All review items as of November 23, 2009. [most recent items only]
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Ahmad, Irfan
2009 Islamism and Democracy in India: the Transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Subject: Islam and politics - India; Islam and secularism - India; Democracy - Religious aspects - Islam; Jama`at-i Islami (India) - Political activity; India - Politics and government
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[3551]Metcalf, Barbara Daly
2009 Islam in South Asia In Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Subject: Islam - South Asia
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[3550]Salzman, Philip Carl & Donna Robinson Divine
2009 Postcolonial Theory and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. London: Routledge.
Subject: CONTENTS: Introduction / Donna Robinson Divine -- Essentialism, consistency and Islam : a critique of Edward Said's Orientalism / Irfan Khawaja -- Postcolonialsim and the utopian imagination / Ronald Niezen -- Orientalism and the foreign sovereign : today I am a man of law / Ed Morgan -- Mistakenness and the nature of the 'post' : the ethics and the inevitability of error in theoretical work / Laurie Zoloth -- The influence of Edward Said and Orientalism on anthropology, or: Can the anthropologist speak? / Herbert S. Lewis -- Postcolonial theory and the ideology of peace studies / Gerald M. Steinberg -- The missing piece : Islamic imperialism / Efraim Karsh -- The Muslim man's burden : Muslim intellectuals confront their imperialist past / David Cook -- Negating the legacy of jihad in Palestine / Andrew G. Bostom -- Arab culture and postcolonial theory / Philip Carl Salzman -- Edward Said and the culture of honour and shame : Orientalism and our misperceptions of the Arab-Israeli conflict / Richard Landes -- Postcolonial theory and the history of Zionism / Gideon Shimoni -- De-Judaizing the homeland : academic politics in rewriting the history of Palestine / S. Ilan Troen -- The Middle East conflict and its postcolonial discontents / Donna Robinson Divine -- The political psychology of postcolonial ideology in the Arab world : an analysis of 'occupation' and the 'right of return' / Irwin J. Mansdorf.; Arab-Israeli conflict - Historiography; Postcolonialism
Listed: 11/01/2009 »» Request this book
[3548]Gregg, Andrew
2009 A Story Told in Stone: French Polynesia. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: The French Polynesian islands once housed thriving native populations that were tragically wiped out by European disease. The vines and trees of the jungles consumed huge stone cities that sprawled across the interiors of Tahiti, Raivavae and the Marquesas Islands. The structures remained forgotten until archeologist Edmundo Edwards rediscovered them. Now, with each swipe of his machete, Edmundo is bringing to light a world that no one has ever imagined existed.
Listed: 10/27/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3547]
2009 The Everlasting Oasis: Ancient Egypt Before the Pyramids. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: For 400,000 years, a remote Egyptian oasis has been inhabited by waves of people- from stone age man to modern-day Muslims. Egyptologist Tony Mills and his team are unearthing artifacts and examining skeletal remains of "the other Egypt," far away from the pyramids and the Nile. The sands surrounding the Dakhleh Oasis conceal mysteries of life dating back long before recorded history - back before the Sahara Desert even existed.
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[3546]
2009 The Last Nomads: The Penan of Borneo. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: Linguist Ian Mackenzie has tracked the last true nomadic hunting and gathering people on earth - the Penan of Borneo. Their way of life is quickly disappearing as aggressive logging interests swallow up their forest habitat. Mackenzie has spent years compiling the very first dictionary of the unique Penan language - a language that has words for every forest plant and creature, a language that is a window into an entirely different way of seeing the world. It is also a language on the edge of disappearing. A beautiful, but heartbreaking look at a very singular people on the brink of obliteration.
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[3545]
2009 The Lost People of the Baja: The Pericu of Baja California, Mexico. The Adventurers Series. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: Canadian paleo-pathologist Eldon Molto is leading the search for clues of the mysterious Pericu people of Baja California, Mexico - a fierce, independent tribe that disappeared over a century ago, after being exposed to European disease. They left virtually nothing behind but their bones. But by using DNA, Molto is piecing together the story of the Pericu and along the way makes a surprising discovery that these vanished people have descendants very much alive.
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[3544]
2009 Buried Stories: A Native American Preserves Her Heritage. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: Buried Stories unearths the life story of a Native American (Ohlone/Esselen) woman named Ella Rodriguez, who, in her seventies, still resents that she was taken from her rural California home at age thirteen and sent to an Indian boarding school. After running away from the school and becoming ensnared in the juvenile justice system, she was forced into marriage by a parole officer at eighteen, then labored as a migrant worker. In the 1970s, when Ella was 44, she protested for weeks to stop the destruction of a Native American cemetery site and dedicated her life to preserving her heritage.; After two decades of working on endangered construction sites to oversee and protect Native American burial grounds, Ella obtained an informal but comprehensive education about her ancestors. Ella’s later years bridged her Native American past and modern archaeological research. A resilient and wisecracking woman in a hard hat, Ella fought to preserve her ancestors’ history. In the process, she connected with her painful personal past as she unearthed troubling official documents relating to her youth. Told through Ella’s charismatic and poignant lens, her story incites curiosity about the historical and cultural forces that shaped her destiny and identity
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[3543]
2009 World of Witchcraft. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: Belief in the power of witchcraft is pervasive and profoundly entrenched in many parts of Africa. In the Central African Republic, one of the poorest countries in the world, these matters are taken an extraordinary step further. Thousands of men, women and children are arrested and tried for committing the crime of witchcraft every year. Witchcraft is an enshrined element of their legal system --- formally treated as a crime. The award-winning African journalist Sorious Samura investigates a nation that appears gripped by fear, where persecution for witchcraft is reminiscent of Medieval Europe.; Astonishingly, the state plays a key role by arresting and trying the supposed witches. In one neighborhood where witch-hysteria has been hitting fever pitch, Jeanne, an old woman, is accused of witchcraft because her nephew said she used witchcraft over his wife. She is sentenced to three years in prison without a trial. People are tortured to get them to confess, and then may be killed by mobs. Hundreds accused as witches are executed each year; The film goes inside a courtroom where a witch trial is taking place and also visits a prison where men, women and children are confined in insufferable space. An attorney argues that no modern country should include witchcraft as a crime, or mob justice will run rampant. Yet prisoners are often sentenced for five to ten years imprisonment as witches, or even receive the death penalty.
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[3542]Gibson, Shimon
2009 The Final Days of Jesus: The Archaeological Evidence. New York: HarperOne.
Subject: Jesus Christ - Biography - Passion Week; Jesus Christ - Historicity; Jerusalem - Antiquities; Bible. N.T. Gospels - Antiquities
Listed: 10/23/2009 »» Request this book
[3541]Widick, Richard
2009 Trouble in the Forest: California's Redwood Timber Wars. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Environmentalism - Social aspects - California; Forest conservation - California - Citizen participation; Redwood industry - Social aspects - California; Logging - California; Ecoterrorism - California; Anti-environmentalism - California
Listed: 10/23/2009 »» Request this book
[3540]a film by Helga Reidemeister
2009 War and Love in Kabul. NY: Icarus Films.
Subject: Hossein and Shaima, who have known and loved each other since childhood, were separated as teenagers by war in Afghanistan. Today, reunited in Kabul, they remain deeply in love, but their relationship is socially and religiously prohibited.; Hossein, young and jobless in the late Nineties, was paid to fight with the Taliban and a war injury left his legs paralyzed. He is now handicapped, and unable to work. Shaima was sold in marriage to a man forty years her senior, by whom she had a child, but, since the dowry remained unpaid, her father brought her back home to live with her five-year-old child.WAR AND LOVE IN KABUL, a deliberately paced, observational documentary, reveals their dilemma through interviews with Hossein and Shaima, and members of their respective families, each representing a different ethnic group, who object to the relationship because of their loyalty to ancient tribal laws and family notions of honor and pride. Indeed, the lovers live under the threat of violent revenge by male members of both families. ;
Listed: 10/05/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3536]a film by Peter Woditsch
2008 Secret Museums. NY: Icarus Films.
Subject: Throughout the ages, erotic art has been created by some of the world's best-known artists, but it is rarely on public display. Whether it is held in private collections, or kept under lock and key in museums and libraries worldwide, erotic art and literature remains censored. But when graphic, even extreme sexual imagery is freely available on the Internet, why is erotic art considered so dangerous that it must be prohibited? Filmed in England, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the U.S., SECRET MUSEUMS explores the locked rooms, warehouses, museum cellars, bank safes and private homes where erotica is hidden, from the British Museum and the National Library of France to Munich's National Graphics Collection and the Vatican, home of the world's largest collection of pornography. Gaining access to carefully guarded collections with names such as "Secretum," "Gabinetto Segreto" and "L'Enfer," the film reveals books and images never before filmed or photographed.;
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[3535]Hurt, Byron
2006 I am a Man: Black Masculinity in America. : Media Education Foundation.
Subject: This award-winning documentary links everyday black men from various socioeconomic backgrounds with some of Black America's most progressive academics, social critics and authors to provide an engaging, candid dialogue on black masculine identity in American culture. Featuring interviews with bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, John Henrick Clarke, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, MC Hammer, and others. ; Sections: Introduction | Images | The Cool Pose | Emotions | Black Male Homosexuality | Black Males: Violence and Fears | Sexism: Men's Violence Against Women | Fathers | The Future
Listed: 09/17/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3533]Jhally, Sut
1997 Stuart Hall: Representation and the Media. : Media Education Foundation.
Subject: In this accessible introductory lecture, Hall focuses on the concept of "representation"-- one of the key ideas of cultural studies-- and shows how reality is never experienced directly, but always through the symbolic categories made available by society. ; Sections: Intro | Visual Representation & The Contemporary World | An Old View | A New View | Culture as Primary | Conceptual Maps | Language & Communication | Reality & Discourse | The Practices of Signification | Meaning & Absence | Identity, Identification & The Viewer | Meaning is Interpretation | Ideology & Power Fix Meaning | Contesting Stereotypes | What is at Stake in Representation ; ; Stuart Hall, a leading figure of the British left over the past thirty years and a visionary race theorist, had made profound contributions to the field of cultural studies at the Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University. His work has made possible multiple conversations taking place around questions of culture, race and ethnicity.
Listed: 09/17/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3530]Boellstorff, Tom
2008 Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Subject: Ethnology - Computer network resources; Ethnology - Interactive media; Ethnology - Fieldwork; Second Life (Game); Internet; Virtual reality
Listed: 09/01/2009 »» Request this book
[3521]A film by Sabine Jell-Bahlsen
1994 Owu: Chidi Joins the Okoroshi Secret Society. Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: Witness an uncompromising portrait of a young man's initiation into a men's secret society. It begins with the elder griot and praise singer talking about the origins of the "Owu" society. Two keepers of tradition, the griot and the town's oldest woman and female griot, Ezenwanyi (Leader of Women), narrate this film continuing their role as commentators in the life of the village. Owu explores the pluralistic lives of Africans as they come up against westernized Christian influence. Many significant rituals are filmed for the first time. The program shows respect for the subject's traditions. ;
Listed: 08/25/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3514]A film by Rolf Husmann and Manfred Krüger
2008 The Professional Foreigner: Asen Balikci and Visual Ethnography. Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: Asen Balikci has been a leading figure in making ethnographic films for many decades. In a series of talks between Balikci and filmmaker Rolf Husmann in different locations, the life and work of Asen Balikci are shown and discussed: the film takes us from Asen's youth in Istanbul to his career in Canada where he became famous for making the Netsilik Eskimo Series, to filming in Afghanistan and then turning to two other activities of his: as a networker for the Commission on Visual Anthropology (CVA) and as a teacher of Summer Schools in Siberia and Bulgaria. His film work among the Bulgarian Pomak and his still ongoing work in Sikkim (India) conclude the film which is not only the portrait of a famous expert in Visual Ethnography, but also more generally touches upon vital issues of ethnographic filmmaking.;
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[3513]A film by Eric Bednarski & Barry Cowling
2006 The Al Hadji and His Wives. Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: The Al-Hadji and His Wives is a film portrait of a Mbororo Fulani patriarch, Al-Hadji Isa, his savvy wives, and their rebellious daughters. The documentary provides a glimpse into their everyday lives, religious and moral practices, as well as the political opinions the Al-Hadji has to offer from his particular corner of the world.; With a critical but sympathetic gaze, it also chronicles and investigates the process and rationale by which Amina, a 16-year-old daughter of the family, is forced into an unwanted marriage. While her attempted escape had been in vain, Amina has inscribed her silent protest on the walls of her mother's hut and onto the film, serving as a testimony of women's resistance and resilience under an oppressive patriarchy. ; ;
Listed: 08/25/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3512]By Christian Suhr and Ton Otto
2009 Ngat is Dead: Studying Mortuary Traditions. Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: What do anthropologists mean when they claim to study the cultural traditions of others by participating in them? This film follows the Dutch anthropologist Ton Otto, who has been adopted by a family on Baluan Island in Papua New Guinea. Due to the death of his adoptive father, he has to take part in mortuary ceremonies, whose form and content are passionately contested by different groups of relatives. Through prolonged negotiations, Ton learns how Baluan people perform and transform their traditions and not least what role he plays himself. The film is part of long-term field research, in which filmmaking has become integrated in the ongoing dialogue and exchange between the islanders and the anthropologist.;
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[3511]a film by Rina Sherman
2006 When Visitors Come. Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: A film about the relationship between anthropologist Rina Sherman and an Omuhimba family with whom she lived for seven years, filming and photographing aspects of their everyday and ritual lives. Halfway through her tenure in the field, Sherman presented a multi-media exhibition, entitled The Ovahimba Years: Work in Progress in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. A group of young people from the community of Etanga travelled to Windhoek to participate in the exhibition.; The film explores the evolution of this relationship that lead to the exhibition, shows the group of young people discovering the presentation of their cultural heritage at the exhibition, holding performances as part of the programme presented, and shows the resulting discussions and consequences of the exhibition, once everyone is back in Ovahimba country. When Visitors Come is a film about an anthropologist in situ, and evokes several notions central to fieldwork, such as the nature of the bond between the observer and the observed, the observed observer, participant-anthropology and emotion as possible vector or hindrance in fieldwork.;
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[3509]a film by Kal Muller
1972 Land-Divers of Melanesia. Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: On the island of Pentecost in the New Hebrides archipelago, a few hundred Melanesians maintain a traditional life thanks to their geographic isolation and to the leaders who have resisted Christianity, schools and cooperatives. Bunlap, where this film was shot, is the largest and most important community of these people.; To ensure a good yam crop, men of Pentecost Island in Melanesia attach vines to their ankles and dive headlong from a wooden tower over 100 feet tall, a ritual referred to as Naghol or land-diving. Those who dive say the fall clears their mind. The vines are relatively elastic and the ground is softened so injury is rare. For Pentecost Islanders the annual dive takes an appropriate place among other rituals and ceremonies such as blessing the taro crop, circumcising young boys and feasting with relatives, all of which keep them in touch with the forces that control the world in which they live.; Today this ritual has become a tourist attraction for many Westerners, much to the chagrin of anthropologists, and package land diving tours can be arranged throughout the yam harvest season.;
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[3508]a film by Anne Zeller
2008 Macaques. Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: This video presents an overview of the genus Macaca, beginning with a discussion of their place in the primate order and their adaptability. This potential for eating a wide variety of foods and living in both temperate and tropical environments at a variety of altitudes means they are very similar to humans in their ability to exploit a range of habitats.; After the introduction by Professor Zeller, the video covers 6 species of the approximately 18 types of macaques. The groups chosen range from the only Euro/African species (Macaca sylvanus, the Barbary macaque) at the west end of their range to the Japanese macaques at the eastern edge. The common rhesus and long-tailed macaques are included who range very widely across South-east Asia and these are contrasted with 2 species endemic to the island of Sulawasi in Indonesia. One of these is a new species discovered in the 1990's on the southern Sulawasi Island of Buton, (Macaca Brunescens) and the other is the rarely seen Macaca (Cynopithecus) nigra, one of the larger forms. Material on sexual dimorphism, locomotion, male-female relations, infant care, diet, group social patterns, grooming and communication is covered for each group, pointing out the differences and similarities between the species. Footage from free ranging and captive situations is used and the impact of captivity on behaviour is mentioned.; This video is useful as an introduction to the genus, as well as providing data for a more complex analysis of behavioral comparisons which might be undertaken by more senior students. One particular area of comparison is the handling of objects by a variety of species and the potential functions of stick and stone use. Commentary about conservation issues and the impact of humans on the animals is also included.
