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Trance and dance in Bali / produced by Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead ; with the assistance from the Committee for Research in Dementia Praecox ; written and narrated by Margaret Mead.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Character formation in different cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Balinese (Indonesian people)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Balinese (Indonesian people).
- Mythology, Indonesian--Indonesia--Bali Island.
- Mythology, Indonesian.
- Trance--Indonesia--Bali Island.
- Trance.
- Dance--Indonesia--Bali Island--Religious aspects.
- Dance.
- Bali Island (Indonesia)--Religion.
- Bali Island (Indonesia).
- Indonesia--Bali Island.
- Genre:
- Streaming video.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video).
- Other Title:
- Selections from the National Film Registry.
- Place of Publication:
- Pennsylvania State University, [publisher not identified], 1952.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Explores the themes of trance and dance in the rituals and religion of Bali through a form of the kris dance, a Balinese ceremonial dance drama in which the struggle between the witch and the dragon is played out to the accompaniment of comic interludes and violent trance seizures.
- Participant:
- Narrator: Margaret Mead.
- Credits:
- Photography, Gregory Bateson, Jane Belo ; editor, Josef Bohmer ; music arranged by Colin McPhee.
- Notes:
- Originally produced in 1952.
- Filmed at the village of Pagoetan, Bali, 1937-39.
- OCLC:
- 79423311
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