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VIDEOS
(Updated 2/9/2009)
Approximate Length
Title
500 Dunam on the Moon DVD, VHS
47:00
10,000 BC
109:00
DVD
African Market Women Series: VHS (all three on one)
From the Shore
DVD
20:00
Where Credit is Due
DVD
25:00
Fair Trade
DVD
25:00
Description: Three short vignettes examining women entering “the market”.
First two in Kenya, third in Tanzania. (vb-c)
Age, Common Interest and Stratification VHS
30:00
All Under Heaven: Life in a Chinese Village VHS 60:00
America’s Choice: LIBERTY or Sustainable DVD
Development: The Summit at Camp David (Discs 1,2,3)
Description: “In this incisive, compelling production you will be refreshed with the ideals and
institutions of liberty and informed how the Sustainable Development program will eliminate
private property, indoctrinate children, and destroy liberty in America and throughout the
world.”
America’s Stone Age Explorers
DVD
60:00
Description: “Who were the first Americans and where did they come from?” Different solutions
offered based on archaeological evidence.
Amish, The: How They Survive
DVD
49:00
Description: Filmed in a large Amish community in Ohio. Explores effects of rapid growth and
economic pressures on the community and the people who, “as a result of creative
disengagement with the culture around them, thrive.”
Anthropologists at Work DVD, VHS
36:00
Description: Relatively new look at anthropology’s four fields focusing particularly on the work
of applied anthropologists. (vb-c)
Anthropology on Trial DVD, VHS
56:00
Description: Focus on Papua New Guinea. Examines issues of anthropology, representation
and (neo)colonialism highlighting issues of objectification. Calls for more dialogue,
responsibility, and non-West doing anthropology of the West: example of New Guinean studying
Oakland, CA. Critique of Margaret Mead. Insiders/Outsiders, informants, Andrew Strathern,
Laura Nader. (gg)
Anthropology: Real People, Real Careers DVD
42:00
Description: This DVD addresses the perennial question, “What exactly does an applied
anthropologist do?” Designed for use in introductory anthropology courses, the DVD provides
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information and interviews with individuals working in ten different fields in applied anthropology. The DVD
is designed to be played in its entirety or by chapter. www.aaanet.org
Arab and Jew
VHS
Archaeology Abroad:
CD
Description: The Guide to Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities Outside the UK. (Spring
2006)
At the Edge of Conquest:
DVD, VHS
28:00
The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai
Description: Looks at the situation of the Waiapi Indians, a small, isolated tribe that came in
contact with the outside world in the late 1970's. Sympathetic to the natives.
Australia Dreamtime:
DVD
26:00
Description: The legends, ceremonies, songs, dances, sacred beliefs, and aspects of everyday life
of Australia’s Aboriginal Anangu and Tiwi tribes are explored.
Ax Fight DVD, interactive CD
35:00
Description: Classic footage of Yanamamo ax fight in three parts. First is unedited version of
fight as occurred, second includes narration of who’s who and why fighting, third part looks at
genealogies of participants and relationships between villages. (vb-c)
Ben’s Mill (Odyssey) VHS
and The Women of Marrakech (Odyssey)
60:00/60:00
Beyond Ethnography: Corporate and Design Anthropology DVD 25:00
Description: The DVD is the second of DVDs on careers in anthropology produced by
Northern Arizona University and packaged and distributed by the AAA. The first DVD,
Anthropology, Real People, Real Careers addresses the perennial question, “What exactly
does an applied anthropologist do?” and provides information and interviews with
individuals working in ten different fields in applied anthropology.
Bitter Melons (2 VHS copies) DVD
30:00
Description: An ethnographic portrait of the Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari Desert, structured around
their music, both traditional songs (animal songs, ostrich courting dance) and compositions by
Uxkwane (sp?), a member of the small band that is the focus of the film. Produced by John
Marshall. (ja)
Boas
VHS
Description: A biography of Franz Boas, noting his contribution to fighting against racism, his
work with George Hunt among the Kwakiutl, his experiments with ethnographic film, and other
topics. (ja)
Bruderhof (Life Together: The Hungarian Bruderhof) VHS 22:00
Description: A religious community founded in Germany in the inter-war period, persecuted by
Hitler, transplanted to Paraguay, England, and later the United States, the Bruderhof today
number over a thousand members in several communities in the U.S., where this film was made.
