2012 New Releases Catalogue November - Learningemall.com
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ANTHROPOLOGY<br />
10TH 10TH PARALLEL<br />
PARALLEL<br />
By Silvio Da-Rin<br />
10th PARALLEL takes us on a 300-mile<br />
journey up Brazil's Envira river into the<br />
heart of the Amazon Rainforest, to the<br />
frontier of a territory populated by the<br />
country's uncontacted indigenous tribes.<br />
Our guide is Jose Carlos Meirelles, a<br />
sertanista - one of the Amazon<br />
frontiersman employed by FUNAI, the<br />
National Indian Foundation of Brazil. With<br />
anthropologist Txai Terri de Aquino, he<br />
leads us to the Ethno-Environmental<br />
Protection Front of the Envira River, a<br />
FUNAI outpost he founded at the foot of<br />
the 10th Parallel South, the latitude that<br />
marks Brazil's border with Peru, cheek by<br />
jowl with the largest population of isolated<br />
indigenous people in the world.<br />
Until 1987, FUNAI attempted to make<br />
contact with previously isolated tribes and<br />
integrate them within the Brazilian state.<br />
The policy had disastrous results: the<br />
death of hundreds of thousands of<br />
indigenous people, and, in some cases,<br />
the virtual enslavement of others on behalf<br />
of government or industry.<br />
Since then, FUNAI has sought to maintain<br />
these tribes' isolation. Sertanistas like<br />
Meirelles, the very people who used to<br />
make first contact with the tribes on behalf<br />
of the government, are now charged with<br />
ensuring the new policy is observed.<br />
10th PARALLEL documents 21 days of<br />
this frequently dangerous, always delicate<br />
labor. With few resources beyond decades<br />
of experience in the indigenous cause, the<br />
specialists negotiate with the established<br />
riverside indigenous <strong>com</strong>munities, and<br />
face traffickers and squatters who try to<br />
invade the area. Meirelles describes<br />
sometimes harrowing encounters with<br />
members of the uncontacted tribes,<br />
including an ambush during which he was<br />
pierced through the face and neck with<br />
arrows.<br />
Even more than his bravery, we see<br />
Meirelles' dedication. In his meetings with<br />
the previously contacted and settled<br />
riverside tribes who live closest to the<br />
isolated <strong>com</strong>munities, we see some of the<br />
thorny practicalities entailed by FUNAI's<br />
approach. After a number of conflicts and<br />
thefts involving the "wild" Indians, with<br />
casualties on both sides, Meirelles must<br />
propose possible solutions for peaceful<br />
coexistence, offering concessions on<br />
behalf of the government to the contacted<br />
indigenous <strong>com</strong>munities that have<br />
suffered the greatest losses.<br />
10th PARALLEL brings us deep into the<br />
Amazon and into close proximity with the<br />
rainforest's uncontacted populations to<br />
reveal the fascinating and <strong>com</strong>plex issues<br />
at stake in FUNAI's policy on isolated<br />
tribes - a policy that has be<strong>com</strong>e a<br />
reference worldwide. We see that<br />
non-contact is not a policy of passivity or<br />
neglect, but rather entails all the subtle<br />
questions and balancing of constituencies<br />
as any other government program.<br />
Item no. : KA03100830<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 87 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 398.00<br />
SILVESTRE SILVESTRE PANTALEON<br />
PANTALEON<br />
By Roberto Olivares Ruiz and Jonathan<br />
Amith<br />
SILVESTRE PANTALEON is the story of<br />
an elderly man from the Nahuatl-speaking<br />
village of San Agustin Oapan, Mexico. It<br />
begins as a local curandero reads the<br />
protagonist's fortune in the cards and<br />
diagnoses the costly remedy to his ills: a<br />
<strong>com</strong>plex series of offerings to the hearth,<br />
the ants, the river, and the deceased.<br />
Silvestre Pantaleon then struggles to pull<br />
together the money needed to pay for the<br />
curing ceremony and provide for his family,<br />
dedicating himself to the only<br />
