CCA Library Videos-Anthropology

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AGE, COMMON INTEREST, AND STRATIFICATION. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #16. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 216. Studies examples of age-grading, common interests and stratification and its role in hunting-gathering cultures.

ALEJANDRO MAMANI: A CASE STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #6. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 206. Focuses on an ethnographic study of mental illness and the approaching death of an elderly Aymara Indian.

ART OF LIVING. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MAYBURY-LEWIS, DAVID. SERIES: MILLENIUM #5. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 306.08 MIL PT. 5. Contrasts the view of art in Western societies where artists are expected to define meaning in life and connect it to our lives and in tribal societies where beauty and grace are traditionally expressed in everyday life by everyone in the community. The program looks at the Woodabe tribe of Niger and the Dogon people of Mali as they celebrate life and death with acts of art and at a North American artist who shows his way of connecting his art to the meaning of life and death.

ART OF NAVAJO WEAVING; THE DURANGO COLLECTION. YEAR: 1987. FORMAT: VHS. 56 MIN. 746.14089972 ART. The first film is a documentary about the state of Navajo weaving, looking at its origins and, through a visit with a contemporary Navajo weaving family, its current state. The second film is a tour through the Durango Collection, the most complete private collection of Navajo and Southwestern weavings in the world.

ARTS. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #22. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 222. Presents the many kinds of art and the variety of functions it serves.

ASMAT OF NEW GUINEA: A CASE STUDY IN RELIGION AND MAGIC. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #21. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 221. Studies the Asmat, a cannibalistic society of western New Guinea, and their use of religion and magic as tools of survival.

AT THE THRESHOLD. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MAYBURY-LEWIS, DAVID. SERIES: MILLENIUM #10. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 306.08 MIL PT. 10. Questions whether the pursuit of self-interest that has driven Western societies since the 12th century may have finally run its course in the 20th century. The program looks at Maybury-Lewis' Xavante Indian brother who shows the value of wisdom, compassion, and family in maintaining a society, at the story of Abelard and Heloise which shows that individualism and freedom come at the cost of losing connections to each other, and at a Navajo grandmother who tells of Changing Woman and the need for balance between the tensions of life.

AYMARA: A CASE STUDY IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #17. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 217. Examines the inequities of a sharp class division between the Spanish-speaking Mestizos and the subordinate Aymara Indians.

BARBARIAN WEST. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: WOOD, MICHAEL. SERIES: LEGACY #6. 57 MIN. 930 LEG PROG. 6. Michael Wood looks at the cultural legacy left to the modern world by ancient Greece and Rome and at how they come to dominate the Western world not only through their own genius but also by borrowing from the legacies of the original five old world civilizations. He looks at how man's great cultural institutions arose in the area and how they still affect the political and cultural mindset of many parts of the world today.

BLACK GOLD. YEAR: 2006. FORMAT: DVD. 78 MIN. 641.3373 BLA. Tracing the path of the coffee consumed each day to the farmers who produce the beans, Black Gold asks us to 'wake up and smell the coffee', to face the unjust conditions under which our favorite drink is produced and to decide what we can do about it.

CENTRAL AMERICA: THE BURDEN OF TIME. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: WOOD, MICHAEL. SERIES: LEGACY #5. 57 MIN. 930 LEG PROG. 5. Michael Wood looks at the cultural legacy left to the modern world by ancient Central America, where sophisticated civilizations in many ways paralleled the ancient Mediterranean empires and where the arrival of the Conquistadors caused near obliteration of their culture. He looks at how man's great cultural institutions arose in the area and how they still affect the political and cultural mindset of many parts of the world today.

CHINA: THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: WOOD, MICHAEL. SERIES: LEGACY #3. 57 MIN. 930 LEG PROG. 3. Michael Wood looks at the cultural legacy left to the modern world by ancient China, where many of the Western world's technologies were first discovered, where one of man's great religions first arose and where the reverence for ancestors and ancient tradition continues to this day. He looks at how man's great cultural institutions arose in the area and how they still affect the political and cultural mindset of many parts of the world today.

CRICKET, THE TROBRIAND WAY: A CASE STUDY IN CULTURE CHANGE. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #25. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 225. Focuses on "syncretism," the anthropological concept which describes the process by which people borrow elements of a foreign culture and combine them with native customs, forming a unique amalgamation of cultures. As an example of this phenomenon, the program uses the game of cricket as it exists in a modified version in the Trobriand Islands. The program first traces the history of the sport and describes how the sport was first introduced to the native population by the British in the 19th century. Since then, the island people have integrated the game into their own culture, modifying rules and combining it with native customs including magic, dance and chanting. The program includes footage of many practices of the game in its modified form.

CRY FREEDOM. YEAR: 1987. FORMAT: VHS. 177 MIN. 791.43 CRY. This movie recounts the true story of South African black activist Stephen Biko who was killed by South African police while in jail, and white journalist Donald Woods who risked his life to bring Biko's message to the world.

CULTURE CHANGE. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #24. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 224. Studies the theory that cultures change in creative and productive ways in response to both internal and external forces.

CULTURE. YEAR: 1989. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION #4. 30 MIN. 306.1 CUL. Examines cultural diversity, interaction, and conflict in the United States, focusing on the subcultures of Cajuns, Chinese Americans, and Cherokee Indians.

DAWN OF MAN: THE STORY OF HUMAN EVOLUTION, 6 EPISODES ON 3 VIDEOS. YEAR: 2000. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: DAWN OF MAN. EA. 50 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 573.2 DAW. A look at the last 2.5 million years of human evolution, including homo erectus, homo heidelbergensis, and homo sapiens. Reenacts turning points in human prehistory like the invasion of Neanderthal Europe by our African ancestors. Contents: Vol.1 First born; Body -- Vol. 2. Love; Exodus -- Vol. 3. Contact; Human.

DO YOU SPEAK AMERICAN, 3 PARTS. YEAR: 2005. FORMAT: DVD. 60 EA. MIN. 427.973 DO VOLS. 1-3. Examines sociolinguistic questions and the dynamic state of American English, a language rich in regional variety, strong in global impact, and steeped in cultural controversy. Contents: Vol. 1, Up North; Vol. 2, Down South; Vol. 3, Out West.

EARTHSHAPERS. YEAR: 1980. FORMAT: VHS. 14 MIN. 970.004 EAR. Dealing with the culture of pre-European American Indians, raises the question of who, what, when, and why their mounds, which still exist today, were built.

ECOLOGY OF MIND. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MAYBURY-LEWIS, DAVID. SERIES: MILLENIUM #4. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 306.08 MIL PT. 4. Contrasts the view of nature in Western societies where nature is to be manipulated and controlled with that of tribal societies who attempt to achieve harmony with nature. The program looks at the Gabra of northern Kenya whose unique relationship to their harsh environment is their key to survival, the Makuna of Colombia whose complex myths and rituals reveal a sophisticated ecological awareness, and a modern gardener who resists the Western world's control of nature with a new attitude about sowing Earth's garden.

ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #9. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 209. Examines both Western and non-Western economic practices and points out the importance of understanding the total integration between economic practices and the values and practices of the larger culture.

EGYPT: THE HABIT OF CIVILIZATION. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: WOOD, MICHAEL. SERIES: LEGACY #4. 57 MIN. 930 LEG PROG. 4. Michael Wood looks at the cultural legacy left to the modern world by ancient Egypt, where many of the state institutions on which nations are still built were first developed, and where ancient traditions come together in the Moslem culture that is the Middle East today. He looks at how man's great cultural institutions arose in the area and how they still affect the political and cultural mindset of many parts of the world today.

EGYPTOLOGISTS. YEAR: 1967. FORMAT: VHS. 25 MIN. 916.2 EGY. This film illustrates the archaeological trip to save the remnants of antiquity at the Aswan Dam. It shows the work of historians, archaeologists, and other researches as they plan and execute this attempt to salvage history.

EXCAVATION OF MOUND 7. YEAR: 1973. FORMAT: VHS. 44 MIN. 978.9004 EXC. Describes excavation of the Indian pueblo De Las Humanas at Grand Quivira National Monument, New Mexico. Shows the work of archaeologists at the field dig and in the laboratory, and why painstaking efforts are necessary to piece together a coherent picture of a forgotten way of life.

FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD (1988). YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #12. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 212. Looks at the concepts of family and household from a cross-cultural perspective and examines the basic functions performed by these units.

FIRST FRONTIER. YEAR: 1987. FORMAT: VHS. 60 MIN. 975.00497 FIR. Discusses the explorations of De Soto, and the early history of the Southeast area, dealing mostly with the treatment of the Indians.

