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60 Minutes, Easter Island
presented by Bill Whitaker, fl. 1961-2015; produced by Keith Sharman, fl. 2006-2013; interview by Anderson Cooper, 1967-, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2019), 13 mins
A report on the Moai, the giant, human-like statues built hundreds of years ago on Easter Island, detailing the efforts to preserve the slowly disintegrating statues and the effects of tourism on the relationship the indigenous people, whose ancestors built the Moai, have with the statues. Includes interviews with...
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presented by Bill Whitaker, fl. 1961-2015; produced by Keith Sharman, fl. 2006-2013; interview by Anderson Cooper, 1967-, in 60 Minutes (New York, NY: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2019), 13 mins
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A report on the Moai, the giant, human-like statues built hundreds of years ago on Easter Island, detailing the efforts to preserve the slowly disintegrating statues and the effects of tourism on the relationship the indigenous people, whose ancestors built the Moai, have with the statues. Includes interviews with Pedro Edmunds Paoa, the mayor of the only town on Easter Island; Jo Anne Van Tilburg, a professor of archaeology at the University of...
A report on the Moai, the giant, human-like statues built hundreds of years ago on Easter Island, detailing the efforts to preserve the slowly disintegrating statues and the effects of tourism on the relationship the indigenous people, whose ancestors built the Moai, have with the statues. Includes interviews with Pedro Edmunds Paoa, the mayor of the only town on Easter Island; Jo Anne Van Tilburg, a professor of archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles; and Cristan Moreno Pakarati, a historian and tour guide on the island.
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Field of Study
Media Studies
Content Type
Interview, News story
Contributor
Keith Sharman, fl. 2006-2013
Author / Creator
Anderson Cooper, 1967-, Bill Whitaker, fl. 1961-2015
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Series
60 Minutes
Topic / Theme
Archaeological sites, Traditional history, Tourism industry, Family and Culture, 21st Century in World History (2001– )
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2019 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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Africa & Africans
written by Philip D. Curtin, 1922-2009 and Paul Bohannan (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1995, originally published 1964), 316 page(s)
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written by Philip D. Curtin, 1922-2009 and Paul Bohannan (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1995, originally published 1964), 316 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Philip D. Curtin, 1922-2009, Paul Bohannan
Author / Creator
Philip D. Curtin, 1922-2009, Paul Bohannan
Date Published / Released
1964, 1995
Publisher
Waveland Press, Inc.
Topic / Theme
African, Revolutions, Social institutions, Cultural identity, African ethnic groups, Cultural change and history, Africans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1988 by Waveland Press
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Anuta: Polynesian Lifeways for the Twenty-First Century
written by Richard Feinberg (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2004, originally published 2004), 268 page(s)
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written by Richard Feinberg (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2004, originally published 2004), 268 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Ethnography
Contributor
Richard Feinberg
Author / Creator
Richard Feinberg
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
Waveland Press, Inc.
Topic / Theme
Anutan, Field work for anthropology, Uncertainty, Domestic life, Marriage, Family descent, Kinship nomenclature, Clans, Communities, Chieftains, Family, Anutans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2004 by Waveland Press
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Asking and Listening: Ethnography as Personal Adaption
written by Dirk van der Elst and Paul Bohannan (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1998, originally published 1998), 124 page(s)
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written by Dirk van der Elst and Paul Bohannan (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1998, originally published 1998), 124 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
General reference book
Contributor
Dirk van der Elst, Paul Bohannan
Author / Creator
Dirk van der Elst, Paul Bohannan
Date Published / Released
1998
Publisher
Waveland Press, Inc.
Topic / Theme
Government, Economics, Cultural views, Observation techniques for anthropology, Anthropology, Ethnographic methodology
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1998 by Waveland Press
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At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai
written by Geoffrey O'Connor; produced by Geoffrey O'Connor, Realis Pictures, Inc (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1992), 29 mins
At the Edge of Conquest looks at the situation of the Waiapi Indians, a small, isolated tribe that came in contact with the outside world in the late 1970's. Today they are threatened by invading gold miners, by the Brazilian government's recent proposal to reduce their land by 10%, and the state government's plan...
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written by Geoffrey O'Connor; produced by Geoffrey O'Connor, Realis Pictures, Inc (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1992), 29 mins
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At the Edge of Conquest looks at the situation of the Waiapi Indians, a small, isolated tribe that came in contact with the outside world in the late 1970's. Today they are threatened by invading gold miners, by the Brazilian government's recent proposal to reduce their land by 10%, and the state government's plan to construct a highway directly through their territory. But their strategy for survival has been effective: defend their lands from i...
