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The Ainu bear ceremony.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ainu--Rites and ceremonies.
- Ainu.
- Ainu--Religion.
- Ainu--Social life and customs.
- Bears--Religious aspects.
- Bears.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (29 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK : Royal Anthropological Institute, 2001.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The RAI has reedited the original film of this ceremony among the Ainu people of Japan. In the bear ceremony, now no longer performed, a specially reared bear was reverently killed and its flesh and blood eaten by the participants. The film shows a series of ritual acts with some commentary on their meaning.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 23, 2013).
- Recorded Hokkaido, Japan 1931.
- OCLC:
- 849668534
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