UNLV LIBRARY (The) Africans. MEDIA RESOURCES CATALOG PBS (1987) ANTHROPOLOGY 1. The Nature of a : examines Summer 2011 as the birthplace of 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 and the conflicts and 3. Love in the ; 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 now utilize much of the baboon range. 1 Video Cassette (24 min.) QL737.P93 A372 1994

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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

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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 & 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 of the WGBH Boston Video, c2004 . 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

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(An) '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. Video Cassette (40 min.) Video Cassette (41 min.) Supplement (12 p.) QL737.P96 A64 2001 GN 25 A57 Ape Language : From Conditioned Anthropology on Trial. Response to Symbol. Time/Life Video (1983) Georgia State University (1986) Examines the field of anthropology Shows the chimpanzees Lana, from the point of view of those who have Sherman, Austin, Kanzi, and Mulika as they been studied. Visits New learn to use symbols for expressing and explores the people's reactions to the language. anthropologist's conclusions about their Video Cassette (1 hr. 36 min.) culture. QL737.P96 S252 1986 Video Cassette (57 min.) GN 345 A54 1984b (The) Aquatic Ape. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Anthropology : Real People, Real Careers (2000) American Anthropological Association Tracing Elaine Morgan's victorious (2006) crusade to open up debate on an alternative Looks at the broad array of jobs that view of human evolution, this program anthropologists do. contrasts the Savanna Theory with the 1 videodisc (48 Min) theory that a race of semi-aquatic, bipedal GN41.8 .A57 2006 apes once inhabited Africa's Danakil Alps. Video Cassette (50 min.) GN281.4 .A68 2000

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Arranged . At the Caribou Crossing Place. A&E Home Video (1999) Documentary Educational Resources For much of history and for many [1990?] people today, has nothing to do Netsilik Eskimos of the Pelly Bay with love and romance. Instead marriages region in the Canadian hunt caribou. are arranged by families and matchmakers 2 videocassettes (59 min.) who place primary importance on suitability E99.E7 A785 1990 v.1 & 2 and financial gain. Video Cassette (50 min.) At the Spring Sea-Ice Camp. HQ503 .A77 1999 Documentary Educational Resources, [1997?] Asante Market Women. Portrays the traditional life among the Filmmakers Library (1983) Netsilik Eskimos. Shows the men hunting In the Asante tribe of Ghana, men are seal through the ice and hunting other polygamous and women are subordinate in , as two Eskimo families travel all domestic matters. In the market place across the sea ice and build small igloos. women reign supreme. Amidst the noise 3 videocassettes (80 min.) and color of the Kumasi central market, E99.E7 A8 1997 v.1-3 shows the intricacies of the matrilineal society. At the Winter Sea-Ice Camp. Video Cassette (52 min.) Documentary Educational Resources, DT 507 A73 [1990?] Presents the traditional way of life of (The) Ashanti Kingdom (Ghana). the Netsilik Eskimos of the Pelly Bay Region Films for the Humanities (1991) in the Canadian Arctic as it was lived before Shows the Ashanti kingdom. European acculturation. Explains the strict hierarchical organization 4 videocassettes (136 min.) of the village, the importance of the E99.E7 A82 1990 vol. 1-4 characteristic kente garment, the naming of children, the Ashanti religious beliefs, (The) Ax Fight. traditional values and festivals, and the Documentary Educational Resources protocol surrounding the chief. (1975) Video Cassette (1/2") Plunges the viewer into the problems DT 507 A74 of Yanomamo kinship, alliance, and village fission. Raises questions about how At the Autumn River Camp. anthropologists translate their experience Documentary Educational Resources, into meaningful words and coherent, moving [199-?] images. Reveals the live reality of traditional Video Cassette (30 min.) Eskimo life before the European F 2520.1 Y3 A82 acculturation. Pt.1. Eskimos build shelters with snow walls and a roof of skins, women Baboon Tales. gather stocks of moss, men fish through the Bullfrog Films (1998) ice with spears (26 min.). Pt. 2. Men build an Based on 26 years of fieldwork by igloo and a sleigh, the woman makes a anthropologist/primatologist Shirley Strum, parka, and the family heads downriver to the this film documents social and parenting coast (33 min.). skills of baboons toward their offspring 2 videocassettes (59 min.) through the first year of a newborn's life E99.E7 A78 1990z pt.1 & 2 during a season of drought. 1 Video Cassette (52 min.) QL737.P925 B32 1998

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Baka: People of the Forest. Becoming American. National Geographic Society, (1990) New Day Films (1983) "Journey deep into an African rain Documents the adaptation of a forest for a rare and intimate look at the Hmong refugee family from northern Laos to of the Baka, a semi-nomadic people who life in America, where everything is culturally have wandered for centuries. alien and everyone is a stranger. To the outside world they are simply known Incorporates archival footage of the family's as Pygmies, but in their natural environment heritage into views of the daily encounters they are the uncontested masters. Through that the members have with foreign the eyes of one family, National Geographic obstacles. steps into their rain forest world. Surviving 1 videocassette (59 min.) + 1 guide as they have for hundreds of years, the ([6] p.) Baka provide a remarkable glimpse of a E184.H55 B42 1983 unique people still largely untouched by Western civilization"—Container Before We Knew Nothing. 1 videocassette (60 min.) University of California Berkeley (1989) GN652.5 .B35 1990 A portrait of the life and culture of the Ashaninka, who inhabit the Amazon Bali, Masterpieces of the Gods. rainforest of eastern Peru. National Geographic Society (1991) Video Cassette (1 hr.) Travel to faraway Bali, a tiny enchanting F 3430.1 A83 B43 island in the Indonesian archipelago that many revere as Heaven on Earth. Born of Ben's Mill. fiery volcanic eruption, this isolated paradise Odyssey Series (1980) is made up of two thousand square miles of A bygone era is recalled in Ben's Mill, spectacular mountains, enticing beaches a look at a l9th century water powered and flourishing rice terraces. This distant woodworking shop and forge still in land is home to an extraordinary culture operation in northeastern Vermont. Miller, where artistic expression serves to please Ben Thresher is seen fashioning farm tools. the gods and placate the demons. Video Cassette (3/4", 1 hr.) Experience the intensity of religious beliefs TJ 859 B46 through haunting music, exotic dance and mysterious rituals that animate every aspect (The) Best Place to Live. of Balinese life Skylight Films (1982) Video Cassette (1 hr.) A documentary about the changing DS 632 B25 B34 1991 lives and feelings of members of a Hmong community that has been living for five years The Bambara Kingdom of Segu (Mali). in Providence, Rhode Island. Films for the Humanities (1992) 1 videocassette (55 min.) Relates some of the past of Bambara E184.H55 B47 1982 and the architecture of their ancient villages. A large and flourishing culture, the Bambara Bhutan Land of Dragons. lived by collecting enslaved Africans and Smithsonian Institution (1978) reselling them to and the Focuses on the changes which . outside influences have brought to Video Cassette (19 min.) traditional Bhutan. Traditional aspects of the DT 551.45 B35 B34 society are discussed and compared to new aspects which have emerged since the late Becoming a Woman in Okrika. 1950s. Filmakers Library (1990) 78 Slides See summary in Women's Studies Booklet (32 p.) section. DS 485 B503 B48 Video Cassette (27 min.) DT 515.45 I35 B43

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Bitter Melons. Building a Kayak. Documentary Educational Resources Documentary Educational Resources, (1971) [1990?] A film about a small band of Gwi San. Netsilik Eskimos of the Pelly Bay Video Cassette (30 min.) region in the Canadian Arctic build a kayak DT 995 K2 B53 2 videocassettes (65 min.) E99.E7 B85 1990 v.1 – 2 Black Athena. California Newsreel (1991) Burt Wolf. Explores the debate around Professor Ambrose Video Publishing (2002) Bernals book on the African origins of Greek "What we eat is a thirteen-part series culture. for public television that looks at how Video Cassette (52 min.) Christopher Columbus and the Spanish DF 78 B3982 conquistadors changed what people ate and how that fundamental shift changed almost Black Water. everything on our planet. Burt Wolf travels First Run Films (1990) through the Caribbean, , Explores the ill effects of encroaching , , and the United States to industry on the residents of Bahia, Brazil, a commemorate the 500th anniversary of an traditional fishing village. As they continue era that sowed the most important seeds of to suffer the environmental impact and to change. With the help of some of the world's pay the human costs of poorly planned leading experts, he uncovers how the industrial development, the villagers express migrations of people, plants, and animals anger and sadness at their inability to stop that started between 1492 and 1502 these changes. continue to impact the culture, economics, Video Cassette (28 min.) and the diet of the world today"-- TD 42.4 B6 A38 www.whatweeat.tv. disc. 1. Milk's leap towards Bontoc Eulogy: A Film. immortality -- Taking the high grounds Cinema Guild (1995) -- Simple pleasures -- Here's looking Docudrama that examines the Filipino at you, kid – experience at the 1904 St. Louis World's disc. 2. The hand that stirred the pot fair. The film focuses on the filmmaker's – How sweet it is -- Some like it hot -- grandfather, an Igorot warrior, one of the disc. 3. When money grew on trees -- 1,100 tribal natives displayed as This spud's for you -- The seed of life anthropological 'specimens' in the Philippine disc. 4. Domesticated bliss -- Time to village exhibit. play ketchup -- Connecting the dots 1 Video Cassette (56 min.) 4 videodiscs (364 min.) E184.F4 B65 1995 TX360.A45 B87 2002 discs 1 – 4

Bugs for Breakfast. Carnival in Q'eros: Where the Mountains Learning Seed 2001 Meet the Jungle. Discusses how which foods we eat Berkeley Media, (2006) and which foods we find disgusting is Shows the remarkable carnival determined by our culture. celebrations of a remote community of Video Cassette (19 min.) Quechusa Indians high in the Peruvian GT2850 .B83 2001 . 1 videodisc (32 min.) F2230.2.K4 C37 2006

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Celebrating the Day of the Dead. Chimpanzees of Uganda, EVN National Film Board of Canada (1998) The Day of the Dead is a serious Colin Chapman studies the affair in Mexico where relatives take time to primates of Uganda's Kibale National Park remember and honor deceased loved ones. with special attention centered on the Video Cassette (20 min.) chimpanzees. GT 4995 A4 C44 1 Video Cassette (25 min., 30 sec) QL737.P9 C476 1998 : The Burden of Time. Ambrose Video (1991) The Chinampas. The civilizations of the Aztecs, the University of California (19??) Maya, the Inca, their near obliteration by the Examines an ecologically sustainable Conquistadors, the parts that survived, and system of agriculture that has flourished in their influence on our lives today. Mexico for 2,000 years. Shows how the Video Cassette (57 min.) chinampa zone works and how the growth F 1219.73 C45 and pollution problems of Mexico City threaten the survival of the remaining (The) Chaco Legacy. chinampa farmers. Odyssey Series (1980) Video Cassette (31 min.) The extensive ruins of Chaco Canyon SB 87 M6 C45 in northwestern New Mexico are the subject of this documentary. Focuses on recent China's Lost Girls. attempts to explain how and why the Chaco Warner Home Video (2005) people developed such sophisticated Host Lisa Ling examines the technology. consequences of China's two-decade-old, Video Cassette (1 hr.) one-child policy, as it is commonly called. To F 802 C4 C52 curb the country's exploding population, China limits most families to one child, or in Charred Remains. certain circumstances, two children. Due to Films for the Humanities & Sciences, cultural, social and economic factors, (2004) traditional preference leans toward boys, so Early one evening in 1991, a girls are often hidden, aborted or custodian for a computer company abandoned. As a result, tens of thousands discovered the charred remains of a body in of girls end up in orphanages across China. a dumpster. This program illustrates the Many of these children are adopted by forensics used by police to find the killer. people in the United States. Shows some of 1 videodisc (24 min.) these families traveling to China to meet RA1063.45 .I57 2004 their new daughters. 1 videodisc (40 min.) Children of the Forest. HV875.64 .C45 2005 Pyramid Film & Video (1985) Portrays the life of the nomadic Mbuti China's Only Child. pygmies of Zaire. Shows their primal world Nova (1983?) of hut building, food gathering, and a hunt Population control in China. for a bull elephant. Video Cassette (1 hr.) 1 videocassette (28 min.) HQ 766.5 C6 C44 DT650.B36 P84 1985 Ch'ullacuy. Chimp Talk. University of California Berkeley (1993) Films for the Humanities (1998) Documents an ancient alpaca Explores the controversial issue of shearing ceremony still performed in the language use by apes with primatologist Dr. Andes. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Dr. Laura Ann Video Cassette (40 min.) Petitto. F 2230.2 K4 C48 Video Cassette (14 min.) QL 737 P96 C45

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Chronicle of a Savanna Marriage. (A) Conversation With Koko. Filmakers Library Thirteen/WNET (1999) Chronicles the life of a Masai woman, A documentary on Dr. Francine Nayiani, for fifteen years. "Penny" Patterson teaching Koko, a gorilla, Video Cassette (56 min.) American Sign Language DT 433.545 M33 C47 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) QL737.P96 C65 1999 Cities of the World. PowerSports Int. (1997) Costa Rican Monkeys. Havana, Nairobi, Dakar DT 12.25 H38 National Film Board of Canada, (1998) Jaipur, Srinagar, Madras DS 414.2 J35 Linda Fedigan studies the New Jerusalem, Istanbul, Marrakech World monkeys of the Santa Rosa wildlife D109.15 J47 sanctuary in Costa Rica. Fedigan was one Phnom Penh, Saigon, Bangkok of the first wave of female primate DS 535 P45 researchers who have chosen to study Valletta, St. George DG 999 V3 V34 social relations and male-female 5 Video Cassettes (90 min. ea) interactions. This video most closely follows the Capuchin monkeys Clash of the Cavemen. 1 Video Cassette (approx. 26 min.) A&E Television Networks (2008) QL737.P925 C67 1998 Brains versus brawn. Go back 30,000 years to the Ice Age in Europe when the (A) Cow at My Table. Cro-Magnon may have clashed with a Filmwest Associates (2001) completely different species of humans, the Exposes the conditions and factory . The Neanderthals were farming methods that animals are raised stocky, powerful and able to tolerate intense under by the animal industries, and pain, while their foes, the Cro-Magnons examines the social forces in society that were a weaker, more fragile species, but conceal and legitimize the abuses that with a superior brain capable of complex animals suffer. thought. 1 Video Cassette (90 min.) 1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) HD9415 .C68 2001 GN285 .C53 2008 Cree Hunters of Mistassini. Community. Documentary Educational Resources Bullfrog Films (1996) (2006) Looks at the story of villagers in Shows the annual move north of the Bangladesh who have transformed Cree Indians in the James Bay area and themselves from beggars to business shows the conflict produced by the James people and established positive new roles Bay development scheme between the and relationships for men and women. hunting culture of the Cree and the dominant Video Cassette (24 min.) white culture that has come to rely heavily HQ 1745.6 C64 on large-scale technology. 1 videodisc (59 min.) Contact. E99.C88 C74 2004 Filmakers (1990) Depicts the devastating impact of Cricket the Trobirand Way: A Case Study contact with the outside world on an isolated in Cultural Change. indigenous tribe, the Yanomami Indians. Coast Community College (1994) Since 1987, as the result of the incursion of Studies how different cultures Brazilian gold miners, an estimated 15% of successfully retain their own traditional the Yanomami Indians have died of malaria practices while borrowing from others. and related diseases. Discusses how the British game of cricket Video Cassette (28 min.) has been adapted by the Trobriands. F 2520.1 Y3 C65 Video Cassette (28 min.) GN 671 N5 C75

