Anthropology Media Offered by Penn State Media Sales
| Eduardo the Healer More on DVD Version | Documentary portrait of Eduardo Calderon, "Eduardo the Healer," a fisherman, sculptor, and shaman who, like Casteneda's Don Juan, uses incantations, psychology, and hallucinogenic drugs to practice his healing art among the villagers of Peru. Shown as a wise, warm, fascinating man of exceptional character, Eduardo the Healer, through his views of the human psyche, suggests there is more to the practice of medicine than modern technology admits. English subtitles are used when Spanish is spoken. Directed by Richard Cowan. (anthropology) |
| Holy Week in Antigua, Guatemala More on DVD Version | The residents of Antigua, Guatemala, and thousands of visitors participate annually in a Holy Week celebration, combining Catholic doctrine with Indian traditions and values. This program highlights the eight-hour Nazarene of La Merced Procession and the Descent of the Cross in the School of Christ. Hundreds of robed men and women carrying the great anda (a 7,000-pound float with an image of Christ bearing the cross) tread across elaborate rugs spread in front of churches, homes, and in plazas. Produced by Claudia Feldmar, Camara 2. (religion, anthropology) |
| Kypseli: Women and Men Apart -- A Divided Reality More on DVD Version | Documents the peasant society of Kypseli, a small, isolated Greek village on the island of Thera in the Cyclades. Looks at how the people divide time, space, material possessions, and activities according to an underlying pattern based on separation of the sexes, and shows how this division in turn determines the village social structure. Kypseli: Women and Men Apart -- A Divided Reality directed by Richard Cowan and Paul Aratow. Adviser: Susannah Hoffman. Anthropology |
| Moonblood: A Yanomamo Creation Myth as Told by Dedeheiwa More on DVD Version | Dedeheiwa, a prominent Yanomamo Indian in a southern Venezuela village, recites the myth of the origin of man from the blood of the moon. Illustrates the Yanomamo personality and use of descriptive language in the mythology of their culture. From the Yanomamo series. Napoleon Chagnon Anthropology. |
| Spirit of Ethnography More on DVD Version | A satire on the basic processes of data gathering in cultural anthropology. Chronicles the field research of a fictitious ethnographer embarking on his first field experience. Spirit of Ethnography presents a humorous view of anthropologists making fun of themselves and classic ethnographic films. Directed by O.M. Watson. Anthropology/Archaeology |
| Trance and Dance in Bali (Mead, Bateson) More on DVD Version | Records a performance of the Balinese ceremonial kris (dagger) dance-drama, which depicts the never-ending struggle between witch (death-dealing) and dragon (life-protecting), as it was given in the village of Pagoetan in the late 1930s. The dancers experience violent trance seizures, turn their krises against their breasts without injury, and are restored to consciousness with incense and holy water. Narrated by Margaret Mead against a background of Balinese music. From the Character Formation in Different Cultures series. Produced by Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. 1952 (anthropology) |
| Large Dams, Small People: Management of an African River More on DVD Version | Produced by the Institute for Development Anthropology. As on many rivers in the tropical developing world, dam constructions on the Senegal--or rather, conventional dam management strategies, threaten not only the riverine environment but also human rights and economic productivity of hundreds of thousands of people, whose livelihoods depend on the annual flooding of the plain. |
| Murshidat: Female Primary Health Care Workers Transforming Society in Yemen More on DVD Version | Share the experiences and accomplishments of the female primary health care and social relations in their coastal plains community of Yemen. These twenty women have transformed a dormant facility into a thriving health center, which includes former social outcasts and slaves - as both health care recipients and health care providers. The documentary features the murshidat speaking out on their changing roles, identities and aspirations as Muslim women. Follow the women on their home visits and in the maternal and Child Health Center where they provide prenatal care, do routine deliveries, immunizations, infant growth monitoring and family planning. Delores M. Walters, Ph.D.. in Anthropology, collaborated with the murshidat in making this video, which is based on research she has conducted in Yemen since the 1980's. (English voice-over) |
| Murshidat: Female Primary Health Care Workers Transforming Society in Yemen (Arabic Version) More on DVD Version | Share the experiences and accomplishments of the female primary health care and social relations in their coastal plains community of Yemen. These twenty women have transformed a dormant facility into a thriving health center, which includes former social outcasts and slaves - as both health care recipients and health care providers. The documentary features the murshidat speaking out on their changing roles, identities and aspirations as Muslim women. Follow the women on their home visits and in the maternal and Child Health Center where they provide prenatal care, do routine deliveries, immunizations, infant growth monitoring and family planning. Delores M. Walters, Ph.D.. in Anthropology, collaborated with the murshidat in making this video, which is based on research she has conducted in Yemen since the 1980's. (English voice-over) |
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