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A portrait of a rarely performed cosmogenic ritual in the domain of Wai Brama in eastern Flores, Indonesia. The people are shifting cultivators, hunters and gatherers who have maintained their traditional...
Balinese spirit medium, Jero Tapakan, views a video recording of a film featuring herself entitled A BALINESE TRANCE SEANCE. She comments on the film and explains the seance proceedings.
Jero Tapakan, a Balinese spirit medium, goes into trance to give clients advice from the spirit world. The viewer has an intimate view of Jero’s household shrine, of the trance process and of Jero as an...
Haji Omar and his three sons belong to the Lakankhel, a Pashtun tribal group in north-eastern Afghanistan. The film focuses on this family: Haji Omar, the patriarch, a wealthy settled nomad, determined on...
Four views of a fight among the Yanomamo of Venezuela. The first is an unedited version of the fight as filmed by the cameraman soon after he arrived. The second is an analysis of the ritual context of the...
Focuses on the role of the shaman (Dedeheiw in this case) in curing his Yanomamo co-villagers and sending sickness to enemy villages. The use of hallucinogenic snuff is shown in its daily context....
Set among the Yanomamo Indians of morthern Brazil and southern Venezuela, the feast cements an alliance between previously hostile villages for the purpose of attacking a third. (The action is first...
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