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One group of Rom Gypsies who live near San Francisco, California, maintain the boundary between themselves and non-gypsies with whom they have contact. One practical way of maintaining separateness is to use...
Discusses the use of fire as a symbolic reproduction of society. Shows these ideas through everyday life among the Kayapo of Brazil, through their telling of the jaguar myth and showing the ritual that...
Describes the sequence of events of a cremation in Bali, as well as exploring the ritual itself and the implications of the cremation for those involved.
About the use of water in Bali and its relation to purity. Shows sequences of stages of the ceremony for consecrating holy water and of the three-month ceremony for removing the impurities of birth.
Shows the relations between men and women in a Tanzanian community which seem to conform to the Islamic ideal of segregation. All Swahili rituals, including marriage, involve hospitality. While the men...
Male circumcision is the centre of a ritual which marks a stage in the male life cycle. Concerns an Islamic group in Tanzania and shows a part of the typical pattern of these rites - separation from the old,...
The Kayapo belong to a group of ancient tribal societies that have inhabited their present area of central Brazil for over 2000 years. The film covers the progression of a person’s life from child to...
Shows the conditions of the Kayapo and their interaction with the Western world. A central figure in this relationship is chief Rop-ni. This film is one of many in which he has appeared as part of his...
Set in Naxxar in Malta, shows the celebration of Good Friday when the people of the town hold a religious procession. Follows the preparation for this procession through to the procession itself, giving...
Although Malta is industrialised, the social life of the community revolves around the church just as it did in rural Europe before the Industrial Revolution. Centres around eleven episodes that show the...
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