South American Indians Films & Videos
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CALL #: F1219.1.T27 C58 1993.
TITLE: City of the gods [videocassette].
PUBLISHER: Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1993.
DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
SUMMARY:
50 miles north
of modern Mexico City stands the ancient site of Teotihuacan. Built more
than 2,000 years ago, the city's colossal pyramids of the sun and moon
are the largest pre-Columbian monuments in the New World. But who built
and lived in this metropolis held sacred by the later Aztecs?
SUBJECTS:
Teotihuacan Site (San Juan Teotihuacan,
Mexico)
Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities.
Mexico -- Antiquities.
CALL #: F2520.1.Y3 C66 1990.
TITLE: Contact [videorecording] : the Yanomami Indians of Brazil /producer/camera Geoffrey 'Connor.
PUBLISHER: New York : Filmakers Library, c1990.
DESCRIPTION: 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col., 1/2 in.
SUMMARY:
This documentary,
shot in one of the most remote corners of the Brazilian Amazon, graphically
depicts the devastating impact of contact with the outside world on an
isolated indigenous tribe, the Yanomami Indians, who are considered to
be the last major Stone Age people in the Amazon.
OTHER TITLE: Yanomami Indians of Brazil.
SUBJECTS
Yanomamo Indians.
Indians of South America -- Brazil.
Indians, Treatment of -- Brazil.
CALL #: E-5610.
AUTHOR: Coe, Michael D.
TITLE: Corn
and the origins of settled life in Meso-America [motion picture] / Michael
D. Coe, with Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Richard S. MacNeish ; produced by Educational
Services Incorporated ; Jack
Churchill,
producer.
PUBLISHER: Newton, Mass. : Educational Services, 1964.
DESCRIPTION: 2 film reels (40 min.) : sd., col. ; 16 mm.
SUMMARY:
Shows how
the development of corn contributed to the development of settled life
by providing a dependable food source. Postulates an extinct common
ancestor of modern corn, and reconstructs its probable haracteristics.
Uses evidence from an archeological site in central Mexico as support of
the theory.
SUBJECTS
Corn -- Mexico.
Mexico -- History -- To 1519.
Indians of Mexico -- Agriculture.
Corn.
ALT CALL #: E-5610.
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