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Indians in Brazil : our languages / by Vincent Carelli ; narrated by Ailton Krenak.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Video in the villages series
- Ethnographic video online.
- Video in the villages
- Language:
- English
- Portuguese
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of South America--Brazil--Languages.
- Indians of South America.
- Brazil.
- Language and languages.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (20 min.) : sound, color.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Our languages
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown (Mass.) : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2000.
- Language Note:
- Portuguese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Part of the Indians in Brazil series, Our Languages relates the historic repression of indigenous languages in Brazil. Many Indian languages were nearly lost thanks to missionaries and merchants - who rewarded Indians for learning Portuguese with status and material gifts - and government-sponsored schools that punished children for speaking in their native tongues.
- Notes:
- Previously released on DVD.
- Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed May 17, 2012).
- Filmed in Brazil.
- 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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