At the Edge of Conquest looks at the situation of the Waiapi Indians, a small, isolated tribe that came in contact with the outside world in the late 1970's. Today they are threatened by invading gold miners, by the Brazilian government's recent proposal to reduce their land by 10%, and the state government's plan to construct a highway directly through their territory. But their strategy for survival has been effective: defend their lands from invasions while their leaders navigate the tricky waters of Brazilian politics. The film focuses on the charismatic leader, Chief Wai-Wai, as he travels from his remote village to Brazil's capitol, encountering for the first time airplanes, elevators, and skyscrapers. But the real barriers are not physical but bureaucratic and cultural. He doesn't read or write, has never been at a meeting before, and doesn't speak the language of these foreign people. Unlike the traditional depictions of indigenous persons as pristine, removed from the forces of the outside world, At the Edge of Conquest reveals a society grappling with the real politique of a larger nation-state. Chief Wai-Wai is fighting the role of victim in a desperate effort to shape the destiny of his people. It is a voyage resembling a cross between Alice in Wonderland and a Kafkaesque nightmare. But it is one which ultimately all isolated indigenous societies are forced to make if they are to survive this rapidly changing world. High School College Adult
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Geoffrey O'Connor, Wai-Wai, fl. 1993, Realis Pictures, Inc, Margo Skinner, 1950-2005
Author / Creator
Geoffrey O'Connor
Date Published / Released
1992
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Margo Skinner, 1950-2005
Person Discussed
Wai-Wai, fl. 1993
Topic / Theme
Wayampi (Waiãpi), Gold mines and mining, Property rights, Evacuations, Capitalism, Economic development, Cultural identity, Tribal and national groups, Anthropology, Ethnography, Wayampi
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1992. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
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Ausangate
written by Andrea Heckman, fl. 1978-2017; directed by Tad Fettig, fl. 1995-2016 and Andrea Heckman, fl. 1978-2017; produced by Judy Walgren DeHaas, 1964-, Tad Fettig, fl. 1995-2016 and Andrea Heckman, fl. 1978-2017 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2006), 1 hour 2 mins
This film documents the lives of Quechua people who live around Ausangate, a sacred peak in southeastern Peru. It is based on anthropological research conducted over twenty years and reveals how the weavers make textiles encoded with symbolic images that reinforce ancestral beliefs during rituals and in everyday l...
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written by Andrea Heckman, fl. 1978-2017; directed by Tad Fettig, fl. 1995-2016 and Andrea Heckman, fl. 1978-2017; produced by Judy Walgren DeHaas, 1964-, Tad Fettig, fl. 1995-2016 and Andrea Heckman, fl. 1978-2017 (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2006), 1 hour 2 mins
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This film documents the lives of Quechua people who live around Ausangate, a sacred peak in southeastern Peru. It is based on anthropological research conducted over twenty years and reveals how the weavers make textiles encoded with symbolic images that reinforce ancestral beliefs during rituals and in everyday life. Four Quechua people's stories are told against a backdrop of high Andean lakes and mountains showing a harsh existence possible on...
