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To serve the gods / by Ira Lowenthal and Karen Kramer, narrated by John Genke.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Kramer, Karen (Karen Susan), author, director.
- Lowenthal, Ira P., author.
- Series:
- Ethnographic video online.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Haitians--Rites and ceremonies.
- Haitians.
- Haitians--Music.
- Music--Haiti.
- Music.
- Religion.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Haiti--Religion.
- Haiti.
- Genre:
- Ethnographic films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (33 min.) : sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown (Mass.) : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1982.
- Language Note:
- English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- To Serve the Gods is about the beliefs, rituals and performances of a week-long ceremony given by a Haitian family in honor of its ancestral spirits. We are told at the outset of the film that this sevis loua only occurs every twenty to thirty years. This particular service takes place in a rural community in southern Haiti, on family land, where relatives have gathered to propitiate gods inherited by their ancestors.
- Notes:
- Previously released on DVD.
- Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed May 30, 2012).
- Filmed in Haiti.
- 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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