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More of the ceremonies showing initiates dancing, listening to lectures and learning the knowledge they need for adulthood. The boys undergo more ceremonial ordeals such as being rubbed with nettles, and...
Over 600 Technicolor cinemagazine stories from the series Roundabout (1962-1974) are now freely available thanks to the British Film Institute. Produced by the Central Office of Information to showcase...
Records the funeral of Dhardo Riompoche, a highly regarded Buddhist lama. Hundreds of people were involved in the traditional Tibetan death ritual. Shows ten minutes of the Rimpoche performing a puja for...
Salient features of intact culture of Bunlap villagers on Pentecost Island in the New Hebrides. Relation between yam agriculture and ceremonies such as land-diving. Details of diving as men anchor their feet...
Records the preparations for the wedding of two sisters in eastern Sumatra in December 1996, emphasising the importance of the role of women in the village. Shows ritual exchanges of textiles and cakes, and...
The action of this sequence is at night with ceremonial dancing both outside and inside the ceremonial house. The second- and third-stage initiates endure an almost total ban on eating and drinking until...
This sequence shows a purification ceremony, the dismantling of the head-dresses, a concluding feast, and an eloquent speech for the initiates. A sacred betelnut ceremony is conducted and the lecture, which...
A diya is a small terra cotta oil lamp used throughout India in Hindu ceremonies. The film follows the life history of an object through the every day experience of people who make, sell and use it in the...
A film about the Yolngu of north-east Arnhem land, their land and their religion. Dundiway Wanambi is a leader of the Marrakulu clan of Aboriginal of north-east Arnhem Land. In 1976 he invited Ian Dunlop to...
Follows the history of degrees for women at the University of Cambridge. Despite the fact that there have been two women’s colleges there since the 1860s, women were not considered to be official members...
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