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UNLV LIBRARY (The) Africans. MEDIA RESOURCES CATALOG PBS (1987) ANTHROPOLOGY 1. The Nature of a Continent: examines Summer 2011 Africa as the birthplace of human kind and discusses the impact of geography on A-OK? African history. Bullfrog Films (2000) 2. A Legacy of Lifestyles: explores how Part 26 of a series on how the African contemporary lifestyles are globalized world economy affects ordinary influenced by indigenous, Islamic and people. In underdeveloped countries Western factors. children with Vitamin A deficiency run the 3. New Gods: examines the factors that risk of dying from common childhood influence religion in Africa. illnesses. The cost of ensuring all children 4. Tools of Exploitation: contrasts the receive enough Vitamin A is small, but impact of the West on Africa and the impact improves children's chances of survival by of Africa on the development of the West. 25%. This episode looks at Vitamin A Looks at the manner in which Africa's distribution programs in Ghana, Uganda, human and natural resources have been India and Guatemala. exploited. Video Cassette (24 min.) 5. New Conflicts: explores the tensions RJ399 V57 A2 2000 inherent in the juxtaposition of the three heritages. Africa. 6. In Search of Stability: studies several National Geographic Video (2001) means of governing and new social orders. Presents Africa through the eyes of its 7. A Garden of Eden in Decay? people, including the personal stories of identifies the problems of a continent that those who shape its future. produces what it does not consume and 1. Savanna homecoming ; Desert consumes what it does not produce. odyssey 8. A Clash of Cultures: shows the 2. Voices of the forest ; Mountains of coexistence of many African traditions and faith modern life and the conflicts and 3. Love in the Sahel ; Restless waters compromises that emerge from the mixing of 4. Leopards of Zanzibar ; Southern cultures. treasures 9. Global Africa: illustrates African 5. The making of Africa contributions to contemporary culture and 5 videocassettes (ca. 540 min.) examines the continuing influence of the DT12.25 .A37 2001 1-5 superpowers on the affairs of the continent. 9 Video Cassettes (1 hr. ea.) African Primates : Images From the Field. Guide (72 p.) Documentary Educational Resources DT 14 A572 pt. 1-9 [distributor] (1994) Discusses both forest-dwelling and open country baboons, and examines a range of social and maintenance behaviors. The particular focus is on various types of relations male baboons have with others in the group, including female friends, consortships, infant care, group protection and interspecies interactions. Also addresses some of the concerns in primate- human conflicts over resources that have developed since humans now utilize much of the baboon range. 1 Video Cassette (24 min.) QL737.P93 A372 1994 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. ANTHROPOLOGY 2 Aghueghniighmi - At the Time of American Indian: A Sioux Shaman. Whaling. Big Sur (1970) Documentary Educational Resources Henderson speaks about Black Elk, a (2005) Sioux Shaman, and his "Seven Secret Rites "Gambell, Alaska, is an Eskimo of the Soul," and then relates this to the village of 400 people located on St. case history of one of his patients in Jungian Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, 200 analysis. miles from the mainland and 45 miles from Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) the Siberian Coast. The film was made in E 99 S5 H4 April, 1974 during the Island's whaling season. The people of Gambell decided (The) American Indian and the Jungian what should be presented in this film, to Orientation. produce a record of life in the community Big Sur (1972) from the perspective of its own people."-- American Indian Imagery can be opening frames. understood through Jung's" Archetypal 1 videodisc (39 min.) Images." E99.E7 A817 2005 Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) E 77 H45 Aging. McGraw Hill (197?) American Indian Medicine. See summary in Gerontology section. Big Sur (1972) Video Cassette (25 min.) The lecturer, Rolling Thunder, is a HV 1451 A44 Western Shoshone Medicine Man. Cassette (l hr.) Aging: Exploring the Myths. E 98 M4 R6 National Public Radio (1979) Professional and lay persons explore America's Indian Heritage: Rediscovering stereotyping the elderly, their growing Columbus [Ohio]. political power, how other countries treat Films for the Humanities (198?) their elderly, retirement, family roles, and See summary in Ethnic Studies sex. section. Cassette Video Cassette (56 min.) HQ 1064 U5 A6333 E 77.94 R63 Aging in Japan: When Traditional Mechanisms Vanish. Films for the Humanities See summary in Gerontology section. Video Cassette (45 min.) HV 1484 J3 A35 All Under Heaven: Life in a Chinese Village. Long Bow Group (1984) An intimate look at daily life in Long Bow, a village