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Magical death

Relates the religious activities of a political leader and shaman from a village in Venezuela to the political and social organization in a Yanomano Indian group

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Asch, Timothy
Corporate Authors: Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientiíficas, International Biological Programme, National Science Foundation (U.S.), University of Michigan Dept. of Human Genetics
Other Authors: Chagnon, Napoleon A., Johnson, Craig, Neel, James V.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Watertown, MA Documentary Educational Resources 1973, 1973
Series:Ethnographic video online, volume 1
Subjects:
Documentary Films
Indians Of South America / Brazil / Religion
Indians Of South America / Brazil / Social Life And Customs
Indians Of South America / Venezuela / Religion
Indians Of South America / Venezuela / Social Life And Customs
Shamans / Brazil
Shamans / Venezuela
Yanomamo Indians
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Collection: Ethnographic Video Online Vol. 1 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Summary:Relates the religious activities of a political leader and shaman from a village in Venezuela to the political and social organization in a Yanomano Indian group
Item Description:"The collaboration of the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Investigation (I.V.I.C.) is gratefully acknowledged.". - "This film was produced on a grant from the National Science Foundation to the Department of Human Genetics of the University of Michigan as part of the anthropological component in a multidisciplinary study of the Yanomamö Indians of Southern Venezuela and Northern Brazil. The multidisciplinary study, directed by James V. Neel, constitutes one of the contributions of the United States to the International Biological Program.". - Filmed in 1971
Physical Description:1 streaming video (ca. 30 min.)

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