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ANTHROPOLOGY
The Ascent of man.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
Q175 .B7918 1973
Carnival Bahia.
The city of Bahia in northern Brazil is a riot of dance, music, and celebration
during Carnival, a pre-Lenten festival which ends on Shrove Tuesday. For
five days, the poor become the kings of the town, and festival participants
divide into groups, each trying to outdo the other in producing spectacular
floats, dazzling costumes, and exuberant displays.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GT4233.B3 C31991
The changing role of women.
Bateson, an anthropologist, talks with Moyers about the future of children,
women in transition, and families.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
B29.B38 C53 1994
A Clearing in the jungle.
Documentary about the Panare Indians of Venezuela and how their lives are
affected by the 20th century.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F2319.2.P34 C64 1991
Columbus didn't discover us.
Indians from Norh, Central, and South America speak of the impact the Columbus
legacy has had on the lives of indigenous people.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E58 .C64 1992
The country of the twelve peoples (The Etruscans).
Surveys the first Italian civilization, that of the Etruscans, particularly
the influence of the Greeks on the Etruscans and their own later influence
on the Romans. Briefly discusses the history of Etruria; shows tombs, ruins
of cities, frescoes, and statuary; the stresses the vitality of Etruscan art
Johnson Center - Videotapes
DE86 .C53 no.7
Cultura Chavøn.
This documentary explores the remnants of civilizations left by early indigenous
cultures who inhabited regions now belonging to Peru.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F3429 .C8 1990
Cultura Nazca.
This documentary explores the remnants of the Nazca, one of the indigenous
cultures who inhabited regions now belonging to Peru.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F3429 .C81 1990
The Early Americans.
Presents results of anthropological studies in the North
American continent by several universities and their archaeological finds
at the several digging sites, relating to the inhabitants for the last 10,000
years.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E58 .E2
Evolution and human equality.
Using paleontology, evolutionary biology, genetics, history of science and
social history as his tools, Gould tells the fascinating story of how racial
differences have been misunderstood by scientists from pre-Darwinian days
to the present and used to justify oppression, exploitation and persecution.
He describes how new genetic research methods confirm the African origins
of homo sapiens and the biological equality of the races. He concludes with
a plea for students to understand the tremendous social and political power
of scientific work, and scientists' responsibility to humankind.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GN281 .E86
The Feast.
Examines the first stages of alliance formation between two mutually hostile
Yanomano Indian villages in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. Describes
in detail the preparations for a feast involving the inhabitants of the villages and presents scenes of chanting, dancing, and trading at the feast.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F2520.1.Y3 F43
First contact.
Recounts the discovery of a flourishing native population in the interior
highlands of New Guinea in 1930 in what had been thought to be an uninhabited
area. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers'
gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting.
Includes still photographs taken by a member of the expedition and contemporary
footage of the island's terrain.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GN671.N5 F57
Garth Fagan's Griot New York.
Following brief interviews with Garth Fagan and Wynton Marsalis, the program
includes a complete performance of Griot New York. The concept of a griot,
a West African storyteller who keeps the cultural heritage of a people alive,
is used to depict the non-European culture of New York City, and particularly
the African and Caribbean backgrounds of some of its residents.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GV1783 .G37 1995
The Gods must be crazy.
An empty Coke bottle drops from the sky near an African San hunter and is
brought into his camp, but after causing much trouble to the group, he tries
to return the bottle to the gods who must have dropped it.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
PN1997 .G54
Gorillas in the mist.
Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey who travels
to the African mountains to study the rare gorillas.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
PN1997 .G675
Healers of Ghana.
Explores the traditional medical practices of the Bono people of central
Ghana and how their healers are accommodating the conflict between the arrival
of Western medicine and their religious beliefs. Traditionally, Bono tribal
priests undergo a painful spiritual possession, during which deities reveal
to them the causes of illnesses, which plants to use to treat them, who
is perpetrating witchcraft, and which villagers might be endangering society
through improper behavior.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
DT510 .H43 1996
Hopi, songs of the fourth world.
An in-depth look at the meaning of the Hopi way, a philosophy of living
in balance with nature. Describes the Hopi philosophy of life, death, and
renewal as revealed in the interweaving life cycle of humans and corn plants.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E99.H7 H687 1983
Iceman.
