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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Kawelka
    sub title: Ongka's big moka
  title info:
    title: Disappearing world
    sub title: Kawelka Ongka's big moka
  title info:
    title: Ongka's big moka
  name:
    name part: Strathern, Andrew
    role:
      role term: contributor.
    role:
      role term: ctb
  name:
    name part: Nairn, Charlie
    role:
      role term: film director,
    role:
      role term: film producer.
    role:
      role term: fmd
    role:
      role term: fmp
  name:
    name part: Winter, Pattie
    role:
      role term: researcher.
    role:
      role term: res
  name:
    name part: Vincze, Ernie
    role:
      role term: cinematographer.
    role:
      role term: cng
  name:
    name part: Brady, Shelagh
    role:
      role term: film editor.
    role:
      role term: flm
  name:
    name part: Moser, Brian
    name part: 1935-
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
  name:
    name part: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
    role:
      role term: production company.
  name:
    name part: Granada Television
    role:
      role term: production company.
    role:
      role term: prn
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentaries and Factual Films
  genre: Online media.
  genre: documentary film.
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: London
    publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute
    date issued: 1974
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (55 min.) : sound, colour
  abstract: Ongka is a charismatic big-man of the Kawelka tribe who live scattered in the Western highlands, north of Mount Hagen, in New Guinea. The film focuses on the motivations and efforts involved in organising a big ceremonial gift-exchange or moka planned to take place sometime in 1974. Ongka has spent nearly five years preparing for this ceremonial exchange, using all his big-man skills of oratory and persuasion in order to try to assemble what he hopes will be a huge gift of 600 pigs, some cows, some cassowaries, a motorcycle, a truck and £5,500 in cash. As an example of the big-man familiar from written texts, Ongka is memorable, and the film manages to convey through this main character the importance of pigs, of exchange and of prestige in the life of these Highlanders. The film-crew never in fact managed to film the big moka, as the conspiratorial and complex manoeuvres involved in setting the date thwarted their plans. But we are shown Ongka replacing tee-shirt and shorts with his ceremonial feathers and setting off to a little moka where he collects pigs he `invested' with his wife's father. The interview with Ongka's wife raises the issue of the sexual division of labour and the importance of the wife's labour in pig-rearing and moka preparation, as well as the role of women in the establishment of a big-man.
  target audience: general
  note: directed by Charlie Nairn.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
  note: "A Granada production for ITV"--End credits.
  note: Anthropologist, Andrew Strathern.
  note: Recorded in Papua New Guinea.
  note: Research, Pattie Winter ; camera, Ernest Vincze ; film editor, Shelagh Brady ; series editor, Brian Moser ; producer, Charlie Nairn.
  note: This edition in English.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-pp---
  subject:
    topic: Ceremonial exchange
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
    geographic: Western Highlands Province
  subject:
    topic: Kawelka (Papua New Guinean people)
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
    geographic: Western Highlands Province
  subject:
    geographic: Western Highlands Province (Papua New Guinea)
    topic: Social life and customs
  subject:
    topic: Kawelka (Peuple de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée)
    topic: Mœurs et coutumes
  subject:
    topic: Ceremonial exchange
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
  subject:
    topic: Manners and customs
  subject:
    geographic: Papua New Guinea
    geographic: Western Highlands Province
  classification: DU740.42 .K39 1974
  classification: GN303
  classification: 995.3
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Disappearing world
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Kawelka
    origin info:
      publisher: London : Royal Anthropological Institute, 1974
    identifier: (OCoLC)156821304
  identifier: 2086420
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 140206
    record change date: 20241214204600.9
    record identifier: in00005607320
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng