Singing Pictures [digital video]

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Title:

Added Author:

Fruzzetti, Lina, producer, author.

Östör, Ákos, producer, author.

Sarkar, Aditi Nath, author, film director.

Publication Date:

2014

Publication Information:

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 40 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound

Abstract:

For generations, Patua (Chitrakar) communities of West Bengal, India have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. The Patuas tell the stories of Muslim saints (pirs and fakirs) as well as Hindu Gods and Goddesses, and offer devotion to saints at Muslim shrines.

General Note:

Title from title frames.

Technical Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subject Term:

Patua.

Art.

Cultural change and history.