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[3506]a film by Rina Sherman
2007 Keep the Dance Alive . Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: A unique voyage through the music, dance and spirit possession practices of the Ovahimba people of north-western Namibia and south-western Angola, Keep the Dance Alive features remarkable footage of how dance and spirit possession is integrated into everyday life from infancy to death. The documentary presents a singular vision of the Ovahimba people, that of director Rina Sherman who filmed the lives of an Omuhimba family for seven years. She focuses on how singing, rhythm and voice work together with dance and spirit possession to compose a complete imaginary universe and a dense and complex social structure.; Keep the Dance Alive is part of The Ovahimba Years Project, a long-term multi-disciplinary ethnographic study of the Ovahimba and other Otjiherero-language-speaking peoples of northwestern Namibia and southwestern Angola.;
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[3505]a film by Roxanne Varzi
2008 Plastic Flowers Never Die. Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: The war with Iraq was the largest mobilization of the Iranian population, achieved primarily by producing and promoting a culture of martyrdom based on religious themes found in Shii Islam. Martyrdom became state policy. Khomeini made it clear the war was a spiritual one that the people, and not a professional army, would fight. It would be a sacred defense; a war of good against evil, of spirit against military might, where a human wave of believers would form a wall of defense against the Iraqis. Over 800,000 people died.; Anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Roxanne Varzi spent twelve years researching and writing about post-Revolution public culture in Iran. As an Iranian-American who was born in Iran and left shortly after the Revolution she found that even though she had missed the war with Iraq it was omnipresent. She spent a year in Iran without a film permit speaking to ideologically driven mural painters, museum curators, war vets and other cultural producers alongside the secular youth who were meant to consume the culture created by the government. The result is an experimental documentary and meditation on the aftermath of the war, and especially the mourning after.;
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[3503]by Lina Fruzzetti, Alfred Guzzetti, Ned Johnston & Ákos Östör
1995 Seed and Earth. Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: Made by a team of distinguished filmmakers/anthropologists, Seed and Earth is a film about everyday life in rural West Bengal, India. It follows the daily schedule of the families of two brothers who live side by side and cooperate in many daily activities. We see how gender and age determine work, ritual and leisure activities.; Janta is a prosperous, multicaste village that derives its livelihood from agriculture. Rice, the main crop, is cultivated in small plots. The working day starts early with men ploughing and women beginning preparations for cooking. The ritual cycle of the village moves from brief daily prayers to big village-wide celebrations lasting several days. Seasonal worship of the gods and numerous life cycle rituals complete the sacred year. Eating, washing, gossiping, visiting — the fabric of daily life is captured eloquently on film with no intrusive narration.;
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[3502]by Jobie Weetaluktuk
2008 Umiaq Skin Boat . Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: Umiaq Skin Boat is a beautiful and poetic 30-minute film about a group of Inuit elders in Inukjuak, Quebec who decide one summer to build the first traditional seal skin boat their community has seen in over 50 years. Once an essential vessel for travel and for hunting large prey like bowhead whales, the umiaq has been replaced in modern times by canoes powered with out-board motors. Over the course of working together on the boat, the elders recount astonishing stories of survival while navigating volatile and unforgiving Arctic waters, and of dangers both natural and man-made. Shot against the magnificent backdrop of the northern landscape, Umiaq Skin Boat bears witness to the resilience of the Inuit spirit in changing times.;
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[3501]A film by Sabine Jell-Bahlsen
1994 Tubali: Hausa Architecture of Northern Nigeria. Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: The beautiful architecture of Hausa cities in Northern Nigeria is examined in this film. Local builders, architects, and a museum curator explain the development of the Hausa style and traditional methods of construction. Master craftsmen and their apprentices show how traditional architectural forms influence contemporary design. Hausa building technology, as well as the social, religious and aesthetics of Hausa architecture are also discussed
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[3500]A film by Sabine Jell-Bahlsen
1999 Skull Art in Papua New Guinea. Documentary Educational Resources: Watertown, MA.
Subject: This video documents the over-modeling in clay of a real human skull in Lae, Papua New Guinea, in the spring of 1997. A painted skull had been purchased from a trader. When Adam Kone visited, he found the skull poorly decorated and set out to mold a more elaborate skull-portrait, adding modern materials, in his friend's house. Asked to sculpt in the garden, he refused. Adam had nothing to do with the dead person, but was weary of head hunting suspicions, and feared arrest.; Historically, skull art is associated with tribal warfare and headhunting, banned by the colonial administration in the 1920's, and equally outlawed in modern independent Papua New Guinea. Because of its association with a banned practice, skull art has become rare and is carried out in secrecy.; In Adam's home on the Sepik, decorating skulls is a prominent, highly developed form of body art. A skull-portrait commemorates an initiate's first kill, a great warrior, a fierce enemy, an extraordinary, or beautiful person. The portrait honors a deceased person - friend or foe - and is held in high esteem. Sepik societies are known for their artistic wealth, but also as fierce warriors. The Iatmul people of the middle Sepik are the most prominent. Headhunting was once their major pastime, indulged like a sport, and feared by their neighbors. Among these warriors, killing an enemy was regarded an adult man's duty, a source of male pride, and a symbol of masculine identity. Ritualized homicide was part of initiation.; Skull art belongs to the spirit house, "Haus Tambaran". Adult men spend most of their time there. Only fully initiated, adult men are allowed into the men's house. The "Haus Tambaran" is the venue for all major male activities, including meetings, artistic exploits, religious rituals, and initiation ceremonies.; Several long stones in front of the "Haus Tambaran" once served as sacred locations where a slain enemy's head was ritually severed from his body. Warriors' heads once provided the physical and spiritual foundations of Sepik society and its spirit houses. Skulls were buried under a "Haus Tambaran's" major supporting posts, adorned its cornices and windows, were kept inside on special shelves and skull racks, displayed, and carried around on special dance wards during funerary rites.; An adorned skull commemorates and honors a dead person. Some have linked skull art to masking. Others have observed that skull art is quite realistic. Historic skulls-portraits capture individuals' real life features.
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[3499]Cordell, Linda
2009 Archaeology of the Southwest (Second Edition). Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Subject: Indians of North America - Southwest, New - Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology) - Southwest, New; Pueblo Indians - Southwest, New - History; Pueblo Indians - Southwest, New - Antiquities; Indians of North America - Southwest, New - History; Southwest, New - History; Southwest, New - Antiquities
Listed: 08/24/2009 »» Request this book
[3497]Directed by Jan Louter
2008 The Last Days of Shishmaref. NY: Cinema Guild.
Subject: An astounding documentary on the first victims of global warming, The Last Days of Shishmaref travels to a small village in northwest Alaska, home to an Inupiaq Eskimo community, where homes are literally falling into the sea. The entire village is expected to disappear within 10 years. ; Shishmaref is the sole settlement on Sarichef, an island in the Chukchi Sea, situated just south of the polar circle, in Alaska. The nearest towns are over 150 kilometers away. The island is inhabited by a community of Inupiaq families who, for centuries, have been eking out a self-supporting existence with hunting as their main source of livelihood. ; In the past few years the village has been forced to confront two great forces. One the one hand, the increasing influence of modern Western culture, such as the arrival of satellite television, the internet, western clothes, music and food, has caused a deep schism between the older and younger generations. ; At the same time, another threat is slowly mounting. Due to the Earth’s increasing temperature – in Alaska the temperature has risen 4 degrees Celsius in the past 30 years – the polar ice caps have started to melt and the sea frozen much later in the year. As a result, each year, winter storms terrorize the island for much longer periods, causing enormous damage to its coastline. Large areas of Shishmaref have already crumbled into the ocean. In order to save them, fourteen houses had to be moved further up on the island on large skis. The entire Inupiaq community is now facing a very difficult and expensive decision – whether to move the entire village to the mainland, an act that will irreparably change their community, their livelihood, culture and traditions.
Listed: 07/06/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3492]A film by PJ Raval and Jay Hodges
2008 Trinidad. NY: Cinema Guild.
Subject: In 1969, Dr. Stanley Biber began conducting genital-reassignment surgeries there. Since then, thousands of patients have passed through Trinidad, and the once prosperous coal-mining and ranching town is now fondly known as the “Sex Change Capitol of the World.” After Biber’s death, his practice was handed over to his former patient, Dr. Marci Bowers, who has enhanced the procedure to near perfection. ; This compassionate and compelling documentary follows Bowers and two of her patients, both at different stages of their sexual transformation from male to female, as they struggle with the sadly-not-surprising intolerance of small-town morals and the challenge of reconciling their new personas with the expectations of their spouses and children. It’s a delicate transition for everyone involved - the women themselves, their families, and their adopted community, which is still struggling to accept the fact that the economic growth from this new industry is the only thing keeping their town on the map. ;
Listed: 07/07/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3491]Green, Jeremy N.
2004 Maritime Archaeology: A Technical Handbook (Second Edition). Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press.
Subject: Underwater archaeology; Underwater exploration; Underwater photography; Archaeological illustration; Excavations (Archaeology) - Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Listed: 07/01/2009 »» Request this book
[3487]A film by John Walker
2009 Passage. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: It was news that shook the English-speaking world: celebrated British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men had perished in the Arctic ice during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage. More shocking, they had descended into madness and cannibalism.; The report came in 1851, from John Rae, a Scottish doctor working for the Hudson's Bay Company. Travelling thousands of miles on foot and in small craft, Rae had done what six years of searching by the British, Americans, French and Russians had failed to do: discover the fate of Franklin and unlock the final link in the Passage, a 300-year-old dream.; But Rae's horrific news did not sit well with Sir John's widow, Lady Franklin, nor with many others in British society, including Charles Dickens. They waged a bitter public campaign that would discredit Rae's version of events, banish him to the margins of history and mark an entire nation of northern Inuit with the horrifying label of murderous cannibals.; With Passage, filmmaker John Walker employs an innovative approach to structuring the incredible multilayered story of John Rae and brings it to vibrant life. Using a unique blend of dramatic action, and behind-the-scenes documentary footage, Walker pulls back the curtain on his own research into Rae's life and that of his actors, as they determine how to portray the characters and scenes in the film. The line between real and dramatic begins to blur as we move closer and closer to the film's climax, a stunning face-to-face meeting between Charles Dickens's great-great grandson and Tagak Curley, an honored Inuit statesman who challenges the fraudulent history. In one moment, Walker vaults the story from the past into the present and we are witness to history in the making.; Set in the actual locations of Rae's journey, from his boyhood home in the remote Orkney Islands off Scotland's north coast to the epic landscape of his Arctic expeditions to the boardroom of the British Royal Navy -- the center of power of the British Empire -- Passage is a story of incredible sacrifice, stunning distortion of the truth and single-minded obsession. It challenges the way we look at history.;
Listed: 06/16/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3486]A film by Eric Bednarski & Barry Cowling
2009 The Strangest Dream. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: When the U.S. government brought the world's greatest scientists together to build the first atomic bomb, nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat was among them. But his conscience would not allow him to continue, and he became the only member of the Manhattan Project to leave on moral grounds. Branded a traitor and spy, Rotblat went from designing atomic bombs to researching the medical uses of radiation. Together with Bertrand Russell he helped create the modern peace movement, and eventually won the Nobel Peace Prize.; The Strangest Dream tells the story of Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons, and the efforts of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs - an international movement Rotblat co-founded - to halt nuclear proliferation. The first Pugwash conference took place in the small Nova Scotia fishing village from which it draws its name. This film brings to light the group's behind-the-scenes role in defusing some of the tensest moments of the Cold War.; The story takes us from the site of the first nuclear test, in New Mexico, to Cairo, where contemporary Pugwash scientists meet under the cloud of nuclear proliferation, and to Hiroshima, where we see survivors of the first atomic attack. Featuring interviews with contemporaries of Rotblat, members of the Pugwash movement, and passionate public figures including Senator Roméo Dallaire, The Strangest Dream demonstrates the renewed threat represented by nuclear weapons, while encouraging hope through the example of morally engaged scientists and citizens.;
Listed: 06/16/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3485]Directed by Christopher Monger
2009 A Sense of Wonder. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: When pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring" in 1962, the backlash from her critics thrust her into the center of a political maelstrom. Despite her private persona, her convictions about the risks posed by chemical pesticides forced her into the role of controversial public figure.; Using many of Miss Carson's own words, actress Kaiulani Lee embodies this extraordinary woman in a documentary style film which depicts Carson in the final year of her life. Struggling with cancer, Carson recounts with both humor and anger the attacks by the chemical industry, the government and the press as she focuses her limited energy to get her message to Congress and the American people.; Beautifully shot in HD by Academy Award®-winning cinematographer, Haskell Wexler, at Carson's cottage in Maine, the film is an intimate and poignant portrait of Carson's life as she emerges as America's most successful advocate for the natural world. Based on Kaiulani Lee's popular play of the same name.;
Listed: 06/16/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3484]
2009 My Father the Luo. NY: Filmakers Library.
Subject: My Father the Luo is a film about finding one’s identity. The main character is Roma Ndolo, a young woman who grew up in Germany with parents from Poland and Kenya. She had always longed to find out more about her “African side” so she travels to her late father’s homeland. While there she recognizes the parallels between her own life and that of President Barack Obama. Each of their fathers were from the Luo tribe and Obama’s half sister is Roma’s family friend. ; This film was shot during the Democratic Convention in Denver 2008. Not surprisingly there is also a historic footage of Senator Obama’s trip to Kenya in 2006. Prof. Gilbert Ogutu of the University of Nairobi, also a Luo, remarks that Kenyans were enthusiastic about Obama and curious whether he was more American or Kenyan.; Roma visits her grandmother whom she has not seen in many years, and also honors the grave of her father for the first time. Everywhere she travels she is warmly welcomed and becomes more and more comfortable with her African origins. Here is a portrait of a person successfully integrating her multicultural identity.
Listed: 06/16/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3481]
2009 Miss Lou: Then and Now. NY: Filmakers Library.
Subject: Louise Bennett-Covelly, a Jamaican icon, is an ebullient performer, folklorist, playwright and poet. She has spent her life furthering Jamaican language, raising the patois dialect to an art level. This short portrait of “Miss Lou”goes back and forth between her later years in Canada and her early days in Jamaica, then a British colony.; With a wink, she tosses off the cultural condescension experienced by Jamaicans from their colonizers. What makes the English language superior to the language of her native island, she asks. Singing and a shrugging her shoulders, she asserts the vitality and relevance of Jamaican culture before a Caribbean audience in Canada, whose hearts she has clearly touched. Her words in patois may not always be clear to an English-speaking audience, but her meaning is. Clips of her televised interviews show she has admirers in both white and black cultures. We hear from Prof. Errol Hill, University College of West Indies, on her significant contribution to Jamaican culture.
Listed: 07/18/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3480]Reid, Basil A.
2009 Myths and Realities of Caribbean History. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press.
Subject: Caribbean Area - History - Errors, inventions, etc.
Listed: 06/10/2009 »» Request this book
[3479]Martinon-Torres, Marcos & Thilo Rehren (eds.)
2009 Archaeology, History, and Science: Integrating Approaches to Ancient Materials. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 06/10/2009 »» Request this book
[3477]a film by Phie Ambo
2007 Mechanical Love. New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: As modern technology develops, and robots move from factories into our homes, how will human beings interact with these machines? Can lifelike robots provide a substitute for human affection and even stimulate emotions of love in human beings? In this new science-fiction world that blends psychology and engineering, what actually defines human presence?; MECHANICAL LOVE examines the contemporary interrelationship between robots and humans, explaining the differences between a "humanoid" (a robot in the shape of a human being), an "android" (a robot that looks and moves like a human) and a "geminoid" (a copy of an actual human being). The film profiles Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, an engineer at Osaka University who has created an eerily lifelike robot facsimile of himself, which he introduces to his wife and daughter; meets with Professor Takanori Shibata, the inventor of "Paro," an electronic baby seal; and interviews a physiotherapist who explains how such interactive "pets" are being used as therapy in retirement homes
Listed: 05/01/09 »» Request this film/video
[3469]a film by Olivia Lucia Carrescia
2008 Sacred Soil. New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: In Guatemala, 25 years after numerous army massacres of indigenous peasants, which left 160,000 known dead, the filmmaker of the award-winning Mayan trilogy returns to Guatemala to document the work of the Forensic Anthropology Foundation (FAF). This non-profit organization exhumes as many as 1,000 bodies a year, attempting to identify the victims and to return the remains to their families for burial.; SACRED SOIL shows the FAF team at work, recovering bodies from a mass grave, and features interviews with relatives of the deceased and Fredy Peccerelli, the Foundation's Executive Director. He describes the various aspects of their efforts, including social anthropology, or meetings with village residents, archaeology, or the physical recovery of bodies, and physical anthropology, the analysis of the remains to determine the cause of death and the identity of the victim.;
Listed: 05/01/09 »» Request this film/video
[3468]a film by Heddy Honigmann
2008 Oblivion. New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: For most viewers, who are reminded of Peru only by news reports of a major earthquake, a presidential election or the discovery of a decades-old mass grave of army massacre victims, OBLIVION introduces us to the everyday reality of Lima, celebrating a people who, albeit politically powerless, have resisted being consigned to oblivion.; Oblivion reveals startling contrasts of wealth and poverty, and how many of its poorest citizens have survived decades of economic crisis, terrorism and government violence, denial of workers' rights, and political corruption. It provides intimate and moving portraits of street musicians, singers, vendors, shoeshine boys, and the gymnasts (some mere children) and jugglers who perform at traffic stops. The film also visits with small business owners, from a leather-goods repairman and a presidential sash manufacturer to a frog-juice vendor, and contrasts the work and home environments of bartenders, waiters and waitresses employed at Lima's finest restaurants and hotels but who live in slums in the city's surrounding hillsides.;
Listed: 05/01/09 »» Request this film/video
[3467]a film by Francis Delfour
2008 Rapayan. New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: The slopes overlooking the tiny Peruvian village of Rapayan are dotted with the remarkably well-preserved ruins of an indigenous settlement that predates the Inca conquest. It is a virtual city, complete with homes, a castle, a fortress, mausoleums, murals, subterranean galleries and mummified remains of its ancient inhabitants. As an archeological discovery, it is larger, richer and older than the celebrated Macchu Pichu. RAPAYAN follows the efforts of archaeologist Alexis Mantha, who "discovered" the historic ruins, and his Peruvian colleagues Hernando Malea and Jorge Cotrina, as they uncover and research this unknown civilization, revealing insights into the political, economic and religious aspects of the Andean Middle Ages. ;
Listed: 05/01/09 »» Request this film/video
[3466]Hollenbach, Kandace D.
2009 Foraging in the Tennessee River Valley. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Subject: Paleo-Indians - Tennessee River Valley; Indians of North America - Tennessee River Valley - Antiquities; Plant remains (Archaeology) - Tennessee River Valley; Hunting and gathering societies - Tennessee River Valley; Excavations (Archaeology) - Tennessee River Valley; Tennessee River Valley - Antiquities
Listed: 04/26/2009 »» Request this book
[3461]
2008 Milking the Rhino. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: MILKING THE RHINO tells a more nuanced tale of human-wildlife coexistence in post-colonial Africa. The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Namibia's Himba - two of Earth's oldest cattle cultures - are in the midst of upheaval. Emerging from a century of "white man conservation," which turned their lands into game reserves and fueled resentment towards wildlife, Himba and Maasai communities are now vying for a piece of the wildlife-tourism pie.; Community-based conservation, which tries to balance the needs of wildlife and people, has been touted by environmentalists as "win-win." The reality is more complex. "We never used to benefit from these animals," a Maasai host of a community eco-lodge explains. "Now we milk them like cattle!" His neighbor disagrees: "A rhino means nothing to me! I can't kill it for meat like a cow." And when drought decimates the grass shared by livestock and wildlife, the community's commitment to conservation is sorely tested.; Charting the collision of ancient ways with Western expectations, MILKING THE RHINO tells intimate, hopeful and heartbreaking stories of people facing deep cultural change.; Note for the deaf and hard of hearing: There are subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH), which are available as a separate option on the main menu. SDH replaces closed captions, is more legible than standard closed captions and works with every method of screening.; DVD version: includes both the original 83-minute director's cut and the 54-minute version; three thematic modules on Profiting from Conservation, Human-Wildlife Conflicts, Grazing; plus scene selection and SDH captions; Study guide available; ;
Listed: 04/17/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3460]Adovasio, J.M., Olga Soffer, & Jake Page
2009 The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Subject: Women, Prehistoric; Sex role - History; Sexual division of labor - History; Feminist archaeology
Listed: 04/01/2009 »» Request this book
[3459]Loendorf, Lawrence L.
