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The condor and the bull /

Villagers from remote hamlets high in the Andes join together with people from the roadside village of Ocongate for the Peruvian Independence Day celebration. Festivities require that a wild condor be captured and pitted against a bull during a bullfight in the town plaza. Through this event, power...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harvey, Penelope, 1956- (Director), Getzels, Peter (Director), Getzels, Harriet Gordon (Director)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: London : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1989.
Series:Ethnographic video online, volume 1
Subjects:
Indians of South America > Andes Region.
Indians of South America > Andes Region > Social life and customs.
Peru > Social life and customs.
Peuples autochtones > Andes.
Peuples autochtones > Andes > Mœurs et coutumes.
Indians of South America.
Indians of South America > Social life and customs.
Manners and customs.
Andes Region.
Peru.
Online media.
documentary film.
Documentary films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films autres que de fiction.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
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Summary:Villagers from remote hamlets high in the Andes join together with people from the roadside village of Ocongate for the Peruvian Independence Day celebration. Festivities require that a wild condor be captured and pitted against a bull during a bullfight in the town plaza. Through this event, power relations are revealed between the villagers of Ocongate and the highlanders, and of both of them to the Peruvian state.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 12, 2014).
Physical Description:1 online resource (video file (59 min.)) : sound, color
Playing Time:00:59:22