Department of Anthropology
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Ethnographic Film Series :

Exploring Cultures
Spring 2007

Videos may be viewed through the NAU TV network by phoning request to Media Services (3-6820),
or many be viewed on request in the Media Center, Cline Library.

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Unit I Introduction
Week I Tue 16 JAN
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Mon 22 JAN 		1. & 2. What is Anthropology ?
   VT 7405 Mondo Cane (1:45 ) (w homework assignment)
   VT 2859 The Shock of the Other (1:00) (optional)
Week II Tue 23 JAN
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Mon 29 JAN 		3. & 4. What is Culture?
   DVD 547 Woven Gardens (0:51)
   DVD 1034 Behind the Mask (0:51)
Week III

Tue 30 JAN
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Mon _5 FEB

5. & 6. Language and Communication
   VT 6087 A World of Differences: the non-verbal agenda (0:35)
   VT 6154 Transitions: destruction of the mother-tongue (0:30)
Week IV Tue _6 FEB
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Mon 12 FEB

7. & 8. How is Cultural Anthropology Done?
   VT 4547 Faces of Culture: How Cultures Are Studied (0:29)
   VT 5996 The Shadow Catcher : E.S.Curtis and the N.A.Indian (1:28)

First Exam, film reviews
Unit II  
Week V Tue 13 FEB
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Mon 19 FEB

9. & 10. Ethnicity & Race
   VT 6090 Black is ... Black ain't: a personal journey through black identity (1:26)
   DVD 781(2) Blood and Belonging: Dreaming a Nation [the Kurds] (0:50)

Week VI

Tue 20 FEB
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Mon 26 FEB

11. & 12. Making a Living
   VT 4549 Patterns of Subsistence: food foragers and pastoralists (0:29)
   VT 4550 Patterns of Subsistence: the food producers (0:29)
   VT 6026 Slash and Burn Agriculture (0:17)
Second Exam, film reviews
Unit III  
Week VII Tue 27 FEB
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Mon _5 MAR

13. & 14. Families
   VT 4551 Kin and Descent - i (0:28)
   VT 6074 Kin and Descent - ii (0:28)
   VT 6537 The Heart of the Dragon: 2. Caring (0:57)
Week VIII Tue _6 MAR
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Mon 12 MAR 		15. & 16. Marriage
   VT 6543 The Heart of the Dragon: 8. Marrying (0:57)
   VT 499 Middle East: 4. Family Matters (0:25)
   VT 999 Kypseli: women and men apart, a divided reality (0:41)
Week IX Tue 13 MAR
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Mon 26 MAR

17. & 18. Gender
   VT 1942 Basques of Santazi (0:57)
and either
   VT 8205 Paradise Bent: boys will be girls in Samoa (0:50)
or
   VT 5704 Shinjuku Boys (0:53)

 
Third Exam, film reviews
  19 - 23 Mar
SPRING BREAK
Unit IV  
Week X Tue 29 MAR
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Mon _2 APR

19. & 20. Political Systems
   VT 1948 Kawelka: Ongka's big Moku 0:52)
   VT 4377 Dead Birds (1:24)

Week XI Tue _3 APR
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Mon _9 APR 		21. & 22. Religion
   VT 6988 To Find Our Life: the peyote hunt of the Huichols of Mexico (1:00)
   VT 5807 I am a Sufi, I am a Muslim (0:52)
   VT 8718 Shamanism: a universal science (0:39)
Week XII Tue 10 APR
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Mon 16 APR

23. & 24. The Arts
   DVD 545 Across The Frontiers (0:51)
   DVD 548 Crooked Beak of Heaven (0:51)

Fourth Exam, film reviews
Unit V  
Week XIII
 Tue 17 APR
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Mon 23 APR

25. & 26. The Modern World System & Colonialism

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Week XIV Tue 24 APR
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Mon 30 APR

27. & 28. Colonialism & Cultural Exchange and Survival

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Week XV Tue 31 APR
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Mon _7 MAY

29. & 30. Applied Anthropology & Anticipatory Anthropology

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This program may be used by several courses offered by the Department of Anthropology.
Each instructor will have her/his own assignments regarding the films.
The program is subject to change during the semester.

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