2008 Thunder and Herds: Rock Art of the High Plains. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Subject: Indians of North America - Great Plains - Antiquities; Petroglyphs - Great Plains; Rock paintings - Great Plains; Picture-writing - Great Plains; Great Plains - Antiquities
Listed: 04/01/2009 »» Request this book
[3451]Brown, Margaret
2008 The Order of Myths. New York: Cinema Guild.
Subject: The first Mardi Gras in America was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703. In 2007, it is still racially segregated. ; Filmmaker Margaret Brown (Be Here to Love Me: A Film about Townes Van Zandt), herself a daughter of Mobile, escorts us into the parallel hearts of the city’s two carnivals to explore the complex contours of this hallowed tradition and the elusive forces that keep it organized along enduring color lines. ; With unprecedented access, Brown traces the exotic world of secret mystic societies and centuries-old traditions and pageantry; diamond-encrusted crowns, voluminous, hand-sewn gowns and trains, surreal masks and enormous paper mache floats. Against this opulent backdrop, she uncovers a tangled web of historical violence, power dynamics and intertwined and interdependent race relations.; It is the central coronations of the Mobile Carnival Association (MCA), an all-white organization, and the Mobile Area Mardi Gras Association (MAMGA), an all-black organization, which provides the central narrative through which we view the festivities. Each organization has its own separate parades, balls, and royal court, complete with King, Queen, Knights and Ladies. Like foreign dignitaries who will soon return to their own separate worlds, the MCA and MAMGA Kings and Queens cross the color divide only briefly to visit each other's event. ; The title The Order of Myths comes from the name of the oldest mystic society in Mobile. The chief symbol of The Order of Myths is a jester named Folly chasing the skeletal figure of Death around the broken column of the South. Using this symbol as a central metaphor, this remarkably assured documentary illuminates the complexity of race relations in the 21st century.
Listed: 04/01/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3448]a film by Lauren Greenfield
2008 Kids and Money. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: An original short film by award-winning filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield, kids + money is a conversation with young people from diverse Los Angeles communities about the role of money in their lives. From rich to poor, Pacific Palisades to East L.A., kids address how they are shaped by a culture of consumerism. ; In kids + money, Greenfield takes the cultural temperature of a generation imprinted by commercial values. Born of the extremes of poverty and wealth that define the Los Angeles landscape, kids tell their stories in a series of interview-based "portraits."
Listed: 04/01/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3445]
2008 Torturing Democracy. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: In a riveting and dramatic narrative, TORTURING DEMOCRACY tells the inside story of how the U.S. government adopted torture as official policy in the aftermath of 9/11. With exclusive interviews, explosive documents and rare archival footage, the documentary has been called the definitive broadcast account of a deeply troubling chapter in recent American history. ; Produced by Emmy and Dupont award-winning broadcast journalist Sherry Jones, the film relies on the record to connect the dots in an investigation of interrogations of prisoners in U.S. custody that became "at a minimum, cruel and inhuman treatment and, at worst, torture," in the words of the former general counsel of the United States Navy, Alberto Mora. Producer Jones carefully presents the evidence that leads straight to the top of the chain of command - and so lays to rest the "rotten apple" defense for abusive interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. ;
Listed: 03/16/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3436]
2007 To See If I'm Smiling (Lir’ot Im Ani Mehayechet). NY: Women Make Movies.
Subject: Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In this award-winning documentary, the frank testimonials of six female Israeli soldiers stationed in Gaza and the West Bank pack a powerful emotional punch. The young women revisit their tours of duty in the occupied territories with surprising honesty and strip bare stereotypes of gender differences in the military. The former soldiers share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, immaturity and power-tripping as they describe atrocities they witnessed and participated in. ; The psychological transformation that these young women underwent as a result of military service is both upsetting and riveting. The culture of war transforms people: personalities change, moral codes are subverted, values are supplanted and masks are constructed to dull the pain of what they did and didn't do in uniform. At a time when women in the military are increasingly on the frontlines, and the actions of soldiers all over the world are being questioned, this powerful film explores the ways that gender, ethics and moral responsibility intersect during war.
Listed: 04/03/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3432]Kehoe, Alice Beck
2008 Controversies in Archaeology. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Subject: Archaeology - Social aspects; Archaeology - Moral and ethical aspects; Archaeology - Methodology; Archaeology - Case studies; Prehistoric peoples; Antiquities
Listed: 03/01/2009 »» Request this book
[3427]Trimble, Charles E., Barbara W. Sommer & Mary Kay Quinlan
2009 The American Indian Oral History Manual: Making Many Voices Heard. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Subject: Oral history - Methodology; Interviewing; Indians of North America - Research
Listed: 02/20/2009 »» Request this book
[3422]Nelson, Christopher
2008 Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 02/20/2009 »» Request this book
[3420]Hester, Thomas R., Harry J. Shafer, & Kenneth L. Feder (eds.)
2009 Field Methods in Archaeology. 7th Ed.. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Subject: Archaeology - Fieldwork; Archaeology - Methodology
Listed: 02/13/2009 »» Request this book
[3418]
2006 Lumo: One young Woman's struggle to heal in a Nation beset by War. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Lumo is a feature-length documentary about a young Congolese woman on an uncertain path to recovery at a unique hospital for rape survivors. The agonies of war torn Africa are deeply etched in the bodies of women. In eastern Congo, vying militias, armies and bandits use rape as a weapon of terror. ; Recently engaged to a young man from her village, 20 year-old Lumo Sinai couldn’t wait to have children and start a family. But when she crossed paths with marauding soldiers who brutally attacked her, she was left with a fistula— a condition that has rendered her incontinent and threatens her ability to give birth in the future. Rejected by her fiancé and cast aside by her family, Lumo found her way to the one place that may save her: a hospital for rape survivors set on the border with Rwanda.; Buoyed by the love of the hospital staff, and a formidable team of wise women known to all as “the Mamas,” Lumo and her friends keep the hope of one day resuming their former lives, thanks to an operation that can restore them fully to health. A feisty young woman with a red comb perpetually jutting from her hair, Lumo faces the challenge of recovery with remarkable courage and sass. As she and her friends recover from surgery, they pass the days by gossiping and sharing their dreams of one day finding love. But when it looks like her operation may have failed, Lumo’s faith is thrown entirely into question.On this uncertain road to recovery, Lumo shows that the solidarity of women can bind the most irreparable of wounds.;
Listed: 04/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3411]
2008 Weather the Storm: The Fight to Stay Local in the Global Fishery. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: In today's global economy, the world's ocean resources are being hit hard. Enormous industrial "floating factories" follow the fish wherever they are abundant, and move on when they have plundered the fish stocks. In the process, they squeeze the life out of small and local fishing communities.; The fishing communities of the Bigouden, on France's rugged Western coast, are determined to fight back. From the Paris fish riots of 1991, to the newly formed World Forum for Fish Harvesters, these small town fishermen have launched a sophisticated and multi-faceted strategy to stay small and successful in the face of global competition.; Filmed in ports from Western Canada to France, from Scotland to Senegal, Weather The Storm introduces viewers to the logic underlying both industrial and artisanal fishing economies. It provides compelling evidence for the environmental and socio-economic benefits of staying small and local. Although the battle to save the oceans is often publicly waged between environmentalists and corporations, this film gives voice to an important group who just may have the solutions we need: the small-scale artisanal fishers.;
Listed: 04/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3409]
2008 The Prince. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: In Pakistan, a feudal prince's family has been making life hell for local villagers for centuries. Rafeh Malik is a young feudal prince who inherited Ratrian, a village in Northern Punjab, on his 18th birthday. Prince Rafeh had a friend from the city: Dawn TV journalist Shehryrar Mufti. And one day Shehryar told him: "Look, man, people just don't buy your act anymore. You can't make out you own these folks." It was apparently a dramatic moment of conversion. The prince claims he now realizes his land-owning caste has been living in the past. ; Mufti has told him about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the prince says he's inspired to try and introduce them to his village. But in the process, he risks alienating his family and even the conservative villagers themselves. After all, they all live close to the edge of the troubled North West Frontier and don't necessarily want what the West calls "development." ; Will the villagers accept the prince's offer? Will his family stop him? And how genuine was his conversion? In the face of self-doubt, selfishness and conservatism, will he decide to go on? ;
Listed: 04/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3407]
2008 The Prince. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: In Pakistan, a feudal prince's family has been making life hell for local villagers for centuries. Rafeh Malik is a young feudal prince who inherited Ratrian, a village in Northern Punjab, on his 18th birthday. Prince Rafeh had a friend from the city: Dawn TV journalist Shehryrar Mufti. And one day Shehryar told him: "Look, man, people just don't buy your act anymore. You can't make out you own these folks." It was apparently a dramatic moment of conversion. The prince claims he now realizes his land-owning caste has been living in the past. ; Mufti has told him about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the prince says he's inspired to try and introduce them to his village. But in the process, he risks alienating his family and even the conservative villagers themselves. After all, they all live close to the edge of the troubled North West Frontier and don't necessarily want what the West calls "development." ; Will the villagers accept the prince's offer? Will his family stop him? And how genuine was his conversion? In the face of self-doubt, selfishness and conservatism, will he decide to go on? ;
Listed: 04/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3406]
2008 Running on Empty. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: In this film, Life highlights the plight of two young mothers living in two very different societies. Dawn lives in South Wales, in one of the poorest districts in the European Union, where over a quarter of all children live in poverty. She has a partner and three children. Her youngest child is David who is one year old. Asemu lives in northern Ethiopia where most of the people are farmers who cannot produce enough food to live on. She has a partner and two children; the youngest Mikiray is eight months old. Both Dawn and Asemu are 22 years old.; David and Mikiray are both at a crucial stage in their development where a healthy diet is fundamental to preventing lifelong problems linked to malnutrition. Both women are aware that their children's diets are poor and that their health is suffering because of this. Asemu's eldest child Bayou is small and seriously underweight with chronic health issues. Dawn's youngest child David is not too small or underweight, but she recognises that she feeds him fatty foods because they are cheaper.The international community has made a commitment to halve hunger by 2015. Asemu and Debru will tell you it's failing.;
Listed: 04/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3405]
2008 Trefossa: Mi a no mi (I am not I). : Interakt.
Subject: The Surinamese poet Henny de Ziel, alias trefossa (1916-1975) wrote his works in Sranan, the lingua franca of Suriname. In 1957, he publish Trotji (Introductory Hymn), the first collection of poetry ever written in this language. Trefossa, I am not I, illustrates the life and the significance of this man, raised by a poor washerwoman in Paramaribo, who went on to become a symbol of artistic courage and national dignity. In addition to many of his poems, the film includes archive footage of the poet himself and takes viewers back to Suriname in the first half of the 20th century.
Listed: 02/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3404]
2008 The Betrayal (Nerakhoon). : The Cinema Guild.
Subject: The gifted cinematographer Ellen Kuras spent decades tracking the Phrasavaths, a large Laotian family that fled the devastated country after the secret U.S. war, after the father was imprisoned for advising Americans on where to drop thousands of bombs. The Betrayal moves among time periods and countries, from the Laotian countryside to the alien dangerous tenements of Brooklyn. The damage to the family seems too deep to heal, yet the film is lyrical, expansive, unbearably beautiful, with a melting violin score by Howard Shore. The bitterness has an epic scale—bottomless, borderless, universal. — David Edelstein;
Listed: 02/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3403]
2000 Volubilis: Western Outpost of Roman North Africa. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Once the Berber town of Volubilis, in modern-day Morocco, was absorbed into the Roman Empire, subsequent construction aimed at Romanizing it. The result was a blend of European and African, imperial and tribal, that brought out some of the best of both worlds. This program tours the ruins of the town to point out key landmarks and explain their primary political purpose: to tightly bind this important defensive outpost to the interests of Rome. Monuments, inscriptions, and mosaics offer insights into the civic, social, and private life of the municipality. Commentary is provided by Rachid Bouzidi, assistant curator at Volubilis, and former curator Hassan Limane. Not available in French-speaking Canada
Listed: 02/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3402]
2006 Delphi: Place of Peaceful Conflict. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: In ancient Greece, Delphi held a central position between Attica, governed from Athens, and the Peloponnese, ruled by Sparta. Using the ruins at Delphi as a lens, this program views the continuous struggle for power that characterized the Greek city-states through accounts of the “big dig” carried out between 1892 and 1902 and recent archaeological studies conducted by researchers at the French School of Athens. Home to the Pythic games, elaborate state-financed commemorative structures, and oracular divination, sacred Delphi was a safe outlet for state rivalries that constantly threatened to tear Greek civilization apart. Not available in French-speaking Canada.
Listed: 02/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3401]
2006 Transjordan, Part 2: The Crusader Castles. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Recent research at the 12th-century Frankish castles of Shobak and Kerak in what was called Transjordan provides valuable insights into life and death in the Holy Land during the time period of the Crusades. In this program, historian Cédric Devais, of the French Institute of the Near East—Amman, and history guide Mustapha Kiwan talk about prior archaeological missions to the region, structural aspects of the fortifications, and day-to-day life within those massive stone bastions. In addition, the program addresses the political and economic incentives to waging holy war against the Muslim forces. Not available in French-speaking Canada.
Listed: 02/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3400]
2006 Transjordan, Part 1: Holy Land, Historical Land. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Transjordan—the Oultrejordain of Crusader times, known to the ancients as Edom and Moab—is steeped in biblical history. In this program, archaeologists Fawzi Zayadine, Mohammed Waheeb, and Carmelo Pappalardo attempt to match up biblical events with the terrain where it is said that they occurred. The refuge of Lot, the trail of the Exodus, the place of Jesus’ baptism, Moses’ vantage point on the summit of Mount Nebo, and early churches of the Madaba region are the focus of their exploration. In addition, Catreena Hamarneh, director of the Madaba Mosaic School, discusses the remarkable Madaba mosaics and their restoration. Not available in French-speaking Canada.
Listed: 02/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3399]
2004 Thebes, Part 2: Death on the West Bank of the Nile. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Ancient Egypt’s greatest concentration of divine and funerary monuments is located on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes. Using computer-generated animation, onsite commentary by members of France’s National Center for Scientific Research, and close-up archaeological footage, this program addresses the origin and evolution of religious belief in Egypt, the offices and power of the priesthood, and the layout, function, and symbolism of the Temple of Karnak and its precincts. Specific aspects of death such as mummification and the ritual of the open mouth are given special attention. Not available in French-speaking Canada.
Listed: 02/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3398]
2004 Thebes, Part 1: Life on the West Bank of the Nile. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: It has long been held that ancient Egyptians viewed the east bank of the Nile as life on Earth and the west bank as life in the hereafter, a vision that strictly ruled their urban planning. But recent archaeological digs at Thebes have revealed a somewhat different story. This program examines the houses of priests and other structures that indicate bustling activity on the funereal west bank—among the temple complexes as well as at Deir el-Medina, a village for the onsite laborers and craftsmen who were previously thought to be the only permanent residents of the necropolis. Not available in French-speaking Canada.
Listed: 02/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3397]
2005 Mari, Part 2: The Palace of Zimri-Lim. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: The Palace of Zimri-Lim at Mari was one of the wonders of the Mesopotamian world. This program documents the opening of an excavation site at the palace’s gate, while an animated walk-through of the palace precincts enables viewers to follow in the footsteps of courtiers and the king himself. Information on life inside the palace—from the business of keeping it functioning smoothly, to matters of religion, to the pleasures of the harem—illustrates life in this once-great place. Unfortunately, restoration of Mari has become a race against time. Will erosion do what even Hammurabi could not achieve: the erasure of Mari from the face of the Earth? Not available in French-speaking Canada.
Listed: 02/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3396]
2005 Mari, Part 1: Sumerian City on the Euphrates. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Discovered by chance in the early 1930s, the ancient city of Mari provides insights into Mesopotamian culture and humankind’s first steps toward urbanization. In this program, archaeologists Jean-Claude Margueron and Béatrice Muller-Margueron lead a team in the excavation of Mari’s urban center as they work to uncover the successive layers of the third, second, and first towns. Geographic and historical background on Mesopotamia is provided, archaeological evidence of prolific metalwork and ceramics industries is unearthed, and 3-D animations illustrate aspects of how the city looked and functioned in its prime. Not available in French-speaking Canada.
Listed: 02/02/2009 »» Request this film/video
[3395]
2006 Delos: Island at the Center of the World. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: What led the great powers of antiquity to install themselves on the minuscule island of Delos? And how did Delos, one of the most important religious centers in Greece, come to be an international trading hub, as well? To answer these questions, this program traces the island’s history between the 9th and 1st centuries BC: Delos’ renown as the mythological birthplace of Apollo; the subsequent struggles among the Greek city-states to possess Delos; the destruction of Carthage, Corinth, and Beirut, which left Delos the leading commercial center of its time; and Delos’ subsequent decline into irrelevancy. Generous footage of ruins and monuments marking each era—and memorializing the many peoples who fought for control of this speck of sand and rock—is included. Not available in French-speaking Canada.
