The journey back /
In The Journey Back (Part II), the filmmakers return after several years to show the original film (The Earth is Our Mother) to the tribes and learn how they feel about their representation. This follow-up film concentrates on the Arhuaco Indians who continue to maintain their strong spiritual and c...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York, NY :
Filmakers Library,
1988.
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| Series: | Filmakers Library, inc.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | In The Journey Back (Part II), the filmmakers return after several years to show the original film (The Earth is Our Mother) to the tribes and learn how they feel about their representation. This follow-up film concentrates on the Arhuaco Indians who continue to maintain their strong spiritual and cultural identity in the face of wide-ranging attempts to grab their land, torment their spiritual leaders, and make their independent lifestyle untenable. The Arhuaco are unimpressed with the earlier film even though it attempts to plead their cause to the outside world. Physically small, garbed in pristine white with box-like headdresses, pain smolders on their faces when they speak of the injustice they have suffered, including the assassination of their spiritual leaders. The Journey Back gives voice to the ravages of their colonial history. Member of a series: The Earth is Our Mother (Part I). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (video file (50 min.)) : sound, color. |
| Audience: | For College audiences. |
| Awards: | American Psychological Association, 1991 First Place, Gold Award, John Muir Medical Film Festival, 1990 International Visual Anthropology Festival, 1995 |