remunerative activities he knows:<br />
handcrafting rope (made from the maguey<br />
plant) for religious ceremonies, and<br />
making seldom-used household objects<br />
that he alone still has the skills to produce.<br />
SILVESTRE PANTALEON -the result of a<br />
collaboration between an anthropologist<br />
who lives Oapan and a filmmaker<br />
dedicated to working in indigenous<br />
<strong>com</strong>munities-unfolds with no interviews or<br />
narration. Rather, scenes from daily life<br />
are woven together in rich ethnographic<br />
detail and lingering imagery that explore a<br />
rural <strong>com</strong>munity situated in the shadow of<br />
a highway bridge to the international resort<br />
of Acapulco. Over this bridge pass<br />
thousands of tourists, oblivious to the<br />
village life just below yet worlds apart.<br />
Awards<br />
� Best Feature-Length Documentary,<br />
2011 Morelia Film Festival<br />
� Principal Prize, 2011 International<br />
Documentary Film Festival of Mexico<br />
City<br />
� Best Film (All Categories), 2011<br />
Montreal First Peoples' Festival<br />
Item no. : RW03100842<br />
Format : DVD (Color)<br />
Duration : 65 minutes<br />
Copyright : 2011<br />
Price : USD 390.00<br />
ANTHROPOLOGY/<br />
ARCHAEOLOGY<br />
BARABAIG<br />
BARABAIG<br />
By Dr. George J. Klima<br />
Ethnographic documentary about the<br />
Barabaig, a semi-nomadic people who live<br />
in northern Tanzania and rely upon cattle<br />
for their subsistence. The Barabaig<br />
concept of a "cattle <strong>com</strong>plex" with its<br />
cluster of cultural behavior patterns is<br />
illustrated by payment of a cattle fine by<br />
men tried and convicted in a women's<br />
court. In addition, a sacrifice of a bull, a<br />
Barbaig wedding ceremony, and a boy's<br />
circumcision ritual are discussed.<br />
Item no. : PR07860045<br />
Format : DVD<br />
Duration : 40 minutes<br />
Price : USD 290.00<br />
BIRTH BIRTH AND AND BELIEF BELIEF IN IN THE<br />
THE<br />
ANDES ANDES OF OF OF ECUADOR<br />
ECUADOR<br />
Birth and Belief in the Andes of Ecuador is<br />
an intimate portrait of women living in the<br />
Andes of Ecuador; their beliefs and<br />
practices surrounding childbirth. Deprived<br />
until recently of modern medical care rural<br />
Andean women have managed their<br />
reproductive practices based on an<br />
ethnomedical system that uses<br />
pre-Columbian magical elements.<br />
Although based on folk medicine the<br />
prescribed practices usually confer real<br />
physical and emtional benefits to mothers<br />
and their children.<br />
Item no. : JW07860065<br />
Format : DVD<br />
Duration : 28 minutes<br />
Price : USD 200.00<br />
CAPITAL CAPITAL CAPITAL OF OF OF EARTH: EARTH: TH THE TH E<br />
MAROONS MAROONS OF OF MOORE<br />
MOORE<br />
TOWN TOWN<br />
TOWN<br />
This historical documentary, filmed in<br />
Jamaica, focuses on the Maroons, direct<br />
descendants of escaped African slaves<br />
who formed rebel <strong>com</strong>munities in the Blue<br />
Mountains. After a hundred years of<br />
guerrilla warfare against the British, they<br />
won freedom and political autonomy.<br />
Illustrates aspects of their unique and<br />
original West African heritage that are now<br />
at odds with the pressures of modern<br />
social and economic change.<br />
Item no. : TN07860075<br />
Format : DVD<br />
Duration : 40 minutes<br />
Price : USD 190.00<br />
CHARACTER CHARACTER FORMATION<br />
FORMATION<br />
IN IN DIFFERENT DIFFERENT DIFFERENT CULTURE<br />
CULTURES:<br />
CULTURE<br />
CULTURES:<br />
S:<br />
A A BALINESE BALINESE FAMILY<br />
FAMILY<br />
Study of a Balinese family and the ways in<br />
which the father and mother treat the three<br />
youngest children: lap baby, knee baby,<br />
and child nurse. Shows the father giving<br />
the baby his breast, behavior of the knee<br />
baby during the lap baby's absence, and<br />
difficulties of the child nurse in caring for<br />
the youngest.<br />
Item no. : NH07860079<br />
Format : DVD<br />
Duration : 20 minutes<br />
Price : USD 180.00<br />
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