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Criminal Evidence. Culture. A & E Home Video (2001) Insight Media (1991) Examines the work of forensic Portrays cultural diversity in the U.S., anthropologist Kathy Reich. She showing that different subcultures address investigates the 1973 murder of a night club human needs in different ways. Investigates bouncer and mass graves in Guatemala. the development of culture and the role of 1 videocassette (91 min.) language in a culture. Profiles Cajun GN69.8 .C75 2001 society, the Cherokee Indians, and Chinese settlements in the South. Cross Cultural Communications. Video Cassette (30 min.) Promedion Productions (2002) HM 101 C8953 Gives examples of how to communicate effectively with persons from Culture, Identity, Behavior. different cultures. Promedion Productions (2004) 1 Video Cassette (35 min., 30 sec.) Discusses how our culture influences HM1211 .C76 2002 our identity which, in turn, influences our behavior. Crude Impact. 1 videodisc (ca. 36 min.) Vista Clara Films, c2006 BF698.9.C8 C84 2004 "Journeying from the West African Delta region to the heart of the Amazon Dadi's Family. rainforest, from Washington to Shanghai, Odyssey Series (1980) from early man to the unknown future, The intricate relationships among Crude Impact unravels the complex members of an extended clan in rural India entanglement of our fierce devotion to oil are explored. Stresses the role of women, with the fate of indigenous cultures, human who, though unable to own property do rights, our global economy and the planet much of the work and run the household. itself. Fueled by discover, outrage, humor Video Cassette (3/4", 1 hr.) and ultimately hope, the film offers an HQ 1742 D32 inspirational vision for change"—Container. 1 videodisc (ca. 30 min.) Dance of the Warriors. HD9560.5 .C78 2006 Mystic Fire Video (1988) The Blairs sail to Komodo and film Cry of the Forgotten Land. Giant carnivorous lizards. On Sumba they Video Project witness a veiled form of human sacrifice. The Moi live on the western tip of The brothers journey 50,000 years into the . They are engaged in a past to live with Asmat headhunters in New struggle to halt the destruction of their Guinea. In Bali, they build a home in a homeland by international logging village of farmers, artists and mystics. companies. Video Cassette (58 min.) Video Cassette (27 min.) DS 647 K6 R55 SD 245 N48 C78 Dances of the Kwakiutl. Crypts, Coffins and Corpses. Documentary Educational Resources, A&E Television Networks : Distributed by (2005) New Video, (2000) Dances of the Kwakiutl is composed There is much to be learned about the of fragments filmed in 1950 in Fort Rupert, way societies view life from how they handle British Columbia. They were made during a their dead. This program takes a journey performance by those still familiar with the through the history of death. tradition of Hamatsa or cannibal dancing. 1 Video Cassette (50 min.) This type of dance was brought to GT3150 .C78 2000 impressive artistic heights by the Kwakiutl people of the Northwest coast. 1 videodisc (9 min.) E59.D35 D36 2005

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Daughters of Ixchel: Maya Thread of (The) Day of the Dead. Change. Cinema Guild (2003) University of California (1993) This documentary discusses one of Explores the lives of Maya women the most important Mexican holidays, the today, portrays their ancient weaving Day of the dead, and the traditions and processes, and examines the economic, customs surrounding it political, and cultural forces that affect the 1 Video Cassette (25 min.) women and their weaving. GT4995.A4 D38 2003 Video Cassette (29 min.) F 1435.3 T48 D38 Dead birds: A Film. Film Study Center, c2004 Daughters of the . Shows "people in the remote Filmakers Library ) highlands of West Papua whose lives were Captures the separate and guided by a system of values in which ritual subordinate life of Egypt’s women under the warfare was a central premise"...—Insert. Islamic code. They speak of their traditions, 2 videodiscs (83 min.) expectations, and patterns of life. They DU744.35.D32 D43 2004 acknowledge their predetermined destiny and limited choices. Dead Men Talk. Video Cassette (46 min.) New Dimension Media (1992) HQ 1793 D62 Two models explain the origins of modern human people. Pt. 1 interprets the Dawn of Man: Adventures in Human fossil evidence gathered in support of Evolution. conflicting models of modern human origins. Burbank, Calif. : Distributed by Warner Pt. 2 addresses several types of genetic Home Video (2000) evidence in support of the Out of Africa A look at the last 2.5 million years of Model. Reviews some of the archaeological human evolution, including Homo erectus, sites and finds associated with archaic and Homo heidelbergensis, and Homo sapiens. modern humans and highlights differences 3 videocassettes (ca. 100 min. each) between Middle and Upper Paleolithic GN281 .D43 2000 vol. 1-3 cultures. Video Cassette (50 min.) (A) Day in the Life of a Village in Africa. Study Guide (12 p.) CustomFlix (2003) GN 282 D43 Shows a typical day in Sayaga, a farming village in Burkina Faso. Includes Death of Man. scenes of food preparation, house building, Films for the Humanities & Sciences children in school, traditional work, a funeral, (2000) music, etc. Also includes scenes of city life Examines the latest evidence in in Accra, Ghana. Israel, , and Switzerland on what led 1 videodisc (60 min.) to the disappearance of Neanderthals and DT553.U742 D38 2003 whether Neanderthals are distant ancestors of modern humans. Day of the Dead. Video Cassette (52 min.) Gessler Publishing Co. (1989) GN285 .D42 2000 Explores through popular art and traditions the Mexican feelings towards death and the "Day of the Dead" rituals. Video Cassette (28 min.) F 1210 M84

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Death: The Trip of a Lifetime. Desert People. Ambrose Video (1993) CRM Films (199?) 1: The Chasm takes viewers to the A record of a now extinct Paleolithic Night of the Dead on the island of Uranden people who recently inhabited the Central in Lake Patzcuaro, Mexico and to one of Australian desert. These nomads America's most dangerous urban areas in compensated for their lack of material Washington D.C. Also visits artisans in culture with a keen knowledge of their Ghana who fashion coffins and interviews environment. stuntman Dick Warlock. 2 Video Cassettes (1 hr. 14 min.) 2: The Good Death includes a visit to DU 120 D47 pt. 1-2 the Alcor Foundation where 35 people have been cryogenically frozen; to Taiwan to look Disappearing World. at the ancient Chinese belief that the best Films Inc. way to delay death is proper diet and 1. The Basques of Santazi exercise; to the Fountain of Youth in Warm DC 611B322 B37 Mineral Spring , Florida; to a Sydney, 2. In Search of Cool Ground: The Mursi hospice where the terminally ill get DT 380.4 M86 I52 respect. 3. In Search of Cool Ground: The Kwegu 3. Letting Go looks at varying grief DT 380.4 K84 I52 rituals: America where reallocation can take 4. In Search of Cool Ground: The place in the parking lot of a funeral home, to Migrants a Ghanaian village where the family of the DT 380.4 K84 I522 deceased has precise duties to perform for 5. The Lau of Malaita months after the burial, a drive-through DU 850 L38 funeral parlor in Pensacola, Florida; the San 6. The Kazakhs of China Francisco College of Mortuary Science, and DS 24 K39 a traditional Buddhist funeral in Osaka. 7. The Kawelka 4. Going for Glory looks at how DU 740.42 K39 different cultures manifest belief in an 8. Embera--The End of the Road afterlife and how these beliefs affect our F 2270.2 E43 E43 lives in this world. Looks at a ghost festival 9. The Quechua in Keelung, Taiwan; Mahicari, a "new F 2230.2 K4 Q43 religion" in Japan, a WW II veterans' club in 10. Masai Women Sydney. Visits with religious leaders and DT 443 M37 followers. 11. The Kayapo: Out of the Forest 4 Video Cassettes (1 hr. each) F 2520.1 C45 K39 BF 789 D4 D443 episodes 1-4 11 Video Cassettes (53 min. ea)

A Death to Pay for Individual Voices. Disappearing Worlds. Penn State (1998) National Geographic Society (1991) A follow-up to the film titled "The Discusses native peoples such as the Kawelka". The story line surrounds the nomadic Wadabe of , the events that arise after the killing of a young Gwichin, who are Native Americans from the man and negotiations over compensation Arctic Circle area, the Kayapo of Brazil, and payments to be made for the killing. the Jivoro of Peru. Discusses how they Video Cassette (49 min.) have adapted to change, the problems Booklet (86 p.) technology has caused them, and what they DU 740.42 D433 have to give to the "civilized" world. Video Cassette (2 hr.) DS 79.744 E58 T53

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Divided We Stand. Egypt: Beyond the Pyramids. Films for the Humanities (1997) New Video (2001) Examines how genetic studies are Mansions of the spirits visits some of being used divisively by blacks and whites to the most important surviving Egyptian prove racial superiority. sanctuaries, including the Great Temple of Video Cassette (49 min.) Karnak and the Deir El Bahari of Queen QH 438.7 D58 Hatshepsut. It also features footage of the ongoing efforts to restore and preserve Dream Tales. these monuments. The Great pharaoh and Atlas Video (1993) his lost children examines the largest tomb Watunna. Depicts 5 creation myths of in the Valley of the Kings. Kent Weeks, the Yekuana Indians of the Venezuelan whose team has been excavating the site for rainforest. These tales explore the genesis five years, explains the importance of the of evil, the night, sexuality, fire, and flood. discovery. Daily life of the Egyptians details Starlore. Six stories including an Inuit the many discoveries made in the port city of tale of a race between Sun and Moon that Mendes and in the village of Deir El Medina. leads to the creation of night and day, a These discoveries provide a glimpse into the Pawnee tale of measuring time against the lives of the workers who toiled in the Valley changing position of the stars, and a Maya of the Kings. Death and the journey to tale of a cosmic ball game. immortality examines the latest findings Video Cassette (35 min.) about Egyptian funerary and burial F 2319.2 Y4 D74 practices. Sacred hieroglyphs provide a map for the soul's journey through the afterlife, Dream Wanderers of . while doctors offer a detailed look at how Mystic Fire Video (1988) priests prepared the body for its final journey For 800 miles, through uncharted v. 1. Mansions of the spirit; Great rainforest the Blairs seek the last of the pharaoh and his lost children Punan Dyaks, believed to no longer v. 2. The daily life of the Egyptians; exist. They find them and are initiated into Death and the journey to immortality the spiritual mysteries of the "dream 2 videodiscs (100 min. each) wanderers." DT83 .E36 2001 Vol 1-2 Video Cassette (58 min.) DS 646.32 P85 R55 Even If A Hundred Ogres. Cinnamon Productions (1996) East of Krakatoa. Sami people of the arctic region north Mystic Fire Video (1988) of Europe show their ancient traditions using The Blairs encounter a world of drama, music, and dance. medieval courts, mystical shadow puppet 1 videocassette (56 min.) plays, forgers of magical swords, healers DL42.L36 E84 1996 with supernatural powers, and whole communities ruled by the spirit of the South Everything is Relative: William Rivers. Seas. Among the of the Films for the Humanities (1990) Celebes highlands, they share in the Rivers brought something new to massive funeral rites of the last king of the anthropology: a scientific approach. His tribe. field study with a hill tribe in southern India, Video Cassette (58 min.) the Todas, set the trend for anthropologists DS 646.23 R55 to go and visit the cultures in which they were interested, rather than staying home and theorizing. Video Cassette (52 min.) GN 21 R53 E84

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(The) Evidence for Evolution. Evolution of Man. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Films for the Humanities (1988) (1995) Examines and analyzes a large 2.5 Program on the evidence of evolution million year old fossil find in South Africa from simple to more complex life forms. which includes fossils similar to man. Explores fossil evidence, reasons for Presents comparisons between structures of extinction of species, and evidence from these fossils and modern man. Investigates living plants and animals, including the link between climatic change at the time comparative anatomy and behavior. Covers and the formation of grasslands and the the theory of natural selection, variation and division in the evolutionary line. the evolution of new species, and recent Video Cassette (20 min.) plant and animal adaptations to polluted GN 281.4 E86 environments. Video Cassette (30 min.) Explore Bolivia. Part I and II QH 371 E85 Southern Cross Productions (1986) In Orphans of the sun, explorers Evolution. search for the last Incas. In healing, WGBH Boston Video (2001) magic death, the explorers meet with Explores various aspects of evolution healers who can cure tuberculosis. and the impact the evolutionary process has Video Cassette had on people's understanding of the world F3429 .E86 1986 around them. Darwin's dangerous idea (120 min.) (The) Face of Evil. Great transformations (60 min.) First Run/Icarus Films (2006) Extinction! (60 min.) Explores the physiognomy of criminal The evolutionary arms ( 60 min.) tendencies through a case study of alleged Why sex? (60 min.) serial killer, Bruno Lüdke. The Mind's big bang (60 min.) 1 videodisc (51 min.) What about God (60 min.) HV6057 .F33 2006 Learning and teaching evolution. (120 min.) 8 Video Cassettes (10 hrs) Faces of Culture: Age, Common Guide (40 p.) Interest and Stratification. (#216) QH366.2 .E8487 2001 Coast Telecourses (1994) Explores how age grades, common Evolution and Human Equality. interest associations and social stratification Insight Video (198?) are used to organize societies. Compares Stephen Gould focuses on the social groupings around the world. following issues. Video Cassette (28 min.) I. Role Played by Science in Justifying HM 131 A342 Racism Throughout History. II. History of Scientific Claims of Racial Faces of Culture: Alejandro Mamani: A Inequality Before 1859. Case Study in Psychological III. Scientific Claims of Racial Inequality Anthropology. (#206) Subsequent to 1859. Coast Telecourses (1994) IV. Where Humans Evolved. A case study of an Aymara man V. New Genetic Evidence That Secures suffering from a "mental illness". Focuses the Argument for Human Racial Equality. on the complex interaction between group VI. Conclusions About the Impact of personality and culture, abnormal behavior, Scientific Racism on Individual Human and how abnormality reveals much about Lives. the cultural norms of individuals within a Video Cassette (42 min.) culture. GN 281 G68 Video Cassette (28 min.) GN 504 A432

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Faces of Culture: Anthropology and the Faces of Culture: Trobriand Cricket: An Future.(#26) Ingenious Response to Colonialism. Coast Telecourses(1994) (#225) Anthropologists examine some of the University of California Extension Center problems in their fields and share their for Media (1976) thoughts on the important kinds of Depicts the many modifications made contributions they can make to the future of by Trobriand Islanders, in Papua New human society. Guinea, to the traditional British game of Video Cassette (28 min.) cricket. Demonstrates how the islanders GN 33.6 A57 have changed the game into an outlet for Faces of Culture:The Arts (#222) tribal rivalry, mock warfare, community Coastline Telecourses (1994) interchange, sexual innuendo, and an Presents the many kinds of art and afternoon of riotous fun. the variety of functions it serves. Video Cassette (54 min.) Video Cassette (28 min.) Guide (10 p.) NX180.S6 A75 GV 928 T7 T76

Faces of Culture: The Asmat of New Faces of Culture: Culture Change. (#224) Guinea: A Case Study in Religion and Coast Telecourses (1994) Magic. (#221) The surviving Indian tribes of North Coast Telecourses (1994) America are examined, showing how Studies the Asmat, a cannibalistic customs have been lost as they adapted to society of , and their change. The Pueblo Indians are viewed for use of religion and magic as tools of survival their successful participation in American in a world they perceive as hostile and society while maintaining their tribal threatening. traditions. Video Cassette (28 min.) Video Cassette (28 min.) BL 2123 A84 A852 HM 101 C89572

Faces of Culture: The Aymara: A Case Faces of Culture: Economic Study in Social Stratification. (#217) Anthropology. (#209) Coast Telecourses (1994) Coast Telecourses (1994) In 1952 the Bolivian Revolution came Provides examples of how societies about, in part, due to class stratification assign values to resources, labor, capital, within the country. Examines that and technology. Shows how these stratification, with particular emphasis on the values change as economic requirements Aymara Indians of the Bolivian Andes and change with the times. their relationship with the middle class Video Cassette (28 min.) Mestizos of the rural towns in the same GN 448 E262 area. Short and long-term effects of the revolution are examined. Faces of Culture: Family and Household. Video Cassette (28 min.) (#212) GN 491.45 A952 Coast Telecourses (1994) Looks at the concepts of family and household from a cross-cultural perspective. Examines the basic function performed by these units. Video Cassette (28 min.) HQ 518 F327

