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Shows a ceremony of the Hauka, a religious sect in West Africa, and explores questions of dependence, domination and synthesis. During trance possession the participants of the ceremony reflect traditional...
A general introduction to the people of the Trobriand Islands. Also covers gardening and associated magic, mortuary rites, Kula preparations, and the harvest season. Made mainly in the region of Omarakana...
Although the commentary is occasionally misleading, this study of the Hausa of Nigeria gives a vivid impression of village life a generation ago, showing agricultural and fishing activities, hut building and...
An examination of the lives of the Ainu people of Japan, who are racially and culturally different from their Japanese neighbours and who obtain their food mainly by hunting and gathering. The bear ceremony,...
In 1924 filmmakers Cooper and Schoedsack joined forces with journalist and sometime spy Harrison to film the Follows the annual migration of the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe of east Persia in search of grass for...
Describes Polynesian life in general with special reference to the ceremony of initiation to manhood, with its painful, and then almost defunct, tattooing operation. Filmed in Samoa.
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