Episode Synopsis "Housebuilding"

Filmed in a Gurung Village in the Himalayas by Alan Macfarlane

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• A medical team visits the village in 2001
• A medical team visiting thak in 2001
• Agriculture in 1969
• Bamboo work
• Bamboo work in 1998
• Blacksmiths 1988
• Blacksmiths in 1992 - Film 1
• Blacksmiths in 1992 - Film 2
• Buffaloes
• Bundling monsoon wood
• Carrying loads
• Carrying manure 1997
• Carrying wood bundles - 1991
• Celebrations for road opening - 2008
• Chickens
• Chopping down trees
• Cleaning House and Yard
• Combing hair
• Communal work group
• Cooking
• Cooking and chopping meat in a Gurung village
• Cutting rice
• De-husking maize
• De-lousing hair
• Dogs
• Electricity in a Gurung village
• Environment - 1969
• Fencing maize field
• Fetching buffalo fodder
• Fetching stone slabs
• Fetching water
• Forest - 1969
• Gathering and piling rice - 1992
• Gathering and piling rice - 1994
• Goats
• Grinding maize
• Hair cutting
• Harvesting maize
• Harvesting millet
• Honey hunting in 1994
• Housebuilding
• Household tasks - 1993
• Maize - clearing the fields
• Making millet whisky
• Making oil from buffalo milk
• Mobile phones
• Mules
• Operating lemon squeezer
• Operating sugar press
• Oxen
• Path building
• Path, roads and walks
• Planting maize
• Planting vegetables amidst maize
• Potato salesman
• Pots and pans salesman
• Pounding rice with wooden foot device
• Preparing rice and sowing
• Preparing rice fields
• Preparing vegetables
• Quarrying stone
• R-building an old house in Thak in 1990 - new version
• Radios
• Re-building a house
• Shopping in Pokhara
• Shops in Thak
• Sowing millet
• Spinning and weaving
• Splitting wood
• Spreading manure
• Squeezing lemons 1999
• Storing vegetables
• Tailors at work
• Taprang health post
• Television in a mountain village
• Thak co-operative store
• Thatching
• The new road to Thak
• Threshing and winnowing rice - 1994
• Threshing rice with feet
• Threshing with oxen 2001
• Toilets
• Tools at Dharmakote
• Transplanting millet
• Transplanting rice
• Village health worker
• Visit to Pokhara hospital in 1998
• Walking to Thak in 1991
• Walking to Thak in 1993
• Washing body
• Washing clothes
• Washing dishes
• Water mills
• Weaving - 1993
• Weaving a basket in 1998
• Weaving a sitting mat
• Weaving with nettle fibre 1993
• Weeding maize
• Weeding millet
• Winnowing millet
• Woodworking