It is made by the community and presents the group in a favorable light. (ja)
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Cahokia Mounds: Ancient Metropolis VHS 60:00
Description: “Ancient mounds stand as sentinels of the past- a lost civilization. But a thousand
years ago they stood at the heart of a great Native American city…The reasons for the decline of
Cahokia are not clear…”
Caveman
DVD
92:00
Description: Ringo Starr, Barbara Bach, Dennis Quaid and Shelly Long band together in a
hilarious love story for the ages..the stone ages!
Celebration of Light - Waterford Crystal (2 DVD, 2 VHS) 25:00
Description: Glass technology, blowing, molding, cut-glass and engraving. Intended as
advertising film, excellent technology info, but also shows intentional infusion of meaning into
artifacts. (jw)
Chaco Canyon (Odyssey) DVD, VHS
60:00
Description: Good overview of Chaco Canyon SW US archaeology. Focus on current theories
at time (irrigation, outlier pueblos, trade and political relations), now slightly out of date, but
good. Features a couple famous SW archaeologists - G. Vivian, F.H. Ellis. (jw)
China in Revolution — 1911-1949 VHS
110:00
Part I (56:00), Part II (54:00)
Description: Focus on imperialists, warlords, nationalists and communists — especially rise of
Mao. Excellent footage, photos, interviews. Some political economy (ideology, "peasantariat"),
modernization, gender roles. (gg)
Clan of the Cave Bear DVD
98:00
Description: Screen version of Jean M. Auel’s bestseller. Separated from her Cro-Magnon
people by a calamitous earthquake, Ayla lives with a less-developed, male-dominated
Neanderthal clan. She’s different in appearance, in resourcefulness, in her uncommon defiance
of social taboos. And from those differences arise conflicts that underscore the Cro-Magnons’
evolutionary ascendancy and the Neanderthal’s mysterious disappearance from our world. (jw)
Classic Maria Martinez DVD
Cows of Dolo Ken Paye, The VHS
25:00
Description: Looks at relationships between chiefs and villagers in a Liberian village when one
of the villagers injures one of the chief’s calves. Focus on dispute settlement and political
structure. (vb-c)
Culture Change VHS
30:00
Cyprus from the Stone Age to the Romans VHS 56:00
Description: -Provides an overview of Cypriot archaeology (kk)
Cyprus Handycrafts VHS
Description: At various times of the island’s history, Cyprus held the first position in silk
weaving and in the creation of gold and silver ornaments. Nowadays only a small number of
craftsmen continue this traditional art.
Dadi's Family DVD, VHS
58:00
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Description: Northern India, Dadi is a grandmother of extended family; Women speak of tensions, loneliness,
being outsiders, husbands’ expectations; Changes in village threaten family stability
Daughters of the Anasazi DVD, VHS
28:00
Description: Modern Acoma ceramic manufacture by Lucy Lewis and her daughters. Good for
basic SW ceramic technology, ethnoarchaeology. (jw)
Dead Birds DVD, VHS
83:00
Part 1 (28:00), Part 2 (30:00), Part 3 (25:00)
Description: New Guinea tribesmen. Good scenes village life, agriculture, funerals, crafts, but
focus is on warfare and society. A classic, superb. (jw)
Desert People DVD, VHS
50:00
Description: Australian aborigines, subsistence, black and white film (bm)
Dream Lovers VHS
60:00
Eegah
90:00
DVD
Emerald Forest, The
VHS
113:00
Description: An engineer helping civilization conquer the world’s last savage frontier, the
Amazon. His son disappears at the jungle’s edge. Engineer returns year after year looking for
his son and after ten years finds his son who is now a warrior from a different world.
Eskimo: Fight for Life, The DVD, VHS
51:00
Evolution and Human Equality VHS
42:00
Family VHS
30:00
Description: Black and white and in poor condition. Day in the life of white (upper?) middleclass American family, shot in the home. Gender roles, physical affection, happy family 1970s.
