Videos
- Ethnographic Video Online: Volume I (Alexander Street)
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"brings together a wide range of streaming video, written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. Essential for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography"
- Sun & shadows: the downside of tourism in Central America byFilmakers Library, 2009, 34 minutes
"Tourism has traditionally been presented as a factor of modernization and economic growth for poor nations. But tourism is often developed at the expense of indigenous populations and this is a growing problem all over the world. This film looks at this issue in five countries: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Honduras." - Trekking on tradition byDocumentary Educational Resources, 1992, 42 minutes
"This program explores the effects of mountain tourism on a small village in rural Nepal and the often ironic nature of the resulting cross-cultural encounters." - A little corner of paradise (Un Petit Coin de Paradis...) byDocumentary Educational Resources, 2008, 83 minutes (in French, subtitles in English)
"This is the story of the life reborn of Ossona, a hamlet in Val d'Herens in the Valais canton, which was abandoned in the sixties and has now become the pilot project for an agro-tourism site. From 2005 to 2008, we followed the restoration of this site listed as a sustainable development zone, and those involved in the project."