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Tanim : (PNG pidgin : to turn, to change) / producer, Odetta de la Vega ; produced in association with SBS TV Australia ; written and directed by James Frankham.
Penn Museum Library - Media DVD DU740.42 .T35 2004
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Creoles and Pidgins, English-based (Other)
- English
- Papuan (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Enga (Papua New Guinean people)--Social life and customs.
- Enga (Papua New Guinean people).
- Enga (Papua New Guinean people)--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Social change.
- Culture conflict.
- Elections.
- Enga Province (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.
- Enga Province (Papua New Guinea).
- Elections--Papua New Guinea--Enga Province.
- Culture conflict--Papua New Guinea--Enga Province.
- Social change--Papua New Guinea--Enga Province.
- Papua New Guinea--Enga Province.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (54 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on videodisc container and surface: Instituting democracy in tribal Papua New Guinea
- To turn, to change
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [2004]
- Language Note:
- Primarily in English; some spoken PNG pidgin and Enga with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- This documentary follows the Enga's ruling tribe, the Apulin, as they struggle to implement democracy within a 12,000 year-old tradition of tribalism. The battle for power results in tribal wars, political rallies, and a catastrophic conclusion where half of the ballots are firebombed.
- Participant:
- Narrator, Tainui Stephens ; project director/interviewer, Lars Tegermark.
- Credits:
- Camera/editor, James Frankham ; music, Stephen McCurdy.
- Notes:
- On disc label: Films Media Group.
- Videodisc of a program originally produced in 2003.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 57366723
- Publisher Number:
- FFH 33460 Films for the Humanities & Sciences
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