Videotapes, Slide/Tape
Anthropology and Archeology
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VHS, 60 min., 1980 In this documentary filmed in Peru, the mysteries of the ancient Incan civilization are explored. Centuries ago, the Incas performed miraculously technical brain surgery, built modern irrigation canals, made agricultural discoveries still used by modern man, and were master builders. Their empire once covered half of South America before falling to the Spanish Conquistadors.
VHS, 30 min., 1995 An exploration of the saga of a group of American Indians who were forced to leave their southern home in 1828 and move to Indian Territory designated for them and now known as the state of Oklahoma. On September 10, 1994, Chief John Ross and the council of the United Keetowah Band of Cherokee Indians participated in a ceremonial march across the state line, leaving Oklahoma for Arkansas, a return to their original home. The program examines the history and hopes of the tribe through the collective research and experience of historians and tribal members.
VHS, 60 min., 1992 This film combines the talents of Native American novelist James Welch, and white filmmaker Paul Steckler to examine the famous battle known as "Custer's Last Stand." Using journals, oral accounts, and Indian ledgers, two perspectives are taken into consideration: that of the Indians who lived on the Great Plains; and that of the white settlers who pushed west across the continent. VHS, 60 min., 1984, Study guide available Lost in Time traces the story of the southeast's earliest inhabitants from the crossing of the Bering Straits land bridge perhaps 40,000 years ago to the arrival of Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto in A.D. 1541. It follows the development of prehistoric Indian cultures from the earliest Paleo hunter bands to the complex and sophisticated society of the Mississippian Indians. Techniques used for early man's survival are presented and demonstrated, archeologists working in the field are interviewed, and sites inhabited by Indians as long ago as 7000 B.C. are visited.
VHS, 60 min., 1986, Study guide available A sequel to Lost in Time, First Frontier tells a 300 year saga of Southeastern history from the dreams and hardships of the early Spanish explorers to the Trail of Tears and the Indian removals of the 1830s. The program was shot on locations throughout the Southeast in cooperation with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.
VHS, 60 min. each, 1992, Teacher's guide available CC The ten-part Millennium series introduces viewers to eleven indigenous societies. The series facilitates an exchange of ideas between these societies and ours, focusing on issues that are confounding our own society wealth and poverty, marriage and divorce, religion and spirituality, the individual's place in society and society's place in nature, medicine, art and the future and exploring the ways these societies address the issues. An innovative approach to understanding our multicultural world. Hosted by David Maybury-Lewis. Travel to the Wodaabe tribe of Niger and the Dogon people of Mali to witness the ways they celebrate life and death with acts of beauty and grace. Meet a North American artist who shows us his way of connecting his art to the meaning of life and death. Journey to the Xavante tribe in the jungles of Brazil, the Navajo of the American Southwest, and elsewhere to review the primary wisdoms that tribal people offer to our modernized world. Then travel to central France to explore the most perplexing dilemmas of the Western World heart versus mind, body versus soul, the desires of the individual versus the needs of society. Learn how the Makuna of Colombia pass their sophisticated ecological awareness from generation to generation through complex myths and rituals. And understand how tribal peoples' views contrast with the revolutionary ideas handed down to the modern world from the Bible and from 19th century Darwinian theory. Then meet a gardener who exemplifies the new attitudes Western cultures will need to ensure humanity's survival on the Earth. Go to the Huichol Indian villages of central Mexico to witness a Mexican doctor and a tribal shaman battling an epidemic of a rare strain of deadly measles. Then visit a cancer treatment center in Canada. Understand how the certainties of science combine with natural conceptions of disease in the thinking of both worlds. Then travel to Australia to ask: Is reality something we shape, as the Australian Aborigines believe, or does it shape us? Explore views of life and death: Who are you? Where does your individual identity begin and end? Western societies strive to answer these questions through a biological view tribal cultures define identity by the myths and rituals, by the people who rear them, and by an organic continuum to which they belong. Scenes are taken from an abortion counselor in Canada, a boy's initiation into manhood in a Brazilian Xavante tribe, a high school girl's attempted suicide, and an Indonesian Sumba tribesman's relationship to his dead relatives. Explore the alternative views of wealth and society that are exhibited in the lives of tribal cultures. Viewers journey from a New York ad agency to the jungles of Indonesia and the plains of Kenya. Learn why our Western views of wealth and economic needs have created a society of strangers in the midst of material riches, while tribal cultures such as the Weyewa of Indonesia and the Gabra of Kenya create economies of dependency on others and measure wealth through people, not possessions. The Western world's desire to remake other societies into its own image has robbed us of the gifts of other cultures. Visit with David Maybury-Lewis and his Xavante brother in central Brazil where he explains the need to find balance between cultural diversity and our desire to be like one another. Then journey deep into the heart of the Amazon where they seek to unravel the mystery of a small tribe called the Mashco-Piro who remain hidden from the outside world. Explore how marriages in tribal societies from the valleys of Nepal and the plains of Niger challenge Western ideas and sensibilities yet are moral in the tribal world. Explore the uncertainties that characterize marriages in Western societies. Travel to Provence, France, to learn how Western attitudes toward love and marriage were changed in the Middle Ages. Contrast the Western forms of state to the tribal practice of democracy through consensus. Travel to Canada to witness the struggles of the Objibwa-Cree and Mohawk tribes against the Canadian federal government. Understand how their visions of the world can help us refine our definitions of democracy and pluralism. Accompany the Huichol people of Mexico on their annual pilgrimage to collect peyote, the sacred food of the gods; and visit the house of a Navajo medicine man who invites the spirits into his world through sand painting, chanting, and "walking in beauty." Then consider why modernization can be viewed as secularization and what the consequences of this means to Western people.
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