external forces bringing changes to their nomadic life and traditional pastoral economy. VC 3983
The Miller's Tale: Bread for
Life. City Life Series 15. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Iron
deficiency anemia is the most widespread nutritional disorder in the world, affecting
more than two billion people. The easiest way to combat the problem is to fortify
the flour in bread, but
complex social and cultural issues in the Middle East make fortification difficult.
Bread has been sacred since ancient times, and many millers refuse to add anything
unnatural to their bread because of their beliefs. This program looks at the
efforts to introduce fortified flour in Yemen and
Egypt, two of the most affected countries. VC 4563
Missing Out. City Life Series 17. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, and less than a third of the population has access to any health care. Malnutrition remains the main cause of maternal and infant mortality, and over half of all pregnant women suffer from iron deficiency anemia. In Tanzania, malaria is blamed for the increase in anemia. UNICEF believes that the solution is providing micromultinutrient pills which contain iron folate and other vitamins. This program follows two traditional birth attendants as they try to persuade women to take iron folate supplements and visit hospitals. It also looks at what could happen when donors pull out of distribution programs. VC 4565
My Hanoi: Personal Reflections by Thuy Linh. City Life Series 19. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. This program tells the story of Tran Thuy Linh, whose family has lived in the flower village area of Hanoi for generations but must now move. Thuy describes the extended family she grew up with and looks at their lives against the changing city. VC 4567
My Mother Built This House. City Life Series 8. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. There are four million homeless people in South Africa who live in shacks in slums or squatter settlements. Government programs are building houses for these homeless, but it is a slow process. This program looks at the difference the South African Homeless People's Federation is making. The federation members, most of whom are women, save up money to add to their government grants, allowing them to build larger houses, helping women and their families live in a home of their own. VC 4556
Neanderthal. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2001. 1 videocassette 97 minutes. Reconstructs Neanderthal life to show clan structure, cultural practices. VC 4592
The Other Side = El Otro Lado. City
Life Series 14. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Examines the devastating
impact of Mexican-United States migration. The families and communities left
behind are disabled, and their languages and cultures are being destroyed. This
program looks at villagers who strive to ensure that their children will no longer
have to migrate
to have a better life. VC 4562
Paradise Domain. City Life Series 5. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. A tiny nation in the South Pacific, Tuvalu and its 10,000 people suffer from underdevelopment and a lack of jobs, subsisting on fishing and harvesting coconuts. Tuvala had one valuable asset: its coveted domain name, dot tv. In 1999, the prime minister sold the name to an American dot.com company in exchange for several million dollars and access to the wired world. Now it is difficult to determine who is reaping the benefits--the Tuvalu islanders or the United States corporation. VC 4553
Patently Obvious. City Life Series 13. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Protection of intellectual property is the foundation of the 21st century new knowledge economy. In the Indian state of Gujarat, Professor Anil Gupta travels from village to village seeking out grassroots inventors and helping them document their work and protect it with patents. Gupta's work not only helps these traditional knowledge keepers earn more money, but also allows them to earn respect and interest from the next generation. VC 4561
Pavements of Gold. City Life Series 6. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Urban poverty is one of the largest problems facing the world in the 21st century. Looking at Lima, Peru, this program examines the enduring magnetism of big cities and asks whether the migrants who have moved here now feel that city life is the answer to their dreams. VC 4554
Paying the Price. City Life Series 21. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 27 minutes. Paying the Price investigates the history of AIDS treatment in Africa. It details Uganda's success with a UN-sponsored program of price reduction and medical education, and South Africa's refusal to begin a national AIDS treatment program despite defeating a drug company court challenge to the government's import and manufacture of generic antiretroviral drugs. Finally, it looks at the success of smaller local programs that are bringing hope for the future to many infected Africans. VC 4569
Stop the Traffick. City Life Series 18. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Thirty years of war have left Cambodia ravaged and poverty-stricken, making it particularly vulnerable to the child labor industry. Children as young as 10 years old are trafficked into cities from rural areas to become sex workers or trafficked out to Thailand to work as beggars, domestic laborers, or laborers on construction sites. This program examines the trade and new efforts by the International Labor Organization and local groups to rescue the children and stop the traffic. VC 4566
Teotihuacán: The City of the Gods. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2001. 1 videodisk 27 minutes. A documentary investigating Teotihuacán and exploring Teotihuacán culture. Led by an archaeologist, important landmarks including the Pyramid of the Sun, Pyramid,of the Moon and Avenue of the Dead are presented along with commentary on inhabitants and their cultural practices. DVD 121
Together Against Violence. City
Life Series 4. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Bennetlands is a ghetto
community in the heart of Kingston, Jamaica, which was once a peaceful
place with a primary school, two churches, and a health clinic. In the 1980s
rival gangs began a
war over the main street, terrorizing the neighborhood. When one of the gang
leaders was shot
outside the health clinic, the community decided to change things, and local
leaders challenged the gangs to heal their differences and work together to restore
a sense of community and peace in the neighborhood. VC 4552
Waiting to Go. City Life Series 11. TVE, 2001. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. According to the United Nations, there are 375,000 Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, most of whom live in poverty. This program follows a Palestinian doctor working in the PLO-funded Haifa hospital in Burj el-Barajneh refugee camp, Beirut. She earns $200 per month and she is forbidden in any Lebanese hospital. Other refugees with degrees are allowed to pick oranges, but none are allowed to rebuild their houses. Those who can get out do, but all hope to one day return to their villages in Palestine. VC 4559
Witches Curse. PBS Home Video, 2001. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Describes the search by psychologist Linnda Caporael to find the cause of the seventeenth century Salem witch accusations which she claims to be ergot. VC 4789
Licence to Kill. Filmakers Library, 2000. 1 videocassette 45 minutes. Investigates cases of women murdered in Pakistan in the name of honor to shows the privileges perpetrators have through fundamentalist interpretations of Islam. DVD 293
The Money Lenders: The World Bank & International Monetary Fund: A Global Report. Richter Productions, 2000. 1 videocassette 86 minutes. Discusses the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and the effects of the loans given to real people in real places. Shows how the money has been used and the consequences of these loans. VC 3868
Mystery of the First Americans. Boston Video, 2000. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Account of the discovery of Kennewick Man in 1996 and subsequent conflicts with Native American groups. VC 3965
Secrets of the Stone Age. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2000. 3 videocassettes 153 minutes.[pt.1] The Wisdom of the Stones: Life in the Neolithic Age; [pt.2] Frozen in Time: The Upper Paleolithic Age;[pt.3] The Human Story: Traces of Humankind's Oldest Relatives. According to history books, civilization began with the ancient Egyptians. But in this three-part series, anthropologist Richard Rudgley argues that it began earlier. VC 3906
This Is What Democracy Looks Like. Big Noise Films, 2000. 1 videocassette 67 minutes. Film segments shsot by media activists during the 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. . VC 4759.
Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Compas de la Primavera, 1999. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Traces the history of U.S. involvement in Nicaragua and the relationship of the World Bank and IMF to this history. VC 4758
The Fate of Neanderthal Man. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1999. 2 Videocassettes 52 minutes each. Part 1: The Mammoth Hunter explores environment in which Neanderthal man lived. Part 2: The Death of Neanderthal Man explores reasons for the disappearance of Neanderthal man and possible connections to modern humans. VC 3647
Homeland. University of California, 1999. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Explores contemporary life on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota highlighting both the problems and the rich cultural benefits of reservation life. VC 4417
Homo Sapiens: A Look into a Distant Mirror. Films for the Humanities, 1999. 1 videocassette 53 minutes. Looks at forerunners of human beings through the work of various scientists. Includes prehistoric caves in southern France, human tombs in Israel, and the genealogy of Y-chromosomes. VC 4324
Latah: A Culture-specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex. Indiana University Audiovisual Center, [1999]. 1 videocassette 38 mins. Original production date is 1982. Analyzes the startle reflex as emphasized in Malaysian culture. VC 4651
Sweating For A T-Shirt. Global Exchange, 1999. 1 vidoecassette 23 minutes. This documentary examines work conditions in somw sweatshops in Honduras as an attempt to promote activism in consumer countries like the United States. Includes interviews with workers. VC 4775
The Garifuna Journey. New Day Films, 1998. 1 videocassette 47 minutes. Presents the history, language, music, dance and spirituality of Garifuna culture in Belize. VC 3943
The Iceman. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1998. 1 videocassette 97 minutes. Archaeological investigations into Stone Age culture based on 5300-year-old corpse found in the Alps. VC 4327
The Shakers: I Don't Want to be Remembered as a Chair. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1998. 1 videocassette 50 minutes. Filmed at the Shakers" last compound, the religious sect's last nine surviving members lead lives of equality, fraternity, decency, and simplicity. VC 3331
Zapatista. Big Noise Films, 1998. 1 videocassette 54 minutes. This film examines the uprising in Chiapas, Mexico and shows how a few thousand Mayan peasants transformed the political culture of Mexico. . VC 4774
Group Hunting on the Spring Ice. Documentary Educational Resources, 1997. 3 videocassettes 96 minutes. Documents the Netsilik Eskimo seal-hunting with background of family life, social life and customs, lifestyle. VC 3239
Out of Asia: New Theories on Evolution. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1997. 1 videocassette 50 minutes. Investigation into possibilities of Homo Erectus in Australia and of Java Man and the role they play in relation to African theory. VC 4325
Ajit. Filmakers Library, 1996. 1 videocassette 28 minutes. A close-up view of an eight-year-old boy who works as a domestic in a middle class Calcutta household. He is shown at his daily tasks--sweeping, cleaning, laundry, and caring for his employer's children. There is not time for school but when he is interviewed, Ajit says he is fortunate for in this household he is given ample food as wages, while in the countryside he often went hungry. VC 3110
Ancestors: In Search of Human Origins. UMD, 1996. 1 videocassette 90 minutes. Johanson recounts his latest research and tells of his discovery of "Lucy," which sparked a controversial change in our view of human origins. VC 2665
Trinkets & Beads. First Run/Icarus Films, 1996. 1 videocassette 53 minutes. Documents the lives of the Huaorani, a small tribe of Ecuadorian Indians who, after 20 years of pressure from foreign oil companies, agreed to allow oil drilling on their land. Focuses on the introduction of massive environmental pollution and cultural change, and the tribe's subsequent efforts to regain control of their lives and lands. VC 2840
Warriors of the Amazon. WGBH Educational Foundation, 1996. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Visit the Yamomamo Indians, and endangered tribe whose culture is built on communal harmony and fierce rivalries. VC 2667
Banking on Life and Debt. Richter Productions, 1995. 1 videocassette 28 minutes. This documentary will show you how millions of children are sacrificed for the sake of financial stability. The video traces the post-World War II change, which led to the current world economic order. Viewers travel to three continents for reports. VC 2889
Imagining New Worlds. Annenberg/CPB Collection, 1996. 1 videocassette 27 minutes. Examines contrasting ways of viewing the city of Cancun, Mexico and Mayan ruins as seen through the eyes of tourists, Mayan descendants, and business investors. VC 3069
At the Winter Sea-Ice Camp. Documentary Educational Resources, 1994. 4 videocassettes. Presents the traditional way of life of the Netsilik Eskimos of the Pelly Bay Region in the Canadian Arctic as it was lived before European acculturation. VC 2567
The Woodlands: The Story of the Mille Lacs Ojibwe. Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, 1994. 1 videocassette 55 minutes. Experience the history and culture of Minnesota's Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Indians. This is a firsthand account of its rich 400-year history through narration, historical footage, music, and personal interviews with tribal elders. VC 2572
Faces of Culture. PBS Adult Learning Satellite Service, 1994. 26 cassettes 30 minutes each. VC 2466 Part 10
The Human Race. Bullfrog Films, 1994. 2 videocassettes 52 minutes each. This documentary series weighs the implications of the way we live together, the way we organize societies, and our complex relationship with the environment. VC 2685
Seed and Earth. Filmakers Library, Inc., 1994. 1 videocassette 37 minutes. A Janta village in West Bengal, India during the summer of 1988 going about its daily chores. VC 3109
The Tribe That Time Forgot. Nova Productions, 1994. 1 videocassette 54 minutes. A camera crew and a Brazilian anthropologist travel deep into the Amazon basin to locate the extinct tribe, the Arara of the Jaguar People, and to discover the truth behind the headlines that the tribe reportedly killed three government mineral prospectors. During their stay, the Arara share their daily life and customs with the crew and anthropologist who find the Arara very different from their fearsome reputation. VC 2453
All University Forum on Diversity III. UMD, 1993. 1 videocassette 140 minutes. Conference on cultural diversity held within the University of Minnesota, involving all branches. Discusses getting input from minority students on how they want to be treated and on what issues are important to them. Includes panel discussions, film of Crookston students, a skit, and student discussion. VC 2920
Americas. Annenberg/CPB Collection, 1993. 10 videocassettes 57 minutes each. This intimate look at contemporary Latin America examines issues confronting the entire region by focusing on individual communities. VC 2069 Part 10.
Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. International Society for Ecology and Culture, 1993. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. A view of traditional Ladakhi culture and the change brought by tourism and development that also examines some disturbing directions taken by Western society and some thoughts on lessons the West can learn from traditional cultures. VC 3182
Artisans and Traders. Cambridge Studios Penn State University, 1993. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. The program investigates the processes that promote specialization and trade, and how these relate to social and political organization. VC 2130
Between Two Worlds: The Hmong Shaman in America. Cinesell Distribution, 1993. 1 videocassette 28 minutes. Describes the art of Shamanism and the role of the Shaman in Hmong society. Examines conflict between the ancient religion and traditions of the Hmong and Christian practice and belief. Interviews Hmong living in Chicago. VC 2148
Blue Collar and Buddha: A Documentary. Siegel Productions, 1993. 1 videocassette 57 minutes. Documents local attitudes toward Laotian refugees living in Rockford, Illinois, and raises issues related to acculturation. Interviews the "locals," Viet Nam veterans, and Laotians, in a bar, the Buddhist temple, and the workplace. Documents racial prejudice, ignorance, compassion, and understanding. VC 2149
Hisatsinom, the Ancient Ones. Educational Video Network, 1993. 1 videocassette 24 minutes. Weaving mythology, archaeology, and ethnography together, this film introduces and gives an overview of the prehistoric Anasazi culture, revered by today's Pueblo peoples of the American Southwest. VC 2246
If the Mango Tree Could Speak. New Day Film Library, 1993. 1 videocassette 58 minutes. A documentary about children, 12 to 15, and war in Guatemala and El Salvador. VC 3288
Voices of the Orishas. The Center, 1993. 1 videocassette 37 minutes. This is an ethnographic documentary, which demonstrates the survival and strength of the Yoruba cultural and religious heritage in the contemporary life of Caribbean African-Hispanics. The program was filmed in Havana among practitioners of Santeria, and documents a ritual ceremony that features dancing, singing, praying and drum beating, invoking the twenty-two Orishas, or deities of the Yoruba religion. VC 3342
Warrior Marks. Women Make Movies, 1993. 1 videocassette 54 minutes. Documentary about female genital mutilation in Africa. Includes interviews with victims, activists against female circumcision, and circumcisers. VC 2291
The Search for Neanderthal. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1993. 1 videocassette 23 minutes. By examining Neanderthal bones and reconstructing fossilized skeletal remains, scientists seek to answer whether the Neanderthal man was an abnormal modern human or an extinct ancestor. VC 2179
The Ashanti Kingdom. Films for the Humanities, 1992. 1 videocassette 14 minutes. Explains the organization of an Ashanti village, the importance of the kente garment, the naming of children, religious beliefs, traditional values and festivals, and the protocol surrounding the paramount chief. VC 2381
The Bambara Kingdom of Segu. Films for the Humanities, 1992. 1 videocassette 19 minutes. Discusses the history of the Bambara and shows the architecture of their ancient villages. Their economy has gone from a basis in the slave trade to new economic bases from which a new civilization has emerged, retaining the artistic vigor of its forebears. VC 2382
Flames in the Forest. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1992. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Since the 1950's, the Amazon Indians of eastern Ecuador have bitterly resisted the invasion of international oil companies, which, with the encouragement of the Ecuadorian government, seek to use the resource-rich region for intensive oil production. VC 2214
Follow the Rainbow. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1992. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Damming the Subarnarekha River in India's South Bihar region will have catastrophic results for the native Ho Indians. The Ho's campaign of resistance has so far led to the temporary suspension of World Bank payments for the project. VC 2213
Iceman. Films for the Humanities, 1992. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. 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. VC 1981
Ishi: The Last Yahi. University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 1992. 1 videocassette 57 minutes. Presents further research by Jed Riffe on Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yahi Native American tribe in northern California; an extension of research first presented in the book: Ishi, the last Yahi, a documentary history / edited by Robert F. Heizer and Theodora Kroeber. VC 2250
A Matter of Respect. New Day Films, 1992. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. "A documentary video about modern Tlingit respecting the past, accepting change and creating new meaning ... is about the meaning of tradition and change, finding balance, and the passage of culture and identity from one generation to the next". VC 3301
Nu Ho Ni Yeh. Documentary Educational Resources, 1992. 1 videocassette 55 minutes. Presents the efforts of the Sayisi Dene to regain their ancestral lands in Canada. VC 3240
The Priest and the Nganga: The Traditional Medicine of Douala. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Inc., 1992. 1 videocassette 27 minutes. The filmmaker and narrator is a Belgian priest who has been allowed to observe traditional healing by African ngangas, to whom people come for cures for diseases which modern medicine has not been able to cure. Beyond bacteria and viruses are evil spells, which the ngangas fight with sacrifices and other rites. VC 2383
Colliding Continents & the Age of Bronze. Coronet Film & Video, 1991. 1 videocassette 55 minutes. Shows how early European humans developed metal tools and how the Bronze Age brought a shift from agricultural to military societies. Examines the Minoan civilization of Crete and the Mycenaean civilization. VC 2016
