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The mummy thief from Toraja / directed by Agung Setyawan ; produced by Mazlena Mazlan and Agung Setyawan.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Austronesian (Other)
- Subjects (All):
- Toraja (Indonesian people)--Funeral customs and rites.
- Toraja (Indonesian people).
- Toraja (Indonesian people)--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (48 min.).
- Other Title:
- The mummy thief
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal, QC : CinéFête, 2008.
- Language Note:
- In Toraja.
- In English.
- Original language in Toraja.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- The frequency of mummy theft in Toraja has not ebbed at all. Ironically, Rambu Solo - an expensive funeral rite, held for ancestors regardless of the expense, has become an absurdity. So much so, that the ritual has driven poverty stricken people to desecrate their ancestors' burial grounds. This documentary features a villager who turns into a mummy thief, when he is trapped in the vicious cycle of debts after his family throws an expensive funeral for an ancestor.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
- Recorded Tana Toraja, Indonesia 0000.
- OCLC:
- 877879959
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