Browse Titles - 8 results
See details
I am you and you are me
produced by Leiden University (Leiden, South Holland: Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Universiteit Leiden, 2022), 29 mins
“I am you and you are me” is a video installation that shows two films simultaneously, one film of a women’s circle and one film of a men’s circle. The participants of the circles go through a process of healing. Circles provide them with a safe space where one can be vulnerable, (re)connect with their sel...
Sample
produced by Leiden University (Leiden, South Holland: Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Universiteit Leiden, 2022), 29 mins
Description
“I am you and you are me” is a video installation that shows two films simultaneously, one film of a women’s circle and one film of a men’s circle. The participants of the circles go through a process of healing. Circles provide them with a safe space where one can be vulnerable, (re)connect with their selves and others, and first and foremost it is a space where love and warmth is being spread.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Leiden University
Date Published / Released
2022
Publisher
Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Universiteit Leiden
Topic / Theme
Prayer and meditation, Mental health, Healers, Emotions and feelings, Healing
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2022 Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Universiteit Leiden
×
See details
Brazil: The True People
directed by Cristina M. Simoes Floria, Jurandir Sindiwe, Belisario Franca and Angela Pappiani; produced by Xavante Organization (Derry, NH: Chip Taylor Communications, 2000), 33 mins
The Xavante Indians in Eteniritipa, Brazil, face pressure from the government to open up the river that sustains them, to commercial traffic. This hypnotic documentary is the Xavante people's challenge to the world. The message comes to us not through conventional narration, but through the voices of the village e...
Sample
directed by Cristina M. Simoes Floria, Jurandir Sindiwe, Belisario Franca and Angela Pappiani; produced by Xavante Organization (Derry, NH: Chip Taylor Communications, 2000), 33 mins
Description
The Xavante Indians in Eteniritipa, Brazil, face pressure from the government to open up the river that sustains them, to commercial traffic. This hypnotic documentary is the Xavante people's challenge to the world. The message comes to us not through conventional narration, but through the voices of the village elders themselves. The tribe is clinging to tradition as hard as they can, hoping there will be enough forest left for them. Edited to t...
The Xavante Indians in Eteniritipa, Brazil, face pressure from the government to open up the river that sustains them, to commercial traffic. This hypnotic documentary is the Xavante people's challenge to the world. The message comes to us not through conventional narration, but through the voices of the village elders themselves. The tribe is clinging to tradition as hard as they can, hoping there will be enough forest left for them. Edited to the beat of Xavante dance, this deeply moving film is a plea from the heart of an ancient race that asks: will we allow such distinct and self-sufficient cultures to survive in this age of global capitalism?
Show more
Show less
Field of Study
Science
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Xavante Organization, Milton Nascimento, 1942-
Author / Creator
Cristina M. Simoes Floria, Jurandir Sindiwe, Belisario Franca, Angela Pappiani
Date Published / Released
2000
Publisher
Chip Taylor Communications
Speaker / Narrator
Milton Nascimento, 1942-
Topic / Theme
American Indians, Healing, Cultural norms, Cultural life, Social customs, Hunting, Religious rites and ceremonies, Science, Chinese, Americans
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1998 by Associacao dos Xavante de Pimentel Barbosa Nuciso de Culturs Indigena
×
See details
Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing
written by Edith Turner, 1922-, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992, originally published 1992), 257 page(s)
Sample
written by Edith Turner, 1922-, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1992, originally published 1992), 257 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Ethnography
Contributor
Edith Turner, 1922-
Author / Creator
Edith Turner, 1922-
Date Published / Released
1992
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Series
Contemporary Ethnography
Topic / Theme
Zambian, Religious life, Cultural life, Healing, Alternative medicine, Field work for anthropology, Ethnography, Zambians
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1992 by University of Pennsylvania Press
×
See details
Dabuyabarugu: Inside the Temple - Sacred Music of the Garifuna of Belize
produced by Carol Jenkins and Travis Jenkins (Folkways Records, 1982), 52 mins
The Garifuna are descendants of escaped slaves who intermarried with native Carib and Arawak Indians. This album is a collection of music recorded during a dugu, a two week ceremonial feast that attempts to placate the gods. Requiring a year of preparation, and an ample supply of rum, the music heard on this al...
Sample
produced by Carol Jenkins and Travis Jenkins (Folkways Records, 1982), 52 mins
Description
The Garifuna are descendants of escaped slaves who intermarried with native Carib and Arawak Indians. This album is a collection of music recorded during a dugu, a two week ceremonial feast that attempts to placate the gods. Requiring a year of preparation, and an ample supply of rum, the music heard on this album is meant to send one into a transient state.
Field of Study
World Music
Content Type
Music recording
Contributor
Carol Jenkins, Travis Jenkins
Date Published / Released
1982
Publisher
Folkways Records
×
See details
!Kung, N/um Tchai: The Ceremonial Dance of the !Kung Bushmen
written by John Marshall, 1932-2005; directed by John Marshall, 1932-2005; produced by John Marshall, 1932-2005, in !Kung (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2009), 20 mins
In the 1950's, when this film was shot, Ju/'hoansi gathered for "medicine dances" often, usually at night, and sometimes such dances lasted until dawn. In this film, women sit on the ground, clapping and singing and occasionally dancing a round or two, while men circle around them, singing and stamping rhythms wit...
