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Nguné Elü : the day the moon menstruated
Title
Nguné Elü : the day the moon menstruated / Associação Indigena Kuikuro do Alto Xingu, Video in the Villages, Núcleo Transformações Indigena-Museu Nacional present ; a video by Takumã Kuikuro, Maricá Kuikuro.
Published
Watertown MA : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 streaming video (28 min.))
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Directors, Takumã Kuikuro, Maricá Kuikuro ; producer, Vincent Carelli.
Originally produced in 2004.
In Portuguese and Kuikuro with English credits and subtitles.
Access and use
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Summary
Produced during a Video in the Villages workshop in the Kuikuro village of Ipatse (Indigenous Park of Xingu, Brazil). When a lunar eclipse takes place during the workshop, the villagers explain in their own words what happens during an eclipse, when moon menstruates, and about the celebrations and rituals that take place. The post-eclipse ceremonies include singing, dancing, vomiting, wrestling, and sacrificial rituals.
Variant and related titles
ASP-AVON OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
Portuguese
Added to Catalog
December 03, 2020
Series
Credits
Directors, Takumã Kuikuro, Maricá Kuikuro ; producer, Vincent Carelli.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Encoded moving images.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Folklore.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
Museu Nacional (Brazil)
Video nas Aldeias (Project)
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
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