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The Cumana devil = El diablo de Cumana / by John Dickinson.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Ethnographic video online.
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Valle Hurtado, Luis del.
- Street entertainers.
- Dance--Venezuela.
- Dance.
- Manners and customs.
- Venezuela.
- Venezuela--Social life and customs.
- Venezuela--Religious life and customs.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (26 min.) : sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- El diablo de Cuman
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown (Mass.) : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1984.
- Language Note:
- English and Spanish.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Luis del Valle Hurtado regularly transforms himself into a drumming, dancing black satan in a festival fusion of Indian, Spanish, and African symbols in his hometown of Cumana, Venezuela. Donning the dark garb of the devil, his particular satan is based on the popular image of St. Michael killing Lucifer.
- Notes:
- Previously released on DVD.
- Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed April 20, 2012).
- Filmed in Cumana Venezuela.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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