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Faces of Culture: The Future of Faces of Culture: Kinship and Descent. Humanity. (#226) Part II (#215) Coast Telecourses (1994) Coast Telecourses (1994) Modernization will effect more and Defines kindred and looks at its role in more of the world's previously isolated hunting-gathering cultures. Discusses inhabitants, but must it do so at the expense economic and religious elements in the of traditional cultural values? Presents Mendi clans. examples of how the future can be met Video Cassette (28 min.) without loss of the past in regard to cultural GN 487 K553 practices. Problems of population growth, overcrowding, urban development, and Faces of Culture: Language and resource depletion are discussed. Communication. (#204) Video Cassette (28 min.) Insight Media (1983) HM 101 F872 The ways in which language shapes or reflects reality are examined by Faces of Culture: The Highland Maya: A comparing the language and cultures of Case Study in Economic Anthropology. Black Americans, Hopi Indians, African (#210) Neuers, and others. Coast Telecourses (1994) Video Cassette (30 min.) The complex interrelationship P 35 L25 between economics and religion known as the "cargo" system, found among the Faces of Culture: The Nature of Highland Maya of Mexico and Guatemala, is Anthropology. (#201) the subject of this program. Coast Telecourses (1994) Video Cassette (28 min.) Emphasizes the fundamental F 1435.3 E27 H532 similarities of all members of the human race and the wide range of adaptations Faces of Culture: How Cultures are toward the common goals of survival. Studied. (#203) Video Cassette (28 min.) Coast Telecourses (1994) GN 25 N37 An ethnographic study of the Yanomamo Indians of Venezuela which Faces of Culture: The Nature of emphasizes the importance of appreciating Culture.(#202) the value of other cultures. Coast (1994) Video Cassette (28 min.) Students witness how cultures meet GN 346 H68 the basic needs of survival and how cultures change with the times to survive. Faces of Culture: Kinship and Descent. Video Cassette (28 min.) Part I (#214) GN 320 N382 Coast Telecourses (1994) Studies inheritance patterns, Faces of Culture: New Orleans' Black children's names, married names, important Indians: A Case Study in the Arts. (#223) family names in business and government Coast (1994) as cultural examples of kinship and descent Shows how art mirrors culture. in the United States, and contrasts this with Profiles the impact of the American Indian, matrilineal descent patterns among the African, and Creole cultures on the Mardi Trobriand Islanders. Gras. Video Cassette (28 min.) Video Cassette (28 min.) GN 487 K552 F 380 N59 N45

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Faces of Culture: Patterns of Faces of Culture: Religion and Magic. Subsistence--Food Foragers and (#220) Pastoralists. (#207) Coast Telecourses (1994) Coast Telecourses (1994) Presented are religion and magic Presents the characteristics and defined, a variety of religious practices, the environmental setting for two types of roles of gods and goddesses in various subsistence: hunting-gathering and societies, worship of animals and objects, pastoralism. Examples of these types in the various rituals and ceremonies. world today. Video Cassette (28 min.) Video Cassette (28 min.) BL 65 C8 R442 GN 407.3 P382 Faces of Culture: Sex and Marriage. Faces of Culture: Patterns of (#211) Subsistence--The Food Producers. (#208) Coast (1994) Coast Telecourses (1994) Examines marriage and sex customs Topics are: factors that lead to in different societies. transition from a hunting-gathering to a food- Video Cassette (28 min.) producing way of life, characteristics of pre- GT 2690 S48 industrial urban life, natural environments in which horticultural and intensive Faces of Culture: Social Control. (#219) agricultural ways of life are found. Coast (1994) Video Cassette (28 min.) Includes film of tribes in New Guinea, GN 407.4 P372 the unusual "trial by ordeal" practiced by the Kpelle tribesmen of Liberia, and examines Faces of Culture: Political Organization. why crime and punishment mean different (#218) things in different cultures. Coast Telecourses (1994) Video Cassette (28 min.) Two types of political systems are HM 73 S62522 examined: decentralized (single band tribe) and centralized (chieftain over a number of Faces of Culture: The Yucatec Maya: A tribes). Focuses on some cultures using Case Study in Marriage and Family. these variations (North American Indians, (#213) Hawaii, and the Swazi of Africa) and the Insight Media (1994) techniques that are used to obtain and hold Looks at the family life of the Yucatec the loyalty of the political organizations' Maya Indians who rely on agriculture to members. survive. Includes discussions of the Video Cassette (28 min.) pressures faced as modernization comes to GN 492 P662 their Mexican homeland. Video Cassette (28 min.) Faces of Culture: Psychological F 1435.3 P7 Y822 Anthropology. (#205) Coast Telecourses (1994) Family Styles in the U.S. Focuses on enculturation. Cross- National Public Radio cultural examples of child rearing, Presents sound portraits of two socialization, and mental illness are studied. American families, one a contemporary Video Cassette (28 min.) extended family and the other the more GN 510 P78 traditional, nuclear family. Cassette HQ 734 F242

Favelas. Cinema Guild (1991) Discusses the creation and subculture of the favelas of Brazil. Video Cassette (50 min.) HN 290 S33 F38

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(The) Feast in Dream Village. First Film. University of California (1989) Documentary Educational Resources Documents a weeklong feast held in (1951) the garden hamlet of Mangganipi on the Filmed in 1951 in Africa in what is island of Sumba, Eastern . now Namibia. Practical information about Demonstrates how ritualized exchange the material culture and structure of between people and gods on one level and Ju/'hoansi society. inhabitants of this garden village and Video Cassette (1 hr.) outsiders on another is carefully negotiated. DT 1058 K86 F57 Video Cassette (27 min.) Teaching Notes (4 p.) Fishing at the Stone Weir: Netsilik DS 647 S6 F43 Eskimos. Documentary Educational Resources, Fieldwork. Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer. (1967) Films for the Humanities (1990) Documents a group of Netsilik Eskimo Begins by showing the work of Sir setting up camp by a major stream and Walter Baldwin Spencer with the Australian preparing for fishing. Shows construction of aborigines. Discusses his extensive fish traps, spears and other implements for fieldwork with Frank Gillen, telegraph station catching, cleaning, and preparing fish. The operator and initiated elder of the Aranda nomadic way of life of "The people of the tribe. seal" lasted into the 1960s. Video Cassette (52 min.) 2 videocassettes (57 min.) GN 21 S65 F54 E99.E7 F53 2000 v.1 - 2

Fire Eyes: Female Circumcision. Flight From Death: The Quest for Filmakers (1994) Immortality. Presents an African viewpoint. Koch Entertainment (2005) Explores the socio-economic, psychological, Through stunning visuals and and medical consequences of this ancient insightful interviews, this multiple award- custom. winning film explores human beings' innate Video Cassette (1 hr.) and subconscious fear of death and portrays GN 484 F57 the impacts of that fear on our behavior, specifically in regard to violence. (The) First Americans. 1 videodisc (85 min.) A&E Television Network (2004) RC552.F42 F55 2005 This documentary looks at the first inhabitants of the North American continent; Food: A Multi-Cultural Feast. what we know about them, and what Learning Seed (1998) remains a mystery. Describes the food of different 1 videodisc cultures and examines how eating habits E77 .F57 2004 have become multicultural, especially in the United States. First Contact. 1 Video Cassette (20 min.) Filmakers Library 1 guide (1 v. (unpaged) In 1930, the Leahy brothers GT2850 .F63 1998 penetrated the interior of New Guinea in GT2850 .F63 1998 guide search of gold and encountered thousands of stone age people who had no concept of human life beyond their valleys. Fifty years later, Dan Leahy and the Papuans speak of their experiences. Video Cassette (55 min.) GN 671 N5 F57

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Food for the Ancestors. Franz Boas. PBS Home Video, (1999) Boston : WGBH Video (1981) Presents Mexican customs relating to Profile of the German physicist who the care and remembrance of the dead as was responsible for shaping the course of celebrated during the weeklong holiday American anthropology, by bringing called Days of the Dead. Shows how this discipline and order to a field that had festival is celebrated in the culturally rich previously dealt in subjective "race state of Puebla. Focuses on folk arts related classification." Includes reflections and to the celebration, such as weaving, pottery, anecdotes by scholars and students, dance, and preparation of special foods. excerpts from journals and letters, and Video Cassette (57 min..) archival photographs. Discusses the GT4995.A4 .F65 1999 Kwakiutl Indians, the principal subjects of Boas' field work. Food & Intimacy. 1 Video Cassette (58 min.) Landmark Films GN 21 B62 F7 Discusses the fact that food plays a large role in intimate human rituals such as Franz Boaz: The Shackles of Tradition. courtship, weddings, and funerals. Also Films for the Humanities (1990) discusses comfort foods. Boas was the first distinguished social Video Cassette (23 min.) scientist in the U.S. to challenge the GT2860 .F63 1999 prevailing concept of racial inferiority and actively campaign on behalf of black people Forensics: Who Killed the Iceman? in America in the early part of the 20th Discovery Communications (2003) century. "Discovered by hikers in the Italian 1 Video Cassette (58 min.) Alps, the Iceman, also know as "Otzi," is GN21.B56 F73 1981 5,300 years old, the oldest frozen mummy ever found. Forensic experts and Fremont, U.S.A. archaeologists investigating the cause of his Pluralism Project, c2008 death have uncovered new evidence that Fremont, California, has been reveals a shocking conclusion. Scientist transformed by new immigration and is a city hope to use this information to reconstruct of many religions. After 9/11, a Muslim the last hours of the Iceman's life."— woman was murdered on a Fremont street. 1 videocassette (ca. 52 min.) + 1 Discusses the community's response to this guide (12 p) event and Fremont's future. GN778.22.I8 F67 2003 1 videodisc (57 min., 11 min.) F869.F74 F74 2008 Four Days of the Masai. Interama Inc. (1980) Friends and Lovers. Explores the day-to-day life of one of University of California the Masai tribes, the semi-nomadic Gay men discuss their most important herdspeople who inhabit the savannahs of relationships in the age of AIDS. Questions Kenya. These people were able to resist assumptions about gender, sexuality, and domination by the British and preserve their relationships. freedom by selling their cattle to pay taxes. Video Cassette (28 min.) The Masai live relatively untouched by HQ75.7 .F75 1993 Western influence. Video Cassette (1 hr. 38 min.) DT 433.545 M33 F68

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From Sunup. Girl Gangs. Maryknoll World Video Library (1985) KNPR (1993) Presents the dawn-to-dusk life- Cassette sustaining efforts of the women of Tanzania HV 6439 U6 G57 and their affirmative reactions. Shows the feminization of poverty, the significant role of The Global Banquet (By Invitation Only) women as the sole providers in many Third Maryknoll World Productions, (2001) World countries, and the spiritual strength Discussion of corporate that empowers them. farming and its effects on small farmers in Video Cassette (28 min.) the United States and in developing HQ 1533.9 K84 countries. Also discusses such topics as low-cost cash crops, genetically modified Full Circle: The Ideal of a Sexually crops, earth's resources, food patent Egalitarian Society on the Kibbutz. "biopiracy", animal cruelty, and cheap labor Filmakers Library 1 Video Cassette (50 min.) Follows the evolution of family life and HD9018.D44 G56 2001 work roles from pioneering days to the present on the Israeli kibbutz. God, Darwin, and Dinosaurs. Video Cassette (1/2’, 58 min.) Coronet Film & Video (1989) HX 742.2 A3 F84 Nova cameras document the "new" evidence in a debate between creationist Ganienkeh: For the Generation to Come. Duane Gish and anthropologist Vincent Pacifica Tape Library Sevich, and follow several scientists as they Mohawk efforts to restore the "true put the theory of evolution to the test. way" are seen in this examination of the Video Cassette (3/4", 1 hr.) Mohawk community of Ganienkeh, NY. BS 659 G63 2 Cassettes E 99 M8 G35 vol 1-2 Goddess Remembered. Direct Cinema (1990) (The) Garifuna Journey. Describes and discusses early New Day Films (1998) goddess-worshiping cultures and the current Presents the history, the language, women's spirituality movement food, music, dance and spirituality of the 1 Video Cassette (54 min.) Garifuna culture. BL473.5 .G62 1990 Video Cassette (46 min.) Guide (49 p.) Gorillas. F1505.2.C3 G37 1998 National Film Board of Canada (1997) Amid the chaos of war-torn Rwanda, (The) Gender Tango. anthropologist, Pascale Sicotte has risked Films for the Humanities & Sciences her life to protect one of the world's last (1997) remaining populations of mountain gorillas This program looks at the different from poachers and loss of habitat ways women define themselves and are 1 Video Cassette (25 min.) defined by others in diverse cultures QL737.P96 G67 1997 1 Video Cassette (48 min.) HQ1154 .G465 1997

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(The) Goddess and the Computer. Guns, Germs, and Steel. Documentary Educational Resources National Geographic (2005) (1988) Discusses early social and A film about the water temples and agricultural innovations, the role of weapons dams on the island of Bali and the and disease in human development, and the development of the computer program that modern interplay of geography and has given the Balinese rice growers state-of- resources. the-art resource management and one of 2 videodiscs (165 min.) the most stable and efficient farming HM626 .G85 2005 systems on the planet. Video Cassette (58 min.) Healers of Ghana. SB 191 R5 G63 Films for the Humanities (1996) Explores the traditional medical Great Apes. practices of the Bono People of Central PBS Home Video, c1999 Ghana and how their healers accommodate Archival footage of the work of the conflict between the arrival of Western Jane Goodall, who studied chimpanzees in medicine and their religious beliefs. Gombe Streams National Park in Tanzania, Video Cassette (58 min.) of Dian Fossey, who studied gorillas in DT 545.5 A27 H42 Rwanda, and of the work of another pioneer in the study of the behavior of primates, (The) Hidden Japan. Adrian De Shriver. Maryknoll World Video Library (1990) Video Cassette (60 min.) Drugs addicts, alcoholics and QL737.P96 G74 1999 homeless people are considered "the outcast" in Japanese society. Shows what Group Hunting on the Spring Ice. happened when Maryknollers working in Documentary Educational Resources, Tokyo opened a shelter, a clinic and a drug [1997?] treatment center for these outcasts. Documents the Netsilik Eskimo seal- Video Cassette (22 min.) hunting with background of family life, social HV 5283 J3 K33 life and customs, lifestyle. 3 videocassettes (95 min.) (The) Highland Maya: A Case Study in E99.E7 G76 1997 v.1-3 Economic Anthropology. Coast Telecourses (1994) Guardians of the Flute: The Secrets of Cargo system of the Mayas of Male Initiation. Mexico. Filmakers Library Video Cassette (28 min.) High in the mountains of New Guinea F 1435.3 E27 H532 live the Sambia people. Their secret rituals of initiation are documented in this film. Highway 364: . Video Cassette (55 min.) National Public Radio (1989) DU 740.42 G82 Discusses what Indian residents think about economic development and the Gum Sahn: Changing Values in the building of Hwy. 364 in the Amazon Community--Chinese American. rainforests. Considers the positive and National Public Radio negative effects of land development on American impact on Chinese forest communities. traditions and values. Cassette (10 min.) Cassette HC 188 A5 H68 E 184 C5 G85