This film documents the lives of Quechua people who live around Ausangate, a sacred peak in southeastern Peru. It is based on anthropological research conducted over twenty years and reveals how the weavers make textiles encoded with symbolic images that reinforce ancestral beliefs during rituals and in everyday life. Four Quechua people's stories are told against a backdrop of high Andean lakes and mountains showing a harsh existence possible only through a strong symbiotic relationship to their alpacas and llamas. This film documents the lives of Quechua people who live around Ausangate, a sacred peak in southeastern Peru. Four Quechua people's stories are told against a backdrop of high Andean lakes and mountains showing a harsh existence possible only through a strong symbiotic relationship to their alpacas and llamas. From these animals they gain food, pelts, dried dung for fuel, transport for goods, and yarn for clothing. The film shows weaving techniques, first haircutting rites of passage, and the annual pilgrimage of Qoyllur Rit'I, in which dancers known as ukus stand all night on the 15,000-foot-high glacier so they may have the privilege of taking a chunk of ice from the mountain that is later melted and drunk by their community as sacred water. Visually cinematic, the film carries a deep message of survival and cultural continuity in an environment with elevations over 14,000 feet. Faced with the pressures of modernization, Quechuas are confronted with choices about whether to move to the cities in search of jobs and educations-- thus separating themselves from nature and from Ausangate- or to continue in a lifestyle that has sustained them for centuries. Theirs is a story of change incorporated onto a bedrock of tradition that is dynamic and capable of adaptation.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Andrea Heckman, fl. 1978-2017, Miguel Pacsi Mayu, Roman Vizcarra, Maria Merma Gonzalo, Dr. Juan Victor Nuñez del Prado, Dr. Jorge Flores Ochoa, Judy Walgren DeHaas, 1964-, Tad Fettig, fl. 1995-2016, Liam Lockhart
Author / Creator
Andrea Heckman, fl. 1978-2017, Tad Fettig, fl. 1995-2016
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Speaker / Narrator
Liam Lockhart
Topic / Theme
Quechua, Anthropology, Cultural identity, Cultural change and history, Immigration and emigration, Textile industry, Agriculture, Rural population, Religious beliefs, Ethnography, Quiquima
Copyright Message
© Documentary Educational Resources
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The Bagyeli Pygmies At the Fringes of the World
directed by François-Philippe Gallois, fl. 2007 (Paris, Ile-de-France: Windrose (Film distributor), 2009), 57 mins
The Bagyeli Pygmies lived from hunting & gathering, in harmony with the Cameroon jungle. Confronted with the outside world, they are becoming aware of their poverty & suffer from being discriminated against by always bigger groups, such as the Cameroonese to start with. The powerful oil company EXXON is building a...
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directed by François-Philippe Gallois, fl. 2007 (Paris, Ile-de-France: Windrose (Film distributor), 2009), 57 mins
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The Bagyeli Pygmies lived from hunting & gathering, in harmony with the Cameroon jungle. Confronted with the outside world, they are becoming aware of their poverty & suffer from being discriminated against by always bigger groups, such as the Cameroonese to start with. The powerful oil company EXXON is building a pipeline in their forest and the World Bank hasn't yet paid them the compensations owed for their expropriation. Angeline, Marcelline...
The Bagyeli Pygmies lived from hunting & gathering, in harmony with the Cameroon jungle. Confronted with the outside world, they are becoming aware of their poverty & suffer from being discriminated against by always bigger groups, such as the Cameroonese to start with. The powerful oil company EXXON is building a pipeline in their forest and the World Bank hasn't yet paid them the compensations owed for their expropriation. Angeline, Marcelline & Pascal belong to the generation of Bagyeli who try to adapt to this new way of life.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
François-Philippe Gallois, fl. 2007, Cadine Navarro, fl. 2009
Author / Creator
François-Philippe Gallois, fl. 2007
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
Windrose (Film distributor)
Speaker / Narrator
Cadine Navarro, fl. 2009
Topic / Theme
Pygmy, Cultural assimilation, Tribal and national groups, Cultural anthropology, Oil mines and mining, Economic discrimination, Poverty, Anthropology, Lese
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2009. Used by permission of Windrose Distribution.
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Barrie Machin's Brazil, Nambiquara and Logging
directed by Barrie Machin, fl. 1972; produced by Barrie Machin, fl. 1972, in Barrie Machin's Brazil (Privately Published, 1990), 1 min
This video, filmed by Barrie Machin, is about how the effect of logging on the Nambiquara.
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directed by Barrie Machin, fl. 1972; produced by Barrie Machin, fl. 1972, in Barrie Machin's Brazil (Privately Published, 1990), 1 min
Description
This video, filmed by Barrie Machin, is about how the effect of logging on the Nambiquara.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Barrie Machin, fl. 1972
Author / Creator
Barrie Machin, fl. 1972
Date Published / Released
1990
Publisher
Privately Published
Series
Barrie Machin's Brazil
Topic / Theme
Logging, American Indians, Cultural change and history, Southern Nambikuara
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1990 by Barrie Machin
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B.A.T.A.M.
written by Johan Lindquist, Per Erik Eriksson and Liam Dalzell; directed by Liam Dalzell, Per Erik Eriksson and Johan Lindquist; produced by Liam Dalzell, Per Erik Eriksson and Johan Lindquist (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER)), 33 mins
B.A.T.A.M. tells the contrasting stories of two women: Wati, a young factory worker, and Dewi, a prostitute, both of whom live through a dramatic transformation on the Indonesian island of Batam, located on Singapore's doorstep.
