Indigenous Video Makers: Wai'á Rini, The Power of the Dream [digital video]

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Title:

Added Author:

Tserewahu, Divino, author, film director.

Tsereptse, Alexandre, contributor.

Tsererób'ō, Celestino, contributor.

Series:

Video in the Villages

Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 65 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound

Abstract:

In the Wai'á ceremony, young Xavante men undergo suffering as an initiation into spiritual life and a way to make contact with supernatural forces. The boys are divided into groups, and under the supervision of past initiates they perform weeks of physical trials in the hot sun.

General Note:

Title from title frames.

Technical Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subject Term:

Xavante.

Men.

Age identity.

Rites and ceremonies.

Group identity.

Ethnicity.

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