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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is a hero in Latin America for his willingness to stand up to the United States (both the government and the private sector) and his desire to use the nation’s petroleum...
Granada’s landmark anthropological series, broadcast over three decades, remains a benchmark of cutting-edge documentary making. A series of internationally acclaimed, award-winning films offer intimate...
A portrait of a traditional faith healer, set against the backdrop of his community’s Easter celebrations in modern Caracas, Venezuela. Shows the role of healer Benito Reyes as mediator between the social,...
Marie-Claude Muller is a linguist who has been commissioned by the Venezuelan government to prepare reading primers in Panare as part of their literacy programme. She is shown gathering a range of materials...
The people of Cuyagua, a small village on the Venezuelan Caribbean coast, are descended from African slaves brought to work on the local cacao plantation in the 18th century. Some villagers still work on the...
In Venezuela today 2000 Panare Indians continue to live in much the same way as they have done for centuries. They depend for their survival on the game and fish they hunt daily, and they live a communal...
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....
The Panare Indians of Venezuela have lived in almost daily contact with Creoles, Spanish-speaking peasants, for the last fifty years but remain distinctively Indian in their way of life. ‘In that time,...
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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