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Navkalevar /

Every 19 years, the wooden idols used in the Jagannath Rathayatra festival must be replaced by freshly-carved statues. This film provides a behind-the-scenes look at this highly-ritualized Hindu ceremony, known as Navkalevar.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Prithvi Films, Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)
Other Authors: Misra, Prithwiraj, Sethi, Arshiya
Format: Video
Language:English
Oriya
Language Notes:In English, Oriya with English subtitles.
Published: Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, ©2006.
Series:Ethnographic video online.
Subjects:
Jagannath Rathayatra.
Fasts and feasts > Hinduism.
Purī (India) > Social life and customs.
Fêtes religieuses > Hindouisme.
Manners and customs.
India > Purī.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Encoded moving images.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Description
Summary:Every 19 years, the wooden idols used in the Jagannath Rathayatra festival must be replaced by freshly-carved statues. This film provides a behind-the-scenes look at this highly-ritualized Hindu ceremony, known as Navkalevar.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 streaming video (49 min.))