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Dani sweet potatoes / a film by Karl G. Heider ; with sponsorship from the Social Studies Curriculum Program of Education Development Center ; under a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Penn Museum Library - Media DVD DU744.35.D32 D36 2007
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hubula (New Guinean people).
- Ethnology--New Guinea.
- Ethnology.
- Sweet potatoes.
- New Guinea.
- Sweet potatoes--New Guinea.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Short films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (19 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, [2005]
- Language Note:
- English language voiceover narrative.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, all regions.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- Follows the highly sophisticated process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Grand Valley Dani in West New Guinea.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the documentary short motion picture produced in 1974.
- "This film was shot in 1963 by Karl G. Heider, a member of the Harvard Peabody Expedition, as part of an ethnographic study of the Grand Valley Dani."--Opening frames.
- Short bibliography on the Dani people on opening frames.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 61662579
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