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Karl Heider . Dani films
Title
Karl Heider . Dani films [electronic resource].
Published
Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources [distributor], 2008.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (95 min.)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Title from cover.
Special features: commentary by Karl Heider (21 min.) and pictorial history (9 min.).
"Dani houses" was originally produced as a documentary in 1974.
"Dani sweet potatoes" was originally produced as a documentary in 1973.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
Narrated in English.
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Summary
"Dani sweet potatoes" (19 min.) was shot in 1963 by Karl G. Heider, a member of the Harvard Peabody Expedition as part of an ethnographic study of the Grand Valley Dani. The film follows the highly sophisticated process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Grand Valley Dani in West New Guinea.
"Dani houses" (16 min.) was filmed in 1963 by Karl Heider, a member of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition, this documentary film observes both round and square house construction techniques of the Grand Valley Dani, a Papual culture of Irian Jaya. It shows how the ground is cleared, walls are made from boards, poles are lashed together, and a roof is thatched.
Variant and related titles
Dani films
Ethnographic video online.
Dani sweet potatoes.
Dani houses.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 15, 2010
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