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[3394]
2004 Gerasa: City of the Decapolis. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: The Decapolis was a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, and Gerasa, known also in antiquity as Antioch on the Golden River and today as Jerash, is the best-preserved of them all. In this program, Jean-François Salles and other members of the French Institute of the Near East—Amman exhibit their efforts at Gerasa, including the ongoing stone-by-stone restoration of the immense Temple of Zeus. The rich history of this region—a place of contest and conquest for the Greeks, Nabateans, Hasmoneans, and Romans—and the curious plan of the city itself are given special attention. Not available in French-speaking Canada.
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[3393]
2004 Aztecs: The Exposition of a Culture. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Presented by sculptor Antony Gormley, this program was created to complement the 2002–3 exhibition of Aztec culture at London’s Royal Academy. Many of the incredible works loaned to the exhibit are shown, along with sculptures and artifacts filmed in Mexico City and at important Aztec sites. Leading scholars and curators explore how the nomadic Aztecs drew inspiration from earlier cultures. The variety and sophistication of Aztec art are extensively illustrated, along with the exquisite craftsmanship of their manuscripts and their jewelry.
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[3392](unattributed)
2005 The Right to Femininity: Fighting Female Circumcision in Africa Today. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: The custom of female circumcision faces growing opposition in Africa. This program presents multiple perspectives on the issue, interviewing health care personnel, professional circumcisers, women who have undergone the ritual, and men who are against it. Examining medical and emotional problems that follow genital mutilation, the video also features signs of positive change, including a Nigerian drama troupe that stages anti-circumcision productions and groups like UNICEF, CARE Austria, and the Girls’ Power Initiative that campaign in areas where the ritual’s effects are most profound. Includes graphic footage of births and circumcisions.
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2005 Neanderthal: The Rebirth. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Approximately 30,000 years after the last Neanderthals vanished from Europe, this documentary brings them back to life. Combining computer imaging, knowledge from excavated skeletal pieces, and a meticulous sculptural process, the program showcases an astonishing physical reconstruction that embodies almost everything cumulatively known about Neanderthals—their musculature, the way they moved, even the tone and volume of their voices. Dr. John Shea of Stony Brook University explains Neanderthal hunting techniques; Dr. Ralph Holloway of Columbia University sheds light on their brain capacity; and Dr. Clive Finlayson of the Gibraltar Museum describes climate changes that may have contributed to their extinction. Many other experts are also featured.
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2007 Civilization to Colonization: Language Takes Written Form. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences .
Subject: Writing is a relative latecomer to the history of language. This program tracks its emergence in Mesopotamia, China, and Mesoamerica and its spread down through the millennia via conquest—usually violent, sometimes benign—and colonization. The creation of creoles and pidgins resulting from the interaction of specific populations is also addressed, and speculation is made about the first things to be written down. Noam Chomsky; Peter Daniels, coeditor of The World’s Writing Systems; the Manhattan Institute’s John McWhorter; MIT’s Michel DeGraff; and Salikoko Mufwene, of The University of Chicago, contribute.
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2007 Birth and Death: The Life Cycle of Language. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences .
Subject: It is predicted that within a century more than half of the world’s languages will become extinct, but as languages are lost, new ones emerge naturally or are constructed. In this program, Noam Chomsky; Esperantist Thomas Eccard; endangered languages researcher Peter Ladefoged, who has since passed away; and others provide insights into the language life cycle. Topics include constructed languages such as Esperanto, language endangerment and preservation, and the role of globalization in language obsolescence. The experts also discuss current language trends and offer their opinions on which languages may emerge as front-runners of the future.
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[3387]
2008 Allan Wilson: Evolutionary. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences .
Subject: Allan Wilson, a groundbreaking researcher and a lightning rod for controversy, revolutionized science and galvanized the scientific community through his quantitative biochemical approach to the history of evolution. Drawing upon the insights and recollections of those who knew Wilson best, this program—narrated by paleoanthropologist Tim White, codiscoverer of the hominid “Lucy”—correlates milestones of his remarkable career with his enduring contributions that range from molecular phylogenies of multiple species to an understanding of mechanisms underlying the mode and tempo of organismal evolution. Commentary by David Wake, professor emeritus of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, and many others is featured.; Biologists - New Zealand - Biography; Evolution (Biology) Wilson, Allan, 1934-1991
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2001 Nubia and the Mysteries of Kush. Princeton, New Jersey: Films for the Humanities and Sciences .
Subject: Hidden away in the Butana region of northern Sudan lie the ruins of ancient Nubia, an African civilization that rivaled Egypt for centuries. This film familiarizes students with ongoing excavations that study and preserve the deteriorating remains of the Nubian kingdom of Kush. Interviews with Sudanese, American, and European archaeologists and historians are interwoven with stunning footage from dig sites and graphics that illustrate ancient building designs and techniques. Viewers will encounter Nubian temples, pyramids, writing, and artifacts—as well as fresh perspectives on the flowering of culture, technology, and political power in the ancient Nile Valley.; Excavations (Archaeology) - Nubia; Documentary films; Nonfiction films ; Historical films; Nubia - History; Nubia - Antiquities; Egypt - History; Sudan - History
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[3381]Carter, Thomas F.
2008 The Quality of Home Runs: The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
Subject: Baseball - Cuba; Baseball - Social aspects - Cuba
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[3379]Hairong, Yan
2009 New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
Subject: Women domestics - China - Social conditions; Rural women - Employment - China ; Rural-urban migration - China
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[3378]Blau, Judith R. & Marina Karides (eds.)
2008 The World and US Social Forum: A Better World is Possible and Necessary. Leiden; Boston: Brill .
Subject: Social movements -- International cooperation; Anti-globalization movement - International cooperation; International economic relations; Democracy; Globalization - Social aspects; World Social Forum
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[3376]Leinaweaver, Jessaca B.
2008 The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
Subject: Indian children - Peru - Ayacucho - Social conditions; Children - Family relationships - Peru - Ayacucho; Indians of South America - Kinship - Peru - Ayacucho; Kinship - Peru - Ayacucho ; Adoption - Peru - Ayacucho; Social structure - Peru - Ayacucho; Interpersonal relations - Peru - Ayacucho; Ayacucho (Peru) - Social conditions; Ayacucho (Peru) - Moral conditions
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[3375]Sharp, Lesley Alexandra
2009 Bodies, Commodities, & Biotechnologies: Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer. New York: Columbia University Press.
Subject: Organs (Anatomy) - Social aspects - United States; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. - Social aspects - United States; Body, Human - Social aspects - United States; Body, Human - Symbolic aspects - United States; Organ Transplantation - ethics - United States; Biotechnology - ethics - United States; Death - United States; Grief - United States; Human Body - United States
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[3374]Sharma, Aradhana
2008 Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Governance in Neoliberal India. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Women in development - India - Uttar Pradesh; Economic development projects - India - Uttar Pradesh; Poor women - Services for - India - Uttar Pradesh; Public welfare - India; Neoliberalism - India; Mahila Samakhya (Project : Uttar Pradesh, India)
Listed: 12/01/2008 »» Request this book
[3363]
2008 Soldiers of Conscience. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: From West Point grads to drill sergeants, from Abu Ghraib interrogators to low ranking reservist-mechanics, soldiers in the U.S. Army today reveal their deepest moral concerns about killing in war. Their message: every soldier wrestles with his conscience over killing. Although most decide to kill, some refuse.; SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE reveals that far more soldiers decide not to kill than we might expect. Made with official permission from the U.S. Army and filmed in high definition video, SOLDIERS OF CONSCIENCE includes never-before-seen footage of basic training and the war in Iraq, with an original soundtrack from an Academy Award winner and composer. It is a realistic yet optimistic look at war, peace, and the power of the human conscience.;
Listed: 11/22/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3362]Ferry, Elizabeth Emma & Mandana E. Limbert (eds.)
2008 Timely Assets: The Politics of Resources and Their Temporalities. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.
Subject: Economic anthropology; Value; Natural resources ; Cultural property ; Finite, The; Time - Sociological aspects
Listed: 11/17/2008 »» Request this book
[3359]Kraut, Anthea
2008 Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: African American dance - History African Americans - Folklore; African Americans in the performing arts; Dance - United States - History; Jazz dance - History; Choreography; Hurston, Zora Neale - Criticism and interpretation. ; Hurston, Zora Neale - Knowledge - Folklore
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[3358]A film by Madeleine Richeport
2008 Puerto Rican Bomba: In Search of Our Roots. NY: Film Makers Library.
Subject: Latin music from the Caribbean is a popular genre around the world but few people are aware of Puerto Rican Bomba music which is one of its African roots. This film examines the resurgence of Bomba in the U.S. and Puerto Rico and how a new generation of Puerto Ricans is embracing their traditional African expressions which connect them to a cultural history.; Introduced centuries ago by African slaves, and syncretized with indigenous Taino Indian and conquering Spanish elements, Bomba is redefining what it means to be Puerto Rican today. Bomba is a conversation between the drummer and dancer. The dancer talks to the drum with the body and the drum answers with sound which happens almost simultaneously. This film shows the basic rhythms (yubá, sicá, holandés, and seis corrido, "running six") played on "bariles" rum barrels of different pitches. Bomba masters from Puerto Rico teach it and pass it on to others creating a bridge to and from the island. The pure folkloric forms are also generating new styles today.; The film combines riveting interviews in English and Spanish with subtitles, archival footage, and young people learning and performing with joy and passion.
Listed: 11/14/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3357]A film by Folke Johansson
2007 Spirits for Sale. NY: Film Makers Library.
Subject: When Annika is given an eagle feather by a Native American visiting Sweden, she realizes it is a sacred object which should probably not be in her hands. These days Native American ceremonies are being commercialized for "outsiders," arousing resentment in the Native community. ; Annika sets out to find the feather's rightful owner, a quest which takes her to American Indian communities in Albuquerque, San Antonio and to Bear Butte in South Dakota. She meets many Native Americans who are bitter, believing they are "the forgotten people." But others are fighting to preserve their culture and their faith as well as to protect their land.; Navajo Andrew Thomas, who manages the Albuquerque Pueblo Center, explains that certain tribes use feathers in special ways to communicate with "the Upper God." He fears modern Native Americans have lost touch with the ancient beliefs. In this film we hear from a professor of Native American history in San Antonio who discusses the five hundred tribes who lived in the US centuries ago and recalls the massacres they suffered. Gayle Ross, a respected Cherokeeteacher, feels Americans do not understand native people. Arvol Looking Horse of the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota nation is deeply disturbed by the entire arena of cultural exploitation.
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[3356]A film by Kine Boman
2008 Herdswoman. NY: Film Makers Library.
Subject: This colorful film portrays three Sami women of different generations as they follow the reindeer herds of Lapland. Their stories reflect the transition from a nomadic existence to modern life. When a court case questions their ancient rights to the reindeers’ pasture, their life as reindeer keepers is at risk. The film captures the vulnerability of indigenous peoples in the modern world and the colonization process which has led to the present conflict over the right to land and water.
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2008 A Griot's Story. NY: Film Makers Library.
Subject: What is a griot? Historically, they are wandering African musicians considered to be a repository of the oral tradition. This film focuses on a master drummer, Adame Drama of Burkina Faso, a descendant of a long line of griots. He is a contemporary griot whose mission in life is to preserve his heritage and pass it on to the next generation. Resisting the lure of monetary rewards of an artistic career in Europe, Adame has elected to remain in his country and for forty years has pursued his music there. This colorful film is filled with music and dancing as we see him performing on stage together with other musicians and in celebrations on the streets and in courtyards. ; He reveals the secrets of his instrument and of his style of playing. Above all, he is a proud African who had rejected cultural colonialism in favor of maintaining his identity and that of his art.
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[3353]A film by Marcia Rock
2008 Salt Harvesters of Ghana. NY: Film Makers Library.
Subject: This starkly beautiful film exemplifies the burden borne by African women to survive and support their families. The Ghanaian women who live on a lagoon in Ada, mine for salt with their bare hands during the three month-long dry season. Ankle deep in brackish water, they bend, scoop, bag and tote the raw salt, often developing sores and swellings. But they are happy to have this seasonal work and their indomitable spirit shines through. They boast that the men would not be as skillful in collecting and cleaning the salt. Their families depend on the meager income from the sale of salt to provide food and clean water.; Women have done this back-breaking work for the last three hundred years. ; Although they dream of improving their lives with their income, in the end they have to spend all of the earnings on sustenance. While the government has promised them clean water, it has yet to materialize.The soundtrack includes traditional work songs as well as an original song by Ghanaian musicians
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[3352]Ian Connacher
2007 Addicted to Plastic. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: From styrofoam cups to artificial organs, plastics are perhaps the most ubiquitous and versatile material ever invented. No invention in the past 100 years has had more influence and presence than synthetics. But such progress has had a cost.; For better and for worse, no ecosystem or segment of human activity has escaped the shrink-wrapped grasp of plastic. Addicted To Plastic is a global journey to investigate what we really know about the material of a thousand uses and why there's so darn much of it. On the way we discover a toxic legacy, and the men and women dedicated to cleaning it up. ; Addicted To Plastic is a point-of-view style documentary that encompasses three years of filming in 12 countries on 5 continents, including two trips to the middle of the Pacific Ocean where plastic debris accumulates. The film details plastic's path over the last 100 years and provides a wealth of expert interviews on practical and cutting edge solutions to recycling, toxicity and biodegradability. These solutions - which include plastic made from plants - will provide viewers with a new perspective about our future with plastic.;
Listed: 10/15/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3349]Severine Labat
2005 Ataturk. New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: Mustapha Kemal (1881-1938), called Atatürk ("the father of the Turks"), was the founder of the Republic of Turkey and its first President. Both in Turkey and abroad, however, his actions continue to stir debate. Was he a visionary statesman or an enlightened despot?; MUSTAPHA KEMAL ATATÜRK tells the story of this historic figure with archival footage, newsreels and photos, and discussions with Turkish and Western historians, sociologists and biographers. The film traces his early secular education and his political rise as an army officer, from the birth of the "Young Turks" movement in 1908, through WWI, the Turkish War of Independence, the dethroning of the Sultan and elimination of the Caliphate, and the establishment of the republic in 1923.; Much of the film's debate focuses on Kemal's authoritarian rule, when he abolished the national parliament, outlawed opposition parties and labor unions, and forced through legislation that led to sweeping political, economic and social reforms. ;
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[3348]Thomas Balmes
2007 Damages. New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: In the United States, when someone dies as a result of the negligence or liability of another person-medical malpractice, a highway accident, murder-a wrongful death lawsuit, seeking monetary damages for the loss of financial or emotional support, may be filed by surviving family members. Over $100 billion in such personal injury compensation, or "damages," is paid each year.; DAMAGES goes inside the offices of Koskoff, Koskoff and Bieder, one of the biggest American law firms specializing in such lawsuits. The film observes the lawyers as they meet with the families of victims, examine documents, gauge the strengths and weaknesses of each case, try to put a value on a life ended prematurely, and decide on a legal strategy.; The film follows several different cases and the procedures involved in preparing to file suit, including visiting a crime scene, filming an interview with a client for showing in court, trying the case before a mock jury, and discussing with clients offers made by insurance companies and their options to either settle out of court or go to trial.;
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[3347]Sergei Loznitsa
2008 Revue. New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: As he did with his critically-acclaimed BLOCKADE, a documentary re-creation of the WWII siege of Leningrad, filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa has once again scoured the Russian film archives for REVUE, selecting excerpts from newsreels, propaganda films, TV shows and feature films that present an evocative portrait of Soviet life during the 1950s and 1960s.; With scenes taken from the length and breadth of the Soviet Motherland, REVUE illustrates industry and agriculture (dam construction, steel plants, Stakhanovite labor competitions, farmland seeded by hand and plowed with horse), political life (local elections, abundant Lenin iconography, speeches by Khrushchev, the threat of capitalist spies), popular culture (a village choir, a dance troupe, a travelling cinema, poetry readings for workers, a propagandistic stage play), and technology (space exploration, astronaut Yuri Gargarin, new industrial development).
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[3346]Du Haibin
2007 Umbrella. NY: Icarus films.
Subject: Filmed in a purely observational style, with no narration or commentary, UMBRELLA shows the workaday life of young employees in a factory in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, where they engage in monotonous, endlessly and rapidly repeated routines to manufacture umbrellas, for which they are paid a meager piece rate. At a massive shopping mall, the "World's Largest Small Commodity Market," in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province, those multicolored, multipatterned umbrellas are sold at much higher prices by wholesale merchants, who are among China's nouveaux riche.
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[3345]Salter, Mark B. (ed.)
2008 Politics at the Airport. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: International airports - Security measures; Terrorism - PreventionIntroduction: Airport assemblage / Mark B. Salter -- The global airport : managing space, speed, and security / Mark B. Salter -- Filtering flows, friends, and foes : global surveillance / David Lyon -- Unsafe at any altitude : the comparative politics of no-fly lists in the United States and Canada / Colin J. Bennett -- Mobility and border security : the U.S. aviation system, the state, and the rise of public-private partnerships / Gallya Lahav -- Airport surveillance between public and private interests : CCTV at Geneva International Airport / Francisco R. Klauser, Jean Ruegg, and Valérie November -- Travelers, borders, dangers : locating the political at the biometric border / Benjamin J. Muller -- Mobilities and modulations : the airport as a difference machine / Peter Adey -- Welcome to windows 2.1 : motion aesthetics at the airport / Gillian Fuller.
Listed: 09/25/2008 »» Request this book
[3344]Field, Les W.
2008 Abalone Tales: Collaborative Explorations of Sovereignty and Identity in Native California. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
Subject: Indians of North America - Fishing - California; Indians of North America - Ethnozoology - California; Indians of North America - California - Social life and customs; Abalone culture - California - History; Abalones - Social aspects - California; Abalones - California - Folklore
Listed: 09/20/2008 »» Request this book
[3343]Read, William Alexander
2008 Louisiana Place Names of Indian Origin: a Collection of Words. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press.
