LibGuides: GEO 130: Movies & Books

Movies available at the Library

This inspiring documentary tells the story of teenager Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban attack in Pakistan to emerge as a global voice for the education rights of children.

Explores the lives and thoughts of children from 15 countries. I Am Eleven weaves together deeply personal and at times hilarious portraits of what it means to sit at this transitional age. These young minds provide us with a powerful insight into the future of our world.

Jackson, the Kenyan; Carlito, the Argentinian; Zahira, the Moroccan; Samuel, the Indian: four children who have never met but who have a common point: they have to cover tremendously long distances to reach their school.

Everyone loves Babies... Experience joy and happiness at its purest in this life-affirming, universal celebration of the magic and innocence of babies.

Disney presents Queen of Katwe, a movie based on a vibrant true story starring Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo. A Ugandan girl’s life changes forever when she discovers she has an amazing talent for chess in this celebration of the human spirit.

Four young friends set out to live on just $1 a day for two months in rural Guatemala. Armed with only a video camera, they battle hunger, parasites, and extreme financial stress as they attempt to survive life on the edge.

Landfill Harmonic follows the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, whose instruments are made entirely out of garbage. After going viral, the Paraguayan orchestra is thrust into the global spotlight and must navigate a strange new world of arenas and sold-out concerts.

Four boys from Sudan embark on a journey to America after years of wandering Sub-Saharan Africa in search of safety.

When the Kenyan government promises free education for all, 84-year-old Maruge (Oliver Litondo in his debut role) makes his way to a remote primary school in the Kenyan bush to get himself the education he has always been denied.

An epic story of how the sons of undocumented Mexican immigrants learned how to build an underwater robot from Home Depot parts. And defeat engineering powerhouse MIT in the process.

The investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling freshwater supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel.

Galleries

Collections Database, American Museum of Natural History

Over 200,000 objects from the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Islands have been digitally imaged and are accessible through this website.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

Explore over 300,00 images and archeological objects, paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs from different parts of the world.
Ethnologisches Museum

The collections of the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) comprise outstanding examples of material and immaterial goods that were created outside of Europe and brought to Berlin in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Ethnological Museum- Vatican Museums
The Online Catalogue of the Vatican Museums presents essential information regarding the mobile works of art (that is, excluding the spaces, buildings or their decorations) on display along the tour itinerary.
Alexander Street Press
America: History and Life contains an index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals, America: History and Life also includes citations and links to book and media reviews.

Other Movies

List of movies (not available at the Library) that will help you increase your knowledge on the topic:

Children of the Amazon (Digital Video)
Following Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed 15 years ago, this is the story of the devastation of the Brazilian rainforests by global agribusiness through the eyes of the region's children.
Nanook of the North (Digital Video)
In what is often considered the very first documentary film, Robert Flaherty recorded the daily life of Nanook the Inuk hunter and his family living in the harsh conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay region. Essential viewing for students of anthropology and film, Nanook of the North raises many questions about truth, storytelling, and culture.
Seasons of a Navajo (Digital Video)
This classic anthropological study of a traditional Navajo family, the Neboyias, examines their lifestyle through the four seasons as they travel to each of their hogans-planting, sheepherding, harvesting, and weaving.
Spirits of the rocks: THe culture of San Bushpeople
The extraordinary rock paintings of the San bushpeople provide a culturally rich point of reconnection with humankind's collective past. In this program, anthropologists Patricia Vinnicombe-author of the groundbreaking book People of the Eland-and Frans Prins as well as Megan Biesele, cofounder of the Kalahari Peoples Fund, take part in an ethnographic sojourn with the San in South Africa, Botswana, and Namibia. To better understand this venerable indigenous person, they immerse themselves in their culture, partaking of their art, myths, beliefs, rituals, and healing dance.

Book at the Library

Explorations in Cultural Anthropology by Colleen E. Boyd (Editor); Luke Eric Lassiter (Editor)
ISBN: 9780759109537
Publication Date: 2011-06-10
Collection of readings chosen to demonstrate the varied and valuable applications of the anthropological perspective to real-world problems on local, regional, and global scales. It introduces undergraduates to the exciting, perplexing, and troubling issues that socio-cultural anthropologists confront in their work in academia and beyond.
Seeing and Being Seen by John Steiner
ISBN: 9780415575065
Publication Date: 2011-04-06
Examines the themes that surface when considering clinical situations where patients feel stuck and where a failure to develop impedes the progress of analysis.
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco by Paul Rabinow; Pierre Bourdieu (Afterword by); Robert N. Bellah (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780520251779
Publication Date: 2007-05-01
Having first published a more standard ethnographic study about Morocco, Rabinow here describes a series of encounters with his informants in that study, from a French innkeeper clinging to the vestiges of a colonial past, to the rural descendants of a seventeenth-century saint.
Hawaiian Fishermen by Edward W. Glazier
ISBN: 0495007854
Publication Date: 2006-05-09
Geographically and topically diverse, the Spindler series has enriched the study of cultural anthropology and the social sciences for countless undergraduate and graduate students. More than 200 ethnographies have been published through the years, many of which have become classics in the field.