Anthropology and Archaeology
The Incas Remembered
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.
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.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
The Keetoowahs Come Home
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.
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.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
Last Stand at Little Big Horn
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.
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.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
Lost in Time
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.
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.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
First Frontier
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.
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.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
Millennium
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.
1. The Art of Living
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.
2. At the Threshold
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.
3. An Ecology of Mind The Makuna leading a camel - from the video "An Ecology of Mind"
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.
4. Inventing Reality
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?
5. Mistaken Identity
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.
6. A Poor Man Shames Us All
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.
7. The Shock of the Other
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.
8. Strange Relations
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.
9. The Tightrope of Power
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.
10. Touching the Timeless
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.
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.
1. The Art of Living
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.
2. At the Threshold
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.
3. An Ecology of Mind The Makuna leading a camel - from the video "An Ecology of Mind"
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.
4. Inventing Reality
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?
5. Mistaken Identity
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.
6. A Poor Man Shames Us All
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.
7. The Shock of the Other
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.
8. Strange Relations
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.
9. The Tightrope of Power
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.
10. Touching the Timeless
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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Anthropology and Archaeology
Odyssey Series
VHS, Some in DVD(noted), 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.
1. The Ancient Mariners - Follow nautical archeologists as they excavate three shipwrecks in the depths of the eastern Mediterranean.
2. DVD, 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.
3. The Chaco Legacy - Journey back 900 years to uncover the puzzling sophistication and technological genius of the Chaco Canyon inhabitants.
4. Dadi's Family - 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. DVD, 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. DVD, Little Injustices: Laura Nader Looks at the Law - Anthropologist Laura Nader compares the ways people seek justice.
8. DVD, Margaret Mead: Taking Note - Margaret Mead's life and career as a humanist, scholar, and scientist are chronicled.
9. DVD, Maya Lords of the Jungle - 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.
10. DVD, Myths and Moundbuilders - Uncover the mystery that troubled American settlers in the great river valleys of the Midwest and Southeast.
11. On the Cowboy Trail - Cowboys still ride herd in the country of southeastern Montana, but new agricultural techniques and strip mining threaten the traditions of ranching the land.
12. Other People's Garbage - 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. DVD, 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.
14. DVD, The Three Worlds of Bali - Explore the colorful pageantry, poetry and song that permeates daily life on the unique Indonesian island of Bali.
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.
1. The Ancient Mariners - Follow nautical archeologists as they excavate three shipwrecks in the depths of the eastern Mediterranean.
2. DVD, 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.
3. The Chaco Legacy - Journey back 900 years to uncover the puzzling sophistication and technological genius of the Chaco Canyon inhabitants.
4. Dadi's Family - 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. DVD, 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. DVD, Little Injustices: Laura Nader Looks at the Law - Anthropologist Laura Nader compares the ways people seek justice.
8. DVD, Margaret Mead: Taking Note - Margaret Mead's life and career as a humanist, scholar, and scientist are chronicled.
9. DVD, Maya Lords of the Jungle - 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.
10. DVD, Myths and Moundbuilders - Uncover the mystery that troubled American settlers in the great river valleys of the Midwest and Southeast.
11. On the Cowboy Trail - Cowboys still ride herd in the country of southeastern Montana, but new agricultural techniques and strip mining threaten the traditions of ranching the land.
12. Other People's Garbage - 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. DVD, 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.
14. DVD, The Three Worlds of Bali - Explore the colorful pageantry, poetry and song that permeates daily life on the unique Indonesian island of Bali.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
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.
1. Early Caddoan Cultures - 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.
2. Late Caddoan Cultures Caddoan Camp from "Late Caddoan Cultures" - 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.
3. Ohio Hopewell - 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.
4. Poverty Point - 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.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
Pow Wow
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.
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.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
Seasons of the Navajo
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.
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.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
The Spirit of Crazy Horse
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.
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.
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Anthropology and Archaeology
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.
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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Anthropology and Archaeology
On A Spring Day
DVD, 5 min., 2006
This is an animated story of a Cherokee family forcibly removed from their home in compliance with the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Spoken in Cherokee, with English subtitles, this short film tells of the fear and devastation they experienced as they were taken from their ancestral homelands to be moved to Indian Territory on the Trail of Tears.
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Anthropology and Archaeology