(gg)
Fast Runner, The
DVD
161:00
Description: When a small, nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman, the curse is
still felt years later. Atanarjuat falls in love with Atuat, a woman already promised to the son of
the clan’s leader. In a fight, she is won by Atanarjuat causing vengeful clan leader Oki to plot to
attack Atanarjuat and his brother in their sleep. Atanarjuat manages to escape and sets off
running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure to survive in the brutal wilderness.
His journey ends when he returns, stronger and wiser, to reclaim his life and stop the curse that
has divided his people. Set among the Inuit people of the artic, with English subtitles.
Feminine Breeze: Arts & Freedom in Iran DVD 37:00
Description: An independent documentary focusing on how Iranian women artists uses their
artistic medium for autonomy and self-expression in a society dominated by political Islam.
Interviews with six women.
Fieldwork
VHS
52:00
Description: Sir Baldwin Spencer, Australia, racism 1880s, early ethnography (bm)
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First Contact VHS
54:00
Description: In 1930, the Leahy brothers penetrated the interior of New Guinea in search of
gold. They captured on film their unexpected confrontation with thousands of stone age people
who had no concept of human life beyond their valleys.
Follow the Dirt Road DVD, VHS
53:00
Description: A survey of contemporary communitarianism in the United States, focusing on
reasons for living in intentional community, what social and economic problems communities
face, the goals and aspirations of members. Extensive interview material with residents of a
dozen or so current communities, mostly on the "counter-cultural" side of the spectrum. (ja)
Food Domestication and the Emergence of Cities DVD
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds
DVD
80:00
Description: Brings sharp clarity to a complicated history, while providing disturbing insight
into immigration practices and U.S. foreign policy.
Hadza: Food Quest, The 1 DVD, 2 VHS
45:00
Description: James Woodburn's film about the general way of life of this hunting and gathering
society of Tanzania. B&W. (ja)
Hayatimin Kadinisin
DVD
Herders of Mongun-Taiga (Disappearing World Series) VHS
Description: Provides a snapshot of life of the Tuvans of Mongolia – a nomadic pastoralist group
under Soviet control living at 6,000 ft above sea level. Provides a sense of the cultural ecology
of the group, changes that have taken place under Soviet control, the maintenance of shamastic
beliefs, and the well known “throat singing”. Filmmakers admit to knowing little about many of
the cultural practices.
Hispanic Culture Series: People of the Caribbean VHS
Hutterites, The
DVD, VHS
25:00
Description: By most objective criteria, the Hutterites are among the most successful intentional
communities in the world. Their roots go back to the Anabaptist movement in Central Europe in
the 16th century. They faced persecution in various locations in Europe, and on two occasions
abandoned community of goods, which is a cornerstone of their biblical faith. But they came
back to communal life both times. In the 1870s, a couple of hundred Hutterites immigrated to
the United States and established three colonies. Today, they number over 30,000 and live in
over 400 colonies. The film depicts their way of life, emphasizing religion, schools, economic
activities. (ja)
IceMan DVD
101:00
Description: Suspenseful drama about a team of Arctic researchers who find a
40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life.
Ice Mummies (all 3 on one) VHS
1) Inka DVD
2) Siberian DVD
180:00
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3) Iceman DVD, VHS
Incas, The (Odyssey) DVD, 2 VHS
Description: Archaeological methods, archaic state organization. Looks at Inca archaeology and
ethnohistory, including road systems, quipu, and administration. (kk)
(Independent Grocer in Iowa, The)
Ishi, The Last Yahi VHS
57:00
Description: Story of Ishi, “the last wild Indian in North America”, 1911. Look at indigenous life
in America before the arrival of Europeans. (vb-c)
Jane Goodall VHS
Karuk Indians (all on one) VHS
1) Land Rights
2) Craft Revival
3) Ishi: Last Yahi
Kawelka Of Papua, New Guinea: Ongka’s Big Moka (Disappearing World Series)
Description: In highland society, status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring
them, and a moka is the single-most important ceremony. Ongka’s motives in planning his big
moka are to gain influence over rivals and to win a sort of immortality for himself and his tribe
in a changing world. But things don’t go as planne, and Ongka’s painstaking preparations are
threatened by accusations of sorcery and even the threat of war.
