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African
Influences in Latin America
Modern
Art
Aztecs
Economic
Development
| Callnumber: |
DEV
HON 03 VIDEO C 01 |
| Title: |
Where
are the Beans? (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
In
1993 Linda Shelly visited La Esperanza, Honduras, where she had
lived for several years on an MCC assignment. Even though her
Honduran farmer friends had a good bean harvest that year, they
did not have enough beans to feed their families. Linda began to
ask her friends, Where are the beans? This video presents their
answers as a detective story. Viewers try to find the root
causes for the disappearance of the beans. The trail eventually
leads to global economic policies and the connections between
people living in Central and North America. A Mennonit Central
Committee production, 1995. Good way to introduce younger
audiences to these big concepts. Guide included. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
13
min. |
Dance
and Festivals
Folk
Arts
| Callnumber: |
FA MEX 16 BK C 01 |
| Title: |
Mexican
Papercutting: Simple Techniques for Creating Colorful Cut-Paper
Projects (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
book |
| Description: |
This book
describes the fascinating origins of papel picado, illustrated
with dozens of remarkable examples of historical and contemporary
cut paper by Mexican artists and instructions and patters for
cutting 20 projects from a variety of papers. Kathleen Trenchard
explains the basics of Mexcian papercutting used for years to
create colorful tissue paper banners that are strung across
streets and plazas during festivals in Mexico. Index and
bibliography included. Lark Books, 1998. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
95 pp. |
Feature
Films
Geography
and Environment
History
(15th - 19th Centuries)
| Callnumber: |
H LA 28 VIDEO A-E
C 01 |
| Title: |
The Buried
Mirror Parts A-E |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
A new activity
pack with crossword puzzles and other teacher supplements
included for episodes A-E of this series. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
5 tapes, 59
min., 39 pp. each |
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| Callnumber: |
H LA 28 VIDEO A-E
C 03 |
| Title: |
El Espejo
Enterrado |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
A new activity
pack with crossword puzzles and other teacher supplements
included for episodes A-E of this series. |
| Language: |
Spanish |
| Length: |
5 tapes, 59
min., 39 pp. each |
| Callnumber: |
H LA 38 CD C 01 |
| Title: |
First Encounters:
Native Americans and Europeans in the Mississippi River Valley
(NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
cd |
| Description: |
This CD provides
students and instructors an extensive collection of historical
texts, maps, art works, and artifact images of the exploration and
conquest of the New World (both North and South America). Over
2,500 information and activity screens offer hundreds of
interactive learning exercises, tutorials, quizzes, essay
challenges, and bibliographies in English, French, and Spanish
language tracks. These educational materials are suitable for use
in social studies, foreign language, anthropology, history, and
geography classes at middle school, high school, and college
levels. System requirements: Pentium-class computer with 16MB Ram,
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, NT or 2000, Quicktime 4.0 or higher
(included on the CD), 2x CD-ROM drive, Sound Card. Arkansas
ARcheological Survey and its licesors, 2000. |
| Language: |
English, French,
Spanish |
| Length: |
Contemporary
History
| Callnumber: |
HC CHI 08 VIDEO
C 01 |
| Title: |
Fernando is Back
(NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
This film
follows the workings of Chile's Identification Unit in its quest
to reclaim the identities of the disappeared from the Pinochet
era. Founded in 1994, the Identification Unit is composed of a
dedicated team of doctores and specialists in anthropology and
forensics. Using old photographs sent by family, the doctors of
the unit use a painstaking method of comparing these photos to
scanned images of human skulls and bones, superimposing one over
the other in a computer, with the hope of finding an exact
match. Directed by Silvio Caiozzi. First Run Icarus Films, 1998. |
| Language: |
Spanish w/
English subtitles |
| Length: |
31 min. |
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| Callnumber: |
HC CUB 18 VIDEO
C 01 |
| Title: |
Fidel: 40 anos
de la revolucion cubana y su lider (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
A documentary by
Estela Bravo. Includes actual interview footage with Castro and
commentary by many colleagues, friends, and family. |
| Language: |
Spanish w/
English subtitles |
| Length: |
75 min. |
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| Callnumber: |
HC CUB 19 VIDEO
C 01 |
| Title: |
La Esquina
Caliente (The Hot Corner) (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
When it was
announced tht the Baltimore Orioles and the Cuban national
baseball team would meet for a series of exhibition games,
documentary filmmakers Michael Skolnik and William O'Neill vowed
they would be there. The pair turned their lenses on 18 people -
9 Americans and 9 Cubans - an all star team of commentators
offering their views on everything from America's 40-year trade
embargo to life in contemporary Havana ... and of course, béisbol.