Dead Men Talk. New Dimension Media, Inc., 1991. 1 videocassette 50 minutes. Two models of human evolution (Muli-regional Continuity Model and the Replacement or Out-of-Africa Model) are presented by researchers who use current evidence from the disciplines of paleontology and genetics to support their theories. VC 2175
Embera: The End of the Road. Films Incorporated, 1991. 1 videocassette 55 minutes. The Embera Indians of Columbia, South America are a river people; hunting, fishing and growing food. The coming of the Pan American highway through their land threatens to change their way of life. VC 4401
From the Heart of the World : The Elder Brothers' Warning. Mystic Fire Video, 1991. 1 videocassette 88 minutes. Evidence of environmental damage can be readily seen from the mountaintop home of the Kogi tribe, descendents of an ancient Tairona priesthood. This evidence has forced them out of the deliberate isolation they have maintained to speak to us as Elder Brothers of the human race, convinced that we, the Younger Brothers, will soon destroy the balance of life on Earth. They believe that the only hope is for us to change our ways, and have set out to teach us what they know about the balance of mankind, nature and the spiritual world. VC 2298
Hunters and Bombers. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1991. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. The Innu (Montagnais Indians) of Labrador are protesting low-level military flights and the playing of war games over their territory. VC 2212
In Search of Cool Ground. The Kwegu. Films Incorporated, 1991. 1 videocassette 51 minutes. Film documentary about the changes in the life of the Kwegu tribe of Ethiopia now that drought and famine are driving them into contact with the outside world. This small group of hunters and cultivators provide the Mursi with vital service. In exchange the Mursi provide security and the cattle the Kwegu need for their complicated tribal rituals. VC 4402
In Search of Cool Ground. The Migrants. Films Incorporated, 1991. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Drought has driven the Mursi to the "cool ground" of the highlands. The proximity of Berka, a market village, along with the tsetse flies decimation of the Mursi's cattle, is having profound effect on Mursi culture. VC 4403
Kawelka: Ongka's Big Moka. Films Incorporated Video, 1991. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. In Papua New Guinea, status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring them. Explores the Moka, a ceremony in which people, sometimes the whole tribe, give gifts to members of other tribes, the larger the gift, the greater the victory over the recipient. Follows Ongka as he prepares for the giving of his Moka. VC 4405
The Kayapo: Out of the Forest. Films Incorporated Video, 1991. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Documents the opposition of the Kayapo Indians of central Brazil to the construction of a hydroelectric dam at Altamira. Includes the demonstration by 600 Kayapo against the proposed dam and their success in stopping its construction. VC 4406
The Kimberley Mob. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 1991. 1 videocassette 53 minutes. Discusses how the aboriginal people of northern Australia are reclaiming uneconomic cattle stations where they used to work. Focuses on the Mount Anderson Cattle Station, which is being run by John Watson and members of his tribal group, the Kimberley Mob. VC 2211
The Last of the Cuiva. Films Incorporated Video, 1991. 1 videocassette 65 minutes. Anthropologist Bernard Arcand examines the life style of 600 remaining Cuiva Indians in Colombia and the influences and pressures on the people from outside. VC 3146
The Lau of Malaita. Films Incorporated Video, 1991. 1 videocassette 51 minutes. Documentary about the safe and disease-free life the Lau Indians have established on the South Pacific Islands. VC 4408
Masai Women. Films Incorporated, 1991. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. An ethnographic view of Masai culture and society, focusing on the preparation of young Masai girls for marriage and life in their society. Through a candid interview with an older woman, probes the feelings of Masai women about polygamy and their inability to own property. VC 4409
Medicine Fiddle: A Film. University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning, 1991. 1 videocassette 81 minutes. Shows the fiddling and dancing representative of the mixed Indian/European culture which spread westward with the French fur traders. Fiddlers and dancers share their recollections and discuss their art. Various fiddlers play numerous traditional tunes. VC 3099
The Quechua. Films
Incorporated Video, 1991. 1 videocassette 51 minutes. The Quechua, living in
an isolated part of Peru, desperately want a road to link them with the outside
world. VC 4410
Ta Dona. California Newsreel, 1991. 1 videocassette 101 minutes. Ta Dona is the story of the quest for secret knowledge by a young Bambara man. While working in a peasant village, the hero, Sidy, searches for the "seventh canari", a forgotten, secret Bambara herbal remedy used in childbirth. Faced with a scorching drought and a corrupt government, Sidy manages to save the village and rediscover the seventh canari. VC 2705
Tahtonka. Aims Media, 1991. 1 videocassette 28 minutes. An account of the Plains Indians and their buffalo culture, from the pre-horse period through the time of the mountain men, the hide hunters, and the decimation of the mighty herds. Concludes with the Ghost Dance craze and the tragic episode of Wounded Knee. VC 3264
Two Girls Go Hunting. Filmakers Library, 1991. 1 videocassette 50 minutes. The second program in a trilogy focusing on the Hamar, an isolated people of Southwestern Ethiopia. This film shows Duka and her friend, Gardi, as they prepare to marry men they have never met. The film follows the build-up to the marriages, from the all night vigil with girlfriends, to farewells when the brides are taken away at dawn to the village of their husband's family, the arrival in the villages and the preparation of the prospective brides for the ceremony by the mother-in-law. VC 2755
