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Yanomamö : a multidisciplinary study / a film by James V. Neel, Timothy Asch, Napoleon A. Chagnon.

LIBRA VHS F2520.1.Y3 Y36 1980z
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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Neel, James V. (James Van Gundia), 1915-2000, director, narrator.
Asch, Timothy, director.
Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-2019, director.
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), distributor.
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Biology and Medicine, producer.
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Series:
Yanomamo series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Yanomamo Indians.
Yanomamo Indians--Social conditions.
Indians of South America--Brazil--Social life and customs.
Indians of South America.
Manners and customs.
Brazil.
Indians of South America--Venezuela--Social life and customs.
Anthropology--Fieldwork.
Anthropology.
Venezuela.
Genre:
Documentary films.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videocassette (45 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
1/2 in.
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, [between 1980 and 1989]
System Details:
VHS.
analog
magnetic
VHS
Summary:
Describes the field techniques and findings of teams from such disciplines as human genetics, anthropology, epidemiology, dentistry, linguistics, and medicine as they conduct a biological-anthropological study of the Yanomamo Indians in the jungles of Venezuela and Brazil. Also includes a sketch of Yanomamo culture and society.
Participant:
Narrator: James V. Neel.
Notes:
Principally funded by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Division of Biology and Medicine with additional financial support from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Originally issued as a motion picture in 1968.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
OCLC:
45602685

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