FOUR FAMILIES. YEAR: 1960. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MEAD, MARGARET. 59 MIN. 306.85 FOU. A comparison of child rearing practices in India, France, Japan, and Canada. Anthropologist Margaret Mead discusses how the upbringing of the child contributes to a distinctive national character.

FUTURE OF HUMANITY. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #26. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 226. Provides expert speculations about the positive directions of future changes, such as space exploration, expansion of human intelligence, and biomedical advances that could lengthen the human life span.

THE FUTURE OF THE PAST. YEAR: 2005. FORMAT: DVD. 51 MINS. 930.1 FUT What are the concerns of archaeology today? How will improved methods and scientific technologies shift perspective on the past? THe last episode of this series looks at the shift from excavating grand palaces to discovering and learning more about some of the earliest communities, such as at San Jose Magate in the Oaxaca Valley in Mexico.

GODS MUST BE CRAZY. YEAR: 1984. FORMAT: VHS. 109 MIN. 791.43 GOD. An empty coke bottle drops from the sky into an African bushman camp. One of the bushman tries to return the bottle to the gods.

HIGHLAND MAYA: A CASE STUDY IN ECONOMIC ANTHROPOLOGY. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #10. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 210. Explores the complex interweaving of economics and religion known as the "cargo" system, which is found among the Highland Maya of Mexico and Guatemala.

HOW CULTURES ARE STUDIED. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #3. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 203. An ethnographic study of the Yanomamo Indians of Venezuela which emphasizes the importance of appreciating the value of other cultures.

THE HUNTERS. YEAR: 2004. FORMAT: DVD. 72 MINS. 968.83 HUN The Kalahari Bushmen of Southwest Africa wage a constant war for survival against the hot, arid climate and the unyielding soil. The focus of The Hunters is on four men who undertake a hunt to obtain meat for the hungry villagers.

INDIA: THE SPIRIT OF EMPIRE. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: WOOD, MICHAEL. SERIES: LEGACY #2. 57 MIN. 930 LEG PROG. 2. Michael Wood looks at the cultural legacy left to the modern world by ancient India, where one of man's great religions first arose and where the spirit of non-violence and spiritual search continues to this day. He looks at how man's great cultural institutions arose in the area and how they still affect the political and cultural mindset of many parts of the world today.

INDIAN POTTERY OF SAN ILDEFONSO. YEAR: 1972. FORMAT: VHS. 27 MIN. 738.09789 IND. Shows in detail the process Maria Martinez and her son Popovi Da use to make the valuable black pottery of San Ildefonso.

INDIANS WERE THERE FIRST. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: AMERICA'S INDIANS. 13 MIN. 305.897 IND. Describes the path taken by the ancestors of native Americans across the land bridge from Asia, various tribes and some of their characteristics, and the distribution of the Iroquois at the end of the 16th century and their social and political organization.

INVENTING REALITY. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MAYBURY-LEWIS, DAVID. SERIES: MILLENIUM #8. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 306.08 MIL PT. 8. Questions whether by viewing science and magic as opposing versions of reality Westerners have closed off the "magical" influence of the natural world. The program looks at the Huichol Indian villages of Central Mexico where a Mexican physician and a tribal shaman battle an epidemic, a cancer treatment center in Canada which practices modern Western medical science, and Australia's Aboriginal culture where people constantly participate in the creation of reality.

IRAQ: THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: WOOD, MICHAEL. SERIES: LEGACY #1. 57 MIN. 930 LEG PROG. 1. Michael Wood looks at the cultural legacy left to the modern world by ancient Iraq, where man's first urbanized civilizations arose and where Sadam Hussein is but one of a long tradition of absolute rulers. He looks at how man's great cultural institutions arose in the area and how they still affect the political and cultural mindset of many parts of the world today.

KINSHIP AND DESCENT I. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #14. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 214. Studies inheritance patterns, children's names, married names, important family names in business and government, and other ways that kinship and descent are incorporated in culture.

KINSHIP AND DESCENT II. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #15. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 215. Defines kindred and looks at its role in hunting-gathering cultures.

LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #4. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 204. Shows how language, the primary means of human communication, is expressed in the sounds and movements of every culture to express feelings and aspirations.

LIGHT HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. YEAR: 1997. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: ENGEL, ELLIOT. 37 MIN. 420.9 LIG. Professor Elliot Engel traces the origins of language and the development of the English language from its Anglo-Saxon and French roots to the present day.