At the Autumn River Camp. Documentary Educational Resources, 1990. 2 videocassettes 59 minutes. Reveals the live reality of traditional Eskimo life before the European acculturation, documents the life patterns of the Netsilik Eskimo, detailing lifestyle, family, social life and customs; includes footage of men building an igloo and making a sleigh. VC 3237 Part 1
At the Caribou Crossing Place. Documentary Educational Resources, 1990. 2 videocassettes 59 minutes. Documents the seasonal inland migration as the Netsilik Eskimos of the Pelly Bay region in the Canadian Arctic hunt herds of caribou. Shows construction of skin tents, preparation of bait for fishing, setting snares for gulls. Includes a view of family life. VC 3238 Part 1
Bahia: Africa in the Americas. University of California, Extension Media Center, 1990. 1 videocassette 58 minutes. Documentary on the elements of African culture which are powerfully expressed in the food, art, dance, and most importantly, the Candomblé (Umbanda) religion of the Afro-Brazilian majority of the state of Bahía. VC 3220
Coming of Age. Films for the Humanities, 1990. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Margaret Mead, one of the foremost fieldworkers of her day, studied adolescence in Samoa. She claimed that in Samoa, it was the most enjoyable and happy time of life. VC 1755
Contact: The Yanomami Indians of Brazil. Filmakers Library, 1990. 1 videocassette 28 minutes. "Graphically depicts the devastating impact of contact with the outside world on an isolated indigenous tribe, the Yanomani Indians." VC 1865
Everything is Relatives. Films for the Humanities, 1990. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. William Rivers, who originally trained as a doctor, did work as a pioneering psychologist in the First World War. This enabled Rivers to bring a scientific approach to anthropology and set the trend for anthropologists to go and visit the cultures rather than staying at home and theorizing. VC 1759
Fieldwork. Films for the Humanities, 1990. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, along with Frank Gillen, studied Australian aborigines, who up until then had been regarded as a step in the evolutionary ladder between Neolithic man and the 'civilized', Victorian. The approach that the two men used to study the aborigines strongly influenced the way other cultures have been studied. VC 1758
Fishing at the Stone Weir. Documentary Educational Resources, 1990. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Documents the Netsilik Eskimo setting up camp by a major stream and preparing for fishing. Shows construction of fish traps, spears and other implements for catching, cleaning, and preparing fish. VC 3298
The Kazakhs of China. Films Incorporated Video, 1990. 1 videocassette 53 minutes. The nomadic, fiercely independent Kazakhs live in the mountains between Tibet and Mongolia, away from the Chinese authorities. They have adapted to communism and now enjoy what they believe to be considerable advantages over their more conventional neighbors. VC 4407
Off the Verandah. Films for the Humanities, 1990. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Bronislaw Malinowski was the anthropologist who really changed the way field studies were carried out. He worked on a remote group of Pacific islands and lived for long periods among the people he was studying and made their lives intelligible to the West. VC 1760
The Shackles of Tradition. Films for the Humanities, 1990. 1 videocassette. Profile of the German physicist who was responsible for shaping the course of American anthropology, beginning with his investigations of the relations between Eskimo migrations and the physical geography of their region. VC 1756
Strange Beliefs. Films for the Humanities, 1990. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard was the first trained anthropologist to do work in Africa, where he lived among the Azande and studied their belief in witchcraft. VC 1757
Annapurna Mahila Mandal (Bombay): An Experiment in Grassroots Development for Women. Upper Midwest Women's History Center, 1989. 1 videocassette 12 minutes. A brief look at an organization of women in Bombay that operates home-based businesses cooking for male migrant workers whose families remain in the countryside. VC 2609
Flintknapping. INTERpark, 1989. 1 videocassette 45 minutes. The process of stone tool manufacture, as practiced by prehistoric hunters, is demonstrated and explained by Dr. Bradley, an internationally renowned expert and archaeologist. VC 1869
The Hunters. Films Incorporated Video, 1989. 1 videocassette 72 minutes. In this classic documentary, the Kalahari Bushmen of Africa wage a constant war for survival against the hot arid climate and unyielding soil. 'The Hunters' focuses on four men who undertake a hunt to obtain meat for their village. The chronicle of their 13-day trek becomes part of the village's folklore, illustrating the ancient roots and continual renewal of African tribal cultures. VC 2305
Mexican Prehispanic Cultures. Educational Video, 1989. 1 videocassette 26 minutes. Examines the accomplishments, growth and decline of Mexico's early cultures: the talented Toltecs, the courageous Aztecs, and the erudite Mayas. VC 1749
Todos Santos: The Survivors. First Run/Icarus Films, 1989. 1 videocassette 58 minutes. Documents the changes wrought by guerrilla warfare and government reprisal in the Indian village of Todos Santos Cuchumatan, in the Guatemalan highlands, since the documentary of that name was made in 1979. VC 2283
Australia's Twilight of the Dreamtime. National Geographic Society, 1988. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Documentary about the environment and customs of a Northern Australian aborigine tribe and the flora and fauna of Kakadju National Park. VC 1181
Children's Magical Death. Pennsylvania State University, 1988. 1 videocassette 8 minutes. A group of young Yanomama Indian boys in Venezuela imitate a ritual performed by their fathers. They pretend to be shamans, blowing ashes into each other's noses and chanting to the spirits. VC 1337
The Harvest of the Seasons. Ambrose Video, 1988. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. The lifestyle of the Bakhtiari tribe of central Iran serves as an example of how nomads lived and waged war during the Neolithic age. VC 75
Magical Death. Pennsylvania
State University, 1988. 1 videocassette 28 minutes.