Kayapo: Indians of the Brazilian Rainforest (Disappearing World Series)
Description: The film contrasts the reactions of two groups of Kayapo to outside influences. The
Kapot have opposed contact and resisted both non-indigenous Brazilian settlers and gold miners.
They are shown undertaking a hunting trek and preparing for a special mining ritual. The
Gorotire, by contrast, were invaded by gold miners but were eventually able to force the miners
to pay commission, amounting to about two million dollars per year. They are now learning to
cope with the money, both with the problems it brings and the power it gives.
King Kong DVD
2.35:1
Kirghiz of Afghanistan, The DVD, VHS
60:00
Description: -Looks at the traditional lifestyles of the nomadic Khirghiz and the effects of their
displacement from Afganistan to Pakistan. (kk)
Kurtlar Vadisi Irak
DVD
Kypseli: Men and Woman Apart: A Divided Reality DVD, VHS 37:00
Description: Looks at gender roles in a Greek village, Thera. Shows the different “worlds” of
males and females. Some discussion of issues of pure vs polluted. (vb-c)
Life & Death of the Classic Lillooet Culture VHS
44:55
Life in an Italian Hill Town VHS
30:00
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Description: An overview of everyday life in a hilltown in a remote part of Italy; Shows
how the people of Gioviano strive to maintain their traditions while living in the modern world.
(vb-c)
Lucy and the First Family VHS
Magical Death
29:00
Description: A film by Napoleon Chagnon about the Yanomamo, focusing on the activities of a
famous shaman, Dedihaewa, as he attempts to cure those with illness and cast magical spells on
enemies in distant villages. (ja)
Mapping of the World III: Part IV Empire! (India) VHS
Maps & The Columbian Encounter VHS
51:00
Description: Based on a special exhibit that was made at the time of the Columbus
quincentenary, this fast-paced and information-packed film deals with the reflections of crosscultural encounters from both standpoints through the maps made by Europeans and native
peoples. (ja)
Margaret Mead and Samoa
51:00
Description: Critique of Mead’s fieldwork, ethnography, culture change. (bm)
Margaret Mead: Taking Note VHS
Description: Biography of Mead’s life (bm)
59:00
Maria Martinez: Native American Pottery Maker of San Ildelfonso DVD 47:00
Masters of Metal, The (Odyssey)
60:00
Description: Archaeology of E Europe, early bronze age and metal technology (jw)
Maya Lords of the Jungle (PBS) DVD, VHS
60:00
Description: Overview of Maya--a bit dated, but not too bad. (kk)
Mayordomia: Ritual, Gender, and Cultural 2 VHS
Identity in a Zapotec Community
20:00
Millennium Series
Description: The entire series uses other cultures to criticize our own, somewhat heavy handed;
Individual descriptions follow (bm)
Episodes 1&2: The Shock of the Other - Dilemmas of pursuing an autonomous tribe in the Amazon,
Strange Relations - Re-enactments of kinship dilemmas in 3 societies VHS
Episodes 3&4: Mistaken Identity - Identity construction in 3 societies, An Ecology of Mind VHS
Episodes 5&6: The Art of Living - Art as a way of life accessible to all (vs elitist),
Touching the Timeless VHS
Episodes 7&8: A Poor Man Shames us All - Capitalist vs reciprocal values,
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Inventing Reality - Shamanistic/emotional healing in Mexico and Canada; Aust. Aboriginal dreamtime VHS
Episodes 9&10: The Tightrope of Power, At The Threshold VHS
Monkey in the Mirror VHS
50:00
Description: Recent video examining similarities between human and nonhuman primates.