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Himalayan Herders. Homo Sapiens. DER (1998) First Run Icarus Films (1999) Portrait of a temple-village in the Examines the history of eugenics, Yolmo valley of Central Nepal where Tibetan racial hygiene and the ideas of the "new Buddhists consult shamans. man," as developed in the early 20th century Video Cassette (1 hr. 16 min.) in Germany and the Soviet Union. In DS 493.7 H54 Germany, race hygiene focused on the body, on corporal beauty and the ideal form, Hispanics in Las Vegas. while in the Soviet Union, eugenic interest Real to Reel Series (1988) focused on the brain and intellect. Discusses the Hispanic population Video Cassette (88 min.) including the cultural, educational, HQ 755.5 G3 H64 employment, and political problems they face. Homo Sapiens : The Inventor of Dreams. Video Cassette (30 min.) Films for the Humanities & Sciences F 850 S75 H58 (1999) Profiles modern mankind's (The) History of American Cuisine. forerunners through the work of a group of Learning Zone Express (2000) noted scientists. Some of the topics covered An introductory overview considers include: prehistoric caves in southern the of the United States, explaining France, some of the oldest-known human how regional cuisines developed in tombs in Israel, "fossil words", and the response to geography (which determined genealogy of Y-chromosomes. what foods were available) and ethnology Video Cassette (53 min.) (the traditional foodways of the regions GN281 .H62 1999 immigrant ethnic groups). A narrator, executive chef, and historian weave together Honorable Murder. a story of food history in the United States Films for the Humanities (1999) from 1519 until the present. Examines the cultural tradition that 1 videocassette (22 min.) + 5 p. of makes women the talisman of family honor worksheets in folder and the practice of atoning for "dishonor' TX715 .H5748 with their blood. Discusses the laws that allow the murderers to go unpunished and History of the Anthropoid: The Search the religious roots. for the Beginning. Video Cassette (55 min.) Films for the Humanities (1997) HQ 1726.5 H33 Dr. Friedemann Schrenk searches for hominid fossils with Meave Leakey in East Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World. Africa. Leakey discusses four million year Ferrero Films (1983) old findings and traces their relationship to Depicts the world of Hopi through the previous findings. eyes of people who have experienced life in Video Cassette (46 min.) that world. Focuses on the historic GN 281.4 H57 continuity of Hopism and offers one way of looking at the phenomenon of cultural Holy Ghost People. persistence. McGraw Hill (198?) Video Cassette (58 min.) Examines a Caucasian Pentecostal Resource Handbook (29 p.) congregation in Scrabble Creek, West E 99 H7 H687 Virginia. Video Cassette (52 min., b&w) BR 1644 H64 (2 copies)

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[Hopi Coyote Stories] Iisaw. Human Geography: People, Places and Clearwater Publishing Co. Change. Singing tales that reinforce the Hopi BBC (1996) ethic by describing what happens to those 1. Imagining New Worlds who shirk hard work. 2. Reflections on a Global Screen Video Cassette (3/4", 18 min.) 3. Global Firms E 99 H7 I37 4. Global Tourism 5. Alaska: The Last Frontier? How Beliefs and Values Define a Culture. 6. Population Transition in Italy United Learning (1997) 7. Water is for Fighting Over Video Cassette (24 min.) 8 A Migrant's Heart Guide (20 p.) 9. Changing Berlin: Changing Europe GN 357 H68 10: The World of the Dragon 10 Video Cassettes (27 min. ea) How Scientists Know About Human GF 50 H84 programs 1-10 Evolution. University of California Human journey: out of Africa. See summary in Science section. Insight Media, c2009 Video Cassette (19 min.) "Exploring the origins of humans, this GN 281 H64 program considers how the first humans How to Behave. survived in the dangerous environment of Icarus Films (1987) prehistoric Africa, traces the technological A film on the subject of "tu-te" or development of the species, and shows how kindness. Explores the realities behind the a tiny group of prehistoric humans left Africa nationalistic slogans to reveal troubling around 70,000 years ago. The DVD scenes of Vietnamese life in a society which presents expert opinions on archaeological seems no longer able to define evidence suggesting the route by which humanitarianism or greed. early humans left Africa and eventually Video Cassette (43 min.) colonized the entire world"--Publisher's HN 700.5 Z9 M6 website. 1 videodisc (50 min.) Huichol Sacred Pilgrimage to Wirikuta. GN281 .H86 2009 University of California Follows the annual pilgrimage and peyote hunt of the Huyichol Indians of western Mexico. Focuses on the sacred sites, traditional ceremonies, and teachings of the Huichol shamans and elders. Includes the Huichol songs and music. Video Cassette (29 min.) F 1221 H9 H83

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(The) Human Language Series. (The) Hutterites: To Care and Not to Care. Ways of Knowing (1995) Shanachie (1993) Pt. 1 Discovering the Human Depicts the life of a people who have Language: Colorless Green. When people persisted and grown despite centuries of talk, how do they know what word to say? persecution, migration and voluntary Why can't anybody explain what a word isolation. They dress in 16th century styles really is? How is the system of creating and maintain a medieval village pattern sentences the same in all the world's 5000 living in collective agricultural communities. languages? When people talk, how do they Their emphasis is on function and they know what word to say? Why can't anybody employ innovations that benefit the explain what a word really is? How is the community. system of creating sentences the same in all Video Cassette (58 min.) the world's 5000 languages? E 184 H97 H87 P 106 D57 Pt. 2: Acquiring the Human Language: Ice Mummies. Playing the Language Game. How do WGBH Boston Video (1998) infants acquire language without being A 500-year-old boy found in the high taught? Do people imitate those around Andes of Peru may be a key to an Inca them or is grammar inherited? Includes sacrifice known as capa cocha; the mummy experiments with children and new theories of a 2400-year-old woman found on the about language and the human mind. Steppes of Siberia reveals a legendary P 118 A23 warrior culture; and the 5300-year-old body Pt. 3: The Human Language: With and of a man found in the Italian Alps has led to Without Words. Why did humans acquire clues of daily life in Stone Age Europe. language when other similar species, such 1. Frozen in heaven as the chimpanzees, did not? Examines 2. Siberian ice maiden how human language combines speech with 3. Return of the ice man body movement, gestures and facial 3 Video Cassettes (1 hr ea) expressions inherited from our animal past. GN293 .I24 1998 P 116 H84 3 Video Cassettes (55 min. ea) Iceman. BBC TV (1991) (The) Human Voice: Exploring Vocal Covers the international effort to Paralanguage. unlock the secrets of the discovery of a man University of California (1993) who perished in an Alpine mountain storm Explores the power, dimensions, and five thousand years ago. facets of the human voice. When we speak, Video Cassette (1 hr.) our voice reveals clues about ourselves and GN 741 I34 encodes important information about us. When we listen to others, we can "decode Identities: Culture and Nationality in information about the speaker. Europe Today. Video Cassette (30 min.) Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Guide (12 p.) c2007 P 95.5 H84 Program features observations from African, Asian, Middle Eastern immigrants Hungry for Profit. on their opinion on living in two worlds and New Day Films the problems that arise as a result. Deals Filmed in Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, with balancing assimilation and preserving Senegal, Kenya, and the Philippines, probes ones cultural heritage. the causes of today's famines. Presents an 1 videodisc (28 min.) analysis of the connection between the HM1271 .I34 2007 global agribusiness system and hunger. Video Cassette (1 hr. 27 min.) HD 9018 D44 H85

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I'm Normal, You're Weird! Understanding In the Shadow of the Law. Other Cultures. University of California Media Learning Seed (1998) Center(1990) Examines the differences between Explores the daily lives of four the world's cultures and how different families who have lived illegally in the U.S. interpretations of same or similar actions or for many years. Shows their constant fear reactions can affect abilities of people to of apprehension and their vulnerability to interact successfully. exploitation by those who capitalize on their Video Cassette (23 min.) illegal status. Captures the legal, social, and Guide (16 p.) cultural obstacles these people have to GN 345.65 I4 overcome. Video Cassette (58 min.) In Danku the Soup is Sweeter: Women E 184 M5 I52 and Development in Ghana. Filmakers Library Inca: Secrets of the Ancestors. Shows how a little bit of financial aid Time Life Video & Television (1995) allowed the women to become Discusses the Incas' achievements "entrepreneurs". Captures the rhythms of including medical skills, engineering and village life and the women's efforts to make architectural marvels. life better for their families. Video Cassette (48 min.) Video Cassette (30 min.) F 3429 I53 HQ 1240.5 G4 I52 Inca Music, Travels and Rituals. In Search of the First Language. Filmakers Library (2002) WGBH (1994) "Two Peruvian musicians, Ebert and Discusses research done on tracing Jabier, have dedicated their lives to the roots and families of languages, researching the ancient musical traditions of specifically the Indo-European and the Sino- Peru. Ebert reproduces the old instruments, Tibetan. using natural materials. He also collects the Video Cassette (54 min.) music for the Peruvian Institute for Culture P 116 I52 and teaches it to children so it will survive."-- Container In Search of Human Origins. 1 Video Cassette (30 min.) WGBH Educational Foundation (1994) F3429.3.F6 I53 2002 The Story of Lucy: Don Johanson recounts his discovery of Lucy, our oldest The Incas. human ancestor. Discusses the important Odyssey Series (1980) information his discovery continues to Looks at the 16th century South generate as he returns to and American civilization which in less than 100 makes a new find that sheds light on the years had unified diverse cultures spread relationship between the sexes and the birth over 350,000 sq. miles of some of the of the nuclear family. world's highest mountains without the Surviving in Africa: Johanson sets benefit of either written communication or out to disprove the view that early man's the wheel. Examines the work of 3 larger brain and reliance on technology were archaeologists currently excavating in Peru the by-products of the ability to hunt. He for clues to the Inca way of life. embarks on a journey across the Serengeti Video Cassette (1 hr.) savanna of in search of food. F 3429 I5 The Creative Revolution: Fifty thousand generations ago, hunter-gatherers living in Africa began to paint, carve, talk, bury their dead, travel and trade. What accounts for this transformation? 3 Video Cassettes (1 hr. each) GN 281 I47 episodes 1-3

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India Inhales. Indigenous Peoples: Standing Their Bullfrog Films (2000) Ground. Part 12 of a series on how the Films for the Humanities (1992) globalized world economy affects ordinary Flames in the Forest: Since the 1950s, people. Every day in India, another 55,000 the Amazon Indians of eastern Ecuador children start smoking. This film explores the have bitterly resisted the invasion of oil cynicism of the major global tobacco companies which seek to use their region for companies' campaigns in India with intensive oil production. particular reference to the largest firm in F 3430.1 A25 F53 India, ITC Limited. It also looks at the work Follow the Rainbow: Damming the of activists who have pledged to try to stop Subarnarekha River in India's South Bihar them -- and to halt the soaring increase in region will have catastrophic results for the cancer cases in India that result from native Ho Indians. The Ho's campaign of smoking. resistance has led to the temporary Video Cassette (1/2 in, 24 min) suspension of World Bank payments for the HV5770 I4 I53 2000 project. DS 432 H6 F64 Hunters and Bombers: The Innu of Indian Country. Labrador Quebec are fighting back against PBS (1988) the Dutch, German, and British air forces Summary in Ethnic Studies section. which use the region for supersonic low- Video Cassette (1 hr.) level bomber training. E99 M87 H85 E 99 Q6 I53 The Kimberley Mob: A growing spiritual and economic movement is encouraging Indians and the Law. aboriginal stockmen of Australia to return to Pt. 1 Termination work on the land. GN 666 K54 Pt. 2 Fishing & Land Rebels of the Forgotten World: The Pt. 3 Water forceful efforts of the Indonesian Pt. 4 Sovereignty government to resettle and westernize its 2 Video Cassettes (30 min. per tribal peoples have met with resistance from program) the dispossessed native population. E 93 I53 Pt. 1-2 DS 631 R42 5 Video Cassettes (52 min. ea)

Insect Clues. Films for the Humanities & Sciences, (2004) By analyzing the life cycle of maggots found in the body of Sandra Cwik, a forensic entomologist establishes the time of death and ties her murder to suspect Ronald Porter, who was convicted on the basis of this, along with other forensic and circumstantial evidence. 1 videodisc (24 min.) HV8079.H6 C43 2004

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Introducing Latin America. Itam Hakim, Hopiit: In Recognition of the EVN Hopi Tricenntenial. Pt. 1 The Land. Provides and Documentary Educational Resources, overview of the geography of Latin America c2007 and how this affects the climate. Explains Storyteller Ross Macaya tells stories the crops and products produced. Illustrates from the myths and history of the Hopi the concept of altitudinal zonation. people. Illustrated with dramatic nature Pt. 2 The People. Examines the photography of the Southwest and scenes different heritages and cultural influences of from Hopi daily life and ritual. the people. Gives a basic history of the 1 videodisc (58 min.) European colonization of Latin America. E99.H7 I83 2007 Explains the current linguistic, racial, and cultural makeup. Jane Goodall: A Life in the Wild. 2 Video Cassettes (1/2") Cabisco Teleproductions (1989) F 1409.3 I53 pt. 1-2 Explains how and why she moved to a remote area of Africa and undertook a Introducing the Amazon. study of chimpanzee behavior. Recalls the EVN day-to-day events of her years in Gombe, Explores the Amazon River basin, the ways in which chimpanzee and human meets the people, and examines major emotions are similar, and her current efforts industrial and agricultural developments in to save the chimpanzee from exploitation. the area. Video Cassette (28 min.) Video Cassette (24 min.) QL 31 G66 J35 F 2546 I57 Jane Goodall: Reason for Hope : A Ishi, The Last Yahi. Spiritual Journey. University of California Extension Center Twin Cities Public Television (1999) for Media (1993) Filmed on location in Tanzania, In 1911, the sudden appearance in England, San Francisco and Paris, this is northern California of Ishi, "the last wild the first program to look beyond Jane's Indian in " stunned the nation. scientific career at the woman herself, her Ishi lived the final four years of his life as an remarkable life and her deeply held spiritual informant and teacher at the Museum of beliefs and concern for the environment. Anthropology in San Francisco, relating Yahi Video Cassette (1 hr.) stories and demonstrating the traditional QL31 G58 J35 way of Yahi life. Video Cassette (57 min.) E 99 Y23 I82

Islam: Faith and Nations. MPI Home Video (1990) See summary in Parapsychology section. Video Cassette (2 hr.) BP 50 I85

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Japan. Kypseli: Women and Men Apart, A Coronet Film & Video (1988) Divided Reality. I. The Electronic Tribe chronicles the University of California Extension Media historical and cultural forces that enabled Center (1973) the Japanese to be adept at forming Depicts how the people of Kipseli cohesive organizations and thinking divide time, space, material possessions, collectively. and activities according to an underlying II. The Sword & The pattern based on the separation of sexes, Chrysanthemum explores the paradoxical and shows how this division determines the histories of the Samurai and Ninja warriors village social structure. and the ancient tea ceremony to underscore Video Cassette (41 min.) the contrasting influences with Japan's DF951 K97 K97 1973 business behavior. III. The Legacy of the Shoguns Ladies of the Lake: A Matriarchal Society documents the events, personalities, and Filmakers Library (1998) cultural forces that characterize Japan's rise Property in the Mosuo culture in from one of the last feudal societies to a southwest China passes down from mother global military power. to daughter, power is handed from the IV. A Proper Place in the World matriarch to her most intelligent daughter, chronicles the political and economic forces women do the heavy work, men stay in the that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor, its homes of their mothers, and the women live aftermath, and General MacArthur's reform together and only see their husbands at the policies for Japan. end of the day. The government wants to 4 Video Cassettes (1 hr. ea.) make their homeland into a tourist site with DS 885 J3 Vol. 1-4 the Mosuo people as the main attraction, so their way of life may disappear. Jigging for Lake Trout. Video Cassette (20 min.) Documentary Educational Resources, DS 731 N39 L33 [1997?] Documents a Netsilik Eskimo family Lands of the Incas. trout fishing. The family begins by building a Educational Video Network (1991) karmak. Once holes are dug in the ice, both Pt. 1: The Andean Region husband and wife fish, even in a blizzard. Pt. 2: Andean Civilization Before the Incas 1 videocassette (32 min.) Pt. 3: The Inca Empire E99.E7 J54 1997 Pt. 4: Inca Lands Since the Spanish Conquest. Kansas vs Darwin. 2 Video Cassettes (30 min. ea) New Day Films, c2008 Guide Explores the controversy over the F 3429 L14 pt. 1-4 teaching of evolution and intelligent design in Kansas public schools, using footage from Language. the hearings before the Board of Education PBS (1988) and interviews with people on both sides of Seeks to understand a uniquely the issue. human phenomenon and explores how 1 videodisc (82 min.) biology and environment interact to enable KF4208.5.S34 K36 2008 us to communicate. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Kumekucha: Women of Tanzania. BF 455 L26 Films for the Humanities (1991) Women speak about the difficulties of their lives, the dilemma they face when their only source of income is brewing beer, and the feelings of some women that men are useless to them. Video Cassette (28 min.) DT 442.5 K84