Relates the religious activities of a political leader and shaman from a village
in Venezuela to the political and social organization in a Yanomamo Indian group. VC
1338
Margaret Mead and Samoa. Brighton Video, 1988. 1 videocassette 51 minutes. Presents new evidence in the controversy generated among anthropologists by Derek Freeman's refutation of Margaret Mead's Coming of age in Samoa. Includes interviews with anthropologists, Mead's daughter, contemporary Samoan informants, and archival film. VC 1415
Mysteries of Mankind. National Geographic Society, 1988. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Traces anthropological research in human evolution, beginning with discoveries in Africa of australopithecine bones, the Leakeys' discoveries in the African Rift Valley and Olduvai Gorge, Johanson's work in Hadar, Ethiopia. Includes discussion of dating techniques such as laser dating, and the search for a common ancestor. VC 1224
Ocamo is My Town. Pennsylvania State University, 1988. 1 videocassette 22 minutes. Describes the work of one Roman Catholic priest who has attempted for 14 years to soften the impact of outside civilization on a Yanomama Indian village on the Ocamo River in Venezuela. VC 1339
The Ax Fight. Documentary Educational Resources, 1987. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. A documentary on conflict among the Yanomamo Indians of Southern Venezuela. Program includes a four-part analysis of a fight between local descent groups: an unedited record of the event, a slow-motion replay of the fight, a discussion of the kinship structure of the fight with an explanation of descent cleavages, and an edited version of the fight illustrating how strongly intellectual models influence visual perceptions. VC 1265
Depending on Heaven: The Grasslands. Icarus Films, 1987. 1 videocassette 29 minutes. Follows a nomadic Mongolian family and their herds across the spectacular grasslands of northern China. VC 2839
Desert People. CRM McGraw Hill Films, 1987. 1 videocassette 51 minutes. Depicts an average day in the lives of two families of the Western Desert in Australia, showing what a great portion of their time is spent in the search for food. VC 1094
Children of Eve. Coronet Film & Video, 1987. 1 videocassette 58 minutes. Discusses the origin of the human species and natural selection. VC 961
Communicating Across Cultures. Copeland Griggs Productions, 1987. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Describes the need to understand differences in customs, manners and social mores of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds in order to effectively communicate in the business world today. 12 cases illustrate situations of misunderstanding and suggest possible approaches and solutions. VC 1141
Ikwe. National Film Board of Canada, 1987. 1 videocassette 57 minutes. In an Ojibwa village in the Canadian Northwest in 1770, a young Ojibwa woman awakens from a terrifying dream. It is about a strange man whose presence evokes haunting images of sadness and desolation. The arrival of a young Scottish trader transforms her dream to reality. VC 1792
An Interview with Jimmy Jackson, Ojibway Medicine Man. University of Minnesota, 1987. 1 videocassette 61 minutes. Jimmy Jackson, Ojibway medicine man, responds to questions about his life, the practice of Indian medicine, and the spirit world. VC 1043
Kumekucha = From sunup. Maryknoll World Films, 1987. 1 videocassette 28 minutes. Documents the daily life of Tanzanian women as they seek to take their place in their society, as it is influenced through education and the impact of Western civilization. VC 1951
Make Prayers to the Raven. KUAC, 1987. 5 videocassettes 130 minutes. A video about the social life, beliefs, traditions and culture of the Koyukon Indians in Alaska. VC 1986
A Man Called Bee: Studying the Y¸anomamö. Documentary Educational Resources, 1987. 1 videocassette 43 minutes. A documentary on the work of cultural anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon as he collects field data among the Yanoama Indians of southern Venezuela. Designed as a companion to Chagnon's book "Studying the Y¸anomamö" published by Holt, Reinhart and Winston in 1974. VC 1266
Miles from the Border. New Day Films, 1987. 1 videocassette 15 minutes. Documentary film about the pressures faced by immigrants. 20 years after leaving a Mexican village and living in an ethnically divided community, the Aparicio family share their story, posing questions about identity, and adaptation in a multicultural society. VC 1984
Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative. University Media Resources, 1987. 1 videocassette 8 minutes. Dramatized account of the lives of several generations of Ojibway Indians in Minnesota. VC 1042
Nomads of the Rain Forest. Extension Media Center, 1987. 1 videocassette 59 minutes. An anthropological study of a Stone Age tribe, the Waorani Indians of the Amazon in Ecuador. VC 2426
Places Not our Own. National Film Board of Canada, 1987. 1 videocassette 57 minutes. Set in 1929, a Métis family struggles to maintain its dignity and spirit against the prejudice they encounter from the townspeople in the prairie town to which they have moved. No matter how they strive, they are not accepted; but Rose, the mother, will not let her spirit be crushed. VC 1794
The Wake. National Film Board of Canada, 1987. 1 videocassette 58 minutes. Set in the Canadian West in the 1980's, a Métis woman is in love with a young and well-meaning officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. All appears to be going well when, on a dark winter night on a frozen northern lake, something happens that changes both their lives, forever. VC 1795
A Clash of Cultures. WETA-TV and BBC-TV, 1986. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. This program considers the complex mixture of African, Muslum, and western cultures in the African states. It explores whether Africa can synthesize its own heritage with the legacies of Islam and the West. VC 936
A Legacy of Lifestyles. CPB Project, 1986. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. This program explores what constitutes family in African culture. It examines matrilineal, patrilineal, and polygamous traditions as well as the impact of modern cities on family ties. VC 2314
Man-Made Famine. New Internationalist, 1986. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. When a New Internationalist staff writer noticed that African food production fell despite weather conditions, he and fellow journalists went to investigate. Their conclusions show that the social custom which makes women produce 80% of the food while maintaining the house and providing child care, plus using agricultural land to produce cash crops for export, were bigger factors in African famine than the weather. VC 972
The Nature of a Continent. Annenberg/CPB Project, 1986. 1 videocassette 58 minutes. Examines Africa as the birthplace of humankind and discusses the impact of geography on African history, including the role of the Nile in the origin of civilization and the introduction of Islam to Africa through its Arabic borders. VC 2313
New Conflicts. BBC-TV, 1986. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Discusses the rise of nationalist movements, and explains how the warrior tradition of indigenous Africa, the jihad tradition of Islam, and modern guerilla warfare colored the wars for independence, civil wars and riots.
