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An archival film document in 17 parts of the Baruya initiation ceremony, filmed over a six-week period in 1979 and edited in 1990. The programme records the intense ritual activity of a full Muka or...
This is Leslie Woodhead’s fifth DISAPPEARING WORLD film made with the Mursi of south-west Ethiopia since 1985, made at the same time as THE LAND IS BAD. The nitha is an ‘age set ceremony’ of the Mursi...
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,...
In the divine Afro-Brazilian cult Candomble is an initiation religion centred around possession. The filmmakers concentrate on children in the suburbs of Sao Paulo (Brazil) who introduce and guide us to this...
Focuses on the significance of the Masai age-set system, and, in particular, on the dramatic Eunoto ceremony which marks the important transition from warriorhood, during which the ‘warriors’ live for...
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...
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...
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...
On the condition that the series never be shown in Papua New Guinea, the Baruya allowed a film crew to record an entire set of male initation rituals. The Baruya live in the eastern Highlands of Papua New...
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