The riders of Sumba Island (Indonesia) /
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Imprint: | Paris, Ile-de-France : ZED, 1997. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (15 min.). |
Language: | English |
Series: | Ethnographic video online, volume 1 Lands of legends |
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Format: | E-Resource Video Streaming Video |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10315636 |
Other authors / contributors: | Wenger, Allan. Catteau, Manuel. ZED (France) |
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Notes: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 12, 2014). Previously released as DVD. Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 1). Available via World Wide Web. This edition in English. |
Summary: | Today exists ethnic minorities whose daily lives continue to bear witness to contemporary myths: these legends are their faith, and the animals, their gods. From the Indonesian horsemen of Sumba Island to the wild elephant tamers of the Vietnamese forest, this collection reveals the most wondrous of beliefs which unite man and animal in the spectacular, thousand-year old fulfillment of a magical destiny. |
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