Queremos La Paz = We Want Peace: Nicaraguans Speak to North Americans. Syracuse Alternative Media Network, 1986. 1 videocassette 33 minutes. In a series of interviews Nicaraguans speak to North Americans about the Contras, the great aggression, the Sandinista government, social conditions, and the struggle for peace. VC 966
The Deserted Village. Films for the Humanities, 1985. 1 videocassette 27 minutes. Djutamen sails south on a mission for a general and the correspondence between him and his son Butamen provides a remarkably vivid slice of ancient life. A discussion of undiscovered royal tombs in the valley and clues to finding these tombs. VC 1484
Copan. Pennsylvania State University Audiovisual Service, 1985. 1 videocassette 15 minutes. Documents theories and procedures of the excavation of Copan, a major urban center of Mayan civilization. Presents analysis of the decline of the Mayan society and implications for the future. VC 814
Middle East Series. Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corp., 1984. 1 videocassette 25 minutes. Shows how the family is central in Middle Eastern society and politics. Details the historical and environmental patterns of the extended patriarchal family development and cultural norms found in the Middle East. VC 1011
Small Happiness, Women of a Chinese Village. New Day Films, 1984. 1 videocassette 58 minutes. Through interviews with women in a rural Chinese village, this program explores Chinese customs of marriage and family, the status of women, state policies on birth control, work, love and foot binding. Discusses differences between present customs and old ways. VC 888
Alpaqueros de Chimboya (Alpaca breeders of Chimboya.) Icarus Films, 1983. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Depicts the lifestyle of peasant alpaca breeders in the Peruvian highlands. Traces the cycle of the Chimboyan economy from raising and shearing of alpacas to marketing for textile production and export. VC 945
Appeals to Santiago. University of California Extension Media Center, 1983. 1 videocassette 27 minutes. Describes an eight-day Mayan Indian fiesta in Tenejapa, Mexico held in honor of one of the town's patron saints, St. James. Narration consists of the participants' own explanation of events, translated into English. VC 3283
Dead Birds: A Film. CRM/McGraw-Hill Films, 1983. 3 videocassettes 83 minutes. Describes a photographic and ethnographic study which was sponsored by the Peabody Museum from Feb. 1961 to Nov. 1963 of the Dani, a people dwelling in the Grand Valley of the Baliem, high in the mountains of West New Guinea. VC 1248 ***Video is poor quality; will soon be replaced by DVD
The Shakers. Tom Davenport Films, 1983. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. Documentary on growth and decline of Shaker communal living. Contains interviews with living members of the community, old photographs, and examples of Shaker architecture and furniture. VC 784
When the Mountains Tremble. New Yorker Video, 1983. 1 videocassette 83 minutes. A documentary describing the struggle of the Indian peasantry in Guatemala against state and foreign oppression. Uses a variety of formats--interviews, direct address, newsreels, re-inactments, video transmissions, and live footage shot at great hazard. Loosely centered on the experiences of a 23-year-old Indian woman now living in exile. VC 1584
Todos Santos Cuchumatan. First Run/Icarus Films, 1982. 1 videocassette 43 minutes. Examines everyday life in Todos Santos before the violence. Discusses the increasing importance of cash to this once self-sustaining farming community. Shows the annual harvest, the elaborate Fiesta of Todos Santos, and the mass seasonal migration out of the mountain village in search of work on the cotton plantations of Guatemala's lowlands. Illustrates the social changes in the lives of Guatemalan Indians that led to the political upheaval of the 1980's. VC 2286
Becoming American. New Day Films, 1981. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Follows a Hmong refugee family from northern Laos awaiting resettlement in a remote refugee camp in northern Thailand, from the time its members learn of their acceptance as immigrants, to the time they are settled in Seattle, Washington. VC 591
Dadi's Family. UMD Learning Resource Center, 1981. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Depiction of joint family life in India through the experiences and perceptions of Dadi, the grandmother and senior female of one family. Describes the impact of current social change on traditional customs and women's life in India. VC 208
Little Injustices: Laura Nader Looks at the Law. 1981. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Anthropologist Laura Nader compares the resolution of everyday complaints in law between that in a small Zapotec Indian village and that in the United States. Studies are based on a 10-year study of 5000 consumer complaints. She discusses the legal procedures and remedies, and comments on the problems of an impersonal law and on large corporations. VC 199
Margaret Mead, Taking Note. UMD Learning Resource Center, 1981. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. A chronicle of Margaret Mead's life through newsreel footage, films, photographs and interviews with her and her contemporaries. Discusses her career in anthropology, her activities with women, nuclear groups, youth groups, and involvement in cultural change. VC 210
One Small Step. Time Life Video, 1981. 1 videocassette 55 minutes. 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. VC 398
Settling Down. Time Life Video, 1981. 1 videocassette 55 minutes. 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. VC 400
Some Women of Marrakech. UMD Learning Resource Center, 1981. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. An examination of women in "purdah" or "hijab" (seclusion) in Morocco. Explores their lives and interests and what part religion plays in their lives. Shows a wedding and the effects of seclusion on women of Islam. VC 211
The Three Worlds of Bali. UMD Learning Resource Center, 1981. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Reflects anthropologist Stephen Lansing's theme of the three Balinese traditions: time and place, religion, and group participation, the organizing principle of all three being art. VC 207
Arranged Marriages: An Excerpt from N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman. Public Broadcasting Associates, 1980. 1 videocassette 10 minutes. Documentary of an arranged marriage in the !Kung tribe. Describes the marriage ceremony and later problems with the marriage. Includes women's customs in the tribe. VC 182
The Chaco Phenomenon. Public Broadcasting Associates, 1980. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. The story of current research in and around the Chaco Canyon site and the Salmon ruins in Arizona which is investigating especially the water control systems and the roads of early Indian inhabitants. VC 750
The Feast. National Audiovisual Center, 1980. 1 videocassette 29 minutes. Examines the first stages of alliance formation between two mutually hostile Yanomanö Indian villages in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. Describes in detail the preparations for a feast involving the inhabitants of the villages and presents scenes of chanting, dancing, and trading at the feast. VC 1262
N!ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman. Documentary Educational Resources, 1980. 1 videocassette 59 minutes. A compilation of footage of the !Kung people of Namibia from 1951 through 1978. Focuses on the changes in the life of these people as seen through the reflections of one woman, N!ai. VC 2371
Yanomama: A Multi-Disciplinary
Study. National AudioVisual Center, 1980. 1 videocassette 43 minutes.
