DOCUMENTARIES
AND CINEMATOGRAPHYClips from Commerical Productions
The following films on Nepal are available
from the Institute for Scientific Film,
Goettingen, Germany:
1. "Raute--Camp Scenes and
Bartering" Film E 2199.
2. "Raji--Shaman Initiation" E 2198.
3. "Raji--Divination and Magical
Treatment of an Illness" E 2197.
4. "Kusunda--Consecration of Hunting
Equipment" E 2196.
5. "Kusunda--Construction of a Lean-To
During Hunting" E 2195.
6. "Newar, Kumhale
Caste--Pottery-Making" E 2194.
7. "Newar, Udhas
Caste--Construction of a Water Pipe" E 2193.
The following films are
available at the Human Studies Film
Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C.:
8. "Aspects of Raji
Religion and Daily Life," 1976.
9. "Kusunda Hunting
Techniques," 1976.
10. "Aspects of Ban Raut Daily
Life," 1976.
11. "Ethnographic Film
Survey of Tamang and Sherpa Villages,
Nepal," 1978 (no. 86.13.21).
12. "Ethnographic Film
Survey of Tharu Villages, Nepal," 1978
(no. 86.13.22).
13. "Ethnographic Film
Survey of the Raji Peoples of Western
Nepal," 1978 (no. 86.13.24).
Additional films are
in distribution as follows:
14. Underwater
archaeological footage for the film Tiwanaku: A
Land Finds Its History, Videcom, St. Galens,
Switzerland,
1992 (available in English, German, and
Spanish).
15. Underwater footage in
Lake Titicaca for the feature-length
documentary Inti Anti: The Cordillera of the
Sun, Latin
American Documentary Services, Buenos Aires,
1982.
16. High altitude footage
for the BBC`s TV special entitled
North of Kathmandu, 1978.
17. "Sponge Divers of
Kalymnos, Greece," 1965 (portions appeared
in the documentary, Aegean Sponge Divers,
available through
the Extension Media Center, UC Berkeley).