The mummy thief from Toraja /

The mummy thief from Toraja /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Montreal, QC : CinéFête, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (48 min.).
Language:Austronesian
Series:Ethnographic video online, volume 2
Subject:
Toraja (Indonesian people) -- Funeral customs and rites.
Toraja (Indonesian people) -- Social life and customs.
Documentary films.
Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10315980
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Varying Form of Title:The mummy thief
Other authors / contributors:Setyawan, Agung.
Mazlan, Mazlena.
Notes:Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 6, 2014).
Recorded in Tana Toraja, Indonesia.
Previously released as DVD.
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2014. (Ethnographic video online, volume 2). Available via World Wide Web.
This edition in Toraja and English with English subtitles.
Summary:The frequency of mummy theft in Toraja has not ebbed at all. Ironically, Rambu Solo - an expensive funeral rite, held for ancestors regardless of the expense, has become an absurdity. So much so, that the ritual has driven poverty stricken people to desecrate their ancestors' burial grounds. This documentary features a villager who turns into a mummy thief, when he is trapped in the vicious cycle of debts after his family throws an expensive funeral for an ancestor.

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