MARKET PLACE IN MEXICO. YEAR: 1975. FORMAT: VHS. 13 MIN. 972.08 MAR. Examines the socioeconomic conditions in a rural Mexican marketplace. Shows how people, such as a serape maker, a potter, a rope maker, are dependent on one another's skills. Points out the similarities and differences between the contemporary market and its ancestor, the Aztec market of 500 years ago.

MISTAKEN IDENTITY. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MAYBURY-LEWIS, DAVID. SERIES: MILLENIUM #3. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 306.08 MIL PT. 3. Contrasts the concept of identity in Western societies where it is defined biologically and in tribal societies where it is defined by social forces, who rears you, and an organic continuum. The program explores differing views of life and death through examples of the life of an abortion counselor in Canada, a boy's initiation into manhood in a Brazilian Xavante Indian tribe, a young girl's attempted suicide, and an Indonesian Sumbanese tribesman's relationship to his dead relatives.

MUSIC OF AFRICA. YEAR: 1985. FORMAT: VHS. 22 MIN. 781.796 MUS. Describes music and rhythms of Africa, especially Ghana, and how they are used both as music and means of communication. Demonstrates the complex rhythmical music of the bells, rattles and the drums; shows several traditional dances.

NATURE OF ANTHROPOLOGY. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #1. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 201. Emphasizes the fundamental similarities of all members of the human race and the wide range of adaptations toward the common goals of survival.

NATURE OF CULTURE. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #2. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 202. Studies the diversity of cultures which have evolved, flourished, and, in some instances, died in ages past and present.

NEANDERTHAL. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: DISCOVERY CHANNEL UNIVERSITY. 97 MIN. 575.2 NEA. Reconstructs life in the Neanderthal world when Cro-Magnons first entered the scene. Examines all aspects of Neanderthal clan life, including the making of tools and weapons, hunting, gathering, health, childbirth and rituals.

NEW ORLEANS BLACK INDIANS: A CASE STUDY IN THE ARTS. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #23. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 223. Explores the blend of American Indians and blacks which comprise the Black Indian tribes of New Orleans as they carry out a century-old tradition of participation in the pre-Lenten Mardi Gras revelry.

THE NEW DETECTIVES. YEAR: 2003. FORMAT DVD. 53 MINS. 364.164 DET Forensic scientists work with a variety of methods, including anthropology, to solve crimes that otherwise would remain unsolved.

NOVA: IN SEARCH OF HUMAN ORIGINS. YEAR: 1994. FORMAT VHS. 60 MINS. 569.9 IN Controversial fossil hunter Don Johanson involves us in his own lively quest to unravel the mystery of our human origins. Like a skilled detective, Johanson pieces together newly discovered "clues" to help paint a vivid picture of our ancestors. He masterfully combines biology, archaelogy and anthropology in an attempt to evoke a natural history of ancient man. Among the many fascinating areas Johanson explores are how they talked, when they first used language, and how and why they made and used tools, as well as their burial practices and possible spiritual beliefs.

OUR EARLIEST ANCESTORS: THE APE THAT TOOK OVER THE WORLD. YEAR: 2002. FORMAT: VHS. 47 MIN. 573.2 OUR. Meave Leakey and other scientists piece together fossil remains from Kenya that tell the story of human evolution.

PABLITA VELARDE, AN ARTIST & HER PEOPLE. YEAR: 1984. FORMAT: VHS. 20 MIN. 759.13 PAB. Meet Pablita Velarde, a Native American Indian and noted painter. Born in 1918 in the Pueblo of Santa Clara and educated at a mission, her artistic talents were encouraged by her teachers. Through her work at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, Pablita records the traditions and legends of her ancient people, so that future generations of Indians may know and understand their heritage.

PATTERNS OF SUBSISTENCE: FOOD FORAGERS AND PASTORALISTS. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #7. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 207. Studies the earlier form of subsistence, from hunting-gathering to the production of food, and how people adapted to their environment patterns.

PATTERNS OF SUBSISTENCE: THE FOOD PRODUCERS. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #8. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 208. Examines the emergence of new societies which were based on the cultivation of plants as a method of food production as the concept of land ownership was spawned.

POLITICAL ORGANIZATION. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #18. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 218. Profiles the four major forms of political organizations: bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states.