Sample
written by John Marshall, 1932-2005; directed by John Marshall, 1932-2005; produced by John Marshall, 1932-2005, in !Kung (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2009), 20 mins
Description
In the 1950's, when this film was shot, Ju/'hoansi gathered for "medicine dances" often, usually at night, and sometimes such dances lasted until dawn. In this film, women sit on the ground, clapping and singing and occasionally dancing a round or two, while men circle around them, singing and stamping rhythms with their feet. Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine,...
In the 1950's, when this film was shot, Ju/'hoansi gathered for "medicine dances" often, usually at night, and sometimes such dances lasted until dawn. In this film, women sit on the ground, clapping and singing and occasionally dancing a round or two, while men circle around them, singing and stamping rhythms with their feet. Tchai is the word used by Ju/'hoansi to describe getting together to dance and sing; n/um can be translated as medicine, or supernatural potency. In the 1950's, when this film was shot, Ju/'hoansi gathered for "medicine dances" often, usually at night, and sometimes such dances lasted until dawn. In this film, women sit on the ground, clapping and singing and occasionally dancing a round or two, while men circle around them, singing and stamping rhythms with their feet. The songs are wordless but named: "rain," "sun," "honey," "giraffe," and other "strong things." The strength of the songs is their n/um, or medicine, thought to be a gift from the great god. N/um is also in the fire, and even more so in the "owners of medicine," or healers. Most Ju/'hoan men would practice as healers at some point in their lives, and in this film we see several men in various stages of trance. A light trance gradually deepens, as the medicine grows "hot," and eventually some men will shriek and run about, falling on hot coals, entering the state Ju/'hoansi call "half-death." The film opens with a brief introduction to the role of n/um tchai in healing and in warding off evil, followed by scenes from one all-night dance. The dance begins with a social gathering and becomes increasingly intense as the night wears on, finally concluding at dawn.
Show more
Show less
Date Written / Recorded
1957
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
John Marshall, 1932-2005
Author / Creator
John Marshall, 1932-2005
Date Published / Released
1969, 2009
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Series
!Kung
Speaker / Narrator
John Marshall, 1932-2005
Topic / Theme
!Kung, Ju/'hoansi, Religious rites and ceremonies, Healing, Social dances, Cultural identity, Tribal and national groups, Ethnography, Ju❘’hoan
Copyright Message
© Documentary Educational Resources
×
See details
Music of the Coastal Amerindians of Guyana: The Arawak, Carib and Warrau
produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014 (Folkways Records, 1982), 45 mins
"This recording presents songs of the Warrau, the Carib, and the Arawak Amerindian tribes of Guyana, South America. These families of Amerindian peoples are spread along the rivers and waterways of the Northeast coast of South America, south of the Orinoco and north of the Amazon, but this recording was made enti...
Sample
produced by David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014 (Folkways Records, 1982), 45 mins
Description
"This recording presents songs of the Warrau, the Carib, and the Arawak Amerindian tribes of Guyana, South America. These families of Amerindian peoples are spread along the rivers and waterways of the Northeast coast of South America, south of the Orinoco and north of the Amazon, but this recording was made entirely within Guyana, where all the three families are well represented..."
David Blair Stiffler
"Esta grabación presenta canciones... "This recording presents songs of the Warrau, the Carib, and the Arawak Amerindian tribes of Guyana, South America. These families of Amerindian peoples are spread along the rivers and waterways of the Northeast coast of South America, south of the Orinoco and north of the Amazon, but this recording was made entirely within Guyana, where all the three families are well represented..."
David Blair Stiffler
"Esta grabación presenta canciones de las tribus amerindias Warrau, los Caribes y los Arawak de Guyana, América del Sur. Estas familias amerindias están diseminadas por los ríos y canales de la costa norte de Sur América, al sur del Orinoco y al norte del Amazonas, pero esta grabación fue realizada enteramente en la Guyana, donde la población de todas las tres familias está bien representada..."
David Blair Stiffler
Para información sobre ordenar haga clic aquí.
Show more Show less
David Blair Stiffler
"Esta grabación presenta canciones... "This recording presents songs of the Warrau, the Carib, and the Arawak Amerindian tribes of Guyana, South America. These families of Amerindian peoples are spread along the rivers and waterways of the Northeast coast of South America, south of the Orinoco and north of the Amazon, but this recording was made entirely within Guyana, where all the three families are well represented..."
David Blair Stiffler
"Esta grabación presenta canciones de las tribus amerindias Warrau, los Caribes y los Arawak de Guyana, América del Sur. Estas familias amerindias están diseminadas por los ríos y canales de la costa norte de Sur América, al sur del Orinoco y al norte del Amazonas, pero esta grabación fue realizada enteramente en la Guyana, donde la población de todas las tres familias está bien representada..."