Presents footage of several species (aye-aye, baboons, Japanese macaques,
chimps, bonobos) and looks at several topics — relationships, stress, intelligence, selfawareness. (vb-c)
Mystery of Stonehenge VHS
51:00
Myths and the Moundbuilders 2 VHS, 1 DVD 60:00
Description: Overview of "moundbuilders"in E US archaeology, with emphasis on historical
changes of understanding. Features Struever, Buikstra excavating mound burials, at the time new
ideas about beginning native small seed agriculture. (jw)
N!ai - !Kung Woman DVD, VHS
60:00
Description: Follows the life of a !Kung woman through footage over an approximate 20 year
span. Shows how life changed for a group of traditional hunter-gatherers. (vb-c)
Navajo, The
VHS
30:00
Description: 1982; Beginning in the dawn beauty of their homeland and ending with a sheep
drive at sunset, this story of Navajo families is cast against the painful events of their history and
the vital role of women in religious, social, and cultural life. (vb-c)
Navigators of Satawal, The
VHS
Nuer, The
Part I DVD, VHS
Part II DVD, VHS
39:00
35:00
Number Our Days
VHS
29:00
Description: Ethnography, Jewish elderly community center in California, 1976, Barbra
Myerhoff (bm)
Observer Observed: Margaret Mead VHS
Off the Veranda: Bronislaw Malinowski VHS
52:00
(Strangers Abroad Series)
Description: Malinowski, participant-observation, footage of Trobriand Islanders, 1916 & at
time film was made (bm)
Old Pyramid and other Pyramid Programs, The VHS
Description: Looks at attempts to replicate the construction of the Egyptian pyramids.(kk)
On the Cowboy Trail (Odyssey) 2 VHS
59:00
Description: 1981; Looks at current cowboy culture in southeastern Montana (vb-c)
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One Million Years B.C. DVD
91:00
Description: Vivid view of prehistoric life with John Richardson and Raquel Welch, in the role
that made her a major star. Stunning primeval imagery created by pioneering special effects
wizard Ray Harryhausen.
Other People’s Garbage DVD, VHS
59:00
Description: 1980; Three vignettes, each approx. 20min in length, focusing in the work and
methodology of archaeologists. First is of a mining town in CA, second is of slave quarters on a
GA plantation, and third is in downtown Boston. First two focus on historical archaeology. (vbc)
Our Honor and His Glory:
DVD, VHS 28:00
Honor Killings in the Palestinian Zone
Description: In some Palestinian villages, honor is deemed of such importance that a father, a
brother, or a cousin is entitled to kill a woman, often a mere girl, if her morals are suspect.
Palestinians refuse to admit that women are killed for these reasons, and human rights
organizations remain silent. This revealing film brings to light a crime against women that is
little know in the outside world.
Out of the Past
DVD, VHS
110:00
New Worlds (53:00)
The Hearth (57:00)
Description: Archaeological approach to Meso-America (especially the Maya), with basically a
unilineal cultural evolutionist orientation. Discussion of modes of production and growth of
social stratification. Use of comparison and analogy. Some physical anthro, epigraphy. In
Hearth, more discussion of religion, lineage etc. (gg)
Painter of Bishop Hill VHS
Description: The paintings of Olaf Krans help to tell the story of Bishop Hill, the most
remarkable Swedish cultural monument outside Scandinavia.
Pigmies (Kevin Duffy)
DVD, 2 VHS
57:00
Description: Children of the Forest. Examines traditional lifestyle of Mbuti pygmies. (vb-c)
POPOL VUH: The Creation Myth of the Maya DVD, VHS
Description: An animated dramatization of a Mayan myth. (ja)
Potters of Mata Ortiz, The VHS
47:00
Description: Though originally inspired by the numerous potsherds from the Casas Grandes
Culture which flourished in the region hundreds of years ago, Juan Quezada and the other potters
of Mata Ortiz, now a major pottery-producing center in northern Mexico, have created a ceramic
tradition of their own.
Power of Myth, The
Program 1 - The Heros's Adventure (60:00) VHS
Program 2 - The Message of the Myth (60:00) VHS
Program 3 - The First Storytellers (60:00) VHS
Program 4 - Sacrifice and Bliss (60:00) VHS
Program 5 - Love and the Goddess (60:00) VHS
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Program 6 - Masks of Eternity (60:00) VHS
Description: Joseph Campbell interviewed by Bill Moyers about his life's work. (ja)
Price of Change, The VHS
26:00
Description: -Three examples of ways that modernization have affected Egyptian women. (kk)
Quest for Fire
VHS DVD
100:00
Description: Primitive tribes clash in desperate struggle for survival.
