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Documentary which tells how Indian craftsmen, directed by sculptor Nemai Chandra Pal came to London, to construct a giant tableau of the goddess, Durga, and her family in the Great Court of the British...
It’s the start of Passover week. In the next few days thousands of pilgrims will pour into Jerusalem to celebrate the most important festival in their religious calendar. For their Roman masters, led by...
Filmed in Purhépecha, Michoacán, Mexico. As in a passion play the villagers celebrate Holy Week, acting efffigies as well as certain people. Catholic liturgy and folk religion are combined in the ritual...
Begins with the Easter procession of monks and bishops of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The rest of the programme shows next morning’s (Sunday) liturgy,...
Documents aspects of the preparations for the annual village festa in honour of the patron saints (The Madonna and St Gabriel) of a village in Malta. Looks at the week prior to the celebration and the festa...
The Portuguese occupation of the Sri Lankan coast in the 16th century brought Catholicism to fishing villages. Examines the cross-cultural folklore which resulted, concentrating on the celebration of Easter,...
'Holi’, the Indian festival of spring, retells through music and dance the story of the life of Krishna, the Indian god of love and the arts. Krishna is portrayed through poetry and songs, dance drama and...
The series attempts to present social anthropology to a wide audience and aims to show the basic similarities between people of different cultures and to suggest, through the deployment of material from...
Set in the southern Peruvian Andes, the film deals with a community of peasant agriculturalists who farm land between 12,000 and 14,000 feet above sea level, and concentrates mainly on a single family. The...
Looks at the help which Singhalese of all religions in Sri Lanka, including Buddhists, Hindus, Moslems and Christians, are increasingly seeking from Kataragama, an ancient Hindu god. Once a year there is a...
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