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Indigenous video makers : Wapté Mnhõnõ, the Xavante's initiation / written and directed by Winti Suya, Jorge Prodoti, Divino Tserewahú and Caimi Waiasse.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Video in the villages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Xavante Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
- Xavante Indians.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (76 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1999.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English.
- Summary:
- A team of Xavante filmmakers has collaborated to realize this visual archive of the complex Wapté Mnhõnõ ceremony. Taking place over several months with much elaborate rehearsal and preparation, the ceremony involves the participation of several different groups of boys and men in the roles of initiates, godparents and rivals.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 12, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 877874757
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