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(The) Language You Cry In. Last Rites: Death Ceremonies. California Newsreel (1999) New York : History Channel (1997) The video traces the history of a Last rites is a look at the ways burial hymn of the Mende people brought by different societies around the world and Slaves to the rice plantations of Georgia throughout history have dealt with death. more than 200 years ago. Shows the range of humanity's attempts to Video Cassette (53 min.) come to terms with death, and interviews DT 516.45 M45 L35 with leading historians shed light on ancient practices such as mummification (The) Last Neandertal [sic]. 1 videocassette (50 min.) Films for the Humanities & Sciences GT3150 .L37 1997 (2007) "Among scientists, Africa is the (The) Lemon Grove Incident. undisputed birthplace of humanity. But The Cinema Guild (1985) anthropologists are split into two camps over See summary in Ethnic Studies other questions. How many waves of Homo section. sapiens migrated out of Africa? Did other Video Cassette (58 min.) highly developed hominid species--such as LC 2688 L45 L45 Homo neanderthalensis--make the same journey? And to what extent did these Lemurs. populations mingle and compete with each National Film Board of Canada (1998) other? This program featuring prominent Unless steps are taken now, the ring- voices in the ongoing debate, presents tailed lemure will soon be extinct. Dr. Lisa differing viewpoints about the age and Gould works and lives at a remote research development of the Neandertal--and about center in southern studying the how the vanished species figures in the lemurs' behavior and matriarchal social story of modern humanity's rise"— structure Container. 1 Video Cassette (25 min.) 1 videodisc (52 min.) QL737.P933 L44 1998 GN285 .L37 2007 Lifelines. Last of the Hiding Tribes. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Bullfrog Films (1999) (1999) Films are set in the Brazilian Amazon Discusses three key scientists and and trace the history of three tribes on the their contributions to the understanding of edge of extinction. evolutionary genetics: Darwin, Mendel and 1. Fate of the Kidnapper-tells of the Miescher. The results of their work combine search for a young white settler who was natural science, botany, and chemistry to kidnapped by members of the Uru Eu Wau form a comprehensive explanation of how Wau tribe, and the fate of the tribe facing species evolve. invading civilization. Video Cassette (1/2 in, 30 min) 2. Return from Extinction-chronicles the QH 375 L57 efforts of Claudio Villas Boas to first save the remnants of the Panara tribe by removing them to the safety of a national park and then returning them to their ancestral lands. 3. Fragments of a People-highlights the efforts of a government agency to locate the remnants of the nearly extinct Ava-Canoeiro tribe. 3 Video Cassette s (150 min.) F 2519.1 A6 L28

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(The) Linguists Living with Chimpanzees: Portrait of a Ironbound Films, c2007 Family. "Joins David Harrison and Gregory Filmakers Library Anderson, scientists racing to document Portrays an unusual nuclear family. languages on the verge of extinction. In Shows how chimps adapt to domestic life, Siberia, India, and Bolivia, David and Greg's their amazing mental abilities, and the resolve is tested by the very forces stifling bonding love that exists between chimps languages: institutionalized racism and and humans when they share such intimate violent economic unrest. The scientists must space. overcome their own fears and preconceived Video Cassette (52 min.) notions to draw speakers from decades of QL 737 P96 L58 silence. Their journey takes them deep into the heart of the cultures, knowledge, and (The) Long Search. communities at stake"—Container. Ambrose Video 1 videodisc (65 min.) + 1 teacher's 1. Protestant Spirit- USA guide (11 leaves) BR 560 I4 P76 P40.5.L33 L565 2007 + Guide 2. Hinduism: 330 Million Gods BL 1107.5 A22 Little Injustices: Laura Nader Looks at 3. Buddhism: Footprint of the Buddha the Law. India BQ 4022 F65 Odyssey Series (1980) 4. Catholicism: Rome, Leeds and the Nader presents a program that Desert BX 1390 R64 compares and contrasts the way in which 5. Islam: There is no God but God legal systems in the small Mexican town of BP 188 T44 Talea and legal systems in the U.S. work to 6. Orthodox Christianity: The settle disputes and consumer complaints. Rumanian Solution BX 500 R6 R84 Video Cassette (1 hr.) 7. Judaism: The Chosen People KF 1609 L58 BM 613 C46 8. Religion in Indonesia: The Way of Living Fossil. the Ancestors BL 2123 T67 W38 First Run/Icarus Films (1999) 9. Buddhism: The Land of the In 1938 fishermen off the coast of Disappearing Buddha -- Japan South Africa found a strange fish that was BQ 9262.9 J3 L35 later identified as a Coelacanth. A fish long 10. African Religions: Zulu Zion thought extinct, it was soon known as the BX 9995 Z45 Z84 "most important zoological find of the 11. Taoism: A Question of Balance -- century". The story is told from the point of China BL 1975 Q47 view of the woman who first identified the 12. Alternative Lifestyles if California: Coelacanth, Marjorie Latimer, who was a West Meets East BL 2527 S4 W47 museum curator. 13. Reflections on the Long Search Video Cassette (25 min.) PN 2598 E87 R43 QL 638 L26 L48 13 Video Cassettes (52 min. ea)

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Lost Generations. Lost Tribes of Israel. Bullfrog Films (2000) WGBH Boston Video, c2000 Part 24 of a series on how the South Africa's Lemba people claim to globalized world economy affects ordinary be descendants of Jews and one of the lost people. Maternal poverty and malnutrition tribes of Israel. In this program, have increased dramatically in India since anthropologist Tudor Parfitt investigates the the early '90's. Low birth weight babies from Lemba's claim through genetic testing and malnourished mothers grow up to become attempts to retrace their migration. malnourished themselves and in turn give Video Cassette (1 hr) birth to more low birth weight babies. This DT1768.L45 L67 2000 film explores what can be done to break the cycle of poverty and ill-health that condemns Lucy In Disguise. whole populations to sub-standard lives. Smeltzer Films (19??) Video Cassette (24 min.) The search for a better understanding RJ281 L67 2000 of the beginnings of humankind. From the Afar desert to the laboratory, from the Lost King of the Maya. CATSCAN machine to the potassium-argon WGBH Boston Video (2001) dating machine, scientists piece together Discusses the lost Mayan civilization, clues to give us a more accurate picture of Copan, hailed as "the Athens of Central human evolution. America" and the story of King Yax K'uk Mo. Video Cassette (3/4", 58 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr.) GN 283.25 L839 F1435.1.C7 L67 2001 Magical Death. Lost Kingdoms of the Maya. Documentary Educational Resources, National Geographic Society (1993) [2009] An exploration of the forests of The film is a vivid portrayal of Central America and Mexico on the trail of shamanic activity, as well as an exploration the ancient Maya. Distinguished scientists of the close connection between politics and unearth artifacts, reconstruct cities and shamanism in Yanomamo culture. decipher the hieroglyphics of an 1 videodisc (29 min.) extraordinary civilization. F2520.1.Y3 M34 2009 Video Cassette (1 hr.) F 1435 L83 Make My People Live: The Crisis in Indian Health. (The) Lost Tribe. Nova (1984?) Films for the Humanities (1993) What are America's obligations to its Examines whether the story of the native population? Nova looks at the state Tasaday was a hoax, as many of medical care for a proud, but vulnerable anthropologists have claimed. minority and the effects of the Indian Health Video Cassette (1 hr.) Act on these people. Visits Indian DS 666 T32 L67 reservations in Alaska, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Lost Tribes. Video Cassette (3/4", 1 hr.) Films for the Humanities (1997) RA 448.5 I5 M34 Attempts to solve the age-old riddle of what happened to the fabled lost tribes of Israel. Video Cassette (50 min.) QH 431 L67

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Mama Benz: An African Market Woman. Margaret Mead: Coming of Age. Filmakers Library Films for the Humanities (1990) The colorful markets of Africa are In the U.S., Bali, and New Guinea, often dominated by strong older women. she examined child development, sex, and Thanks to their business acumen, they have temperament to see what role society plays amassed a great deal of wealth. These in making people what they are. women are affectionately referred to as Video Cassette (52 min.) Mama Benz because each one has as her GN 21 M36 C64 trademark a chauffeured Mercedes Benz. This film focuses on one woman who Margaret Mead: Taking Note. presides over the cloth market in Lome, Odyssey Series (1980) Togo. Margaret Mead was largely Video Cassette (48 min. ) responsible for popularizing anthropology in HQ1811.5 .M34 1992 America. From her pioneering studies of children to her speeches about the fate of Mammy Water: In Search of the Water the environment, Mead was both a student Spirits in Nigeria. of the world and its teacher. University of California Video Cassette (3/4", 1 hr.) Visits the riverine areas of eastern GN 21 M 36 M3 Nigeria in search of Mammy Water. Video Cassette (1/2”) Margaret Mead: Understanding Script (4 p.) Generations. BL 2470 N5 M34 National Public Radio The late anthropologist talks about Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed. the factors that tend to create "gaps" Filmakers Library (1995) between generations in American society. Dealing with the controversies as well Cassette (59 min.) as the accomplishments of Margaret Mead's HN 90 G4 M37 life, this program weaves together a story of a scientist, adventurer and international Maya Lords of the Jungle. celebrity whose ideas shaped how we think Odyssey Series (1980) about ourselves. Buried deep in the jungles of Central 1 Video Cassette (85 min.) America are hundreds of majestic temples, GN21.M36 M22 1995 intricately carved stones, and painted pots-- all that remain of the classic Mayan Margaret Mead and Samoa. civilization that thrived for thousands of Brighton Video (1988) years and then mysteriously collapsed. In 1983, Derek Freeman published Video Cassette (3/4", 1 hr.) his refutation of Margaret Mead's work, F 1376 M3 Coming of Age in Samoa. Freeman concluded that the South Pacific paradise Mayordomia: Ritual, Gender and Cultural Mead had described was largely make- Identity in a Zapotec Community. believe. Freeman's investigation exposed University of Texas Press (1991) an island culture rife with aggression and Uses the Mayordomia, an annual conflict. This film presents evidence that religious festival, to study the lifestyles and may resolve one of the greatest culture in a southern Mexican Zapotec town. controversies in the history of anthropology. Video Cassette (20 min.) Video Cassette (51 min.) F 1221 Z3 M38 GN 671 S2 M3 (The) Mehinacu. Films Inc. (1991) The focus of this program is the annual, month-long Piqui celebration designed to ensure a good fruit harvest. Video Cassette (52 min.) F 2520.1 M44 M43

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Memories of Tata. Mexico: The Days of the Dead. Cinema Guild (1993) Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Traces the creation and dissolution of [2007] the Adam Morales family. Adam Morales Examines a collection of sacred, describes his relationships with his wife, his social, and artistic traditions that survived daughters, and with other women. Morales' European assimilation and now compose wife and daughters give their own account of one of Mexico's most important annual why they severed their ties with Mr. Morales festivals. due to his acts of physical abuse and sexual 1 videodisc (54 min.) adultery. GT4995.A4 M495 2007 Video Cassette (51 min.) HQ 809 M45 Mexico: A Story of Courage and Conquest. Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves. A&E (1999) Filmakers Library (1997) Vol. 1: God, Gold and Glory The Shows the human and sometimes story of the ancient empires. Visits the ruins tragic side of the overseas contract worker of Teotihuacan and Palenque, and relics of from the Philippines, where each day, the Toltec and Mayan civilizations. thousands of women leave to seek work as Vol. 2: From Independance to the domestics in more prosperous places. Alamo reveals what life was like in colonial Video Cassette (45 min.) Mexico. HD 4875 P6 M63 Vol. 3: Battle for North America chronicles the waves of fighting that rocked Mesoamerican Cultural Code: Religion in the fledgling nation. Shows how the war . with Mexico shaped the careers of American Cinema Guild Civil War figures. Examines the religious history of the Vol. 4: Revolution tells the story of people of Mesoamerica as their religious revolution waged by Pancho Villa and practices and beliefs shaped and influenced Emiliano Zapata. Looks at the role of the the cultural system of the society. Institutional Revolutionary Party and the Video Cassette (55 min.) problems that face the nation today. BL 2530 M4 R44 4 Video Cassettes (50 min ea)) F 1226 M52 v. 1-4 Message From the Stone Age: The Story of the Tasaday. Millennium. New Dimensions Media (1985) PBS Video (1992) Documents the Stone Age lifestyle of Through personal documentaries a small group of about thirty natives who live presents tribal peoples, their customs and in isolation in the Philippine rain forest. ceremonies. Video Cassette (16 min.) The Shock of the Other GN 380 S56 DS 666 T32 M47 Strange Relations GN 480 S87 Mistaken Identity BC199 I4 M57 Mexican Prehispanic Cultures. An Ecology of Mind GF 21 E26 Paramusica S.A. de C.V. The Art of Living N 5310.5 A77 Presents a panorama of the various Touching the Timeless BL 51 T66 pre-Hispanic civilizations that existed in the A Poor Man Shames Us All Mexican territory: the civilization of GN 635 I65 P66 Teotihuacan, the Toltecs, Aztecs, and Inventing Reality BC 331 I58 Mayas. The Tightrope of Power JC 423 T53 Video Cassette (30 min.) At the Threshold GN 380 A72 F1219 G53 10 Video Cassettes (1 hr.) Booklet (16 p.) Student Activity Sheets Resource Guide (48 p.) Viewer's Guide

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Miracle planet (The) Mystery of Chaco Canyon. Ambrose Video Publishing, (2005) Bullfrog Films (2003) "Miracle planet is a five-part series Examines the enigmas presented by that recounts the ... story of Earth's the prehistoric remains found in Chaco mysterious evolution. Narrated by Canyon in New Mexico. Tells that between Christopher Plummer, it reveals the 850 and 1150 AD, the Chacoan people surprising role that sheer chance has played constructed massive ceremonial buildings in in the development of life. Over its more a complex celestial pattern throughout a than 4-billion-year history, Earth has been vast desert region, and uses aerial and time home to repeated violent climactic changes, lapse footage and computer modeling to which have caused mass extinctions. And show how the Chacoan culture designed, yet, life has survived. In fact, these same oriented and located these buildings in catastrophes that devastated life on earth relation to the sun and moon. Pueblo also helped bring about its evolution from Indians, descendants of the Chacoan the simplest microbes to the complexity and people, also speak of the significance of diversity that is found on the planet today"— Chaco to the Pueblo world today. Container. 1 videodisc (56 min.) episode 1. The violent past E99.P9 M97 2003 episode 2. Snowball earth episode 3. New frontiers Mysteries of Mankind. episode 4. Extinction & rebirth National Geographic ( 1988) episode 5. Survival of the fittest Combining their expertise and skills, QE501 .M57 2005 1-5 scientists use modern technology to search for the elusive early ancestors of modern Monkey In the Mirror. humans. WNET (1995) Video Cassette (1 hr.) Discusses the similarities between G 3 N37 A37 humans and other primates. Shows primates in the wild living in complex and Mysterious Mummies of China. varied societies in which they use tools, take WGBH Boston Video (1998) herbal medicines, wheel and deal, practice Mummies found in the Takla Makan power politics and sexual politics, and Desert in China raise the question that sometimes suffer from stress. Shows European contact may have occurred some laboratory primates communicating with 1,000 years earlier than previously realized. humans. Video Cassette (1 hr.) 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) DS719 .M87 1998 QL737.P9 M594 1995 Mystery of the First Americans Mountain Music of Peru. WGBH Boston Video (2000) Berkeley Media, (2005) In 1996, near Kennewick, A portrait of the folk music, culture Washington, a suspected murder victim is and lifestyle of the people of Qeros, high in identified by forensic anthropologists as the Peruvian mountains. Caucasian – but turns out to be almost 1 videodisc (59 min.) 10,000 years old. The discovery of the M1693 .M68 2005 Kennewick Man, along with several other startling finds in recent years, has embroiled scientists in a bitter conflict with Native American groups who want the scientific study of early Americans halted. Video Cassette (1 hr.) E77.9 .M87 2000