Subject: Names, Indian - Louisiana; Names, Geographical - Louisiana
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[3336]Campbell, John Kennedy & Mark Mazower
2008 Networks of Power in Modern Greece: Essays in Honor of John Campbell. New York: Columbia University Press.
Subject: Power (Social sciences) - Greece; Social networks - Greece
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[3334]
2006 Rasinah: The Enchanted Mask. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: Watching the lithe, expressive movements of Javanese masked dancer Rasinah, one would never believe a 72-year old woman is behind the mask! She is a master of an ancient form of mask dance called Topeng Cirebon, which originated in West Java, Indonesia. Rooted in Islamic mysticism, the spiritual significance of the masks and dances was restricted to "specialist families," who for centuries passed on their unique heritage from generation to generation. By the late 1900's the popularity of Topeng Cirebon had faded -- its mystical masters forgotten.; Once one of the most popular of the Topeng artists, Rasinah had been reduced to poverty as the taste for this traditional art form waned. Two young men became enraptured by tales of a hidden national treasure living in a remote village. They set out to find Rasinah to rescue her dance from extinction. Not having danced in twenty years and afraid that she was now too old, she hesitates. But once she holds the mask, her body moves again like a young dancer and she is off on an incredible journey of renewal.; The film captures ancient rituals, spirit-infested graveyards, and enchanted masks. Fortunately, Rasinah's granddaughter, Erli, is able to carry on the age-old tradition. This colorful documentary shows the history, function and meaning of these masked dances.
Listed: 08/12/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3333]
1991 Becoming a Woman in Okrika. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: This visually stunning film documents an extraordinary coming of age ritual in a village in the Niger Delta. It suggests the conflict Third World women face between traditions and the values of the modern world.; The rite, called Iria, consists of elaborately painting the young women's bodies with beautiful designs; subjecting their bodies to public scrutiny by the elder women; methodically fattening them; and teaching them the responsibilities of womanhood. After an elaborate celebration, they run a race pursued by young men and their leader, representing a mythological personage who is armed with sticks. By passing through this rite, the women let go of girlish fantasies and prepare for childbearing.;
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[3331]Klawiter, Maren
2008 The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer: Changing Cultures of Disease and Activism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Breast - Cancer - Political aspects - United States; Biopolitics - United States; Breast Neoplasms; Cultural Characteristics; Feminism Politics
Listed: 08/08/2008 »» Request this book
[3328]Grattan, John & Robin Torrence (eds.)
2007 Living Under the Shadow: Cultural Impacts of Volcanic Eruptions. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Subject: Archaeology and natural disasters - Congresses; Volcanoes - Social aspects - History - Congresses; Social change - History - Congresses; Human ecology - History - Congresses; Human beings - Effect of environment on - History - Congresses
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[3323]
2008 Social Capital in Europe: Similarity of Countries and Diversity of People? Multi-level Analyses of the European Social Survey 2002. Leiden; Boston, Massachusetts: Brill.
Subject: Social capital (Sociology) - Europe; Europe - Social conditions
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[3321]
2008 Civil-Military Cooperation in Response to a Complex Emergency: Just Another Drill?. Leiden; Boston, Massachusetts: Brill.
Subject: Security, International ; Civil-military relations; Conflict management - Case studies
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[3320]Wakeham, Pauline
2008 Taxidermic Signs: Reconstructing Aboriginality. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Indians of North America - Museums; Indians of North America - Material culture - Exhibitions; Indians of North America - Antiquities - Exhibitions; Museum techniques - North America; Taxidermy - North America
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[3318]Esposito, Roberto
2008 Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Biopolitics; Political science - Philosophy
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[3315]Feldman, Ilana
2008 Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
Subject: Representative government and representation - Gaza Strip; Gaza Strip - Politics and government - 20th century
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[3314]Kramer, Karen
1998 Breaking Leaves: Herbal Medicine in Haiti. : Filmakers Library.
Subject: In the Haitian countryside, where people have little access to doctors, hospitals, or conventional medicine, peasants have learned to use local leaves, herbs, and therapeutic massage as a way of curing simple ailments. This video follows several men and women as they take us into the bush to look for leaves that they need for healing. We then follow then home where they explain and demonstrate their way of preparing the poultice or infusion.; Narrated by the people themselves –and with beautiful songs about the importance of leaves woven throughout – this poetic film gives unique insight into the culture.;
Listed: 07/11/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3309]Gallone, Annemarie
n.d. Love and Sex in China. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: As China changes at an awesome rate, becoming more industrialized, urban and westernized, this film explores how this has impacted traditional relationships between men and women. Our guide is a young journalist, Yang Li Ne, whose parents have just divorced and whose own marriage is unraveling. ; She speaks about love and sex with young Bejingers, as well as older couples from the villages. Many of the young are afraid of commitment and are cynical about love and marriage. Money, not love, they say, is the basis for marriage. Prostitution is rampant; an estimated 6% of the national revenue comes from prostitution. Older couples reflect on the vanishing traditions that have given their marriages stability. ; A young gay man who was hesitant to be identified describes the homophobia in Chinese society and the secrecy with which gay and lesbians must lead their lives. He talks about the difference between making love and having sex. ; Examples of China's traditional erotic art, which was nurtured by the imperial court, are laced through the film. This documentary would be rated R. ;
Listed: 07/11/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3307]Paula Salvador
2007 Build Green. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: In a refreshing hour, Build Green shows how by taking advantage of the sun, the wind, and the rain, as well as dirt, straw and waste, homeowners and developers can reduce their personal contribution to climate change by building structures that are healthier for the occupants, economical to run, and even fun to live in.; David Suzuki sets out across Canada to discover the latest in green construction. On British Columbia's Salt Spring Island, Suzuki visits the rammed earth house of rock star Randy Bachman. Rammed earth is a traditional building technique that, with modern advances, has become viable and popular in many different climate regions. The technique minimizes site disturbance, the importation of construction materials and and the use of toxic substances. ; In Build Green, Canada's best architects show us round their latest green projects. From retrofitting an aging Montreal housing complex with state-of-the-art sustainable energy systems, to laying up hay for strawbale houses, to building transportable "mini-homes" with their own small power plant, Build Green takes a close look at the materials and technologies we'd be foolish not to adopt as standard practice in construction.;
Listed: 07/01/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3304]Cheney, Ian & Curt Ellis
2007 The Greening of Southie. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: In the traditionally Irish-American working-class neighborhood of South Boston, MA, a new kind of building has taken shape. From wheatboard cabinetry to recycled steel, bamboo flooring to dual-flush toilets, the Macallen building is some-thing different: a leader in the emerging field of environmentally friendly design.; But Boston's steel-toed union workers aren't sure they like it. And when things on the building start to go wrong, the young developer has to keep the project from unraveling.; Building Boston's first LEED Gold-certified building turns out to be harder than anyone thought. Yet among the I-beams and brickwork emerges a small cadre of unlikely environmentalists who come to connect their work with the future of their children ;
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[3303]
n.d. The Maasai and Agents of Change. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: Here is a rare opportunity to see life among the Maasai as filmed by one of their own warriors. The filmmaker and narrator is a Maasai who is studying at a United States college. He returned to Kenya to film the lifestyles and colorful ceremonies of his people before their culture becomes extinct. We learn that the traditional pastoral and nomadic life is under attack by outside forces who want to impose a money economy and privatize of land. The traditional way of ruling by a council of elders is being supplanted by elected officials (and even in Maasai land there are complaints on the accuracy of the voting cards!) The community is divided among those who voice their intense displeasure at the erosion of traditions and those who feel that the Maasai must change if they are to survive in today’s world. The Maasai speak frankly to the filmmaker since he is one of their own.
Listed: 06/26/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3301]
1994 Fire Eyes: Female Circumcision. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: This powerful and important film is the first to present an African viewpoint on a culturally explosive issue.; Somali filmmaker Soraya Mire knows firsthand about the traditional African practice of female genital mutilation. At thirteen she was subjected to it and spent the next twenty years recovering physically and emotionally from its cruel legacy. Fire Eyes explores the socio-economic, psychological, and medical consequences of this ancient custom which affects more than 80 million women worldwide.; In this film several women who have been subject to this "rite of passage" voice varying points of view on perpetuating the practice. While a few courageous women would spare their daughters this suffering, others fear their daughters would be unmarriageable. The troubling fact is that female circumcision is a women's ritual upheld by mothers, grandmothers and aunts, to conform to the male expectation for a chaste wife.; Testimony from doctors detail the various forms of female circumcision and the horrendous ob/gyn problems that result. Dr. Groesbeck Parham, an African American, studied with a Sudanese doctor in Khartoum. He observes, "When you are confronted with a situation rooted in such deep cultural mores, you have to be careful not to become arrogant. But I think it is a practice that needs to be revamped." An extraordinary documentary for Women's Studies, Anthropology, African Studies, Public Health and Human Rights programs.;
Listed: 06/26/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3299]Lawrence R.Hott and Diane Garey
2008 The Return of the Cuyahoga. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: The Return of the Cuyahoga is a one-hour documentary about the death and rebirth of one of America's most emblematic waterways. In its history we see the end of the American frontier, the growth of industry, the scourge of pollution and the advent of a political movement that sought to end pollution.; For centuries, the Cuyahoga River has been on the frontier. When the United States was a new nation, the river literally marked the western frontier. But "civilization" came to the river; by 1870 the river was on the industrial frontier. On the river's banks sprouted a multitude of factories, a booming display of what was called progress. The river, as it flowed through Cleveland, became a foul-smelling channel of sludge, with an oily surface that ignited with such regularity that river fires were treated as commonplace events by the local press. But then, in 1969, the river burned again, just as a third kind of frontier swept across the nation: an environmental frontier. And the Cuyahoga River became a landmark on this frontier too -- a poster child for those trying to undo the destruction wrought by progress in America.;
Listed: 06/17/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3291]Hartmut Bitomsky
2007 Dust. NY: Icarus films.
Subject: In examining the many types of dust, including microscopic particulates invisible to the naked eye, DUST hears from a variety of scientists-botanists, biologists, meteorologists, and astronomers-who investigate the environmental and health consequences of dust, from Sahara sandstorms and the Oklahoma dust bowl of the Thirties to the toxic dust generated by the 9/11 demolition of the WTC towers. By closely examining a subject that surrounds us in our daily lives, but to which we rarely pay serious attention, DUST provides us with a new appreciation of the many ways in which dust affects our bodies, our environment, and even the cosmos.
Listed: 06/17/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3290]A film by John Pilger
2007 The War on Democracy. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: In his second inaugural address, President Bush pledged to "bring democracy to the world". In a speech lasting 23 minutes, he mentioned the words 'democracy' and 'liberty' 21 times. Most of the world, it is fair to say, will have recoiled, many in fear...; Bush's speech was significant because it finally emptied noble concepts like 'democracy' of their true meaning - government, of, by and for the people. Never before have people in the west shown such disenchantment with the democracy they vote for and the version they get. Never before has most of humanity registered such alarm at the ambitions of a great power.; The War on Democracy demonstrates the brutal reality of the America's notion of 'spreading democracy'; that, in fact, America is actually conducting a war on democracy, and that true popular democracy is now more likely to be found among the poorest of Latin America whose grassroots movements are often ignored in the west.;
Listed: 06/10/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3287]Directed by Daniel B. Gold and Judith Helfand
2007 Everything's Cool. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: EVERYTHING'S COOL is a "toxic comedy" about the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action - Global Warming. The good news: America finally gets global warming; the chasm is closing and the debate is over. The bad news: the United States, the country that will determine the fate of the globe, must transform its fossil fuel based economy fast, (like in a minute).; While the industry funded naysayers sing what just might be their swan song of scientific doubt and deception, a group of self-appointed global warming messengers are on a life or death quest to find the iconic image, proper language, and points of leverage that will help the public go from understanding the urgency of the problem to creating the political will necessary to push for a new energy economy. Hold on -- this is bigger than changing your light bulbs.;
Listed: 06/10/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3286]Gidwani, Vinay K.,
2008 Capital Interrupted: Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in India. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Agriculture - Economic aspects - India - Gujarat; Capitalism - India - Gujarat - History; Patidars - Social conditions; Patidars - Economic conditions; Capitalism - Philosophy
Listed: 06/01/2008 »» Request this book
[3281]Young, Melissa & Mark Dworkin
2001 How can I keep on Singing?. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: This evocative film is a tribute to both the pioneering and Native American women in the West at the turn of the last century. Their stories offer glimpses of everyday life, and help recover the historical contributions of women. Striking images of the landscape are woven together with historical photographs and re-enactments of women's daily activities, and an unforgettable musical score. The women and girls who cooked, cleaned, taught, did laundry and milked the cows endured unbelievable hardships. In Jana Harris' story "Cattle-Killing Winter" a settler woman describes the terrible blizzard that hit in the winter of 1889-90. In a particularly poignant story, a mother tries to teach her eldest daughter how to run the household as they lie buried in an avalanche.In another segment of the film, Mourning Dove of the Colville tribe writes "My birth happened in the year 1888...I was born long enough ago to have known people who had lived in the ancient way, before everything started to change." While describing her love of the summer gathering expeditions, she also conveys her experience in a residential Indian school. Acclaimed Canadian poet Jeannette Armstrong of the Penticton Indian Band takes us on a berry picking expedition with three generations of Okanagan women.
Listed: 04/011/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3263]Davenport, Nina
2008 Operation Filmmaker. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: In 2004, American actor Liev Schreiber saw an MTV segment on Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed, whose dreams of becoming a filmmaker had been thwarted by the bombing of his university during "Operation Iraqi Freedom." Schreiber, then preparing to film his directorial debut, Everything is Illuminated, in Prague, invited Muthana to work as a production assistant on the film.; Nina Davenport was hired to document Muthana's experience as an intern on the Hollywood movie. But Schreiber's well-intentioned gesture doesn't result in the inspiring story everyone had hoped for, as differing expectations and agendas clash. In particular, Muthana begrudgingly performs or shirks responsibility for the tasks assigned to him, repeatedly squandering a golden opportunity.; For OPERATION FILMMAKER, Davenport chronicled Muthana's story over a two-year period, from his work in Prague as a P.A. on Schreiber's Holocaust drama and later on Doom, a sci-fi film starring "The Rock," to a stint at a London film school, periodically contrasting his experiences abroad with scenes of Muthana's family and friends in wartorn Baghdad.; While documenting Muthana's relationships with the producers, crews and stars of both films-characterized by a psychologically fascinating stew of good intentions, bad faith, liberal guilt, and opportunism. Davenport herself eventually becomes embroiled in the young man's perennial financial difficulties and visa problems. In its continuing but futile search for a "happy ending," OPERATION FILMMAKER exposes the often mutually manipulative relationships between filmmakers and their subjects.;
Listed: 04/10/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3255]Honigmann, Heddy
2007 Forever. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: Through a leisurely tour of the world-famous Pčre-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, the final resting place for legendary writers, composers, painters and other artists from around the world, FOREVER provides an unusually poignant, emotionally powerful meditation on relations between the living and the dead, and the immortal power of art.; During its visits to many famous graves-including those of Frédéric Chopin, Marcel Proust, Guillaume Apollinaire, Amadeo Modigliani, Oscar Wilde, Jean-Auguste Ingres, Maria Callas, Georges Méličs, Jim Morrison, Yves Montand and Simone Signoret-FOREVER also introduces us to the Parisians and tourists who make pilgrimages to these tombs, whether to pay their respects, leave flowers or personal messages, or even to tend to the upkeep of the tombstones. The film also pays moving tribute to talented young artists who died prematurely as well as to the less celebrated deceased remembered primarily by next of kin.;
Listed: 04/11/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3254]
1993 Our Way of Loving. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: From the renowned Under the Sun series of BBC, this trilogy focuses on the Hamar, an isolated people of southwestern Ethiopia whose traditional lifestyle has been barely touched by the war and the famine in the north. The films concentrate on the powerful and outspoken Hamar women, particularly Duka who in the films matures from a young unmarried girl to a wife and mother with two young children. The twenty-year relationship of the anthropologist with the Hamar people allowed for a remarkably spontaneous portrayal.; Duka is now a mother with a two-year-old daughter and a six-month-old baby boy. Her life is dominated by caring for them and her husband, Sago. Although Sago and Duka seem to have an affectionate marriage, he beats her when provoked. Like every Hamar woman, she accepts this behavior for she believes it is a man's way of loving.; The film witnesses Sago's cousin's ceremonial initation into manhood. At the ceremony Duka and the other women sing and dance themselves into a frenzy before being ritually whipped until their backs bleed. As they return home, Sago and Duka talk about their hopes for their children. Later, we see Sago and Duka's reaction to seeing television for the first time, as they watch the earlier film of their courting days.;
Listed: 04/011/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3253]Crate, Susan Alexandra & Mark Nuttall (eds.)
2009 Anthropology and Climate Change: From Encounters to Actions. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Subject: Climatic changes; Ethnology; Anthropology
Listed: 03/01/2009 »» Request this book
[3252]
1993 Two Girls go Hunting. New York: Filmakers Library.
Subject: From the renowned Under the Sun series of BBC, this trilogy focuses on the Hamar, an isolated people of southwestern Ethiopia whose traditional lifestyle has been barely touched by the war and the famine in the north. The films concentrate on the powerful and outspoken Hamar women, particularly Duka who in the films matures from a young unmarried girl to a wife and mother with two young children. The twenty-year relationship of the anthropologist with the Hamar people allowed for a remarkably spontaneous portrayal.; This tells the story of Duka and her young friend Gardi, as they prepare to marry men they have never met. For Hamar girls, marriage means huge sacrifices and is full of longing, sadness and excitement. The film follows the build-up to the marriages, from the all night vigil with her girlfriends, to her farewells when she is taken away at dawn to the village of her husband's family. The new mother-in-law shaves the bride's hair, butters her body and prepares her for the first traumatic weeks in a new home.;
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[3251]Beisaw, April M. & James G. Gibb (eds.)
