New in Streaming Video

The FAU Libraries have purchased additional content for existing streaming video collections, as well as added new collections.  Two new volumes have been added to the series, Counseling and Therapy in Video, enhancing the collection with emerging topics and featuring distinguished therapists. High-value archival material has been added to Ethnographic Video Online, and influential issue-based documentaries of 2009 through 2013 are included in the second volume of Filmakers Library. The Libraries now own the complete BBC Shakespeare plays in streaming video, and  a collection of award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT culture, history and life. Click below for more information on the these new collections, or see a complete list of the  Libraries’ Streaming Video Collections.

Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume II
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume III
Ethnographic Video Online, Volume II
Filmakers Library, Volume II
LGBT Studies in Video
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Ethnographic Video Online – September Database of the Month

Ethnographic Video Online

Ethnographic Video Online provides a comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior, and will contain 1,000 streaming videos at completion (this release includes 687 videos).  The collection includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures, and is particularly rich in its coverage of the developing world.  The work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century is featured, as are hundreds of the most frequently assigned films in anthropology and other social science courses (browse titles). Continue reading

eHRAF World Cultures – February Database of the Month

Whether you are interested in learning about the North American Hmong’s beliefs in the causes and cures of diseases or the Pashtun’s religious views, eHRAF World Cultures provides you with in-depth information on all aspects of cultural and social life.

This database is a systematically organized collection of thousands of books and articles on cultures from all regions of the world. eHRAF World Cultures may be used to find information on particular cultures, ethnic groups, or immigrant groups,  or to find information on beliefs, superstitions, or subjects such as political structure, architecture, kinship units, or settlement patterns.

eHRAF Search uses HRAF’s Outline of World Cultures (OWC) culture and HRAF’s Outline of Cultural Materials (OCM) subject indexing to enhance the power of your search. Every paragraph in the 2000 plus eHRAF documents is indexed by OWC culture and OCM subject categories according to the relevancy of the paragraph discussion regardless of the specific paragraph text.

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In the News: Claude Lévi Strauss (1908-2009)

Week of November 9, 2009

 

News Item: French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, one of the fathers of “structuralism,” died on October 30. Educated in law and philosophy at the Sorbonne, some of Lévi-Strauss’ major works include Tristes Tropiques, The Savage Mind, and Myth and Meaning. Through the years, structuralism has influenced studies in philosophy, film, and literature.

Anthropology and Myth: Lectures, 1951-1982
Claude Lévi-Strauss; translated by Roy Willis. Blackwell, 1987
Call Number: GN362 .L4613 1987

Claude Lévi-Strauss
By Denis Bertholet. Plon, 2003
Call Number: GN21 .L4 B47 2003

Claude Lévi-Strauss
By Roland A. Champagne. Twayne Publishers, 1987
Call Number: GN21 .L4 C48 1987

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