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Life of a primitive people: Africa

United States, 1957
film

Shows the characteristics of a primitive society, and the interventions and discoveries made by man in prehistoric times. Clarifies the meaning of ‘prim..

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The Story of prehistoric man

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Man and his world: Papua and New Guinea

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Backward civilisation

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The Republic of South Africa: the land and its people - Rev. ed.

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Africa: the land and its people. No. 6

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Africa: the land and its people. No. 2

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