2009 The Archaeology of Institutional Life. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.
Subject: Social institutions - History; Social archaeology; Archaeology and history; Archaeology - Social aspects; Social history Public history
Listed: 03/01/2009 »» Request this book
[3250]
2007 Agent Orange: A Personal Requiem. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: As a young man in the late Sixties, Greg Davis served for three years in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. The area where he was stationed was one of many throughout the country sprayed by the military, as part of its counterinsurgency strategy, with millions of gallons of defoliants, including Agent Orange, which contains dioxin, the most toxic chemical known to man.After his military service, Davis married and worked for decades as a photojournalist for Time and other publications worldwide. In 2003, at the age of 54, he died from liver cancer, believed to be the result of his exposure to Agent Orange. Produced by Davis's widow, AGENT ORANGE chronicles the history of this lethally toxic herbicide, tracing its effects not only on her husband and other U.S. servicemen but also on the environment and continuing generations of Vietnamese.More than three decades after the spraying of Agent Orange was discontinued, dioxin still contaminates the Vietnamese environment and its traces can now be found in the body of everyone living in the country. AGENT ORANGE concludes by discussing a 2005 lawsuit on behalf of Vietnamese victims, naming Dow Chemical and Monsanto among 37 other firms, brought before a Federal Court in New York City.
Listed: 02/18/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3223]
2006 Cuba: The Accidental Revolution, Part 2 'Health Care System'. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: In Health Care System we learn that Cuba has been blockaded since 1961, but today Cuba has the highest quality of life in the region, the highest life expectancy, and one of the highest literacy rates in all of Latin America.; With the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, Cuba lost the foreign exchange needed to pay for expensive drugs and medicines. As a result, much of Cuba's medicine today is based on medicinal plants. These are grown on farms, processed in small labs and made available to patients through an extensive network of medical clinics. Today Cuba's advances in alternative medicine could have important consequences for other countries around the world.; Cuba boasts other firsts as well: The Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology in Havana is regarded as the flagship biosciences lab in the developing world. Cuban scientists are working on an HIV vaccine, a meningitis vaccine, a Hepatitis C vaccine, and other pharmaceuticals.; Cuba has also embarked on a program of medical internationalism. There are 25,000 Cuba doctors serving in 68 poor countries around the world. The Latin American School of Medical Science has 10,000 students from developing countries primarily in Latin America and the Caribbean. They are educated for free with the understanding they will return to their home countries to practice.;
Listed: 02/17/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3222]
2006 Cuba: The Accidental Revolution; Part 1 'Sustainable Agriculture'. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Sustainable Agriculture examines Cuba's response to the food crisis created by the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989. At one time Cuba's agrarian culture was as conventional as the rest of the world. It experienced its first "Green Revolution" when Russia was supplying Cuba with chemical and mechanical "inputs." However, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 ended all of that, and almost overnight threw Cuba's whole economic system into crisis. Factories closed, food supplies plummeted. Within a year the country had lost over 80% of its foreign trade. With the loss of their export markets and the foreign exchange to pay for imports, Cuba was unable to feed its population and the country was thrown into a crisis. The average daily caloric intake of Cubans dropped by a third.; Without fertilizer and pesticides, Cubans turned to organic methods. Without fuel and machinery parts, Cubans turned to oxen. Without fuel to transport food, Cubans started to grow food in the cities where it is consumed. Urban gardens were established in vacant lots, school playgrounds, patios and back yards. As a result Cuba created the largest program in sustainable agriculture ever undertaken. By 1999 Cuba's agricultural production had recovered and in some cases reached historic levels.;
Listed: 02/17/2008 »» Request this film/video
[3221]Finnström, Sverker
2008 Living With Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
Subject: Acoli (African people) - Social life and customs War and society - Uganda - Northern Province
Listed: 02/09/2008 »» Request this book
[3209](unattributed)
2007 Wolves in Paradise: Ranchers and Wolves in the New West. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Set in the soaring mountains and majestic valleys of southwest Montana, Wolves in Paradise is a tale of survival as ranchers face the challenge of living with wolves in the decade after the top predator was reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park.The documentary follows the growing wolf packs as they leave the sanctuary of the park and make their first incursions into Paradise Valley. "How can we have the rancher and the wolf together? That's the part we need to get figured out, all right. That's the tough one," says Paradise Valley rancher Martin Davis. Davis copes with the frustration of running livestock in wolf country, while fending off another threat to his way of life: encroaching development. His traditional, family outfit is contrasted with the vast Sun Ranch in nearby Madison Valley, operated as a conservation experiment that tries to accommodate both wolves and cattle with unexpected, dramatic results.Meanwhile, as the action plays out in the remote reaches of Greater Yellowstone, a surprising alliance grows between traditional enemies -- livestock growers and conservationists -- who find common ground in the need to protect open space from developers in this last, wild corner of the West.;
Listed: 01/28,2008 »» Request this film/video
[3207]Augoyard, Jean François
2007 Step by Step: Everyday Walks in a French Urban Housing Project. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: City and town life - France; Sociology, Urban - France; Urbanization - France; City planning - France
Listed: 12/20/2007 »» Request this book
[3196]Tristan Quinn
2005 Dead Mums Don't Cry. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: DEAD MUMS DON'T CRY documents one woman's remarkable struggle to stop mothers in her country from dying. She's Grace Kodindo - an obstetrician in the poverty-stricken central African country of Chad. Women in Chad have a 1 in 11 chance of dying during pregnancy or in childbirth. The risk for women in the UK is 1 in 5100.Cutting maternal mortality by 75% by 2015 was one of the eight Millennium Development Goals set by 189 countries in 2000. Five years on, progress is far behind schedule - and this film reveals it's slowest on the goals that affect women and children.But DEAD MUMS DON'T CRY shows there is reason for hope. A few poor countries have succeeded in saving mothers' lives. BBC reporter Steve Bradshaw and Grace Kodindo travel to Honduras, which has cut maternal mortality far faster than some wealthier neighbors. A key reason is that influential men and women cared enough to make the issue a priority.
Listed: 12/11/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3181]Francine Strickwerda and Laurel Spellman Smith
2004 Busting Out. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: BUSTING OUT is a disarmingly honest and intimate exploration of our society's fascination with women's breasts. Directors Strickwerda and Spellman Smith unflinchingly examine the good, the bad and the ugly sides of this American icon, delving into the history and politics of breast obsession in the US. From breast-crazy men shouting "Flash those racks!" to the fears of breast cancer and the disparate attitudes of cultures worldwide, the directors leave no stone unturned in their quest to demystify the American breast. ; BUSTING OUT combines personal story-telling with devastating analysis, sad case histories with humor, and frank talk of sexual subjects with the sweet innocence of a young girl shopping for her first bra. Told from the point of view of Strickwerda who lost her mother to breast cancer as a child, BUSTING OUT will challenge both women and men to question our obsession with breasts, and to gain a healthier perspective.
Listed: 11/12/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3180]Michelle Metivier
2005 Fighting Fire with Fire. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Monster forest fires, big enough to be seen from space and hot enough to create their own weather, used to be a once-in-a-decade nightmare. But now, they're an everyday summer reality across vast stretches of North America. Authorities in Canada and the United States are bracing for increasing infernos each fire season. A timely documentary, Fighting Fire with Fire takes audiences onto the fire line and brings them face-to-face with raging fires that are literally unstoppable. This provocative film raises questions about conventional methods of fighting fire, and whether decades of suppressing fire have simply made matters worse. The long-standing lesson taught by Smokey the Bear goes out the window as a new controversial approach to fighting fire is examined.Fighting Fire with Fire ventures into the forests of Banff National Park, where the park wardens are deliberately setting fires known as "prescribed burns." They are taking accepted practice (if it's on fire, put it out), and doing the exact opposite. One goal is to try and prevent bigger, hotter, faster fires; another is to regenerate the land, creating conditions for flora and fauna to thrive.As viewers discover in Fighting Fire with Fire, this little-known phenomenon is working. Experts explain that fire has always been part of our landscape, but forces like global warming and "hit it hard, hit it fast" fire management policies have conspired to create infernal blazes.
Listed: 11/12/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3175]
2007 Arid Lands. Oley PA: Bullfrog.
Subject: Arid Lands is a documentary feature about the land and people of the Columbia Basin in southeastern Washington state. Sixty years ago, the Hanford nuclear site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and today the area is the focus of the largest environmental cleanup in history. It is a landscape of incredible contradictions: coyotes roam among decommissioned nuclear reactors, salmon spawn in the middle of golf courses, wine grapes grow in the sagebrush, and federal cleanup dollars spur rapid urban expansion.; Arid Lands takes us into a world of sports fishermen, tattoo artists, housing developers, ecologists, and radiation scientists living and working in the area. It tells the story of how people changed the landscape over time, and how the landscape affected their lives. Marked by conflicting perceptions of wilderness and nature, Arid Lands is a moving and complex essay on a unique landscape of the American West.;
Listed: 10/08/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3157]Oren Bendavid-Val
2006 Last Season: Portrait of a Trawler. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: Last Season is a portrait of the ground fish trawler Isabel S. from New Bedford, MA. Jeff, the captain, learned fishing from his father, local legend 'Fearless Freddy' Hatfield. Brian, the cook, is a biker and a recovering alcoholic. Lo, the deckhand, is a refugee from Vietnam who has rediscovered Buddhism.; We accompany them to the once-ample fishing areas of Georges Bank and the Nantucket Shoals, where they haul in nets, and do the backbreaking and bloody work of hand-cutting thousands of pounds of cod and other fish on a pitching trawl deck. ; The boat is revealed as a social microcosm. Captain Jeff, the son of an esteemed local captain, is at the top of the order, and Lo, who arrived in the U.S. after a harrowing escape from a Viet Cong jail, is at the bottom.; Fishing is a complicated and sometimes deadly business. Detailed knowledge of the ocean floor and the habits of fish is crucial to success. But, as Captain Jeff acknowledges as the Isabel S. returns with its catch, "Sometimes a lot of it is a little luck".;
Listed: 10/01/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3155]Jayasinhji Jhala
2006 Shaktima No Veh. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: The Goddess Shaktima is the most popular goddess in the region of Saurashtra known as Jhalavad. This documentary presents the story of Shaktima as performed by the tradictional muslim Bhavai troupe led by Amrit Kalu Rudatala of Kankavati village. Baisabgarh village, sponsored this event on July 11th, 2004.; Shaktima is beloved of all castes and her story is sung, recited, painted and performed in the many towns and villages. Known as the maker of Jhalavad, as the powerful mother, and the protector of children, she rides the great lion, is the subduer of the demon Babrabhoot and weds the warrior hero Harpal, himself an incarnation of the God Shiv. Large and small temples to her stand all over the land and celebrate her glory.; The play presents Hindu notions of time: cosmic time, legendary time, historical time and contemporary time. The Goddess is presented in many apsects, as demoness, as queen, as maker of polity, as mother and protector of children, and finally as the earth mother herself. The hero Harpal demonstrates his ability to contest the will of the divine, subdue demonic foes and establish a royal lineage that gives order, security, and stablity to the multicaste and multi-religious society of this land.; Shot in accordance with local norms, the film presents the play in its entirety with the viewer positioned frontally as a Hindu worshipper before a puja shrine. It shows the use of song, prayer, poetry and speech to demonstrate the variety of speech acts and to illustrate that Gujarati, Sanskrit and Dingal langauages are locally understood. This underlines that even peasants are multilingual in this area.; This film will be useful to students of film, theater, music, religion and anthropology and to students of Indic poetry and aesthetics.;
Listed: 10/01/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3154]Rick Widmer
2007 American Fair. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: American Fair is an intimate study of the hard-working farmers of York County, Maine, facing a vanishing way of life, their knowledge of land and beast, commitment to tradition and community - interdependent and pulling together.; At the 140th fair in Acton, farmers congregate in the spirit of both co-operation and rivalry. Families show off their finest handicrafts, agricultural produce and livestock. Teamsters compete to see whose animal is the strongest and whose daughter the most beautiful. Through the voices of farmers and townspeople, vendors and carnival workers, a portrait of a community joining together in celebration of the honest, hard-working agricultural traditions of the region is revealed. Fathers and sons, knowledge of land and beast, carnival workers and strange stories, country girls, ox-pulling, dairy showing, beauty pageants, a pig scramble and more! This feature-length ethnographic documentary quietly reveals the agricultural heritage of the region and opens our eyes to a wholesome side of American culture - as people of the earth.;
Listed: 10/01/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3153]Jeremy Rocklin
2007 Dollars and Dreams: West Africans in New York. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: Dollars and Dreams is a documentary film focused on the pursuits and challenges of numerous West African immigrants as they confront the idea of the American Dream and the reality of the New York experience. Including additional perspective from scholars, authors, and community leaders, the film creates a vibrant portrait of African achievement throughout the city, while exploring the complicated issues African immigrants face as they balance their deep connections to Africa and their enthusiastic commitments to America.;
Listed: 10/01/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3152]Ernesto Livon-Grosman
2006 Cartoneros. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: Cartoneros follows the paper recycling process in Buenos Aires from the trash pickers who collect paper informally through middlemen in warehouses, to executives in large corporate mills. The process exploded into a multimillion dollar industry after Argentina's latest economic collapse. The film is both a record of an economic and social crisis and an invitation to audiences to rethink the value of trash.;
Listed: 10/01/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3149]Joe Sousa
2006 Festa. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: The Feast of the Blessed Sacrament is a four-day extravaganza that attracts crowds of up to 200,000 to the city of New Bedford, Massachusetts. This documentary film takes viewers on a journey from the excitement of the modern feast to the very roots of the Catholic celebration on the beautiful Portuguese island of Madeira. Along the way, Festa examines the surprising differences between the "old world" and "new world" feasts as well as the challenges that organizers on both sides of the Atlantic face in the midst of a rapidly modernizing world and changing cultural values.; In the end, this is a simple story about the power of tradition, the bonds of family, and the contributions of immigrant communities to both their new home and to the land that they left behind.;
Listed: 10/01/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3148]Catarina Mourao
2006 On Edge. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: The film focuses on daily life in a poor housing estate in Porto and, in particular, on a group of children aged between 8 and 14. It follows their life outdoors always inventing new games. Parents are seldom home and children have space and freedom to create their own rules, games of power many times copying the models they know from home. Sometimes things get really tough, other times there is a feeling of harmony and melancholy in the neighbourhood.; This is a special summer: people are expecting the European Football Cup and the possible victory of the Portuguese team will raise the morale of a country in full recession. Kids and adults are hypersensitive, feelings go over the top. TVs are put outdoors and the games of the European cup are followed by children and adults as an almost religious ritual; Rui, one of the characters is a 13 year old boy who unlike all the other kids of his age doesn't like football and fighting. He prefers to take refuge in a dream like world surrounded by dinosaurs and other animals from the forest.;
Listed: 10/01/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3145]Produced by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey
2006 John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature. Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: The story of John James Audubon is a dramatic and surprising one. He saw more of the North American continent than virtually anyone of his time, and came to stand for America - the America of wilderness and wild things. Audubon was a self-taught artist and a self-made man whose life was rife with action and contradiction. He played the debonair European when he visited the American frontier, and then the wild woodsman in the drawing rooms of Europe. ; As an artist and a naturalist his achievements are monumental. The Birds of America - an astonishing collection of 435 life-size prints - was the largest book printed in the 19th century. Audubon was not only the artist; he was the writer, publisher and promoter. His early subscribers included the kings of England and France.; Audubon continued to draw, creating a smaller folio of even more birds, and embarking on a major study of mammals. This book, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of America, was only half-done in 1846, when he turned the work over to his son. His eyesight was failing, as was his mind.;
Listed: 10/01/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3144]Diedrich, Lisa
2007 Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Sick - Psychology; Patients' writings - History and criticism; Diseases and literature; Medicine in Literature; Attitude to Death; Attitude to Health; Autobiography
Listed: 08/31/2007 »» Request this book
[3130]Ziegler, Catherine
2007 Favored Flowers : Culture and Economy in a Global System. Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press.
Subject: Cut flower industry
Listed: 08/31/2007 »» Request this book
[3128]Clyne, Richard J.
1999 Coal People: Life in Southern Colorado's Company Towns, 1890-1930. Denver: Colorado Historical Society.
Subject: Coal mines and mining - Colorado - History; Coal miners - Colorado - History
Listed: 05/26/2007 »» Request this book
[3093](unattributed)
2007 Mesoamerica Electronic Encyclopedia. Mexico: Armella Spitalier Cultural Foundation.
Subject: Prospective reviewers must select individual CD's. See: http://foamarketing.com/products.aspx for details.
Listed: 05/24/2007 »» Request this multimedia/software
[3090]Brooks, Ethel Carolyn
2007 Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Organizing and Women's Work. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Anti-sweatshop movement; Protest movements - International cooperation; Women - Developing countries - Social conditions; Women - Developing countries - Economic conditions; Working class women; Social conflict
Listed: 04/14/2007 »» Request this book
[3080]Xavier Villetard
2007 Forever Lenin . Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: How and why did Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, became a mummy? After the 1924 death of the Bolshevik Revolution's leader, Stalin and other Soviet officials decided to preserve Lenin's body for public display in a mausoleum in Red Square. A team of scientists, biochemists and forensic pathologists, working in a laboratory beneath the mausoleum, developed a means to restore Lenin's temporarily embalmed corpse, which had begun to rot two months after his death, and a system of periodic chemical treatments to permanently preserve the body.
Listed: 05/16/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3079]Boellstorff, Tom
2007 A Coincidence of Desires: Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia. Durham: Duke University Press.
Subject: Homosexuality, Male - Indonesia; Ethnology - Indonesia; Gay men - Indonesia - Social conditions; Indonesia - Social conditions
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[3077]Whitesel, J.R. and Joseph W. Zarzynski
2005 The Lost Radeau: North America's Oldest Intact Warship. : Pepe Productions /Bateaux Below, Inc. Documentary.
Subject: (not listed)
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[3068]Sarasin, Jacques
2006 On the Rumba River. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo today, nearly sixty years after his first hit record, Wendo Kolosoy, affectionately known as "Papa Wendo," remains a well-known and beloved musician. Renowned for his development of Congolese rumba-a popular musical style that blends rumba, beguine, waltz, tango, and cha cha cha-Wendo is still active, now in his 80's, continuing to perform and to record albums of his distinctive songs and dance music. The film's exploration of the history and continuing popularity of Congolese rumba is set against a backdrop of political turmoil that has afflicted this African nation for decades, from the repressive regime (1965-1997) of Mobutu Sese Seko, an ongoing civil war, and a fragile contemporary peace. ;
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[3067]Directed by Ashley Sabin
2007 Kamp Katrina. Carnivalesque Films: www.carnivalesquefilms.com.
Subject: Kamp Katrina is a verité documentary set in post-Katrina New Orleans. The film follows Ms. Pearl, a 56-year-old Upper 9th Ward resident and Native American, over the course of 6 months. The story begins one month after Hurricane Katrina when Ms. Pearl rides her bicycle to a temporary community space in Washington Square Park. An organizer urges people to open their homes to individuals displaced by the hurricane. Ms. Pearl enthusiastically offers her backyard and 14 people immediately move into "Kamp Katrina," their self-made tent community.
