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Friends in high places
Title
Friends in high places [electronic resource] / produced and directed by Lindsey Merrison.
Published
Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, c2001.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (88 min.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
English and Burmese with English subtitles.
Access and use
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Summary
Film on the central role of nats and spirit mediums in alleviating the day to day burdens of modern Burmese life. The mediums profiled in the film, chiefly gay men, are considered to be neither male nor female and are regarded by society with a curious mix of reverence and disdain.
Variant and related titles
Subtitle on cassette label: Art of survival in modern day Burma
Ethnographic video online.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English; Burmese
Added to Catalog
June 15, 2010
Also listed under
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
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