Five thousand years ago, a man perished in an Alpine mountain storm. In
1991 his frozen body was found, along with artifacts of his vanished way
of life. The program covers the international effort to unlock the secrets
of this astonishing discovery.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GN741 .I3 1992
Images, 150 years of photography.
Draws on the anthropological photographic collections of the Pitt Rivers
Museum, Oxford ; the Royal Anthropological Institute ; and the Cambridge
University. The program also deals with the work of an amateur archaeologist,
Gertrude Bell.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
TR775 .E93
In and out of Africa.
"During the colonial period in the 1920's, European interest in collecting
African art stimulated a transnational trade between Africa and the West.
Today this multi-million dollar trade lies largely in the hands of Muslim
merchants. This is a story about Gabai Baar_, a merchant who brings 'wood'
from West Africa to sell in the United States. It is a story about the meaning
of art."
Johnson Center - Videotapes
N8620 .I5 1992
In her own time.
Focuses on cultural anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff's study of the community
of Hasidic Jews in Los Angeles's Fairfax neighborhood. Tells also how, after
exhausting medical treatment for cancer, she found strength among the traditions,
faith, and caring of these Orthodox Jews.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F869.H38 I6
Inughuit.
Documents the Inuit way of life in the Thule district of northernmost Greenland.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E99.E7 I68 1985
Ishi in two worlds.
Recounts the life of Ishi, the sole survivor of a small band of Yahi Indians,
who was found in 1910 in Oroville, Calif. Dramatizes the enormous contrast
between his former Stone Age existence and his life in early twentieth-century California.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E99.Y23 I85
Ishi.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E99.Y23 I815 1992
Kataragama.
Documentary follows the religious devotions of a family in central Ceylon
when they appeal to the god Kataragama to help them find their missing son.
Includes their attendance of the yearly festival at the shrine of Kataragama.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
BL1160.5 .K383
Kawelka.
In Papua New Guinea, status is earned by giving things away rather than
acquiring them. Explores the Moka, a ceremony in which people, sometimes
the whole tribe, give gifts to members of other tribes, the larger the gift,
the greater the victory over the recipient. Follows Ongka as he prepares
for the giving of his Moka.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
DU740.42 .K3 1991
The Kayapo.
Documents life among the Kayapo Indians of central Brazil, a fiercely independent
tribe, who were forced to become "businessmen" or see their traditional
way of life destroyed.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F2520.1.C45 K36 1991
The Kayapo.
Documents the opposition of the Kayapo Indians of central Brazil to the
construction of a hydroelectric dam at Altamira. Includes the demonstration
by 600 Kayapo against the proposed dam and their success in stopping its
construction.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F2520.1.C45 K38 1991
Kinship and descent.
Examines inheritance and subsistance patterns, children's names, married
names, and important family names in business and government as cultural
examples of kinship and descent in the United States; contrasted with matrilineal
descent patterns among the Trobriand Islanders, and economic and religious
elements in the Mendi clans.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GN487 .K56 1983
!Kung San.
"This videotape is compiled from the original work and film footage
of John K. Marshall."
Johnson Center - Videotapes
DT797 .K86 1987
The Last of the Cuiva.
Anthropologist Bernard Arcand examines the life style of 600 remaining Cuiva
Indians in Colombia and the influences and pressures on the people from
outside.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F2319.2.C78 L27 1991
The Lau of Malaita.
Documentary about the safe and disease-free life the Lau Indians have established
on the South Pacific Islands.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GN671.S6 L38 1991
The Lost tribe.
This program examines the controversial study of the tiny Tasaday tribe
discovered in the remote Philipine rain forest in 1971. Initially hailed
as the anthropological find of the century, many reputable anthropologists
have declared it a hoax, a plot of the regime of Ferdinand Marcos and his
Minister for Tribal Affairs. Arguments are presented on both sides of this
intriguing issue.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
DS666.T32 L6 1993
Margaret Mead.
A video about the life of Margaret Mead as an anthropologist.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GN21.M36 M27
Mary Catherine Bateson.
Anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson discusses the future of children,
working women, and the creative life.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
HD6053 .M37 1994
The Mehinacu.
The Mehinacu live in a small village in the central Brazilian rain forest.
The focus of this program is their annual celebration designed to ensure
a good fruit harvest. Their peaceful way of life is threatened by a planned
road through the forest.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F2520.1.M44 M4 1991
Mokil.
Organized around the problems of growing population in a closed ecological
setting, the film touches on almost all aspects of life on a tiny Micronesian
atoll.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GN671.C3 M65
Mountain Wolf Woman.