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Myths and the Moundbuilders. Navajo Healing in Life Crisis. PBS Video (1988) Big Sur (1973) A study of the earth mounds built by Cassette (1 hr. 30 min. ) American Indians in the Midwest and E 99 N3 S34 Southeastern United States. 1 Video Cassette (59 min.) N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman: The E73 .M87 1988 San in Transition. Documentary Educational Resources Myths & Taboos. (1978? ) Landmark Films, c1999 Presents issues and complexities of Discusses why beliefs vary on what is good societal change of the San formerly called and what is bad to eat. "Bushmen" of Nambia. Video Cassette (23 min.) Text GT2860 .M87 1999 Video Cassette (1 hr.) DT 1058 K86 N24 Nakaj. University of California Berkeley (1993) Neanderthals on Trial. Brings to life the mythical Andean WGBH Boston Video (2002) nakaj, a prominent figure in Peruvian Were Neanderthals human like us, or folklore, who attacks and kills unwary were they sub-human brutes? Since the humans. discovery of the first Neanderthal skeleton in Video Cassette (20 min.) 1856, scientists have battled over exactly GR 133 P4 N33 how we're related to these prehistoric cave- dwellers. There's plenty of new evidence, Nappy. including DNA analysis, but nothing seems Women Make Movies (1997) to settle the case. Neanderthals on trial Ten African American women discuss takes a look at the debate, showing how the reasons why they chose to stop science works, and how investigators straightening their hair and go natural. The sometimes fool themselves into seeing what video also touches on the consequences of they want to see. their decisions and on the importance and Video Cassette (1 hr) significance of hairstyles in African American GN285 .N46 2002 culture. Video Cassette (28 min.) Neanderthal's World. TT 972 N37 Films for the Humanities & Sciences (2003) Native Land: Nomads of the Dawn. Reconstructs life in the Neanderthal Cinema Guild (1986) world when Cro-Magnons first entered the Concentrates on the Incas of the scene. Examines all aspects of Neanderthal South American Andes, their achievements, clan life, including the making of tools and inventions, political struggles, religious weapons, hunting, gathering, health, ideals, and mythology. childbirth and rituals. Video Cassette (58 min.) 1 videodisc (98 min.) F 3429.1 M3 M87 GN285 .N47 2003

Navajo Canyon Country Quality Information Publishers, c2006 Navajo canyon country shows glorious footage of Navajo Nation country in New Mexico and Arizona, including great shots of the daily life of the Native Americans inhabiting the area. 1 videodisc (12 min.) E99.N3 N315 2006

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Netsilik Eskimos Series El Norte = The North See full entry by title Frontera Films (1984) At the Autumn River Camp. At the Beginning in the mountains of Caribou Crossing Place. Guatemala, El Norte is the story of a brother At the Spring Sea-Ice Camp. and sister who leave their homeland in Building a Kayak search of the "promised land" after their Fishing at the Stone Weir: Netsilik father is assassinated by the government. Eskimos. 1 videodisc (141 min.) Group Hunting on the Spring Ice. PN1995.9.E44 N67 1984 Jigging for Lake Trout. Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice. El Norte (The North). CBS/Fox Video (1984) (The) New Tijuana. Beginning in the remote mountain University of California (1991) jungles of Guatemala, awash with the See summary in Ethnic Studies lushness of nature and the rainbow colors of section. the Mayans, this highly- acclaimed drama Video Cassette (58 min.) about a brother and sister seeking a better F 1391 T36 N48 life centers on two young Indians. When their father is killed by government soldiers Nine Nations of North America: and their mother taken away, they set out for Mexamerica. the "promised land" to the north--El Norte. PBS (1988) Video Cassette (2 hrs 21 min.) Explores a world that extends beyond PQ7082.D7 N67x state and provincial boundaries. Focuses on the people of the fastest growing "nation" North From Mexico. in America, "Mexamerica". This region U.S.A. (1989) extends from Los Angeles to Houston and See summary in Ethnic Studies from Pueblo, Colorado, to San Luis Potosis, section. Mexico . Video Cassette (21 min.) Video Cassette (1 hr.) E 184 M5 N67 E 787 N55 (The) Nut-Cracking Chimpanzees of Tai Nomads of the Rainforest. Forest. WGBH (1984) Pennsylvania State University, Audio- Visits the tribe of the Waorani Indians Visual Services (1991) in Ecuador. Shows chimpanzees in the Tai Video Cassette (1 hr.) National Forest of the in their F 3722.1 H83 N64 daily life of feeding on nuts and social interaction. Emphasizes their use of tools for Nonverbal Communication and Culture. cracking nuts, including stones and sticks Insight Media, [2005] used as hammers and sticks with holes in This program examines nonverbal them for holding the nuts as anvils. The communication in different cultures. It looks young learn how to use the tools from at personal space; body language including observing their mothers, with whom they gestures, inflection, eye contact, smiling and stay in close contact for several years before other facial expressions; and posture. It becoming independent. The mothers also demonstrates how the same gesture can be share the food with the young, and teach the interpreted in different ways. young how to ask for a share 1 videodisc (22 min.) 1 Video Cassette (25 min.) BF637.N66 N645 2005 QL737.P96 N87 1991

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(The) Ocre People: Nomads of Namibia. Origins of India's Hindu Civilization. Filmakers Library EVN Portrays the life of the people of Ova Discusses the development of Himba and the uncertain future they face. Hinduism, its religious beliefs, and its effect Video Cassette (32 min.) upon the peoples of the . DT 1558 H56 O27 Shows examples of ancient Hindu art Video Cassette (22 min.) Of Time, Tombs and Treasure: The BL 1212.72 O75 Treasures of Tutankhamun. Video Outreach (1983) (The) Origins of Mexican Civilization. A personal tour through the EVN (1990) magnificent finds of archaeologist Howard The Olmecs, Zapotecs, and the Carter in the tomb of Egypt's ancient boy- inhabitants of Teotihuacan established king. advanced cultures in Mexico long before the Video Cassette (3/4", 27 min.) more famous tribes like the Aztecs. E 332.2 E94 Video Cassette (21 min.) F 1219 O75 Off the Verandah. Films for the Humanities (1990) (The) Origin of Species: An Illustrated Bronislaw Malinowski began work on Guide the Trobirands and lived for long periods Films for the Humanities and Sciences among the people he studied. He made (2000) their work and lives intelligible to the West. Discusses the thesis of each chapter Video Cassette (52 min.) of Charles Darwin's The origin of species GN 21 M25 O33 and provides an introduction to the subject of evolution. Orangutans. Video Cassette (30 min.) National Film Board of Canada (1998) QH 365.08 O75 Activist researcher Dr. Biruté Galdikas lives in the gruelling jungles of Borneo and , fighting to save the orangutan. She rescues orphaned victims of the ape trade, reintroduces them into the wild, and lobbies the Indonesian governemnt to help protect them 1 Video Cassette (25 min.) QL737.P96 O732 1998

Orangutans with Julia Roberts. PBS Home Video (1998) "Julia Roberts travels to the Indonesian island of Borneo to investigate the orangutan, the sole survivor of the great apes of Asia. Her quest puts her in the company of Birute Galdikas, a woman who has devoted her entire adult life to protecting and studying the orangutans of Borneo."-- Container 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) QL737.P96 .O734 1998

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Other People's Garbage. Out of Asia: New Theories on Evolution. Odyssey Series (1980?) BBC (1998) l: Excavation of slave quarters in Examines new evidence that disputes the Georgia in order to verify & correct written African theory and alleges that simultaneous documents of slave life. to the emergence of Homo eructus in Africa, 2: A search for roots of a multi-ethnic there were groups of Homo eructus in community that briefly flourished in a l9th Australia. century town near northern California. Video Cassette (51 min.) 3: In Boston, legislative and GN 281.4 O87 bureaucratic means are used to salvage sites from subway excavation and to learn Palenque: Un Canto. about early city dwellers' lives. New Day Films (1992) Video Cassette (58 min.) The villagers of San Basilio de E 159.5 084 Palenque, descendants of African rebel slaves, preserve and maintain the culture of Our God the Condor. their African forebears in their dance, music, Filmakers Library (1987) and other aspects of their social lives. This Shot in the southern Andes of Peru, film provides an historical account of their documents the "Yawar Fiesta", an annual situation as well as documentation of the event representing the Indians' triumph over day to day struggle of their rural existence. the Spaniards. The Church has opposed Video Cassette (48 min.) this ritual as a "savage custom", but for the F 2291 S25 P34 Indians it is still "a protest we want to continue". Past and Present: Traders, the City and Video Cassette (30 min.) Men from Over the Sea. F 3429.3 S6 O87 Films for the Humanities (1994) There is still a king of Benin, and he Our Land, Our Life: The Struggle for still dispenses justice. He lives in a Western Shoshone Land Rights. traditional world but has a university Gage & Gage Productions (2007) education. Such contrasts are common in "CERD recommended that the U.S. modern Nigeria. initiate dialogue with the Western Shoshone Video Cassette (15 min.) to resolve the land and rights issues. The DT 541.22 P37 Western Shoshone are still waiting. Oxfam America supports the struggle of the . Western Shoshone Defense Project and Documentary Educational Resources, indigenous peoples around the world to 2007 protect their human rights and livelihoods." "Patagonia documents the daily lives 1 videodisc (118 min.) of the three native groups who inhabited E98.L3 O87 2007 Tierra del Fuego in southern Argentina: the Onas, the Alacalufes, and the Tehuelches. Our Lives in Our Hands. Featuring life amidst a rough terrain of rocky Documentary Educational Resources ice-capped mountains, majestic glaciers, (1986) and thunderous rapids, the film presents an A documentary film showing the early record of their hunting methods, Micmac Indian way of life in northern Maine, healing rituals, clothes and basket making focusing on the traditional craft of wood and way of life"—Container. splint basketry. 1 videodisc (62 min.) 1 videodisc (49 min.) F2936 .P315 2007 E99.M6 O871986

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Patterns of Adaptation . (The) Peyote Road. Coast Learning Systems 2008 Kifaru Productions (1992) "This program explores the ways in Describes the struggle of American which humans adapt to environmental Indians, especially those who belong to the challenges. It features experts who explain Native American Church, to continue to use the difference between acclimatization and the drug peyote as an integral part of their adaptation. The program includes such religious rites and ceremonies. examples as skin color function and 1 videocassette (60 min.) adaptations, high-altitude adaptations, and E98.R3 P38x responses to heat and cold stressors"-- Publisher's website. Photo Wallahs: An Encounter with Anthropology : the four fields ; Photography in Mussoorie. program 113 University of California Berkeley (1992) videodisc (28 min.) Focuses on the photographs of GN281 .P28 2008 Mussoorie, a hill station in the Himalayan foothills of northern India. Includes the People of the Forest: The Chimps of photographers at work, their clients, and old Gombe. and new photographs. Examines Discovery Video (1991) photography as art and social artifact. Follows 20 years of love and rivalry Video Cassette (1 hr.) within a tribe of chimpanzees who people TR 183 P46 the forests surrounding Lake Tanganyika. Video Cassette (1 hr. 30 min.) Pine Nuts. QL 737 P96 P44 University of California See summary in Ethnic Studies Period Piece. section. Jay Rosenblatt Film Library, [200-?] Video Cassette (13 min.) A different kind of film about QK 494.5 P66 P55 menstruation, Period piece celebrates this rite of passage in a girl's life. Women of Popol Vuh: The Creation Myth of the various ages and ethnicities share how they Maya. felt when they got their first period. Old University of California Extension Media educational films are revisited in new ways Center (1989) adding humor and historical perspective. Depicts the main episodes of the 1 videodisc (30 min.) entire Quiche Maya creation myth. This QP263 .P47 2000z animated film tells of the creation of the Peru . Maya World, the birth and death of the first International Video Network, c1994 fathers in the underworld, the defeat of the Shows sites of interest in Cuzco, evil ones by the Sacred Mother, and the Chan Chan, Lima, Iquitos, Machu Picchu birth of the Hero Twins. and other areas of Peru. Video Cassette (1 hr.) Video Cassette (53 min.) F 1465 P8386 F3425 .P47 1994 & guide Population Dynamics. (The) Peyote Road. Palomar College Educational Television Kifaru Prod. (19??) 2008 Addresses the US Supreme Court This disc is a recorded DVD and may "Smith" decision. Documents the old not play on all DVD players or drives sacramental use of Peyote, a cactus with Instructor: Dan Sourbeer psychedelic properties. A trip into Peyote 1 videodisc (29 min.) fields of Southern Texas is mixed with HB849.4 .P663 2008 interviews of Native Americans who have grown up within The Native American Church. Video Cassette (1 hr.) E 98 R3 P38

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Prejudice: Causes, Consequences, Proceptivity Patterns in Captive Lowland Cures. Gorillas, Orangutans, and Celebes McGraw Hill (198?) Macaques. Summary in Ethnic Studies section. Onward Program, University of Maine Video Cassette (24 min.) (1993) BF 575 P9 P73 This film documents female courtship by primates, and shows individual variations Pride, Purpose & Promise: Paiutes of the of this behavior. The emphasis of this Southwest. program is on young adult female gorillas at Real to Reel Series (1982) the zoo of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Examines the history, culture, and Trust and the Woodland Park Zoo. These growing pains of the Paiute Indian Tribe. females perform an unusual estrous Video Cassette (30 min.) behavior dubbed "bottom bouncing". They E 99 P2 P75 are also seen presenting to males, and posturing for solicitation in a prolonged (The) Primal Mind. courtship period. Also shown are female Cinema Guild (1984) courtship behaviors of Bornean and Identifies the distinctions between Sumatran orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) Native American and Western cultures. and Celebes black (or crested) Explores the two cultures contrasting macaques (Macaca nigra). The female views of nature, time, space, art architecture orangutans exhibit some unusual and dance. vocalizations. The macaques show Video Cassette (58 min.) examples of sex skin swelling, and a E 98 P5 P75 copulating pair is harassed by juveniles 1 Video Cassette (21 min.) Primate Behavior. QL737.P9 P75 1993 Coast Learning Systems ; New York 2008 Public & Private Realms in Rural "This lesson tackles why we study the Wenzhou, China. behavior of nonhuman primates and how University of California at Berkeley their behavior patterns can be related to (1994) human behavior and evolution. Experts An overview of community life, discuss their field study experiences and economic and social aspects, and a what they learned about the behavior of their description of some individual situations in subjects. Social structure and social Wenzhou. organization are related to impact on Video Cassette (52 min.) reproductive success. The central mother- HC 428 W46 P82 infant bond is explored, along with patterns of affiliative and aggressive behaviors in Pueblo Cliffdwellers. social groups. Nonhuman capacities for The History Channel (1997) language and culture are also addressed in A look at the Anasazi, or ancient interesting ways."--Publisher's website. ones, who lived in the Four Corners Region 1 videodisc (28 min.) long ago. The Hopi, Zuni, and other Pueblo QL737.P9 P72 2008 Indians are their direct descendants. At Chaco Canyon we can learn much about the (The) Prize of the Pole. Anasazi's culture, beliefs, and way of life. First Run/Icarus Films, c2006 Yet many questions remain unanswered. Documentary of Inuit Hivshu a.k.a. Video Cassette (50 min.) Robert E. Peary II quest to trace the story of E 99 P9 P83 his great grandfather while coming to terms with his own ethnic identity. 1 videodisc (78 min.) E99.E7 P75 2006