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[3064]Nornes, Abeě Mark
2007 Forest of Pressure: Ogawa Shinsuke and Postwar Japanese Documentary. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Ogawa, Shinsuke, 1936-1992 - Criticism and interpretation
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[3060]Nieuwenhuys, E.C. (ed.)
2006 Neo-Liberal Globalism and Social Sustainable Globalisation. Leiden; Boston: Brill.
Subject: Globalization - Congresses; Sustainable development - Congresses; Neoliberalism - Congresses
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[3059]Rodriguez, Sylvia
2006 Acequia: Water-Sharing, Sanctity, and Place. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press.
Subject: Human ecology - New Mexico - Taos Region; Indigenous peoples - Ecology - New Mexico - Taos Region; Stream ecology - New Mexico - Taos Region; Water-supply - New Mexico - Taos Region; Water resources development - New Mexico - Taos Region; Communication in water resources development - New Mexico - Taos Region; Water - Symbolic aspects - New Mexico - Taos Region; Taos Pueblo (N.M.) - Environmental conditions; Taos Region (N.M.) - Environmental conditions
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[3058]Director: Chris Walker
2001 The Other Side. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Over the last century, hundreds of thousands of Mexicans have crossed the border to the United States in pursuit of permanent jobs and a better life. But that journey has become increasingly dangerous and the costs are starting outweigh the benefits. The Other Side tells the story of the villagers who have had enough and now are trying to make sure their children will no longer have to migrate to realize their dreams.
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[3051]Director: Paul M. Rickard
2005 Aboriginal Architecture. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Aboriginal Architecture offers a fascinating in-depth look into the diversity of North American Native architecture. Featuring expert commentary and stunning imagery, this program provides a virtual tour of seven Aboriginal communities - Pueblo, Mohawk, Inuit, Crow, Navajo, Coast Salish and Haida - revealing how each is actively reinterpreting and adapting traditional forms for contemporary purposes.
Listed: 02/02/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3049]Paul Jay and Nelofer Pazira
2003 Return to Kandahar. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Landing in Kabul, 13 years after her family left Russian occupied Afghanistan, Nelofer unravels her past and the history of her country while searching for a childhood friend. Nelofer journeys across a broken land, smashed by years of anarchy under the Northern Alliance, the Taliban, and now by America’s ‘war on terror’. Return to Kandahar shows a country once again in the grip of warlords.
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[3047]Director: Gillian Darling Kovanic
2003 Suspino: A Cry for Roma. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Takes an unflinching look at the persecution that continues to plague Europe’s largest and most vilified minority. The Roma (or Gypsies as they are pejoratively called) have become scapegoats for Eastern Europe’s nascent democracies. The film focuses on Romania where the Roma are considered ‘public enemies’, and Italy, where they are classified as nomads and relegated to living in camps where they are denied basic human rights available to refugees and foreign residents.;
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[3045]Richard Duplock
1998 Teme TTeme. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: A moving parable about progress and the values of family life set the beautiful dry lands regions of northern Ethiopia. Tells the story of a 12 year old boy who runs away from from his father's desertified farm to pursue an education in the city of Addis Ababa. He falls in with a gang of street children and discovers the error of his ways.;
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[3044]Tom Weidlinger
2006 Swim for the River. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Christopher Swain braved whitewater, sewage, snapping turtles, hydroelectric dams, Homeland Security patrols, factory outfalls, and PCB contamination to become the first person to swim the entire length of the Hudson River from the Adirondack Mountains to New York City. His extaordinary venture calls attenton to the plight of the Hudson. We also see how ordinary citizens can affect the environment through the choices they make.
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[3042](unattributed)
2006 Chicago: City of the Big Shoulders. Bullfrog Films. 4 part series: Edens Lost and Found.
Subject: This film is one of a four part series - Edens Lost and Found - that focuses on four cities - Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Seattle - which face a range of demographic, economic and environmental challenges. The films showcase strategies that contribute to a sustainable ecosystem - including open space and public parks, urban forestry, watershed management, public art, waste disposal, recycling, green architecture, environmental justice, neighborhood development, and mass transit alternatives.
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[3041](unattributed)
2007 Seattle: The Future is Now. Edens Lost and Found Series. Oley, Pennsylvania: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: This film is one of a four part series - Edens Lost and Found - that focuses on four cities - Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Seattle - which face a range of demographic, economic and environmental challenges. The films showcase strategies that contribute to a sustainable ecosystem - including open space and public parks, urban forestry, watershed management, public art, waste disposal, recycling, green architecture, environmental justice, neighborhood development, and mass transit alternatives.
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[3040](unattributed)
2006 Los Angeles: Dream a Different City. Bullfrog Films. 4 part series: Edens Lost and Found.
Subject: This film is one of a four part series - Edens Lost and Found - that focuses on four cities - Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Seattle - which face a range of demographic, economic and environmental challenges. The films showcase strategies that contribute to a sustainable ecosystem - including open space and public parks, urban forestry, watershed management, public art, waste disposal, recycling, green architecture, environmental justice, neighborhood development, and mass transit alternatives.
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[3039](unattributed)
2006 Philadelphia: The Holy Experiment. Bullfrog Films. 4 part series: Edens Lost and Found.
Subject: This film is one of a four part series - Edens Lost and Found - that focuses on four cities - Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Seattle - which face a range of demographic, economic and environmental challenges. The films showcase strategies that contribute to a sustainable ecosystem - including open space and public parks, urban forestry, watershed management, public art, waste disposal, recycling, green architecture, environmental justice, neighborhood development, and mass transit alternatives.
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[3038]Ragobert, Thierry and Isy Moregenztern
2005 The Bible Unearthed: The making of a Religion. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: The bible is both a religious and historial work; but how much is myth and how much is history? Based on the book 'The Bible Revealed' by Israel Finkelstein (Tel Aviv Univeristy) and Neil Silberman (Ename Center for Public Archaeology and Heritage Presentation), the 'Bible Unearthed' is a four-part series that presents the latest scientific research into this question.
Listed: 01/21/2007 »» Request this film/video
[3035]Hoad, Neville Wallace
2007 African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Homosexuality - Africa; Gays - Africa - History; AIDS (Disease) - Africa; HIV infections - Africa; Africa - Social life and customs; Africa - Politics and government
Listed: 01/10/2007 »» Request this book
[3033]King-O'Riain, Rebecca Chiyoko
2006 Pure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Beauty contests - United States; Japanese Americans; Japanese American women; Race awareness - United States
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[3030]Belshaw, Cyril
2006 Choosing Our Destiny: Creating the Utopian World in the 21st Century. Philadelphia: Xlibris.
Subject: (not listed)
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[3026]Lekson, Stephen H.
2006 The Archaeology of Chaco Canyon: an Eleventh-Century Pueblo Regional Center. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
Subject: Chaco culture - New Mexico - Chaco Culture National Historical Park; Excavations (Archaeology) - New Mexico - Chaco Culture National Historical Park - History; Chaco Culture National Historical Park (N.M.) - Antiquities
Listed: 08/30/2006 »» Request this book
[3012]Arnold, Alice
2005 To be Seen. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: TO BE SEEN is a study of visual culture, of urban culture and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art. The subculture of street art is significant because it is an embodiment of subversive content, which is rare in today's culture of consumerism and political amnesia. It functions as a way of 'taking back the streets,' when public spaces are increasingly privatized—through security cameras, Business Improvement Districts, and the profusion of corporate marketing. ;
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[3004]Johnston, Barbara Rose & Holly M. Barker
2008 Consequential Damages of Nuclear War: The Rongelap Report. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press.
Subject: Nuclear weapons - Testing - Health aspects - Marshall Islands - Rongelap Atoll; Nuclear weapons - Testing - Environmental aspects - Marshall Islands - Rongelap Atoll; Radiation victims - Legal status, laws, etc. - Marshall Islands; Radioactive pollution - Marshall Islands; Rongelap Atoll (Marshall Islands) - Claims vs. United States
Listed: 08/01/2008 »» Request this book
[2849]Scarborough, Vernon L. (ed.)
2005 A Catalyst for Ideas: Anthropological Archaeology and the Legacy of Douglas Schwartz. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research.
Subject: Prehistoric peoples; Human evolution; Antiquities, Prehistoric; Social archaeology; Ethnoarchaeology; Schwartz, Douglas Wright, 1929-
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[2845]Rafael, Vicente L.
2005 The Promise of the Foreign: Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines. Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press.
Subject: Nationalism - Philippines - History - To 19th century; Language and languages - Political aspects - Philippines; Spanish language - Philippines; Philippine literature (Spanish) - History and criticism ; Translating and interpreting - Philippines - History; Philippines - Politics and government - 19th century
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[2840]Levine, Ron
2005 Prisoners of Age. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Raising questions about the warehousing of America's prison populations, this film accompanies photographer Ron Levine on his mission to depict the physical, emotional, and psychological conditions of aging inmates - including those nearing death.
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[2838](unattributed)
2005 Spirits of the State: Japan's Yasukuni Shrine. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine honors and venerates the spirits of Japanese soldiers and officers -- including convicted and executed war criminals. The film explores the history of the Shinto shrine, the complexty of its functions, and the controversies generated when political leaders appear there.
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[2837]Chabris, April
2004 From the Inside Out. : Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: An in-depth look into the world of Navajo basket making.
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[2836]Gumnit, Ruth
2004 Don't Fence Me In. : Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: Set among the Karen people of Burma, the film chronicles the life of 70-year old freedom fighter, Major Mary, and her people's struggle for self-determination.
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[2833]Michael Mitchell
2005 Caribou Kayak. Watertown, Massachusetts: Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: (not listed)
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[2831]Caterina Borelli
2004 Qudad: Reinventing a Tradition. Watertown, Massachusetts: Documentary Educational Resources.
Subject: Portrays the qudad plaster work at the Amiriya Madrasa, Rada,Yemen. Narrated by the workers who are all Rada locals.
Listed: 01/20/2006 »» Request this film/video
[2829]Shapiro, Jason S.
2005 A Space Syntax Analysis of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico: Community Formation in the Northern Rio Grande. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
Subject: Pueblo Indians - Antiquities; Pueblo architecture - New Mexico; Ethnoarchaeology - New Mexico; Environmental archaeology - New Mexico; Arroyo Hondo Site (N.M.) ; Rio Grande Valley - Antiquities
Listed: 11/20/2005 »» Request this book
[2811]Paul, Bill, Cindy Paul, & Julie Mooney
2005 Shadow of an Indian Star: A Novel. Austin, Texas: Synergy Books.
Subject: Chickasaw Indians - Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life - Fiction; Paul family - Fiction; Historical fiction; Oklahoma - Fiction; Pauls Valley (Okla.) - Fiction
Listed: 10/24/2005 »» Request this book
[2802]Nguyen-Vo, Minh
2004 Buffalo Boy (Mua Len Trua). Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: Set in the lowlands of southern Vietnam, this powerful coming of age tale is a richly textured and stunningly visual reflection of the rhythms of daily life and culture determined by water. It is the story of the relationship between a father and son, the cycles of life, and the inescapable flow of all things. When young Kim, out of necessity, joins the nomadic life of the buffalo herders, he is exposed to a complex, brutal way of existence. He must find his own way and sense of self in this male world.
Listed: 10/10/2005 »» Request this film/video
[2800]Mehdi Charef
2001 Daughter of Keltoum. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: A young woman, raised in Switzerland, travels to an isolated and barren Berber settlement located in the rocky Atlas Mountains of Algeria. Her journey is a multi-tiered discovery in terms of her relationship to her extended famliy, traditional Berber culture -which still clings to strict tribal and religous mores- and her desperate need to locate her biological mother.
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[2798](unattributed)
2004 Tanim: Instituting Democracy in Tribal Papua New Guinea. Princeton, NJ.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Democratic political principles have finally reached the highlands of Papu New Guinea. 'Tanim' - to change, or to turn - is the story of how the Apulin people, the ruling tribe of Enga province, are struggling to balance this alien electoral system, with all its implicit values and practices, with the secure familiarity of their traditional approaches to rule,land ownership, and systems of compensation. The Apulin must turn their society in a new direction is they are to survive in their ancestral lands.
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[2713](unattributed)
2004 The Wodaabe and Tuareg Nomads: Stealing Beauty. Princeton, NJ.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences 5 Part series 'The Last Warriors: Seven Tribes on the Verge of Extinction'.
Subject: Though sometimes in conflict with each other, the Wodaabe and Tuareg have a common enemy in the arid lands of central Western Africa. Filmed in part during the height of the dry season, this program offers insights into both of these warrior tribes through two of their major celebrations, a flamboyant courtship festival, and a festival featuring camel racing and dancing. The vital importance of water to both tribes is underscored.
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[2712](unattributed)
2004 Slave Island: New York's Hidden History. Princeton, NJ.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences .
Subject: When excavation in downtown Manhattan unearthed an 18th century burial ground for slaves, New Yorkers were reminded that slavery was not limited to the South. The film explores an often-overlooked chapter in the history of the city, and the colonies in general, by examining the oldest slave cemetery ever found in North America. Scholars and leading experts conduct archaeological and forensic analysis of the remains of nearly 400 African American slaves.
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[2708](unattributed)
1995 Planet of Life: Apes to Man. Princeton, NJ.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences Series 'Planet of Life'Discovery Communications, inc..
Subject: This film from the series 'Planet of Life' explores the evolution of primates and hominids, from the appearance of the first apes to the arrival of the modern human.
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[2705]Andrews, E. Wyllys and William Leonard Fash
2005 Copan: The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
Subject: Mayas - Honduras - Copan (Dept.) - Antiquities; Maya architecture - Honduras - Copan (Dept.) ; Maya scupture - Honduras - Copan (Dept.); Inscriptions, Mayan - Honduras - Copßn (Dept.); Copßn Site (Honduras) ; Copan (Honduras : Dept.) - Antiquities
Listed: 07/13/2005 »» Request this book
[2694]Narrator: Yoshi Morikatsu
2005 Eight Million God: The Japanese Matsuri Festival. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Examines the Japanese Matsuri or 'summer festival'which best elucidates that country's ancient polytheism. Explores Japan's cultural emphasis on community, cooperation, and folk workship. Shows how Japan derives a sense of unity from these communal ritual celebrations. Portions in Japanese with English subtitles.
Listed: 06/25/2005 »» Request this film/video
[2693]Powers, Robert P
2005 The Peopling of Bandelier: New Insights from the Archaeology of the Pajarito Plateau. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
Subject: Pueblo Indians - New Mexico - Pajarito Plateau - Antiquities; Pueblo Indians - New Mexico - Bandelier National Monument - Antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology) - New Mexico - Pajarito Plateau; Excavations (Archaeology) - New Mexico - Bandelier National Monument; Bandelier National Monument (N.M.) - History; Bandelier National Monument (N.M.) - Antiquities; Pajarito Plateau (N.M.) - Antiquities
Listed: 05/29/2005 »» Request this book
[2686]Brody, J.J.
2004 Mimbres Painted Pottery (Rev. Ed.). Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
Subject: Mimbres culture Mimbres pottery
Listed: 03/25/2005 »» Request this book
[2543]Calderon, George
2005 Tahiti. London; New York: Kegan Paul.
Subject: Calderon, George, 1868-1915 - Travel - French Polynesia - Tahiti; Tahiti - Description and travel
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[2445]Munizae Jahangir
2003 Search for Freedom. New York: Women Make Movies.
Subject: 'Search for Freedom' traces the dramatic social and political history of Afghanistan from the 1920s to the present through the personal stories of four remarkable women. Stunning archival footage from the early 20th century captures a time of remarkable freedom for women that belies most Western perceptions. Other historical footage reveals women's realities and resilience under the near constant occupations, first by the Soviets, then the Mujahadeen -- and more recently under the repressive Taliban. Defying the image of Afghan women as mere victims, the film offers a nuanced portrait of women who find choices where none are offered and who continue to find hope in the face of exile and isolation.
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[2354]Gudrun Torrubla
2003 Harem-Yemen, the Hidden Half Speaks. New York: Women Make Movies.
Subject: 'Haram-Yemen' offers a surprising look at women's lives and gender roles in contemporary Yemen. This astonishing film presents the affecting personal narratives of individual women struggling for self-determination, including Aisha, who defies both tribal law and her imposing father to sneak off to school and educate herself. When she is discovered, an entire village comes to her aid, convincing her father to drop his threats to kill her for the 'crime' of being educated. Aisha, now a doctor with her own NGO, is an inspiring model of resistance against tradition, and her family's experience suggests with profound poignancy that change is possible.
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[2353]Maysoon Pachachi
2003 Iranian Journey. New York: Women Make Movies.
Subject: Massoumeh Soltan Baloghie is the first woman long-distance bus driver in Iran. Iraqi filmmaker Maysoon Pachachi joins this extraordinary woman on her 22-hour, 5,000-kilometer trip from Tehran to Bandar Abbas, talking to her passengers, her family, and people en route to learn more about her remarkable story. A gentle and richly textured documentary, 'Iranian Journey' thoughtfully explores the lives and roles of women at a time of transition in Islamic society. In a country where women's choices, including what they wear, are restricted by legal and religious doctrine, Massoumeh's bold choices and determination are a symbol of change.