Presents life story of a Wisconsin Winnebago Indian woman as told to anthropologist
Nancy Lurie. Narrated by Mountain Wolf Woman's granddaughter, Naomi Russell.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E99.W7 M68 1990
Nanook of the north.
A 1921 documentary about the communal life of the Eskimos and their struggle
for existence.
Location: Johnson Center - Videotapes
E99.E7 N18 1984
The Nature of anthropology.
Anthropology is defined and described with an emphasis on its holistic approach,
its scientific techniques, and its assumption of the value of each society.
The problems related to ethnocentrism are reviewed as are some of the theories
and goals of the anthropologist. Margaret Mead and Franz Boas are included
in this overview.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GN25 .N38
Number our days.
Interviews conducted by anthropologist Barbara G. Myerhoff to document lives
of Jewish senior citizens of Israel Levin Senior Adult Center, Venice, Calif.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F869.V36 N8
On top of the whale.
A Dutch anthropologist couple studies the lives of two Indians, the last
survivors of a lost tribe, and finds unexplained mysteries.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
PN1997 .O59
Patently offensive.
"Examines pornography in its social and historical context."
Johnson Center - Videotapes
HQ471 .P38
Pathans.
Looks at the long struggle of the Pathans, a group of detached and independent
tribes living on the borders of Pakistan and Afghanistan, to hold on the
their territory.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
DS380.P8 P38 1991
Pizza pizza daddy-o.
Shows Afro-American girls playing singing games on a Los Angeles playground.
Provides an anthropological and folkloric record of eight of these games.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GV1215 .P59
Preschool in three cultures.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
LB1140.25.J3 T63 1989
The Sakuddei.
Examines an Indonesian people whose existence centers on a spiritual harmony
with the souls of their ancestors and with their jungle environment.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
DS632.S33 S34
Science or sacrilege.
Discusses the issue of the controversy between Indians and scientists on
the excavations and study of Indian burial grounds and remains. Examines
the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation act (NAGPRA) passed
in 1990, its underlying moral and political issues, its practical consequences,
and the prospects for science in the post-NAGPRA world.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
E98.A55 W36
Sherpas.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
DS493.9.S5 S54 1991
Slavery's buried past.
This show focuses on Michael Blakey, a Howard University biological anthropologist,
as he does research on human skeletons found in an 18th Century slave graveyard
uncovered in New York City in 1991.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F128.3 .S63 1996
Strangers abroad.
Chronicles the lives and careers of Sir Walter Baldwin Spencer, Franz Boas,
William Rivers, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead, and Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GN20 .S77
The Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea.
The Trobriand Islands, regarded as anthropology's most sacred place, lie
off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. The island society has a complex
balance of male authority and female wealth. Magic spells and sorcery pervade
everyday life. This program focuses on two important events: the distribution
of women's wealth after a death, and the "month of play", a time
of celebration following the yam harvest.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
GN671.N5 T76 1991
The Tuareg.
Discusses the deterioration of the traditional social structure of the Tuaregs
in Algeria and questions how they will adapt in order to survive the 20th
century.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
DT346.T7 T9 1991
Umbanda.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
BL2592.U5 U63 1991
Wanted, Butch and Sundance.
Documents the search for the physical remains of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid, in an effort to answer the question of how they died and where they
were buried. The search takes forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow to a cemetery
in San Vincente, Bolivia.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F959 .W3 1993
War of the gods.
For thousands of years, the Maku and Barasana Indians have lived in the
deep forests of northwest Amazonia. Now the traditions of the past are giving
way to the forces of Christianity as Catholic missionaries and American
evangelists compete to convert the Indians.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
F2520.1.M2 W37 1991
The Whale hunters of Lamalera.
Looks at the Lamaholot people living in the village of Lamalera on an island
in Indonesia, who hunt sperm whale from May to October. Their way of life
is now being threatened by the scarcity of their prey resulting in migration
from the island of people seeking more profitable work elsewhere.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
SH383.5.I5 W53 1991
Who watches the watchers.
An Away Team is despatched to Mintaka Three where a Federation outpost has
suffered an explosion. Hidden from view, Federation anthropologists have
been observing the Vulcan-like Mintakans, whose world mirror that of Earth's
bronze age.
Johnson Center - Videotapes
PN1997 .S8378 W56
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