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The little village of Soku, hidden in the heart of the Eastern Niger Delta, has a group of heroes headed by Fenibaso, and its creeks and rivers are controlled by the water-spirit Duminea. The film shows some...
A study of the Gelede ritual which is found in Western Nigeria and amongst the Yoruba in Dahomey. The purpose of this ceremony is to propitiate the great mother and assure the placation of women with...
About a pivotal event of Huichol religious and ritual life, a pilgrimage led by a Shaman to obtain peyote, a hallucinogenic drug used for religious purposes which is present in a particular type of cactus....
The Balinese ceremonial dance drama in which the never-ending struggle between the witch and the dragon, the death-dealing and the life-protecting, is played out to the accompaniment of comic interludes and...
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...
A medicine man may go into a trance without the stimulus of dancing to treat someone who urgently needs his attention. /Ti!kay treats Sha//gai, a young pregnant woman who is about to have a miscarriage. Made...
The medicine dance is one activity in !Kung life that draws people together in groups that are not shaped by family, band, or close friendship. The dance is essentially a curing ritual but is not solemn; the...
First-person narration (with Oxford accent) by the carver, who describes the complete process of making a hand-drum, from selecting the tree to carving the handle. Other demands for carvings are more briefly...
The rulers of Benin in Nigeria, the Oba, traditionally spend much of their time performing rituals designed to enhance their own power and the prosperity of their subjects. This film record of the rituals...
A detailed ethnographic study of the Miao tribe, who practice shifting agriculture, in northern Thailand. Shows details of Miao ritual, the cultivation of agricultural produce (maize, rice and the opium...
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