POOR MAN SHAMES US ALL. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MAYBURY-LEWIS, DAVID. SERIES: MILLENIUM #7. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 306.08 MIL PT. 7. Questions whether things have replaced people as the focus of Western-style relationships and explores alternative views of wealth and economy among tribal cultures and the West. Contrasts the views of people in a New York advertising agency where wealth is measured in terms of material products with the attitudes of the Weyewa of Indonesia and the Gabra of Kenya both of which create economies of dependence on others and measure wealth through people, not things.

PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #5. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 205. Focuses on enculturation, the process by which culture is passed from one generation to the next. Cross- cultural examples of child-rearing, socialization, mental illness, and healing are studied.

PYRAMID, 2 COPIES. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 932.012 PYR. Host David Macaulay explores the geography, history, archaeology, mythology and religions of the ancient Egyptians through a combination of live footage and animation. The programs takes a close look at Egyptian burial customs and at the significance and construction of the great pyramid at Giza, the tomb of Khufu (also known as Cheops).

RAIN IN A DRY LAND. YEAR: 2006. FORMAT: DVD. 53 MIN. 362.87 RAI. Presents the story of two Somali Bantu families, refugees from the 1991 civil war in Somalia, who find new homes in urban America. The film begins as the families prepare to leave the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya and follows them for the first two years of their new life in the United States.

RELIGION AND MAGIC. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #20. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 220. Studies the ritual of Eka Dasa Rudra, a rare Balinese ceremony which links the three worlds of gods, people, and demons.

RETURN OF NAVAJO BOY. YEAR: 2000. FORMAT: VHS. 52 MIN. 306.08997 RET. The resurfacing of a decades old film reunites a man and his family and explores radioactivity problems on the Navajo reservation. The original film, Navajo Boy, produced by Robert J. Kennedy, chronicles the Cly and Begay families. The new film, Return of Navajo Boy, juxtaposes the families' lives now and then. The current film also explores the effects of uranium exposure from the mines on the Navajo Nation on the health of the Navajo people. It documents the return/reunion of John Wayne Cly, a Navaho boy, taken as a child by missionaries around 40 years ago from his Navajo family.

SEEKING THE FIRST AMERICANS. YEAR: 1980. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: ODYSSEY. 59 MIN. 970.01 SEE. Looks at the origin of man in North America by interviewing archaeologists from Alaska to Texas who date their arrival to between 11,000 and 50,000 years ago. Also explores the controversy of whether Clovis Man developed within a pre-existing North American culture or migrated independently across the Bering Straits land bridge.

SENTINELS OF SILENCE. YEAR: 1990. FORMAT: VHS. 18 MIN. 917.2 SEN. Presents aerial views of seven of the most important archaeological sites in Mexico: Teotihuacan, Monte Alban, Mitla, Tulum, Palenque, Chichen Itza and Uxmal. Narrated by Orson Welles, this Academy Award winning film conveys a spiritual and aesthetic impression of ancient Mexico's lost civilizations.

SEX AND MARRIAGE. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #11. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 211. Examines the unique marital customs of different societies around the world.

SHOCK OF THE OTHER. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MAYBURY-LEWIS, DAVID. SERIES: MILLENIUM #1. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 306.08 MIL PT. 1. Host David Maybury-Lewis looks at how the Western world's desire to remake other societies into its own image has robbed our modern world of the gifts of other cultures. Beginning with a visit to his Xavante "brother" -- whom he first met 30 years ago -- Maybury-Lewis journeys deep into the Peruvian Amazon to unravel the mystery of the hidden Mascho-Piro tribe. Maybury-Lewis offers a personal meditation on "the other" -- the people of cultures foreign to us -- and stimulates reflection on what the modern world can learn from tribal societies.

SOCIAL CONTROL. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #19. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 219. Examines diverse systems designed to maintain order within a society and explores the possibilities of establishing peace and order among the societies of the world.

STONEHENGE: MYSTERY IN THE PLAIN. YEAR: 1980. FORMAT: VHS. 24 MIN. 936.2319 STO. This video looks at the desolate beauty of Stonehenge and the myths and legends that encourage a million people to make a pilgrimage to the site each year.

STONES AND BONES: THE BIRTH OF ARCHAELOGY. YEAR:2005. FORMAT: DVD. 51 MINS. 930.1ST In the last 250 years, archaelogists have changed the basic understanding of time and human existence. This program looks at the birth of modern archaeology, an event that stirred all of Europe's imagination: the unearthing of the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the 18th century.

