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Savage memory / Sly Productions presents ; directed, produced & written by Zachary Stuart & Kelly Thomson.
Penn Museum Library GN21.M25 S28 2012
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Austronesian (Other)
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942.
- Malinowski, Bronislaw.
- Anthropologists--Biography.
- Anthropologists.
- Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Trobriand Islands.
- Ethnology.
- Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea)--Social life and customs.
- Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea).
- Papua New Guinea--Trobriand Islands.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on container: How do we remember our dead?
- Place of Publication:
- Jamaica Plain, MA : Sly Productions, [2012]
- Language Note:
- English and Kiriwinian with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC ; region 0.
- digital optical
- NTSC
- video file DVD video region 0
- Summary:
- In 1915, Bronislaw Malinowski set out to document the 'exotic' practices of a small group of islanders off the coast of Papua New Guinea. With extensive data on sex, magic and spirits of the dead, his work set the stage for anthropologists for decades to come and brought him fame as one of the founding fathers of anthropology. Four generations and almost one hundred years later, his great grandson travels to the Trobriand Islands in Papua New Guinea and looks at the very controversial legacy Malinowski left behind - within the field of anthropology, within his own family and among the descendants of the people he studied. The film follows a layered landscape of narrative threads: the story of Malinowski's last surviving daughter and her ambivalence towards her father's painful legacy; the Trobriand Islanders surprising personal relationship to Malinwoski as they witness the impact of westernization on their changing customs; and the story of Malinowski himself- the triumphant, self-made mythical anthropologist.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 2011.
- Special features include video extras, field photo gallery, trailer.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- OCLC:
- 806140320
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