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Pygmies of the Rain Forest Recordar: To Remember. Pyramid Films (1976) Other Pictures (1989) Details the everyday life of the Mbuti Summary in Ethnic Studies section. Pygmies in the remote Ituri Forest of Zaire, Video Cassette (29 min.) Africa, and shows how they utilize all of the E 184 M5 R35 resources of the forest for their daily needs: shelter, clothing, utensils, food. Representation & the Media. 1 videocassette (51 min.) Media Education Foundation (2002) DT650.B36 .P84 1976 Stuart Hall, a renown public speaker and teacher, lectures on the central ideas of Q’eros. cultural studies-- that reality is not Mystic Fire Video (1993) experienced directly, but through the lens of Life and hardships of the Andean culture, through the way that human beings nomads called the Q'eros. Film describes represent and tell stories about the world in their means of subsistence, their rituals and which they live. Using visual examples, Hall beliefs, and the pattern of discrimination shows how the media-- and especially the they have undergone. visual media-- have become the key players Video Cassette (53 min.) in the process of modern story. F2230.2.K4 Q47 1993 1 videodisc (55 min.) HM621 .R46 2002 Qeros: The Shape of Survival. Mystic Fire Video (1993) Return of the Tribal: Body Piercing. Life and hardships of the Andean Films for the Humanities & Sciences nomads called the Q'eros. Film describes (2002) their means of subsistence, their rituals and "For some people, body modification beliefs, and the pattern of discrimination is a form of pop expression, while for others they have undergone. it is a rite of passage and a symbol of 1 videocassette (53 min.) belonging. This program travels through the F2230.2.K4 Q47 1993 United States, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka to examine different types of body modification Race: The Power of an Illusion. practiced today, including body painting, California Newsreel (2003) tattooing, scarification, body piercing, and Episode one explores how recent structural alteration"—Container. scientific discoveries have toppled the 1 videocassette (50 min.) concept of biological race. Episode two GN419.25 .R47 2002 questions the belief that race has always been with us. It traces the race concept to Rigoberta Menchu: Broken Silence. the European conquest of the . Films for the Humanities (1993) Episode three focuses on how our 992 Nobel Peace Prize winner, institutions shape and create race. Rigoberta Menchu, discusses the lack of 1 videodisc (168 min.) human rights for the indigenous people of GN269 .R327 2003 Guatemala and her commitment to the struggle for a more egalitarian society. (The) Real Eve. Video Cassette (21 min.) Discovery Channel, (2002) F 1466.5 R53 Using the latest DNA reconstructions and cutting edge technology, scientists Rites. investigate the location of the first woman in Filmakers Library (1991) the human race. Summary in Women's Studies 1 videodisc (103 min.) section. GN289 .R43 2002 Video Cassette (52 min.) GN 448 R57

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River People: Behind the Case of David (The) Scopes Monkey Trial. Sohappy. Courtroom Television Network Filmakers Library (1990) Examines the battle -- more than 70 Portrays a traditional community of years ago -- over the teaching of evolution in fishermen at odds with modernity. Follows public schools. Criminal defense lawyer the story of David Sohappy, a Native Clarence Darrow is pitted against Christian American spiritual leader who was fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan. This sentenced to a five year prison term for historic trial focuses Americans' attention on selling 317 salmon out of season. freedom of speech, separation of church Video Cassette (50 min.) and state and due process and brings to the E 99 Y2 R58 surface issues that are still debated today Video Cassette (47 min.) Rouch in Reverse. KF224.S3 S36 1998 California Newsreel (1995) Looks at European anthropology from Sea Island Sketches. the perspective of its subjects. Diawara National Public Radio pioneers "reverse anthropology" where the Describes the culture and lifestyles of former subjects of investigation study their the Gulla people, descendents of African former investigators. slaves now living on the Sea islands off the Video Cassette (51 min.) coast of South Carolina. GN 21 R63 R68 Cassette E 185.93 S7 S42 Sacred Games: Ritual Warfare in a Maya Village. (The) Search for the First Americans. University of California Extension Media Films for the Humanities (1991) Center (198?) Follows the trail of America's first Every year thousands of Maya inhabitants. Did they really migrate across a Indians gather to celebrate Carnival, the Bering Sea land bridge or did they arrive "festival of games." This film was made thousands of years earlier by some different over a ten year period and captures the route? mystery of the Chamula Carnival, its pre- Video Cassette (1/2', 1 hr.) Columbian imagery and references to E 61 S42 numerous military invasions. Video Cassette (59 min.) Search For the First Human. F 1435.3 R3 S22 PBS Home Video (2002) Examines the implications of Orrorin of Indonesia. tugenensis, a group of six million year-old Filmakers Library fossils found in the Tugen Hills of Kenya, Shows an unspoiled society that is which may shed light on the origins of completely egalitarian, in near perfect humankind. Suggests that if the bones do harmony with their environment. belong to upright-walking, hominid Video Cassette (52 min.) creatures, then our current theories about DS 632 S33 S24 the evolution of human beings may have to be rewritten. Also looks at new ideas about the development of upright walking in humans, which propose that bipedalism developed in the trees, not the open savannah 1 Video Cassette (ca. 60 min.) GN282 .S43 2002

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Search for the Great Apes. Secret of the Wild Child. National Geographic Society (1995) WGBH Boston Video (2006) Examines efforts of Dian Fossey and Examines the case of "Genie," a girl Birute Galdikas-Brindamour to discover new whose parents kept her locked in a bedroom facts about the life and behavior of gorillas in total isolation, until she was discovered in and orangutans. 1970 at age 13. At first, her rehabilitation Video Cassette (1/2', 1 hr.) seemed to be an opportunity to test QL 737 P96 S42 hypotheses of language acquisition, but disputes about the nature of her disabilities, Seasons of a Navajo. the intensity of her therapy, and the PBS (1988) progress of government funded research Captures the traditional lifestyle of the turned Genie's case into a sad example of Navajo family as viewers meet Chanucey the ethical quandaries of research on human and Dorothy Neboyia who maintain their subjects. existence by farming, weaving and tending 1 videodisc (ca. 56 min.) sheep in a hogan. RJ507.A29 S43 2006 Video Cassette (1 hr.) E 99 N3 S43 Secrets of the Choco. Bullfrog Films (1995) (The) Secret of Life. Travels into the Choco in Colombia to PBS (1993) debate the region's future with six of the 1. The Immortal Thread world's experts on tropical ecology and 2. Accidents of Creation sustainable development. 3. Birth, Sex & Death Video Cassette (52 min.) 4. Conquering Cancer F 2281 C5 S42 5. The Mouse that Laid the Golden Egg 6. Cell Wars Secrets of the Stone Age. 7. Children by Design Films for the Humanities & Sciences 8. Who Are You? (2000) See summaries in Biology section. Anthropologist Richard Rudgley 4 Video Cassettes (1 hr.each) argues that civilization began in the Stone QH506 .S43 tapes 1 - 4 Age and not with the Egyptians. 3 Videocassettes (1/2’, 2 hrs 33 min) Secret of the Wild Child. GN768 .S42 2000 Nova Follows the case of Genie, a modern- day "wild child", whose parents kept her imprisoned in her home from infancy. When social workers found her as a teenager, she could not walk or talk. What does this case tell us about how and when we learn the skills that make us human? Video Cassette (1 hr.) RJ 506 D47 S42

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Secrets of the Tribe Settling Down. Documentary Educational Resources, Ambrose Video, (1981) 2010 Richard Leakey traces one of the "The field of anthropology goes under most fundamental changes our species has the magnifying glass in this fiery experienced: the shift from a nomadic investigation of the seminal research on hunter-gatherer way of life to the settled Yanomami Indians. In the 1960s and '70s, a villager and farmer steady stream of anthropologists filed into 1 Video Cassette (55 min.) the to observe this "virgin" GN281 .S48 1989 society untouched by modern life. Thirty years later, the events surrounding this Sewing Woman. infiltration have become a scandalous tale of NAATA (1982) academic ethics and infighting. The origins Tells a story of one woman's journey of violence and war and the accuracy of from an arranged marriage in old China to data gathering are hotly debated among the life as a garment factory worker for over 30 scholarly clan. Soon these disputes take on years. Reflects on overcoming U.S. "Heart of Darkness" overtones as they immigration policies, family separation and decend into shadowy allegations of sexual the hard life of a first-generation immigrant. and medical violation. Director José Padilha Video Cassette (14 min.) brilliantly employs two provocative strategies E 184 C5 S48 to raise unsettling questions about the boundaries of cultural encounters. He allows Sex & marriage. professors accused of heinous activities to Distributed by Insight Media, c2008 defend themselves, and the Yanomamö to "This program shows the diverse represent their side of the story. As this nature of weddings from one culture to riveting excavation deconstructs another emphasizing that weddings are rites anthropology's colonial legacy, it challenges of passage, full of ritual and symbols that our society's myths of objectivity and the convey and emphasize the values of that very notion of "the other""—Container society. It defines marriage and suggests 1 videodisc (98 min.) that this is one way that societies regulate F2520.1.Y3 S43 2010 sexual relations between men and women. It points out that all cultures include rules on who can marry whom because of the Seeking the First Americans. general concern regarding marriage Odyssey (1980?) between close family members, or incest. Archaeologists from Texas to Alaska The incest taboo is discussed, and the search for answers to one of the most narrator and expert anthropologists explain it controversial questions in North American provides a structuring mechanism for history--who were the first Americans and marriage rules, endogamy and . when did they arrive? The controversy Arranged marriages are discussed, how centers on whether Clovis Man, the Stone- they benefit specific societies, and the Age culture of New Mexico dated at 11,000 attitudes toward them as opposed to the B.C., developed within a pre-existing western ideals of romantic love."-- population or was brought via the Bering Publisher's website. Straits land bridge from Asia. 1 videodisc (29 min.) Video Cassette (58 min.) GN484.4 .S48 2008 E 61 S44

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Shamanism: An Ancient Tradition. Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard: Strange Films for the Humanities & Sciences Beliefs. (1999) Films for the Humanities (1990) "Shamans, ritualistic dancers, an His work on found anthropologist, a psychologist, a doctor, and philosophers asking what could be others investigate this form of traditional considered rational thinking in any society. healing, contrasting it with Western medical His study of tribal organization was intriguing science"—Container. to political theorists. His attention to 1 videodisc (40 min.) religious sentiments of so-called primitive BL2370.S5 S47 1999 peoples has had a strong influence on theologians. The Shores of Africa Video Cassette (52 min.) Films Media Group (2007) GN 21 E93 S77 "This two-part series provides an economic, political, and cultural portrait of Six Billion and Beyond. African life, focusing on the countries University of California Extension Center located along the eastern and western for Media and Independent Learning shores of the continent. Each program (1999) analyzes the dynamics of trade, language, Explores the issues of reproductive religion, geography and history that have health, population, and environment in six given Africa its present and evolving nations: Mexico, Kenya, India, China, shape"—Containers. Italy and the United States [disc 1] Africa's east coast ( 53 min.) 1 Video Cassette (56 min.) [disc 2] Africa's west coast (ca. 53 1 booklet ([15] p.) min.) 1 guide (1 sheet) 2 videodiscs (ca. 106 min.) HB871 .S59 1999 DT14 .S55 2007 Sixteen Decisions. Signs of the Apes, Songs of the Whales. University of California Extension Center Time-Life Video (1983) for Media and Independent Learning (2000) Reports research into language Examines the social charter of the development in apes and whales, and Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and the 16 explores the way animals and man may principles which under gird its success by communicate. examining the life of Selina, one of the 2.4 1 videodisc (ca. 55 min.) million Bangladeshi women building stronger QL776 .S55 1983 rural economies through microcredit lending. Video Cassette (59 min.) Since the company came. HG3290.6.A8 G7383 First Run/Icarus Films (2000) Documentary on the dispute among Skin. Solomon Island tribe members concerning a NGHT, Inc., c2006 logging operation A trip back in time explores the 1 Video Cassette (53 min.) evolution of human skin and the rainbow DU850 .S55 2000 diversity of skin color today. Cutting-edge research unveils the role skin plays in human sexual attraction. Go beyond biology to trace the influence of skin on our perceptions of race, our skittishness about nudity, and the intriguing riddle of personal identity. 1 videodisc (57 min.) QP88.5 .S55 2006

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Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Sons of the Moon. Village. University of California (1984) Long Bow Group (1984) Tells its story from the point of view of A look at the lifestyle and social a traditional Ngas bard. He sings of the conditions of women in the village of Long Ngas migration to their hilltop home, of their Bow, located about 400 miles southwest of struggle to eke out a living from the rocky Beijing, where tradition holds that male soil, and of their dependence on the moon. children are Great happiness and female Video Cassette (25 min.) children are Small happiness. Guide (38 p.) Video Cassette (58 min.) DT 515.45 A53 S65 HQ 1768 S63 Sorcerers of Zaire. Social Classes. Films for the Humanities (1996) Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Focuses on four patients and two [2004] healers, following them through their "From the communal hunter/gatherers traditional medical treatments. Observes and agrarian cultures; to ancient empires the rigorous initiation ritual in which masked and medieval fiefdoms; to the technocrats, dancers help prepare boys for manhood. executives, laborers, and others of the Video Cassette (58 min.) stratified modern world, this program DT 1308 C67 S67 examines how each era has organized its members into social classes. Although the (The) Southside Strangler. opportunistic meritocracy of the global Films for the Humanities & Sciences, marketplace has displaced earlier societal (1997) models, do older patterns of privilege still Psychological profiles of known linger?"—Container offenders, glass refractory analysis (the 1 videodisc (53 min.) measuring of glass characteristics through HT609 .S6227 2004 the use of light) and DNA from semen samples recovered from victims' bodies Social primates. match the suspect, and support a conviction Encyclopedia of Britannica Educational of one man and the pardon of another. Corp. (1993) 1 videocassette (25 min.) "This program is designed to teach RA1057.55 .S68 1997 observational skills through observation of the social behavior of primates." Spice Island Saga. 1 Video Cassette (40 min.) + 1 guide Mystic Fire Video (1988) QL737.P9 .S62 1993 The Blair Brothers embark on a 2,000 mile journey through the Spice Islands in Social Stratification. search of the Bird of Paradise. They RMI Media encounter storms, doldrums, sultans, Explains the stratified nature of social transvestite priests, pearl divers and python structure and examines different types of hunters. stratification systems throughout the world Video Cassette (58 min.) and how they developed. DS 632 B85 R55 Video Cassette (30 min.) HM 131 S588 (The) Spirit of Kuna Yala. Filmakers Library (1992) Portrait of a native people determined to survive the encroachment of the western world. Features the Kuna Indians of Panama's San Blas Islands as they unite to protect their rainforest homeland, Kuna Yala. Video Cassette (1 hr.) F 1565.2 C8 S65

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(The) Spirit of the Mask. (The) Sultan's Burden. Gryphon Prod. (1992) Filmakers Library (1994) Unlocks the secret world of the In 1992, Sultan Issa Maigari, ruler of Northwest Coast Indians, revealing the the province of Adamawa, allowed myths, rituals and ceremonies that gave rise anthropologist Lisbet Holtedahl to film his to powerful art and an understanding of life. Shows an ancient world disintegrating man's relationship to the natural and under the pressures of contemporary supernatural worlds. Explores the spiritual political forces. and psychological powers of the mask and Video Cassette (50 min.) rare ceremonies. DT 578.4 M33 Video Cassette (1/2") E 78 N78 S65 (The) Sun Dagger. Atlas Video (1983) Spirits of the Amazon. Documents the celestial calendar WinStar Home Entertainment (1998) created by ancient North American Indians. Jim Burroughs and anthropologist Explores the complex culture of the Anasazi Roxanne Kremer go to the headwaters of Indians who thrived in Chaco Canyon. the Amazon in Peru to see shamans and Video Cassette (1 hr.) healers whose ancient sacred rites summon E 99 S85 Amazon spirits for healing and guidance. Video Cassette (51 min.) Suzhou. F3429.3.M4 S65 1998 University of California Extension Media Center Berkeley (1981) Spirits of the Forest. Documentary about the Yangtze Shanachie, [1996?], Delta city often called the "Venice" of China, Observes various species of lemurs which has been known for centuries as the living on the island of Madagascar center of Chinese culture. 1 Video Cassette (60 min.) Video Cassette (28 min.) QL737.P933 S65 1996 DS 796 S8 S89

Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice. Synergistic Consciousness. Documentary Educational Resources Esalen Institute (1970) (1989) Observations of Ritual of Bushmen of Portrays the traditional Eskimo life of (Botswana). Trance dance the Netsilik Eskimos. Shows a family on the leads to state of trance in which healing shore of Pelly Bay in Nunuvut in May and power is experienced and shared. June. Shows how seals are hunted and how 2 Cassettes (2 hr.) the man and his wife skin the seals. BF 1321 K3 2 videocassettes (24 and 33 min.) E99.E7 S73 1989 pt.1 & 2 Tabloid Editors: Interview. NBC (1988) Stephen Jay Gould. A Glorious Accident. Excerpts from Today Show. Films for the Humanities (1994) Interviews reporter for the "Sun" newspaper, An interview with Gould. well-known for its tabloids of sensational Video Cassette (2 hr.) stories such as possessed toaster and Q 171 G56 no. 6 woman abducted by UFO. Video Cassette (3/4", 5 min.) (The) Strange Disappearance of the N 4888 T3 T33 Anasazi. A&E Television Networks (1999) Taking Pictures. This documentary explores the First Run/Icarus Films (1996) antiquities, dwellings, history, and origins of Explores the issues and pitfalls of the Anasazi and their disappearance from filming across a cultural boundary. the American Southwest. Interviews Australian filmmakers . 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.) Video Cassette (56 min.) E99.P9 S77 1999 GN 347 T33

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(The) Talking Skull. Third World Village Life. Films for the Humanities & Sciences National Public Radio (1981) (1999) Journalist Richard Critchfield A forensic anthropologist identifies a discusses his findings during field studies of victim by using facial reconstruction on a villages in a number of developing countries skull discovered at a Boy Scout camp in with host Harry Ellis Missouri. Cassette (30 min.) Video Cassette (26 min.) HT 431 T44 GN69.8 .T34 1999 (The) Three Worlds of Bali. Taoism: A Question of Balance--China. Odyssey Series (1980) Time-Life Video (1981?) The Three Worlds of Bali visits the Film searches for religious experience Indonesian island where art and religion play in Taiwan. A pantheon of gods both local a major part in daily life. The polytheistic and imported are worshipped in Buddhist Balinese are seen preparing for a festival and Taoist temples. Several strands make held just once every 100 years. up the religious life of the village: a Video Cassette (3/4", 1 hr.) Confucian respect for the past, the cosmic DS 647 B2 T57 pattern of the Tao that permeates all levels of existence and manifests itself through the Time of the Tubuan. oracles, the local gods who dispense justice University of California Extension Center and favors, and the hungry ghosts of the for Media and Independent Learning dead who have to be placated. (1995) Video Cassette (1 hr.) Features the Tolai male initiation BL 1975 Q47 ceremony of which showcases the tubuan, a mask which Teotihuacán: The City of the Gods. personifies power. Films for the Humanities & Sciences Video Cassette (30 min) (2002) GN671.N5 T54 1995 "Reputedly the first great city of the Western hemisphere, Teotihuacán, the City To Taste a Hundred Herbs: Gods, of the Gods, is also one of the most Ancestors, and Medicine in a Chinese mysterious. Who lived there? What were its Village. inhabitants like? Why did their culture Long Bow Group (1984) collapse? Archaeologist Rubén Cabrera A look at traditional Chinese folk Castro, site co-director, leads the way down medicine, along with an exploration of the Avenue of the Dead - and inside both Chinese Catholicism as they are practiced the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of by the doctor of the village of Long Bow. the Moon, normally closed to the public. The Video Cassette (58 min.) city's political, religious, commercial, and RA 771.7 C6 T62 artistic influences on subsequent societies are considered. A virtual fly-over reveals To The Roots: A Maya Reunion. Teotihuacán's carefully planned layout"— Video Project Container. Depicts the journey of two Itza Maya 1 videodisc (27 min.) elders from their village in Peten in northern F1219.1.T27 T45 2002 Guatemala to meet their Lacandon Maya relatives in the rainforest of Chiapas, Textiles in the Southern Andes. Mexico. University of California Berkeley (1993) Video Cassette (28 min.) Explores the weaving traditions and F 1221 L2 T62 techniques of Peru. Reviews pre-Columbian Peruvian textiles and the ways Andean people have introduced their goods to the tourist market. Video Cassette (20 min.) F 3429.3 T3 T48

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(The) Toured: The Other Side of Tourism Trekking on Tradition. in Barbados. University of California (1993) University of California (1992) Explores the effects of mountain Portrays the experience of tourism tourism (trekking) on a small village in rural from the point of view of those who are Nepal. Examines the views of the trekkers "toured" in Barbados. Examines the realities and the Nepalese, and weaves a complex of making a living in a tourist economy, patchwork of conflicting dreams, desires, dealing with stereotypical "ugly Americans", aspirations and frustrations. Illustrates the witnessing one's traditional culture change dramatic impact of tourism on the traditional under the impact of foreign visitors, and practices, culture, and environment of the absorbing government exhortations to region. "make a friend for Barbados today". Video Cassette (45 min.) Video Cassette (38 min.) DS 493.7 T74 G 155 B35 T68 Troubled Paradise. (The) Trail North. CrossCurrent Media (1992) The Cinema Guild (1983) A celebration of the richness of Anthropologist Robert Alvarez and his Hawaiian culture and a look at the social son Luis recreate the journey which their and political problems facing its indigenous family's ancestors made in coming north population. Offers four stories about Native from Mexico several generations ago. Hawaiians fighting for the survival of their Offers a personalized view of the back and culture. forth movement of family members over the Video Cassette (56 min.) course of several generations. Transcript (25 p.) Video Cassette (28 min.) DU 624.65 T76 E 184 M5 T74 Tununeremiut. Transitions: Destruction of a Mother Documentary Educational Resources Tongue. (2006) Piegan Institute & Native Voices (1991) "Four sequences, filmed over a two- Chronicles the disappearance of the month period, portray aspects of the lives of Blackfeet tribal language during 1890-1990, the people of Tununak, a village on the with analysis of why the Mother tongue was southwestern coast of Alaska"--Container. destroyed. Explores the relationship The first sequence is an evacuation of the between language, thought, and culture. village during the Amchitka Island nuclear Examines the impact of language loss in test, for fear the test might cause a tidal Native American communities. wave. The second sequence is a fishing trip, Video Cassette (30 min.) the third is a sudden ocean storm, and the PM 2341 T73 fourth is story-dancing in the community hall. 1 videodisc (35 min.) (The) Treasures of Tutankhamun. E99.E7 T824 2006 PBS Video. Reveals the mystique, art and culture (A) Twentieth Century Medicine Man. of ancient Egypt and the Nile. Public Media Ed. (1994) Video Cassette (3/4", 30 min.) Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin studies DT 87.5 T73 with a Trio healer in the Amazon rain forest and reveals which plants have medicinal Treehouse People: Cannibal Justice. uses. A&E (1994) Video Cassette (28 min.) Documents the life of the Korowai. F 2420.1 T7 T84 Follows the construction of a tree house and delves into their culture and tribal laws. Video Cassette (50 min.) DU 740.42 T74

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Understanding Ancient North America. Unlocking Language. Idea Channel (1992) Films for the Humanities & Sciences, "Can physical archeology and the oral [2005] traditions of existing North Americans be "A diverse group of experts--an brought together in the search for a better evolutionary linguist, a neurologist, a understanding of past cultures? Paul geneticist, a neuropsychologist, a Zolbrod, Frederick F. Seeley Professor of developmental cognitive neuroscientist, and English at Allegheny College and James an Oxford professor of communication-- Adovasio, Director of Anthropology and discuss the birth, development, and Archeology at Mercyhurst College, explore transmission of language. Topics explored this potential linkage. In a 50-minute include language as an innately guided conversation, the two professionals discuss behavior in unborn babies, infants, and the importance of and need for these two toddlers; the parts of the brain involved in sciences to come together in order to give language; the relationship between genes depth and dimension to past cultures"— and language disorders; and the isolation of Publisher. the Speech 1 gene"—Container. 1 videocassette (47 min.) 1 videodisc (29 min.) E77.9 .U53 1992 P116 .U55 2005

Understanding Race. Urban tribe. Films for the Humanities University of California Extension Center Examines the history and power of for Media and Independent Learning (1997) the artificial distinction called "race", viewing African Americans discuss it within historical, scientific, and cultural their hairstyles while having their hair contexts. Topics include the anthropological braided in a Chicago salon unity of Homo sapiens; sanctioned 1 Video Cassette (54 min.) discrimination, such as segregation; cultural TT972 .U73 2000 biases based on racial stereotypes; and the underlying humanity that inextricably links us Village Potters of Onda. all. Alpha Video (1963) Video Cassette (52 min.) A filmed account of the activities and GN269 .U53 1999 way of life of Japanese folk potters in Onda, a remote village in the mountains of north Unearthing the Slave Trade. central Kyushu. Describes the personalities Films for the Humanities (1993) and attitudes of the villagers and their social Archaeological excavation of sites on structure. Provides a detailed account of both sides of the Atlantic is bringing to light traditional pottery making techniques which aspects of the slave trade long buried. have remained relatively unchanged for over African labor was essential in the building of 250 years New York and a major African American Video cassette (27 min.) burial site is being excavated. NK4168.O53 V54 1992 Video Cassette (1/2', 28 min.) E 445 N56 U54 Voices of the Orishas. University of California Berkeley (1994) Demonstrates the survival and strength of the Yoruba cultural and religious heritage in the contemporary life of Caribbean African-Hispanics. Documents a Guemilere. Video Cassette (37 min.) BL 2532 S3 V65

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Voices of the Orishas. Western Eyes Berkeley, CA : Berkeley Media, (2006) First Run/Icarus Films, (2000) An ethnographic documentary on the Examines the search for practice of Santeria in Havana, Cuba, and beauty and self-acceptance through the its roots in Yoruba cultural and religious experiences of a young Filipino and Korean heritage. Records a religious ceremony that woman living in Canada who both believe features dancing, singing, and drum beating their appearance, specifically their eyes, invoking the Orishas, and also separate affect the way they are perceived. Both feel dances representing the interaction of the unsettled in Western society and are Orishas. contemplating cosmetic surgery on their 1 videodisc (38 min.) eyes. Layering interviews with references to BL2532.S3 V65 2006 super models and other pop-culture icons of beauty, the filmmaker captures the pain that Warrior Marks. almost always lies behind the desire for Women Make Movies (1993) plastic surgery Unlocks some of the cultural and 1 videocassette (40 min.) political complexities surrounding the issue RD119.5.E94 W47 2000 of female genital mutilation. Interviews women from Senegal, The Gambia, Burkino What Do Primatologists Do? Faso, the U.S., and England who are Documentary Educational Resources concerned with and affected by genital (1997) mutilation. Introduces the author of these videos Video Cassette (1/2’, 54 min.) and discusses the range of ways primates GN 484 W352 can be observed. Also discuses the problems encountered in setting up a Washoe: Monkeys & Sign Language. research project and requirements for a Films for the Humanities (1997) successful outcome. Includes a section on Traces the life and accomplishments conservation concerns. Video is a of Washoe. Follows her first communication combination of slides and video footage in sign language with her human parents, to 1 Video Cassette (52 min.) her role as teacher of sign language to her QL737.P9 W43 1997 son and fellow monkeys. Video Cassette (53 min.) When Women Go Through Menopause, QL 737 P96 W37 Where Do Men Go?: the Other Side of the Moon. Waorani: The Last of the Rain Forest Fanlight Productions (1996) People. Men "talk back" about how Yeah But/Not Now Productions, c2005 menopause affects them, and air concerns "The Waorani have a reputation of about their own aging: sexuality, retirement, being the fiercest warriors in the Amazon. empty nest syndrome--and why some men They have never been conquered or find the discussion so embarrassing. Man- colonized. Since oil companies have entered on-the-street interviewer Mal Sharpe asks a their territory, the Waorani have made deals, host of men and health professionals to *oil for a pack of noodles and two soccer explore the effects of menopause and aging balls*, deals in exchange for nothing. The on all of us Waorani will continue to struggle for their 1 Video Cassette (56 min.) survival, but in order to preserve their HQ28 .W45 1996 homeland and culture they must, paradoxically, adopt modern ways"-- Witchcraft Among the Azande. Publisher's website. Filmakers Library 1 videodisc (29 min.) Focuses on the human side of F3722.1.H83 W36 2005 Azande life and the sincerity with which individuals meet their needs through the practice of magic. Video Cassette (1/2") BF 1584 S73 W57

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Women in China. (A) World of Food : Tastes & Taboos in Pacifica Tape Library (1973) Different Cultures. Women's historian Linda Gordon and University of California Extension Center high school teacher Jean Tepperman for Media and Independent Learning, present their impressions of the role of (2000) women in China based on travels in China in Examines some of the attitudes that December, 1972. make food a fascinating focus of powerful Cassette cultural and individual differences. In this HV 861 C5 G67 film food choices are divided into 7 primary categories and a variety of individuals from Women of Manga various cultures and ethnic and religious Films for the Humanities (1992) affiliations are interviewed concerning what Focuses on the traditions according to they are willing to eat and why. which the women live, behave, and make 1 Video Cassette (36 min.) themselves beautiful. Shows complicated GT2860 .W67 2000 painting that constitutes make-up, hairstyles and their meanings, the role of facial scars Yakoana: The Voice of Indigenous and jewelry. Peoples. Video Cassette (12 min.) Parabola 1997) DT 547.45 M35 W64 Documentary of The First World Conference of Indigenous Peoples held in Women's Work: Urban Bush Women. the jungles of Brazil. Captures the stories, Phoenix Films & Video music, ceremony and dance of the historic Explores the impact of the interaction gathering. with the museum on the Richmond, Video Cassette (1 hr.) Virginia, community, the Urban Bush GN380 Y33 Women, and the museum through interviews with the participants and showing The Yavapai Story. their performances. Landmark Media (1992) Video Cassette (27 min.) Follows one small tribe from the GV1786 U7 W65 creation of the world until 1992. Presents their history, culture, and their current Wonders of the African World. struggles. PBS (1999) Video Cassette (58 min.) This documentary presents Henry E99.Y5 Y39 Louis Gates, Jr. on a journey from Zanzibar to Timbuktu, the Nile River Valley to Great Yo Soy. Zimbabwe, the slave coast of Guinea to the Cinema Guild (1972) medieval monasteries of Ethiopia in search Portrays the Chicano experience from of the lost wonders of the African world its roots in pre-Columbian history to current Tape 1: Black Kingdoms of the Nile and Mexican-American struggles. Features The sequences on the beginnings of the Aztec Tape 2: The Slave Kingdoms and The civilization in the 14th century, the arrival of Holy Land Cortez and the Spanish conquest, the birth Tape 3: The Road to Timbuktu and Lost of the Mexican nation, the Mexican- Cities of the South American War, and the 1910 Revolution. 3 Video Cassettes (2 hr. each) Spanish dialogue with English subtitles. DT14 .G3852 1999 Video Cassette (3/4", 1 hr.) E 184 M4 Y6

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