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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
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- 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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