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Spear and sword a ceremonial payment of bridewealth, the Island of Roti, Eastern Indonesia
Title
Spear and sword [electronic resource] : a ceremonial payment of bridewealth, the Island of Roti, Eastern Indonesia / James J. Fox, Timothy Asch and Patsy Asch.
Published
Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 1990.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (25 min.)
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Notes
Produced by Dept. of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University with assistance from Documentary Educational Resources and the National Science Foundation. Final production at University of Southern California, Center for Visual Anthropology.
Filmed in 1977 and originally released in 1989.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
Indonesian with English subtitles.
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Summary
Politics, ritual, and personality intermingle in negotiations between representatives of two families during a payment of bridewealth.
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Ceremonial payment of bridewealth, the island of Roti, Eastern Indonesia
Subtitle on container: Payment of bridewealth on the island of Roti
Ethnographic video online.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
Indonesian
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June 15, 2010
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