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Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism, with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it, it...
The Mehinacu are one of several Indian groups living near the headwaters of the River Xingu in the Xingu National Park in central Brazil. Relations between the sexes in this society are formalised in an...
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....
The problems of the nomadic peasants of north-eastern Brazil, showing a resettlement scheme and a land reclamation scheme.
The search for the Kreen-Akrore tribe, in the Amazon jungles of Brazil, led by Orlando and Claudio Villas Boas, famed for their pioneering expeditions into uncharted areas of the Amazon basin where, for over...
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...
Study of insect adaptation, with reference to the voyage of the ‘Beagle’ in 1831, which took Darwin to Brazil. Produced for the Darwin-Wallace centenary of 1958.
Part 1: The Congress. A radio documentary introducing the 1st World Shakespeare Congress in Vancouver, August 1971 documented by Joan Coldwell. (a) Prof. Roy Daniells, University of British Columbia,...
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