Dancing with a dog /

In Dancing With a Dog we experience the rhythm of daily life on the Rio Amônea. Kowire and his wife Withawo get up early to take care of their eight children, preparing food and making handcrafts for sale. Kowire is helping his son to build a house, and after work for the day is finished there is fi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pianko, Isaac
Other Authors:	Manchieri, Jaime Liullu, Kaxinawa, Adalberto, Pianko, Valdete
Format:	Video
Language:	Undetermined
Published:	Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2001.
Series:	Ethnographic video online.
Subjects:	Brazil > Social conditions > 1985- Brazil > Social life and customs. Brésil > Conditions sociales > 1985- Brésil > Mœurs et coutumes. Manners and customs. Social conditions. Brazil. Since 1985 Documentary. 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:	In Dancing With a Dog we experience the rhythm of daily life on the Rio Amônea. Kowire and his wife Withawo get up early to take care of their eight children, preparing food and making handcrafts for sale. Kowire is helping his son to build a house, and after work for the day is finished there is fish and cassava root for dinner. On weekends, the Piâretsi celebration is full of with drinking, dancing and soccer. Everyone is fully at ease in the presence of the cameraman; there is plenty of joking and Kowire goes home a little drunk on caissiema beer.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (44 min.)
Production Credits:	Directors, Isaac Pinhanta, Jaime Liullu Manchieri and Adalberto Kaxinawa.