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The feast in dream village / written by Janet Hoskins ; directed by Laura Scheerer Whitney and Janet Hoskins ; produced by Laura Scheerer Whitney, Janet Hoskins and Extension Media Center, University of California.

Other author/creatorHoskins, Janet, screenwriter, director, producer.
Other author/creatorWhitney, Laura Scheerer, director, producer.
Other author/creatorUniversity of California (System). Extension Media Center, producer.
Format Electronic and Video (Streaming)
Publication InfoBerkeley, CA : University of California, Berkeley, 1989.
Description1 online resource (26 min.).
Supplemental Content https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://www.aspresolver.com/aspresolver.asp?ANTH;2068083
Subject(s)
Series Ethnographic video online, volume 2
Abstract The eastern Indonesian island of Sumba is the last island in the Malay archipelago where the majority of the people still follow their ancestral religion, called marapu. This film, shot in 1986, focuses on a challenge to the authority of the spirits and ancestors in a village ritual to restore fertility after a fire and famine.
General noteTitle from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
Date/time/place of a event noteRecorded in 1986 in Manganipi-Kodi, Indonesia.
Other formsPreviously released as DVD.
Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
LanguageThis edition in Indonesian and English with English subtitles.
Genre/formDocumentary films.

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