David Blair Stiffler
Para información sobre ordenar haga clic aquí.
Show more Show less
Field of Study
World Music
Content Type
Music recording
Contributor
David Blair Stiffler, fl. 1981-2014
Date Published / Released
1982
Publisher
Folkways Records
Tracks
×
See details
Selk'nam (Ona) Chants of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
produced by Anne MacKaye Chapman (Folkways Records, 1972), 1 hour 43 mins
"These records comprise 47 chants sung by the last true Indian of the Selk’nam (Ona) group, Lola Kiepja. The Selk’nam had no musical instruments. These chants are sung without any sort of accompaniment. The Selk’nam were the former inhabitants of the largest island of Tierra del Fuego which is located jus...
Sample
produced by Anne MacKaye Chapman (Folkways Records, 1972), 1 hour 43 mins
Description
"These records comprise 47 chants sung by the last true Indian of the Selk’nam (Ona) group, Lola Kiepja. The Selk’nam had no musical instruments. These chants are sung without any sort of accompaniment. The Selk’nam were the former inhabitants of the largest island of Tierra del Fuego which is located just south of the Straits of Magellan. When these recordings were taped in 1966, Lola was the only one of ten surviving people of Indian...
"These records comprise 47 chants sung by the last true Indian of the Selk’nam (Ona) group, Lola Kiepja. The Selk’nam had no musical instruments. These chants are sung without any sort of accompaniment. The Selk’nam were the former inhabitants of the largest island of Tierra del Fuego which is located just south of the Straits of Magellan. When these recordings were taped in 1966, Lola was the only one of ten surviving people of Indian descent who was still a Selk’nam. She was the eldest of the ten..."
Anne Chapman
"Esta grabación recoge 47 cantos interpretados por el último miembro verdadero del grupo Selk’nam, Lola Kiepja. Los Selk’nam no poseían instrumentos musicales, por eso estos cantos no tienen ninguna clase de acompañamiento. Los Selk’nam eran los habitantes originales de la isla más extensa de la Tierra del Fuego, localizada un poco al sur del Estrecho de Magallanes. Cuando estas grabaciones fueron recogidas en 1966, Lola era la única entre diez sobrevivientes de sangre indígena que todavía era una Selk’nam. Ella era la más anciana de todas..."
Anne Chapman
Para información sobre ordenar haga clic aquí.
Show more Show less
Anne Chapman
"Esta grabación recoge 47 cantos interpretados por el último miembro verdadero del grupo Selk’nam, Lola Kiepja. Los Selk’nam no poseían instrumentos musicales, por eso estos cantos no tienen ninguna clase de acompañamiento. Los Selk’nam eran los habitantes originales de la isla más extensa de la Tierra del Fuego, localizada un poco al sur del Estrecho de Magallanes. Cuando estas grabaciones fueron recogidas en 1966, Lola era la única entre diez sobrevivientes de sangre indígena que todavía era una Selk’nam. Ella era la más anciana de todas..."
Anne Chapman
Para información sobre ordenar haga clic aquí.
Show more Show less
Field of Study
World Music
Content Type
Music recording
Contributor
Anne MacKaye Chapman
Date Published / Released
1972
Publisher
Folkways Records
×
See details
Seven Nights and Seven Days
produced by Maurice Dores (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1992), 49 mins
This beautifully photographed film documents an unusual healing ceremony in Senegal. It shows how a community gathers together to treat and heal one of its members who is suffering from postpartum depression. After giving birth, the young woman refuses to care for her child. Years before her mother and grandmother...
Sample
produced by Maurice Dores (New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1992), 49 mins
Description
This beautifully photographed film documents an unusual healing ceremony in Senegal. It shows how a community gathers together to treat and heal one of its members who is suffering from postpartum depression. After giving birth, the young woman refuses to care for her child. Years before her mother and grandmother had been treated for a similar illness by the same shaman, Fat Seck.The ceremony, called the Ndepp, is organized by the Lebou people o...
This beautifully photographed film documents an unusual healing ceremony in Senegal. It shows how a community gathers together to treat and heal one of its members who is suffering from postpartum depression. After giving birth, the young woman refuses to care for her child. Years before her mother and grandmother had been treated for a similar illness by the same shaman, Fat Seck.The ceremony, called the Ndepp, is organized by the Lebou people of Senegal to honor their ancestral spirits and to ask them to allow a cure to take place. Performed over seven days and nights, the Ndepp is complicated with a precise set of rules. A large part of the population participates. Fat Seck, the healer, resolves this family problem. Trances and sacrifices are part of the cure. After the week, the young woman is restored to normal behavior, an effective mother and community member. College Adult
Show more
Show less
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Maurice Dores, Manuel Deksët
Author / Creator
Maurice Dores
Date Published / Released
1992
Publisher
Filmakers Library
Speaker / Narrator
Manuel Deksët
Topic / Theme
Lebou, Cultural identity, Traditional medicine, Religious rites and ceremonies, Healing, Ethnography
Copyright Message
Copyright © 1992. Used by permission of Filmakers Library. All rights reserved.
×
