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The Feast
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- Summary
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Examines the first stages of alliance formation between two mutually hostile Yanomanö Indian villages in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. Describes in detail the preparations for a feast inv...
Examines the first stages of alliance formation between two mutually hostile Yanomanö Indian villages in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. Describes in detail the preparations for a feast involving the inhabitants of the villages and presents scenes of chanting, dancing, and trading at the feast.
Details
- Creator
- a film by Timothy Asch and Napoleon Chagnon
- Included Title
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- Ethnographic video online
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, [1970]
- ©1970
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (30 min.)
- OCLC
- ocn649690835
- "The collaboration of the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Investigation (I.V.I.C.) and the financial support of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is gratefully acknowledged."
- In Xirinian with English subtitles ; narration in English.
- "This film was prepared as one aspect of a comprehensive study of the population genetics of the Yanomano Indians in Southern Venezuela and Northern Brazil, under the direction of Professor James V. Neel of the University of Michigan Medical School."
- "From the Yanomamo series"--Container.
- Filmed in 1968.