Although the games were occasionally interrupted by political
protests, this series of matches between the long-feuding
nations was an exemplary lesson in pure sportsmanship. Directed
by Michael Skolnik and William O'Neill, produced by Kicked Down
Productions, 1999. |
| Language: |
Spanish w/
English subtitles |
| Length: |
58 min. |
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| Callnumber: |
HC ECU 01 VIDEO
C 01 |
| Title: |
Remarkable
Images: The Ecuadorean Indigenous Military Uprising (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
A first hand
on-the-scene documentation of how Indians United with the
Military against social injustice to oust President Jamil Mahuad
on January 21, 2000. Directed by Brian Selmeski, distributed by
Latin American Video Archives, 2000. |
| Language: |
Spanish w/
English subtitles |
| Length: |
28 min. |
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| Callnumber: |
HC PAN 06 BK C
01 |
| Title: |
How Wall Street
Created a Nation: J.P. Morgan, Teddy Roosevelt, and the Panama
Canal (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
book |
| Description: |
Ovidio Diaz
Espino creates an in-depth expose of the financial speculation,
fraud, and international conspiracy that led to the building of
the Panama Canal. Comes with an index and guide. Four Walls Two
Windows Press. 2001. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
254 pp. |
Hispanics
in the United States
Contemporary
Indigenous Civilizations
| Callnumber: |
IND CARIB 01
VIDEO C 01 |
| Title: |
Quest of the
Carib Canoe (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
Directed by
Eugene Jarecki and produced by Peter Firstbrook, this film tells
the story of a group of contemporary Carib Indians who undertake
a sea voyage in their hand-built canoe, leaving their Caribbean
island home to return to their ancestral homeland in South
America. Centuries before Columbus came to the islands of the
Caribbean, Jacob's ancestors had some as settlers themselves,
migrating northward from the Orinoco Delta in great ocean-goiong
canoes. Five centuries of European colonization followed, all
but erasing the Carib people and their culture. Their journey
would reconnect Dominica's Caribs with their mainland ancestry.
Think Tank/BBC Television. 2000. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
50 min. |
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| Callnumber: |
IND LA 01 VIDEO
C 01 |
| Title: |
Tales from the
Latin American Indians (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
This film has
animated folktales from the Aztec and Maya. Video Knowledge.
Quiz included. 1989. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
29 min. |
Pre-Columbian
Literature
Markets
Music
Maya
| Callnumber: |
MY 46 VIDEO C 01 |
| Title: |
Chac: The Rain God (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
A cult film from the 1970's,
lost for years and now newly restored, this film is based on
ritual and legends from the Popol Vuh, as well as Tzeltal and
Mayan stories. This gorgeous film, shot in the Chiapas region of
Mexico by Chilean director Rolando Klein, focuses on a small
Tzeltal village during a terrible drought. Desperate for relief,
thirteen men set out on a quest to save their people from
starvation. They seek a solitary Diviner hoping he can summon
Chac, the Rain God. Milestone Film and Video, 2001. |
| Language: |
Tzeltal, Mayan dialects w/
English subtitles |
| Length: |
95 min. |
Religion
Social
Issues and Human Rights
| Callnumber: |
SI COL 06 VIDEO
C 01 |
| Title: |
Medellin
Notebooks (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
This film, by
Catalina Villar, depicts a Medellin fade famous by the cocaine
cartels: a home to chronic violence and misery, overpopulated
with peasants fleeing the guerrillas, filled with young children
and adolescents particularly vunerable to street wars who cling
to anything remotely protective--the women of families destroyed
by domestic violence, the omnipresent church, and the schools.
At one school run by a remarkable teacher, children record their
stories in their notebooks. By having them putheir horrific
experiences into words, the teacher hopes to help them construct
anchors in their lives. First Run Icarus Films, 1998. |
| Language: |
Spanish w/
English subtitles |
| Length: |
55 min. |
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| Callnumber: |
SI COL 07 VIDEO
C 01 |
| Title: |
Speaking Out:
Displaced Colombians Silent No More (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
This video
focuses on the causes of displacement in Colombia, conditions
for the displaced, the U.S. response, and displaced persons’
efforts to organize and make their voices heard. It features
powerful interviews with children, grandmothers, women and
others who have witnessed terrible violence, lost loved ones,
and have been forced to flee their homes. Produced by the US
Committee for Refugees, 2000. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
21 min. |
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| Callnumber: |
SI HAI 01 VIDEO
C 01 |
| Title: |
Human Rights in
Haiti (NEW 2001) |
| Mediatype: |
video |
| Description: |
In a masterful
blend of exclusive historical footage, interviews, and artwork,
this film takes viewerrs through the history of the Haitian
people and their struggle for their rights. A slave revolt in
1791 and a second war against colonial France led to Haiti
becoming the first independent Black republic in 1804. After
suffering under tyrants for decades, most recently the infamous
Duvalier (Papa Doc) and his son, the Haitians finally elected
Jean Bertrand Aristide, a reformer. Haiti's troubles continued
when the military overthrew Aristide, although he later
returned. The film focuses on the victims of the more than
40,000 human rights violations that have taken place in this
troubled country. UN observers are instituting new methods such
as town meetings, mediation training, and community policemen.
Produced by Isabelle Abric for UN/OAS. 2000. Contains graphic
violence that may not be suitable for all audiences. |
| Language: |
English |
| Length: |
56 min. |
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