about 400 miles southwest of Beijing. Shows how the traditional way of life has persisted and altered with political changes of the last 40 years, particularly collectivization and decollectivization. Video Cassette (58 min.) S 522 C6 A45 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. ANTHROPOLOGY 3 Americas. Ancient Healing. Annenberg/CPB Collection (1993) Aquarius Health Care Videos, c2000 1: The Garden of Forking Paths This video demonstrates the use of (Argentina) F 2849.2 G37 moxa and acupuncture for treating sciatica 2: Capital Sins: Authoritarianism and and for repositioning breech babies prior to Democratization (Brazil) F 2510 C36 birth. Ted Kaptchuk provides a comparison 3: Continent on the Move: Migration of Chinese and western medicine. A final and Urbanization (Mexico) HC 135 C65 segment explores shamanism and healing in 4: Mirrors of the Heart: Race and Guatemala. Identity (Bolivia, Haiti, Dominican Republic) 1 videodisc (27 min.) F 3359 A1 M57 R733 .A532 2000 5: In Women's Hands: The Changing Roles of Women (Chile) F 3100 I52 The Ancient Mariners. 6: Miracles are Not Enough: Continuity Washington : PBS Video (1981) and Change in Religion (Brazil, Nicaragua) Reconstructs, through the work of BR 600 M57 marine archaeologists in the Aegean, ships 7: Builders of Images: Latin American of antiquity, featuring details of their design Cultural Identity (Puerto Rico, Brazil, and fabrication. Shows that ancient ships Mexico, Argentina) F 1408.3 B83 are treasure troves of information, including 8: Get Up, Stand Up: Problems of the documentation of trade routes, products, Sovereignty (Colombia, Jamaica, Panama) and even social conditions. Includes F 1887 G47 animated sequences and special sound 9: Fire in the Mind: Revolutions effects, along with maps and photographs. and Revolutionaries (El Salvador, Peru, 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua) F 1488.3 F55 VM 16 A52 10. The Latin American & Caribbean Presence in the U.S. (Southern California, Ancient Pueblo People: The Anasazi. Miami, New York City) E 184 S75 A45 Ambrose Video Pub., c2007 10 Video Cassettes (1 hr. each) "They stand today much as their builders left them 500 years ago. These are America's Stone Age Explorers: Where the cities of the Anasazi, the ancient Pueblo Did the First Americans Come From? people of the four corners region of the WGBH Boston Video, c2004 western United States. Their history is the Who were the first Americans and history how a civilization, against all odds, where did they come from? Join became so successful at agriculture they archaeologists and other experts as they dig were able to produce a leisure society into prehistory and uncover a provocative capable of not only building these incredible Stone Age detective story cities, but also producing some of the 1 videodisc (55 min.) greatest pottery, rock art and trading E103 .A44 2004 networks the world has ever seen. How the Anasazi did this with a social organization Ancient Graves: Voices of the Dead. not governed by kings or queens or other National Geographic Video (1998) hierarchical rulers is one of the great An investigation of mummies that mysteries of ancient history"—Container have been uncovered around the world. 1 videodisc (ca. 30 min.) Shows the details about how the ancients E99.P9 A532 2007 lived and died. Video Cassette (57 min.) GN293 .A53 1998 For additions to this section please see the Media Resources Desk. For availability check the Library catalog http://webpac.library.unlv.edu. ANTHROPOLOGY 4 (An) Animal's World : Chimpanzees. [Apache] The Origin of the Crown Dance: Discovery Channel Video (1999) An Apache Narrative, and Ba'ts'oosee, Focuses on one troop of An Apache Trickster Cycle. chimpanzees in the Gombe National Park in Univ. of Arizona (1983?) Tanzania. Among the behaviors shown are An Apache elder tells the story of a eating, foraging, self-grooming and social boy who became a "gaan," a supernatural grooming, object manipulation including being with curative powers, followed by a carrying, tool using to hunt termites for food cycle of 8 "trickster" stories, including theft of and night and day nest building. Also shows fire and a tar baby story. The narrative is such social behaviors as fighting, inter- sprinkled with asides which serve as a kind species killing and flight, embracing, hand of folk literary criticism (in Apache with holding, sexual behavior and parenting English subtitles). behavior. Video Cassette (3/4", 40 min.) 1 Video Cassette (52 min.) E 99 A6 074 QL737.P96 A55 1999 (The) Ape: So Human! Anthropologists at Work: Careers Making Films for the Humanities & Sciences a Difference. (2001) NAPA (1993) Discusses how far the similarities A program about day-to-day work between humans and great apes extend. environments, arenas of inquiry, and Also discusses the anatomical basis for practical applications of anthropology. apes' inability to speak.