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[2352]Vaziri, Persheng
2002 Women Like Us. New York: Women Make Movies.
Subject: Filmmaker Persheng Sadegh-Vaziri returns to Iran after 20 years as an expatriate to present this intimate and realing portrait of five ordinary Iranian women: a nurse, a rice farmer, a religous college graduate and a piano teacher. Against a backdrop of Islam, revolution and war, they share their views on the veil, the relationship of Iranian women to the West and the long-ranging impacts of the 1979 Revolution on the status of women in their country. What emerges is an image of Iran that resists easy classificaton, a nation in flux at a unique historical moment, still reeling from the residual effects of the Iran-Iraq war, but poised for a new future. The video offers surprising insights into the changing role of women on the Middle East.
Listed: 05/24/2004 »» Request this film/video
[2350]Yassamin Maleknasr
2003 Afghanistan, The Lost Truth. New York: Women Make Movies.
Subject: Shortly after the fall of the Taliban, Iranian filmmaker Yassamin Maleknasr embarked on a remarkable journey across Afghanistan. The resulting film is a fascinating look at the people from all walks of life -- including the culture and landscape of the country - and the optimism that endures despite the countless tragedies the country has suffered.
Listed: 05/24/2004 »» Request this film/video
[2347]Cizek, Katerina, & Peter Wintonick
2002 Seeing is Believing: Handicams, Human Rights and the News. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 05/21/2003 »» Request this film/video
[2230]Uzokwe, Alfred Obiora
2003 Surviving in Biafra: The Story of the Nigerian Civil War. Lincoln, Nebraska: iUniverse.
Subject: (not listed)
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[2215]Niemann, Yolanda Flores et al. (eds.)
2002 Chicana Leadership: the Frontiers Reader. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: Mexican American women - Social conditions; Mexican American women - Political activity; Mexican American women - Ethnic identity; Leadership - United States; Sex role - United States; Sex role - Political aspects - United States; United States - Ethnic relations; United States - Social conditions - 1980-
Listed: 01/07/2003 »» Request this book
[2166]Renshaw, John
2002 The Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco: Identity and Economy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 10/01/2002 »» Request this book
[2112]Michalowski, Raymond and Jill Dubisch
2001 Run for the Wall: Remembering Vietnam on a Motorcycle Pilgrimage. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Subject: Run for the Wall (Organization); Motorcycling - United States; Social interaction - United States; Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
Listed: 10/16/2001 »» Request this book
[1878]Smitek, Zmago & Rajko Mursic (eds.)
1997 MESS Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School, vol. 3 : Piran, Slovenia, 1997 and 1998 . Piran, Slovenia: Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School.
Subject: Ethnology - Slovenia - Congresses Ethnology - Europe, Eastern - Congresses; Ethnicity - Congresses; Nationalism - Congresses
Listed: 09/11/2001 »» Request this book
[1865]Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Emile Adriaan Benvenuto van & Maarten Rouveroy van Nieuwaal
2000 Red Hat, Where are You Going?. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: Examines the socio-political position of traditional Mossi chiefs in Burkina Faso. Looks at how the chiefs have navigated political change, and at how they interact with both the government and people today.
Listed: 08/31/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1863]Yang, Lina
1999 Old Men. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: Intimate ethnographic portrait of elderly men in China
Listed: 08/31/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1860]Nebergall, Peter J.
2000 The Color of His Coat (a novel). Philadelphia: Xlibris.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 08/29/2001 »» Request this book
[1858]Beach, Hugh
2000 A Year in Lapland: Guest of the Reindeer Herders. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Subject: Sami (European people) - Sweden - Jokkmokk
Listed: 08/21/2001 »» Request this book
[1852]Gamburd, Michele Ruth
2000 The Kitchen Spoon's Handle: Transnationalism and Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Subject: Ethnology - Sri Lanka - Naeaegama; Sex role - Sri Lanka - Naeaegama; Caste - Sri Lanka - Naeaegama; Women domestics - Employment - Middle East; Women - Sri Lanka - Naeaegama - Economic conditions; Social classes - Sri Lanka - Naeaegama; Naeaegama (Sri Lanka) - Social conditions; Naeaegama (Sri Lanka) - Economic conditions; Naeaegama (Sri Lanka) - Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects
Listed: 08/21/2001 »» Request this book
[1842]Lefler, Lisa J. and Frederic W. Gleach
2002 Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identity. Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings no. 35. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press.
Subject: Indians of North America - Southern States - Research - Congresses; Indians of North America - Study and teaching - Southern States - Congresses; Anthropology - Southern States - Congresses
Listed: 04/02/2002 »» Request this book
[1810]Bigler, Ellen
1999 American Conversations: Puerto Ricans, White Ethnics, and Multicultural Education. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Subject: Multicultural education - United States; Multiculturalism - United States; Puerto Rican children - Education (Middle school) - New York (State) - Case studies; Education, Bilingual - New York (State) - Case studies; Puerto Ricans - New York (State) - Social conditions - Case studies; Educational change - New York (State) - Case studies; New York (State) - Race relations - Case studies
Listed: 07/27/2001 »» Request this book
[1766]Lemon, Alaina
2000 Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Subject: Romanies - Russia (Federation) - History; Performing arts - Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) - Ethnic relations
Listed: 07/27/2001 »» Request this book
[1760]Patton, Cindy & Benigno Sßnchez-Eppler (eds.)
2000 Queer Diasporas. Q series. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Subject: Homosexuality; Lesbianism; Gays - Identity; Lesbians - Identity; Gay and lesbian studies
Listed: 07/25/2001 »» Request this book
[1756]Dauenhauer, Nora Marks
2000 Life Woven With Song. Sun Tracks Series 41. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Subject: Tlingit Indians - Literary collections; Indians of North America - Alaska - Literary collections; Indians of North America - Alaska; Tlingit Indians
Listed: 07/25/2001 »» Request this book
[1747]Gabbey, Alex
2000 In the Name of Honor. BBC Life Series. Oley PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Kurdish women fight for their rights in Northern Iraq.
Listed: 06/01/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1733]
2000 The Right to Choose. BBC Life Series. Oley PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Women are denied human rights in Ethiopia and northern Nigeria.
Listed: 06/01/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1730]Kan, Sergei (ed.)
2001 Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: Indians of North America; Ethnologists - North America; Ethnology - Field work; Adoption - North America; Names, Indian - North America
Listed: 04/06/2001 »» Request this book
[1715](unattributed)
1998 Latin and African Americans: Friends or Foes. The Hispanic Americans series. Princeton: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Hispanic Americans speak candidly about the tensions in their communities.
Listed: 02/27/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1696](unattributed)
1995 A Line Drawn on a Map. Journal of the first Americans series. Princeton: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: This film looks at the dispute between the Lac La Croix tribe and U.S. game wardens who have denied them the right to guide fisherman on trips into their traditional waters.
Listed: 02/27/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1686](unattributed)
1992 The Biggest Jewish City in the World. Destination America series. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Jewish-Americans - one of the most influential immigrant groups in America.
Listed: 02/27/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1685](unattributed)
1999 Moving North to Chicago : The Great Black Migration. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: This program examines rural-to-urban migration, the growth of cities, racial conflict, and the transmittal of ethnic culture as demonstrated by the mass movement of African Americans during the first half of the 20th century.
Listed: 02/27/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1682]Producer/director: Lynn Dougherty
2004 Understanding Race. Princeton, NJ.: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 06/25/2005 »» Request this film/video
[1680](unattributed)
1996 Kwanzaa: A cultural Celebration. Princeton: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: This program offers a look - through the eyes of African Americans - at the principles and practices of the Kwanzaa tradition.
Listed: 02/27/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1679](unattributed)
1998 Artist Unknown: Search for Africa. Princeton: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: A young British man of African descent journeys to the war-shattered central African kingdom of Benin to learn about its history, and of his heritage.
Listed: 02/27/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1674](unattributed)
1993 Kabuki. Princeton: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: An introduction to the 400-year old Japanese tradition of Kabuki theater.
Listed: 02/27/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1673](unattributed)
1999 African Art: Legacy of Oppression. Princeton: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Visual survey and discussion of the problematic aquistion of the central African art collection at the Tervuren Museum, Belgium.
Listed: 02/16/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1672]Krupat, Kitty & Patrick McCreery (eds.)
2001 Out at Work: Building a Gay-Labor Alliance. Cultural Politics series v. 17. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Subject: Gays - Employment - United States; Gay labor union members - United States - Political activity; Gay liberation movement - United States; Gay rights - United States; Civil rights - United States; Coming out (Sexual orientation) - United States
Listed: 02/05/2001 »» Request this book
[1670](unattributed)
1999 The Chinese-American Experience. A Nation of Immigrants series. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Once unfairly treated for their "otherness", immigrants from China now enrich the US.
Listed: 01/22/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1644](unattributed)
1993 The Asianization of America. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Asians prosper in America.
Listed: 01/22/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1643](unattributed)
1998 Hispanic Americans: The Second Generation. Hispanic Americans series. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Second generation hispanics adapt to American society while maintaining Latino roots.
Listed: 01/22/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1642](unattributed)
1992 A Place in the Sun. Destination America series. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: History of Italian immigration to US.
Listed: 01/22/2001 »» Request this film/video
[1639](unattributed)
1992 Nation of Immigrants. Series 'Destination America'. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Immigrants contrast the Old World and the New World
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1638]Norris, Jim
2000 After "The Year Eighty": The Demise of Franciscan Power in Spanish New Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Subject: Franciscans - New Mexico - History - 18th century; New Mexico - Church history - 18th century
Listed: 01/03/2001 »» Request this book
[1537]Shoemaker, Nancy
1999 American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Subject: Indians of North America - Population
Listed: 01/03/2001 »» Request this book
[1536]Griffin-Pierce, Trudy
2000 Native Peoples of the Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Subject: Indians of North America - Southwest, New - History; Indians of North America - Southwest, New - Social life and customs; Indians of North America - Southwest, New - Government relations
Listed: 01/03/2001 »» Request this book
[1534]Burrows, Jack
2000 Black Sun of the Miwok. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Subject: Miwok Indians - Social conditions; Miwok Indians - Biography
Listed: 11/28/2000 »» Request this book
[1529]Low, Wesley
1999 Hanging Out. Poley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1524]Sofaer, Anna
1999 The Mystery of Chaco Canyon. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: THE MYSTERY OF CHACO CANYON examines the deep enigmas presented by the massive prehistoric remains found in Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico. It is the summation of 20 years of research. The film reveals that between 850 and 1150 AD, the Chacoan people designed and constructed massive ceremonial buildings in a complex celestial pattern throughout a vast desert region. Aerial and time lapse footage, computer modeling, and interviews with scholars show how the Chacoan culture designed, oriented and located its major buildings in relationship to the sun and moon. Pueblo Indians, descendants of the Chacoan people, regard Chaco as a place where their ancestors lived in a sacred past. Pueblo leaders speak of the significance of Chaco to the Pueblo world today.; The film challenges the notion that Chaco Canyon was primarily a trade and redistribution center. Rather it argues that it was a center of astronomy and cosmology and that a primary purpose for the construction of the elaborate Chacoan buildings and certain roads was to express astronomical interests and to be integral parts of a celestial patterning.; While the Chacoans left no written text to help us to understand their culture, their thoughts are preserved in the language of their architecture, roads and light markings. Landscape, directions, sun and moon, and movement of shadow and light were the materials used by the Chacoan architects and builders to express their knowledge of an order in the universe.;
Listed: 11/12/2007 »» Request this film/video
[1523]Mathur, Vishnu
2000 Phallacies. : Bullfrog Films.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1522](unattributed)
1992 Danza Azteca de Anahuac. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Centuries before Cortéz, their ancestors migrated south from what is today Colorado and New Mexico; today, united in heritage and spirit with their brothers and sisters across the political boundary that separates Mexico from the United States, they celebrate the past and its continuity. In this fascinating program, celebrants of this ancient native tradition demonstrate their dances and costumes, explaining their meaning—and not only the literal and symbolic meaning of feathers or face paint, but the larger meaning of the dance: that you don’t have to be a Native American to accept its message. (26 minutes);
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1515](unattributed)
1989 The Essence of Being Japanese. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1504](unattributed)
1992 The Bambara Kingdom of Segu (Mali). Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1503](unattributed)
1992 The Ashanti Kingdom (Ghana). Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1502](unattributed)
1997 Beyond the Veil: Are Iranian Women Rebelling?. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: Iran - Islam - women's lives - social and political change
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1501]Sarmiento Garcia, Carmen
1997 Brazil: Priests, Samba Dancers, and Mulattos. Women of Latin America series. : Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1498]von Gunten, Matthias
1999 Coincidence in Paradise. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1497](unattributed)
1994 Benin: Past and Present: Traders, the City, and Men from over the Sea. Benin series. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1496](unattributed)
1994 Benin: Home to the Village. Benin series. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1495](unattributed)
1994 The Present: Benin's People. Benin series. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1493](unattributed)
1994 Benin: Crafts and Crafts People. Benin series. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities and Sciences.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1492]Producer/Director: Dominque Loreau
1998 Divine Carcasse. San Franciso: California Newsreel.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 11/03/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1488]Kim Longinotto and Zibi Mir-Hosseini
1998 Divorce Iranian Style. New York: Women Make Movies.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 11/03/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1483]Blue, Carroll Parrot
1984 Conversations with Roy deCarava. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 11/03/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1482]Duncan, Andy
1989 The Cowboy in Mongolia. : College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 11/03/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1481]Robinson, Sherry
2000 Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival as Told to Eve Ball. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Subject: Apache Indians - History; Apache Indians - Interviews
Listed: 10/25/2000 »» Request this book
[1471]Dunlop, Ian (director)
1995 Pain for this Land. Brooklyn, New York: Icarus Films.
Subject: Yirrkala (an aboriginal township on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory of Australia), Aboriginal interactions with incoming Western industry
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1104]Cowell, Adrian
1990 The Decade of Destruction - Saga of the Amazon Rainforest. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Destruction of Amazonian rainforest from 1980-1990
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1070]McMahon, Kevin (writer and director)
1994 In the Reign of Twilight. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: social studies, anthropology, arctic, indigenous people, sustainable development
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1067]Sofaer, Anna, and Albert Ihde
1982 The Sun Dagger: The Story of America's Stonehenge Enjoyed by Millions on PBS. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Anasazi, celestial calendars, Chaco Canyon
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1065]McLeod, Christopher, Glenn Switkes, and Randy Hayes
1984 The Four Corners: A National Sacrifice Area?. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: social studies, energy, environmental studies, anthropology
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1062]Kendell, Jeni, and Paul Tait
1989 Blowpipes and Bulldozers...the Story of the Penan Tribe and Bruno Manser. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Penan tribe, Bruno Manser, Malaysia, Deforestation,
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1056]Groome, Tracey
1992 Arrows Against the Wind. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: Indigenous people, Environment, Anthropology, International development, Political science
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1055]Weitzel, Hans-Ernst
1983 Mayan Rainforest Farming. Oley, PA: Bullfrog Films.
Subject: ecology, energy, forests, waste management, science
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[1050]Mark, Joan
1995 The King of the World in the Land of the Gypsies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: Putnam, Patrick Tracy Lowell, 1903 or 4-1953; Anthropologists - Zaire - Biography; Anthropologists - Massachusetts - Biography; Mbuti (African people); Ituri Forest (Zaire)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
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1996 Spirits of the Voyage. Camarillo, CA: Triton Films.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this film/video
[314]Najera-Ramirez, Olga
1997 La Fiesta de los Tastoanes: Critical Encounters in Mexican Festival Performance. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
Subject: Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Jocotan - Rites and Ceremonies; Indians of Mexico - Mexico - Jocotan - Religion; Festivals - Mexico - Jocotan; Cargo cults - Mexico - Jocotan; Jocotan (Mexico) - History; Jocotan (Mexico) - Social life and customs
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[310]Faiman-Silva, Sandra
1997 Choctaws at the Crossroads. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[283]Gilmore, Ron V.
1994 Hipparchus Ver. 2.2. Calgary: Geodyssey .
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this multimedia/software
[186]Issenman, Betty Kobayashi
1997 Sinews of Survival: the Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing . Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[172]Mead, W. R.
1993 An Experience of Finland. : Hurst & Co..
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[161]Meneley, Anne
1996 Tournaments of Value. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[155]Hittman, Michael
1996 Corbett Mack: the Life of a Northern Paiute. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[145]Malotki, Ekkehart
1995 Bedbugs' Night Dance. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[143]
1996 Agayuliyararput. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[140]Gainor, Ellen
1995 Imperialism And Threatre. : Routledge.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[138]Fletcher, Alice C.
1996 Hako. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[137]Bierwert, C
1996 Lushootseed Texts. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/1997 »» Request this book
[135]Carrier, Joseph
1995 De Los Otros: intimacy and homosexuality among Mexican Men. New York: Columbia University Press.
Subject: Homosexuality, Male -- Mexico -- Guadalajara; Gay men -- Mexico -- Guadalajara -- Sexual behavior; Gay liberation movement -- Mexico -- Guadalajara
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[134]Kennedy, John C.
1995 People Of The Bays And Headlands. : University of Toronto Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[129]Fletcher, Alice C.
1995 Indian Story And Song From North America. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[127]Jonaitis, Aldona
1995 A Wealth of Thought. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[122]Mark, J.
1995 King of the World in the Land of the Pygmies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[120]Parins, J.W. et al.
1995 Ke-Ma-Ha: The Omaha Stories Of F. La Flesche. : University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[119]Fletcher, Alice C.
1994 Indian Games And Dances With Native Songs. Bison Books edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[117]Dauenhauer, N. M. & R. Dauenhauer
1995 Haa Kusteeyi: Our Culture. : University of Washington Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[116]
1995 An American In Japan, 1945-1948. : University of Washington Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[113]Fletcher, Alice C.
1995 A Study Of Omaha Indian Music. : University of Nebraska Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[112]Stebbins, Robert A.
1994 Franco-Calgarians. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
[110]Richardson, Boyce
1994 People Of Terra Nullius: Betrayal And Rebirth.... Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Subject: (not listed)
Listed: 12/12/2000 »» Request this book
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