Silk, Muthappar and VHS : portraits from South India.
The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of 'ordinary' personalities - Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz, once a fishtrader and now a healer and magician; and Muthiah, a videographer of upper class weddi...
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | Undetermined |
| Language Notes: | This edition in an undetermined language with English subtitles. |
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London, UK :
Royal Anthropological Institute,
1997.
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| Series: | Ethnographic video online ;
volume 2 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | The documentary, filmed during ethnographic field research, shows three portraits of 'ordinary' personalities - Mala, a young weaver sharing a one-bedroom house with nine siblings; Santa Cruz, once a fishtrader and now a healer and magician; and Muthiah, a videographer of upper class weddings - living in a neighbourhood in Nagercoil, a south Indian town. The aim of the video is to show the persons not as representatives of homogeneous masses, but to acknowledge them as individuals who nurse their own specific worries and strategies in a changing world. The protagonists thus themselves comment about their own lives and actions. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (62 min.). |
| Playing Time: | 01:01:37 |