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Floating market /

For many decades, hundreds of Venezuelan men in search of economic opportunity have sailed forty miles across the Caribbean from Venezuela to the island of Curaçao in small wooden boats to sell tropical fruits and vegetables in Curaçao's floating market, leaving behind their families in the coa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kaufman, Joan, director
Other Authors: Shavit, Iftach, Jansen, Elsio A., Ajami, Jocelyn M.
Format: Video
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2003.
Series:Ethnographic video online.
Subjects:
Venezuelans > Curaçao.
Venezuelans.
Curaçao.
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:For many decades, hundreds of Venezuelan men in search of economic opportunity have sailed forty miles across the Caribbean from Venezuela to the island of Curaçao in small wooden boats to sell tropical fruits and vegetables in Curaçao's floating market, leaving behind their families in the coastal fishing villages of Venezuela for months at a time. Continuing a tradition passed down from father to son for generations, they form a Venezuelan community along the quays of downtown Willemstad, capital of Curaçao.
Physical Description:1 online resource (53 min.)
Production Credits:Director, Joan Kaufman, editor, Iftach Shavit ; writer, Elsio A. Jansen.