2012 New Releases Catalogue November - Learningemall.com

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