Magical death / photographed, directed and narrated by Napoleon A. Chagnon ; edited by Craig Johnson ; production manager, Timothy Asch.

Format Video (Streaming)
Publication InfoWatertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, 1973.
Description1 streaming video (approximately 30 min.)
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Other author/creatorAsch, Timothy.
Other author/creatorChagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-2019
Other author/creatorJohnson, Craig.
Other author/creatorNeel, James V. (James Van Gundia), 1915-2000.
Other author/creatorInstituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientiíficas.
Other author/creatorInternational Biological Programme.
Other author/creatorNational Science Foundation (U.S.)
Other author/creatorUniversity of Michigan. Department of Human Genetics.
Abstract Relates the religious activities of a political leader and shaman from a village in Venezuela to the political and social organization in a Yanomano Indian group.
General note"The collaboration of the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Investigation (I.V.I.C.) is gratefully acknowledged."
General note"This film was produced on a grant from the National Science Foundation to the Department of Human Genetics of the University of Michigan as part of the anthropological component in a multidisciplinary study of the Yanomamö Indians of Southern Venezuela and Northern Brazil. The multidisciplinary study, directed by James V. Neel, constitutes one of the contributions of the United States to the International Biological Program."
Date/time/place of a event noteFilmed in 1971.

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