Real West, The
VHS
Final Clash: Wounded Knee
Crazy Horse
45:00/45:00
Rolex Award (1) and Lessons from the Past (2) VHS
25:00
Rugby Colony
VHS
15:00
Description: A secular cooperative community on the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee,
founded in 1880 by Thomas Hughes, an English author and social reformer. The community
struggled against various forms of adversity and never achieved the success its founder hoped
for. (ja)
Sacred Trances in Bali & Java VHS
The Hartley Film Foundation
30:00
Saudi Arabia I and II VHS
"The Kingdom" "The Race with Time"
120:00
Saudi Arabia III
VHS
"Oil Money Politics"
60:00
Secrets of Lost Empires (Nova)
60:00 (each)
Description: Five films of experiments in ancient building — see below (jw)
Colosseum - Discusses and experiments with various ways the huge open spaces of arenas could
have been roofed in antiquity VHS
Inca - Experiments in Peru with building techniques of ancient Inca; moving and closely shaping
large stones, building a grass bridge. Good for variety of technologies shown, crackpot theory
debunked. VHS
Obelisk - Experiments with various ways of moving and raising Egyptian obelisks. Same
argumentative team as Pyramid, particularly good for use of models, and active participation of
local workers in designing experiments, and for variety of attempts, but never really finish the
job. VHS
Stonehenge - Experimental construction of Stonehenge-type megalithic structures. VHS
Pyramid - The best of the series. A small pyramid is constructed to test various means of
moving, shaping, and raising the stones. Amusingly argumentative team of archaeologists and
stone masons, meeting other experts and a crackpot. VHS
Seeking the First Americans (Odyssey) DVD, VHS
Selvi Boylum Al Yazmalim
60:00
DVD
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Sentinals of Silence
18:00
Description: This film presents spectacular views of seven of the most important archaeological
sites in Mexico: Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Mitla, Tulum, Palenque, Chichen Itza and Uxmal.
Shape of the World, The - Staking a Claim
Program 1 – Heaven and Earth VHS
55:00
Program 2 - Secrets of the Sea VHS
55:00
Program 3 - Staking a Claim VHS
55:00
Program 4 – Caracol: Lost Maya City VHS 55:00
Description: Early European explorations and colonial enterprises in the New World and the Old
World. The series covers various aspects of the exploration and mapping of different parts of the
world during the period 1500-1900. (ja)
Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village VHS
60:00
Description: China, peasants, gender relations, marriage practices (bm)
Spirit of Crazy Horse, The
VHS
60:00
Description: 1990; Reveals the modern Sioux struggle to regain their heritage and how places
like Wounded Knee became sites for a fight that continues still; Explores the militant
confrontations of the 1960's and 1970's as the result of 100 years of confinement on Indian
reservations. (vb-c)
Spirit Possession of Alejandro Mumani, The VHS
27:00
Description: Alejandro is a poor Quechua peasant in the Andes who believes he has been visited
by malevolent spirits and possessed. The film portrays the varied reactions of his family
members to his plight. (ja)
Strange Beliefs: Evans-Pritchard
VHS
52:00
(Strangers Abroad Series)
Description: Evans-Pritchard, ethnography (bm)
Subsistence Systems
DVD
Survey of the Primates
VHS
36:00
Description: Rather dated look at prosimians, New World, Old World, and apes.(vb-c)
Three Ages
DVD
Three Worlds of Bali, The (Odyssey) VHS
59:00
Description: Culture change, cultural ecology, religion; Arts permeate every aspect of life;
Cosmology and maintaining balance between world of demons, humans, and gods (bm)
Through All Time:
Part I: Traditional Small Towns VHS
28:00
Part II: Pleasure Domes and Money Mills VHS 28:00
Times of Harvey Milk, The VHS
88:00
Description: Powerful documentary re first openly gay elected public official who was
murdered. Based in San Francisco. Won Academy award. (gg)
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To Taste a Hundred Herbs: Gods, Ancestors and
Medicine in a Chinese Village
VHS 60:00
Tomb Raiders: Robbing the Dead (History Channel)VHS 100:00
Trobriand Cricket: An Ingenious Response
VHS 54:00
to Colonialism
Description: One of the world's best-known ethnographic films. This classic documentary
depicts the many modifications made by Trobriand Islands, in Papua New Guinea, to the
traditional British game of cricket. It demonstrates how the islanders have changed the game
into an outlet for tribal rivalry, mock warfare, community inter-change, sexual innuendo, and an
afternoon of riotous fun.
