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: Every year, a ritual known as ida is performed by the Umeda people, who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sawanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Ida, the central social and cultural drama of the Umeda, is a fertility ritual, in which a dominant theme is the metamorphosis of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Owen, Chris (Director)
Other Authors: Gell, Alfred
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 1983.
Series:Ethnographic video online.
Subjects:
Umeda (Papua New Guinean people) > Social life and customs.
Ethnology > Papua New Guinea > Waina-Sawanda District.
Umeda (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Ethnology.
Documentary.
Documentaries and Factual Films
Encoded moving images.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Films ethnographiques.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:: Every year, a ritual known as ida is performed by the Umeda people, who inhabit the dense primary forest of the Waina-Sawanda district of West Sepik, Papua New Guinea. Ida, the central social and cultural drama of the Umeda, is a fertility ritual, in which a dominant theme is the metamorphosis of the cassowaries.
Physical Description:1 online resource (58 min.)
Production Credits:Filmmaker, Chris Owen ; anthropologist, Alfred Gell.