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  • FID-SKA-Lizenzen  (5)
  • HU-Berlin Edoc
  • 1975-1979
  • 1970-1974  (5)
  • Indians of South America  (5)
  • 1
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    The Mehinacu (1974)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (53 min.). , 005308
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Acculturation ; Ethnology ; Indians of South America ; Mehinacu Indians. ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The Mehinacu live near the head-waters of the River Xingu in Central Brazil, in a single village within the protective confines of the Xingu National Park. Although the film concentrates upon the most exotic aspects of Mehinacu life, focusing on a series of rituals concerned with the planting and harvesting of the piqui tree, these rites are firmly located in their social context. Relations between the sexes in this society are formalised in an astonishing abundance of ritual, celebration, dances and games, performed to ensure fertile soil and good crops. Many sequences deal with the daily life of the Mehinacu, showing, for example, the sexual division of labour, with men fishing and women preparing manioc. The use of subtitled interviews provides a depth and sensitivity in the film's approach which helps to underline the concern with the fact that these Indians are seriously threatened by a road which is being cut through their territory. One of the highlights of the film is an interview with a Mehinacu elder who tells of the origin myth of the sacred flutes, a myth which is part of a complex belief system that will be lost if the Mehinacu, who are such a small group, are not able to survive under the pressures of the outside world. The film could be used to stimulate discussions of sex role differences, sexual division of labour in particular societies, and the connection between ritual and social relationships.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Xingu National Park, Brazil. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Mehinaku with English subtitles.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2196056
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  • 2
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    Embera : the end of the road (1971)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (55 min.). , 005055
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Embera Indians. ; Indians of South America ; Australia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The way of life of the 10,000 Embera Indians who live in the Choco region of Colombia, South American, is threatened by the encroachments of Negro Libres (descendants of freed slaves) and by the expansion of the Pan-American highway which cuts through their land. The film's main concern is to show the effects of interaction between the Embera river dwellers and two groups of outsiders the Libres with whom they trade, and the local Catholic mission which administers education, religion and civil justice. Although the Embera are exploited by the Libres (who, for example, sell them hunting dogs at very high prices) both groups are poor and largely without rights in Colombian society. In an interview, the Embera explain to the anthropologist that they want protection from the physical attacks of the Libres and legal rights over the land which they have inhabited for many years. Sequences such as this bring out the Embera's plight they are caught between the bulldozers and the banknotes of the Libres. We are shown the material culture and way of life of the Indians (canoe building, pot making, hunting, curing rituals) but not in a romanticised way, and the polemical organisation of the film allows the ethnographic details of the life of these river Indians to be placed in a wide social and economic context.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Choco, Colombia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2192147
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  • 3
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    War of the gods (1971)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (68 min.). , 010731
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Barasana Indians. ; Ethnology ; Indians of South America ; Macú Indians (Papury River watershed) ; Canada ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: While relying on a polemical stance directed against the cultural genocide wrought by missionaries, War of the Gods also contains a wealth of information and detail about Amazonian Indian cosmology, social life and sexual division of labour. Two groups of Indians from the Vaupes region of Colombia are shown, the Maku, who live mainly by hunting and gathering, and the sedentary Barasana, who live mainly by farming. The film contrasts the belief systems and way of life of the Indians, presented by the anthropologists who worked and lived with them, with those of Protestant and Catholic missionaries. The Protestants, North American Fundamentalists from the Summer Institute of Linguistics, are said to have used their organisation as a cover in order to be allowed to work with the Indians, because open Protestant missionary activity would not have been acceptable to the authorities. No attempt is made to gloss over the complexities of contact between Whites and Indians. The Barasana themselves want change, and the missionaries' influence is undoubtedly more beneficial to the Indians than that of rubber gatherers. Included in this film is an interview — using voice-over — with a Maku shaman, and there are scenes from the Barasana moloka, the communal house which is a centre of social and domestic activity. The climax of the film is a contrasting look at a church service at the S.I.L. headquarters, a Barasana ritual dance (accompanied by the ritual use of the hallucinogen yage), and a Mass at the Catholic mission attended by some of the Indians who took part in the ritual dance. Some missionaries who have seen this film consider that its editing is unfair to the S.I.L., but the head of another important missionary organisation has said that it should be screened during missionary training courses.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Vaupes, Colombia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2197874
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  • 4
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    Last of the Cuiva (1971)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (66 min.). , 010625
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Cuiba Indians Social life and customs. ; Ethnology ; Indians of South America ; Colombia Social life and customs. ; Australia ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: The film focuses on recent changes in the culture and society of the Cuiva, hunters and gatherers in a remote forest region of south-eastern Colombia, brought about through contact with Colombian settlers. Two groups of Cuiva are shown: one is relatively isolated, while the other has had extensive contacts with the settlers. The first group live a nomadic life moving frequently; the men hunt and fish, the women gather. The second group has been drawn into the Colombian economy, working occasionally for the ranchers to earn money to buy trade goods. The film also usefully includes interviews with white ranchers, showing their racist attitudes to the Indians, whom in the past they feared and on whose land they are now continually encroaching. The basic incompatibility between the economic systems of the Cuiva (based on communal distribution of food, gift-giving and receiving), and that of the settlers who attempt to survive within the world-capitalist market, is startlingly illustrated. Unlike later films in the series, The Last of the Cuiva relies on a moving commentary recorded during filming by the French-Canadian anthropologist, Bernard Arcand, who emphasises that the traditional way of life of the Cuiva (whom he describes, following Sahlins, as exemplifying the 'original affluent society') will be seriously damaged by these contacts with whites. Rather than giving a more conventional anthropological description, Arcand's commentary is a humanist plea for the survival of hunter-gatherer groups, and carries an implicit criticism of western lifestyles.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Colombia. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English and Spanish.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2192233
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  • 5
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    A clearing in the jungle (1970)
    London :Royal Anthropological Institute,
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (40 min.). , 004017
    Edition: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
    Series Statement: Disappearing world
    Series Statement: Ethnographic video online, volume 2
    Keywords: Indians of South America ; Indians of South America. ; Panare Indians. ; Venezuela. ; North America ; Documentary films.
    Abstract: In common with many other Indian groups in South America, the culture of the Panare Indians of Venezuela is threatened by their almost daily contact with neighbouring creoles, Spanish-speaking peasants. However, in spite of nearly fifty years of interaction, their culture has remained distinctively Indian. The film focuses on activities of their daily life, such as making cassava, preparing blow-darts, hunting and gathering. The Indians strongly resented the presence of the camera-crew; indeed, as Dumont points out early in the film, they were loath to reveal details of their belief-system even to him, although he had been living with them for eighteen months. This was the first and the shortest of the films in the Disappearing World series. Although useful and interesting, it is relatively superficial and its commentary contains some anthropological oddities; it cannot be compared with the much more sophisticated films made later in the series.
    Note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014). , Recorded in Venezuela. , Previously released as DVD. , This edition in English.
    URL: http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2191083
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