Keep the dance alive : Que la danse continue / production and directing, Rina Sherman.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Sherman, Rina.

Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)

Alexander Street Press.

Language:

English

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Subjects (All):

Documentary films.

Himba (African people).

Himba (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Kunene (Namibia)--Social life and customs.

Kunene (Namibia).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (75 minutes)

Other Title:

Que la danse continue

Place of Publication:

Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007.

Language Note:

In English and Himba.

System Details:

digital

data file

Summary:

"A unique voyage through the music, dance and spirit possession practices of the Ovahimba people of north- western Namibia and south-western Angola. Keep the Dance Alive features remarkable footage of how dance and spirit possession is integrated into everyday life from infancy to death"--Container.

Notes:

"Forms part of the collection of the project: "The Ovahimba Years", a multi-disciplinary ethnographic study."

Documentary.

This film was made over a period of seven years in the following communities: in the north-western Kunene region of Namibia, at the homestead of the Tjambiru family of Etanga; in the Cunene and Namibe Provinces of d'Angola; in Oncocua and vicinity, in Erora, Otjiheke, Namibe and Virei and vicinity.

Previously published as DVD.

OCLC:

649691270

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.