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Films
Use WestCat to search the Libraries collection of films on videotape. Choose the Guided Keyword search and click on More Limits. Under Medium choose Videorecording and click button to set limit. This will return you to the Guided Keyword search screen. Enter a term in one of the boxes in order to search all videos the term will apply to. Caution: a search using anthropology or archaeology may not return all films in these broader categories. A good strategy is to try the broad categories, then follow up with more specific terms. For example, to generate a list of films for the Caribbean enter: caribbean
Films for Anthropological Teaching
GN42.3 .Z9 H44 1995
"An annotated guide to 1,575 films, including price and distributor. Arranged by film title; indexed by geographical area, subject, distributor, & persons involved."
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EthnologueAn excellent scholarly directory of languages of the world describing a total of more than 6,700 living languages. Entries provide information on population, dialects, immigrant languages, bilingualism, ecological setting, availability of dictionaries and the Bible. Can be searched by country, language family, or language name files to find demographic linguistic information.
eHRAF World Cultures The electronic Human Relations Area Files is a full-text cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life written by social scientists, travelers and missionaries. Information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level. Updated annually. Coverage: 1866 to the present.
Oral History Online An index to thousands of oral histories in English from collections on the public Web, gathered from repositories, libraries and archives around the world. When possible, interview transcripts, sometimes with audio or video, are included. There are numerous ways to search the interviews. Updated regularly.
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