Veiled Revolution, A
VHS 26:30
Description: -Shows the opinions of a number of modern Egyptian women on veiling and
discusses why they have chosen to don traditional garb or to wear Western style clothes. (kk)
Walk to Beautiful, A
DVD 54:00
Description: A difficult journey that begins in loneliness and shame for thousands of
Ethiopian women ends in a productive new life and hope for the future.
We Came From Monkeys (song) CD
Where the Spirit Lives
3 VHS 97:00
Description: 1989; Drama, Native Americans (bm)
White Man's Country
VHS 52:00
Description: Combines period photographs and contemporary location footage with the
testimony of African and European witnesses to examine both sides of Europe’s “civilizing
mission” in Africa.
White Shamans & Plastic Medicine Men
VHS 25:30
Description: Exposes the popularization and commercialization of Native American spiritual
traditions.
Williamsburg
VHS 36:00
The Story of A Patriot: A New Democracy is Born
Description: You'll gain a deeper appreciation of our American Heritage as you see the events
leading up to the Revolutionary War as seen through the eyes of John Fry. (ga)
With These Hands
VHS 33:00
Description: Three women from Kenya, Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso tell of their struggle to
feed their families. Insights into women’s existence and how they are challenging traditional
male authority. (vb-c)
Women in Tanzania
Women of Marrakech, The (Odyssey)
VHS 28:00
DVD, 3 VHS (also see “Ben’s Mill” entry)
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Description: Gender relations, purdah, Islam (bm)
Yacoubian Building, The
DVD 2:45:00
Description: An eye-catching construction, the Yacoubian Building in Cairo was long regarded
as the last word in comfort and elegance. Nowadays the veneer has cracked and the shine has
dulled to reveal the truth underneath the façade. Through interwoven stories of a number of the
residents, the film paints a portrait of corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality,
and drugs in central Cairo and creates a vibrant but socially critical picture of contemporary
Egypt.
Yanomamo (Multidisciplinary Study)
DVD 43:00
Description: A film by Timoth Asch and Napoleon Chagnon about the Yanomamo, dealing with
their general way of life and then the multidisciplinary study team that visits them (ethnographer,
doctor, dentist, geneticist, filmmaker) to document their way of life and prevent an outbreak of
infectious disease. Although not stated in the film, the study project was funded by the Atomic
Energy Commission to determine the effects of atmospheric atomic radiation on a remote tribal
culture, for comparison with studies of the population of Japan. (ja)
Zengbu after Mao
VHS
27:00
Description: Chinese rural village of 5000 since death of Mao. Socialism, capitalism,
"enterprise zones." Some reference to export, family planning, religion, globalization. Jack
Potter et al. (gg)
Missing:
Arab & Jew
Hopi, The
Description: 1982. Intimate scenes of family life, work, and colorful seasonal rituals show how
the Hopis pass on the communal values and survival skill that have kept their culture alive for
centuries. (vb-c)
Maya Deren: Divine Horsemen
Description: A classic film made by artist Maya Deren about vodoun in Hait. Ethnographically
sound, but filmed artistically and with the use of music as dramatic backdrop. (ja)
Old Pyramid and other Pyramid Programs, The
Description: Looks at attempts to replicate the construction of the Egyptian pyramids.
Zenith
57:00
Description: A film which elevates the plight of the American farmer to one of profound and
universal themes, Zenith looks at the way one small Midwestern farm town copes in the face of
its dying agricultural economy. Determined to hold fast to their faith, their community and their
sense of humor, the locals from Zenith, Kansas share how their involvement in the Great Plains
Easter Passion Play has kept the town united and inspired.