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written by Johan Lindquist, Per Erik Eriksson and Liam Dalzell; directed by Liam Dalzell, Per Erik Eriksson and Johan Lindquist; produced by Liam Dalzell, Per Erik Eriksson and Johan Lindquist (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER)), 33 mins
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B.A.T.A.M. tells the contrasting stories of two women: Wati, a young factory worker, and Dewi, a prostitute, both of whom live through a dramatic transformation on the Indonesian island of Batam, located on Singapore's doorstep. B.A.T.A.M. tells the contrasting stories of two women: Wati, a young factory worker, and Dewi, a prostitute, both of whom live through a dramatic transformation on the Indonesian island of Batam, located on Singapore's do...
B.A.T.A.M. tells the contrasting stories of two women: Wati, a young factory worker, and Dewi, a prostitute, both of whom live through a dramatic transformation on the Indonesian island of Batam, located on Singapore's doorstep. B.A.T.A.M. tells the contrasting stories of two women: Wati, a young factory worker, and Dewi, a prostitute, both of whom live through a dramatic transformation on the Indonesian island of Batam, located on Singapore's doorstep. In this free-trade zone, an official economy based in the factories, and an unofficial economy of prostitution, have developed together increasing Batam's population from 3,000 to 700,000. As the two divergent economies depend on female labor, the experiences of these two women illuminate the ways in which multinational capitalism and migration interact in the shadowlands of globalization. "There is no doubt in my mind that this particular film would stand out as an exceptional addition to any ethnographic film catalog and, more pointedly, to the collecti on of liberal arts colleges. ... I am confident that the film would be utilized in a wide range of courses in Anthropology, and other disciplines, and is germane to such diverse and important scholarly topics as the study of globalization, development, transnationalism, Economic Anthropology, Political Anthropology, and as I have used it, in courses explicitly concerned with cross-cultural study of gender and ethnographic film." — Matthew Amster, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Gettysburg College
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Johan Lindquist, Per Erik Eriksson, Liam Dalzell
Author / Creator
Johan Lindquist, Per Erik Eriksson, Liam Dalzell
Date Published / Released
2005
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Speaker / Narrator
Johan Lindquist
Topic / Theme
Indonesian, Economic development, Immigration and emigration, Women in workforce, Cultural change and history, Prostitution, Gender, Women, Ethnography, Indonesians
Copyright Message
by Documentary Educational Resources
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Becoming a Man, Becoming a Man Among the Borana
produced by Xavier Vaire, in Becoming a Man (Paris, Ile-de-France: ZED (Film production), 2006), 51 mins
In the heart of Ethiopia, 12 year-old Wario belongs to the Borana tribe. It is time for Wario to learn the difficult trade of salt labor, in order to become a full-grown Borana with adult responsibilities. He will first follow his father to the "mouth of the devil", a volcano in which men risk their lives to extra...
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produced by Xavier Vaire, in Becoming a Man (Paris, Ile-de-France: ZED (Film production), 2006), 51 mins
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In the heart of Ethiopia, 12 year-old Wario belongs to the Borana tribe. It is time for Wario to learn the difficult trade of salt labor, in order to become a full-grown Borana with adult responsibilities. He will first follow his father to the "mouth of the devil", a volcano in which men risk their lives to extract salt. He will then journey to the singing wells, where men form a 30 ft chain to fetch water as they sing. With the camels packed wi...
In the heart of Ethiopia, 12 year-old Wario belongs to the Borana tribe. It is time for Wario to learn the difficult trade of salt labor, in order to become a full-grown Borana with adult responsibilities. He will first follow his father to the "mouth of the devil", a volcano in which men risk their lives to extract salt. He will then journey to the singing wells, where men form a 30 ft chain to fetch water as they sing. With the camels packed with salt and water, father and son will embark on the salt route, a long and perilous journey across the desert.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Jean Queyrat, fl. 2001, Wario, fl. 2012, Xavier Vaire, Paul Bandey, fl. 1983
Author / Creator
Jean Queyrat, fl. 2001
Date Published / Released
2006
Publisher
ZED (Film production)
Series
Becoming a Man
Speaker / Narrator
Paul Bandey, fl. 1983
Topic / Theme
Borana, Herders, Trade and commerce, Salt mines and mining, Men, Childhood, Tribal and national groups, Cultural views, Adulthood, Ethnography
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2012. Used by permission of ZED.
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