Videotapes, Slide/Tape
Anthropology and Archeology
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| Odyssey Series
VHS, 60 min. each, 1980 CC Explore the richness and diversity of past and present cultures with PBS's acclaimed anthropology series, Odyssey. Go into the field with anthropologists and archeologists to unearth the customs and traditions of man, past and present. A long-time favorite of students and teachers, Odyssey makes history, science and anthropology come to life. Follow nautical archeologists as they excavate three shipwrecks in the depths of the eastern Mediterranean. 2. Ben's Mill Go north to eastern Vermont where Ben Thrasher operates a 19th century water-powered mill that helps him create the tubs, sleds, and tools needed by local farmers. Journey back 900 years to uncover the puzzling sophistication and technological genius of the Chaco Canyon inhabitants. Examine a large family in northern India and how it adapts to change. The intricate relationships that develop in an extended family of grandchildren are chronicled. 5. Franz Boas: 1852-1942 Archival photographs and film footage, excerpts from Boas' journals, letters and writings, and the reflections and anecdotes of scholars and students are combined to create this in-depth film portrait. 6. The Incas A fresh understanding of this remarkable 16th century South American civilization that, in less than 100 years, had unified several cultures spread over 350,000 square miles of some of the world's highest mountains. 7. Little Injustices: Laura Nader Looks at the Law Anthropologist Laura Nader compares the ways people seek justice. Margaret Mead's life and career as a humanist, scholar, and scientist are chronicled. Go to the jungles of Central America and the majestic remains of the Mayan civilization that thrived for thousands of years. Study the remains of their temples and tombs, and search for the clues to their mysterious decline. Uncover the mystery that troubled American settlers in the great river valleys of the Midwest and Southeast. Cowboys still ride herd in the country of southeastern Montana, but new agricultural techniques and strip mining threaten the traditions of ranching the land. Notable historical anthropologists survey the everyday life of recent past Americans. Experts excavate slave quarters in Georgia, search into the roots of a multi-ethnic 19th century town near northern California coal mines, and salvage valuable sites in the Boston area. 13. Seeking the First Americans Archeologists from Texas to Alaska share their search for answers to one of the most controversial questions in North American history. Explore the colorful pageantry, poetry and song that permeates daily life on the unique Indonesian island of Bali.
Pictures of Record slides/script, 1982-1990 Archeological slide sets that include color slides of structures and artifacts, plus slides of maps, drawings, and historical photographs. Each set includes an introduction, bibliography, and extensive notes for each slide.
78 slides cover the period from A.D. 800 to 1200 in East Texas and along the Red River in Louisiana and Arkansas. Photographs include the outstanding ceramics, sculptures, textiles, and other artifacts from several sites.
70 slides that cover the period from A.D. 1200 to 1880. Photographs include the ceramics and other traits of the culture, as well as early photographs of Caddoan people and their settlements.
100 slides illustrating the mounds and artifacts of the Hopewellian mound builders from about 200 B.C. to A.D. 500. Slides include historical pictures as well as the mounds and artifacts of shell, copper, mica, and clay, which illustrate the range in Hopewellian art styles.
63 slides of the great Poverty Point site, sometimes called "an American Stonehenge," and of Poverty Point art and artifacts.
5. Southeastern Ceremonial Complex 86 slides illustrate the sites and ceremonial artifacts of this all but forgotten religion of the Mississippian people.
6. Spiro Mounds 80 slides of the site and Mississippian art found at Spiro, in the Arkansas Valley across from Fort Smith. This site was one of the major Mississippian sites in Eastern North America between A.D. 900 and 1400.
VHS, 25 min., 1984 Produced by the University of Arkansas Office of Minority Affairs, this program focuses on the problems of assimilation into 20th-century society experienced by North American Indians. It features Indians performing native dances as scholars comment on the issues and the North American Indians themselves relate the despair of disinheritance begun from the first time Europeans set foot on North American soil.
VHS, 60 min., 1985 This critically acclaimed public television documentary captures the traditional lifestyles of the Navajo family and features striking photography of Arizona's ancient Anasazi ruins and the spectacular Monument Valley.
VHS, 60 min., 1990 This film, narrated by Milo Yellow Hair, reveals the modern Sioux struggle to regain their heritage, and how places like Wounded Knee became sites for a fight that continues still. The program takes us past the cliches about the problems that plague life on the reservation, and puts the issues in a meaningful context of Indian cultures.
Winds of Change: A Matter of Promises VHS, 60 min., 1990 This is the story of nations within a nation, of the sovereign Indian tribes that survive in America today. This film takes us to three distinct and different nations: the Onondaga of New York state; the Navajo of Arizona; and the Lummi of Washington state. We see how each nation lives and faces the challenges of preserving their respective cultures.
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