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Kawelka : Ongka's big moka / Granada ; anthropologist, Andrew Strathern ; produced and directed by Charlie Nairn.
LIBRA VHS GN671.N5 K394 1994
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Disappearing world
- Language:
- Austronesian (Other)
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ongka.
- Big man (Melanesia).
- Ceremonial exchange--Papua New Guinea.
- Ceremonial exchange.
- Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Mount Hagen.
- Ethnology.
- Kawelka (Papua New Guinean people).
- Papua New Guinea--Social life and customs.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Manners and customs.
- Papua New Guinea--Mount Hagen.
- Genre:
- Television programs.
- Documentary television programs.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Ongka's big moka
- Place of Publication:
- [Newton, N.J.] : Shanachie Home Video [distributor], [1994]
- Language Note:
- Commentary in English ; conversations in Trobriand with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- stereo
- VHS
- Summary:
- In Papua New Guinea, status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring them. Explores the moka, a ceremony in which people, sometimes the whole tribe, give gifts to members of other tribes; the larger the gift, the greater the victory over the recipient. Follows Ongka as he prepares for the giving of his Moka.
- Credits:
- Camera, Ernest Vincze ; research, Pattie Winter ; editor, Shelagh Brady.
- Notes:
- Originally produced for television in 1974.
- ISBN:
- 1566331390
- OCLC:
- 31773784
- Publisher Number:
- SH 925 Shanachie Entertainment Corp.
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