Describes the field techniques and findings of teams from such disciplines as
human genetics, anthropology, epidemiology, dentistry, linguistics, and medicine
as they conduct a biological-anthropological study of the Yanomamo Indians in
the jungles of Venezuela and Brazil. VC 1290
Franz Boas. The Associates, 1979. 1 videocassette 60 minutes.
Studies the life and work of Boaz, the "father of American anthropology." Explores
his work with the Kwakiutl Indians of the North-West coast, Eskimos of Baffinland,
and his work in Chicago, and New York with museums. Told in his own words, interviews
with former students, scholars, family, and the Indians he worked with. VC
748
Sami Herders. Benchmark Films, 1978. 1 videocassette 28 minutes. A year in the life of the Mikkel Haette family, nomadic Lapps who herd reindeer in sub-Arctic Scandinavia. VC 2743
Crooked Beak of Heaven. Time Life Video, 1976. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Visits a potlatch and other traditional ceremonies of the Gitksan, Haida, and Kwakiutl Indians of British Columbia and the State of Washington. Examines their customs and lifestyle and shows how they perform rituals and manufacture ceremonial objects. VC 170
Man Blong Custom. Time - Life Films, 1976. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Documents sacred ceremonies of villagers in the mountains of the New Hebrides, then contrasts the life of a coastal Melanesian people in the Solomon Islands. VC 236
Bushmen of the Kalahari. National Geographic Society, 1974. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Follows a visit made by filmmaker-anthropologist John Marshall to Bushmen of the Kalahari. Shows how they are adapting to cultural change, becoming herdsmen on reservations after centuries of being unrestricted hunters and food gatherers. VC 3308
Cree Hunters of Mistassini. Documentary Educational Resources, 1974. 1 videocassette 59 minutes. Shows the conflict produced by the James Bay development scheme between a hunting culture of Cree Indians and the dominant white culture that has come to rely heavily on large-scale technology. VC 2744
Critical Incidents in Cross-Cultural Communication: International Student Adviser's Office Team. University of Minnesota Media Resources, 1974. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Four incidents, approx. 15 min. each, dealing with communication between people of different cultural backgrounds, highlighting how to deal with problems as they arise. VC 528
Critical Incidents in Cross-Cultural Communication: Japanese Team. University of Minnesota Media Resources, 1974. 1 cassette 60 minutes. Four incidents, approx. 15 minute each, dealing with communication between people of different cultural backgrounds, highlighting how to deal with problems as they arise. VC 527
In Search of Cool Ground. The Mursi trilogy, 1974-85. Films Incorporated, 1991. 1 videocassette 52 minutes. Film documentary about the changes in the life of the Mursi tribe of Ethiopia now that drought and famine are driving them into contact with the outside world. VC 4404
Kypseli: Women and Men Apart: A Divided Reality. University of California Extension Media Center, 1973. 1 videocassette 41 minutes. A film essay on the peasant society of Kipseli, a small isolated Greek village on the island of Thira. Depicts how the people of Kipseli divide time, space, material possessions, and activities according to an underlying pattern based on the separation of the sexes, and shows how this division determines the village social structure. VC 3286
Excerpts from the Interview with Paul Buffalo. UMD, 1971. 1 videocassette 18 minutes. Five excerpts from Prof. Tim Roufs interviews with Paul Buffalo, a 70-year old Ojibwa Indian who discusses his early life, logging, ceremonies, ricing, signs and portents, Indian stories and ceremonial songs. VC 266B
Interview with Paul Buffalo. UMD, 1971. 1 videocassette 60 minutes. Prof. Tim Roufs interviews Paul Buffalo, a 70-year old Ojibwa Indian who discusses his early life, logging, ceremonies, ricing, signs and portents, Indian stories and ceremonial songs. VC 266
Married Life. Time-Life Multimedia, 1971. 1 videocassette 33 minutes. Compares five different marriages in five different places. Shows a wife with three husbands in the Himalayas, a couple in an affluent English community, a man with three wives in New Guinea, a man with two wives in Botswana, and a young couple in Lancashire. VC 501
The Nuer: A Film. CRM/McGraw-Hill Films, 1971. 2 videocassettes 75 minutes. Portrays the Nuer, Nilotic herdsmen of the Nile basin. Shows how their daily lives revolve about their cattle, and depicts the psychological bonds between them. Includes extensive use of Nuer music and poetry. VC 3236
Tepoztlan. Phoenix/BFA, 1970. 1 videocassette 30 minutes. The traditional activities of the residents of Tepoztlan are depicted: cultivation of maize, religious ceremonies, and annual fiestas. VC 3248
Snaketown: Early Indian Farmers Conquer the Arizona Desert. University of California Extension Media Center, 1969. 1 videocassette 40 minutes. Uses live action, aerial perspectives, and artists' recreations to explore the archeological excavation of Snaketown, a Hohokam Indian farming village in the Arizona desert. VC 3285
To Find Our Life: The Peyote
Hunt of the Huicholis of Mexico. University of California at Los Angeles,
1969. 1 videocassette 61 minutes. Follows a group of Huichol Indians on their
ritual yearly journey to obtain peyote in the high desert country. Show initiation
of novices, curing ceremony, "hunting" of peyote with bow and
arrow, communal peyote-eating and subsequent trance. VC 3324
Woman of Chamula. Hartley Productions, 1969. 1 videocassette 14 minutes. Shows the life of a Mexican Indian family in Chiapas where the Indians live in much the same way as did their Mayan ancestors a thousand years ago. Describes the mother of the family and her activities in the home. VC 128
The Beautiful Tree, Chishkale. University of California Extension Media Center, 1964. 1 videocassette 20 minutes. Explains that in California the southwestern Pomo Indian called the tan oak Chishkale; points out that the nuts of this tree were the single most important staple food in the culture area. Reconstructs cooking and processing methods used in making acorn bread in pre-contact times and demonstrates methods in use today. VC 259
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