STRANGE RELATIONS. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MAYBURY-LEWIS, DAVID. SERIES: MILLENIUM #2. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 306.08 MIL PT. 2. Looks at how we balance our personal desires for romance with our societal need for stable marriages through the examples of a young Nyinba couple in Nepal where polyandrous marriage is practiced, a family of the Wodaabe tribe of Niger where separate and simultaneous romantic and arranged marriages are permitted, and a Canadian couple who marry after having two children together. Questions whether in matters of the heart Western societies have the strangest relations of all.

SUN DAGGER. YEAR: 1983. FORMAT: VHS. 28 MIN. 978.9004 SUN. Documents the extraordinary celestial calendar created by ancient North American Indians, and rediscovered by artist Anna Soafer, high on a butte in New Mexico. The dagger is the only known ancient site that marks the extreme positions of both the sun and moon. The video also explores the complex culture of the Anasazi Indians who constructed the calendar and thrived in the Chaco Canyon area over a thousand years ago.

SURVIVING COLUMBUS. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. 120 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 978.00497 SUR. Chronicles the Pueblo Indians'450 years of contact with Europeans and their struggle to preserve their culture, land and religion. Using stories of the Pueblo elders, interviews with Pueblo scholars and leaders, archival photographs, and historical accounts, the program portrays the struggle for survival from the emergence of Pueblo culture in the four corners area, through conquest and slaughter by the Spanish, to their treatment by the U.S. government, concluding with a look at the Pueblo peoples of today.

TABOO SEASONS 1 and 2. YEAR: 2004. FORMAT: DVD. PRODUCER: ROYLE, DAVID. SERIES: TABOO. 611 MIN. 394.2 Tab Enter the realm of the forbidden, as this mesmerizing hit series from the National Geographic Channel pulls back the curtain on the world’s most exotic cultural taboos. It is the farthest frontier of human behavior—the limit, the extreme, the land of Taboo-consisting of beliefs and practices handed down from generation to generation. Witness rituals that celebrate birth and death, prepare for travel, marriage, or conquest, unleash the power to heal and transform ourselves, and enter into another world.

TIGHTROPE OF POWER. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MAYBURY-LEWIS, DAVID. SERIES: MILLENIUM #9. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 306.08 MIL PT. 9. Looks at how tribal societies maintain social order and harmony without the vast legal and governmental institutions the West relies on through the example of the struggles of the Objibwa-Cree and Mohawk tribes against the Canadian federal government. Suggests that the tribes' visions of the world can help Western societies redefine democracy, pluralism, and consensus.

TOUCHING THE TIMELESS. YEAR: 1992. FORMAT: VHS. AUTHOR: MAYBURY-LEWIS, DAVID. SERIES: MILLENIUM #6. 60 MIN. CLOSED CAPTIONED. 306.08 MIL PT. 6. Looks at the differing ways that Western and tribal societies seek to elevate their lives from the ordinary world into the extraordinary. The program follows the Huichol tribe of Mexico on their annual pilgrimage to collect peyote and visits a Navajo medicine man who invites spirits into his world through sand painting, chanting, and "walking in beauty".

T-SHIRT TRAVELS. YEAR: 2001. FORMAT: DVD. 57 MIN. 331.25 T-SH. What happens to all those old clothes you bring to the Salvation Army or Goodwill Industries? This comprehensive program is about Third World debt and secondhand clothes. The filmmaker travelled to Zambia and was amazed to find almost everyone wearing Calvin Klein, MTV and James Dean t-shirts! Huge bales of American secondhand clothing are sold to African importers, putting the African manufacturers out of business.

WHEN THE WHITE MAN CAME. YEAR: 1991. FORMAT: VHS. 13 MIN. 305.897 WHE. A brief survey of some of the predominant North American Indian tribes. Describes their geographical locations and some of their customs.

WITCHCRAFT AMONG THE AZANDE. YEAR: 1982. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: DISAPPEARING WORLD. 52 MIN. 962.4 WIT. Presents the role of witchcraft among the Azande in spite of their acceptance of Christianity. Focuses on its usage in adjudicating disputes, curing illness, assuring success in the hunt, and purification of the newborn.

YUCATEC MAYA: A CASE STUDY IN MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY. YEAR: 1988. FORMAT: VHS. SERIES: FACES OF CULTURE (REVISED EDITION) #13. 29 MIN. 573.2 FAC VOL. 213. Examines a traditional extended family group as its members, consisting of many generations, companionably share the daily chores and teach the youngsters in a never-ending cycle.