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Films
3 Films
with a digital version available
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Region
“South America”
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Keywords
“Religion Belief Faith”
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Series
“Disappearing World Series”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
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films with a digital version
3
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Region
South America
3
x
Country
Brazil
1
Colombia
1
Peru
1
Keywords
Agriculture / Farming
1
Collective / Community identity
1
Health / Health care / Healing
1
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
1
Possession
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
3
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Ritual
1
Social Change
1
Directors
Ash, David
1
Cross, Stephen
1
Moser, Brian
1
Pasini, Carlos
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
3
x
Country of production
United Kingdom
3
Year of production
1971
1
1974
1
1977
1
Colour / Black and white
Film list
The Quechua
1974
52
‘
Directed by
Carlos Pasini
David Ash
.
This film is set in a community of peasant agriculturalists 2 1/4 miles above sea level in the southern Peruvian Andes. Concentrating on a single family, the film explores aspects of religious and
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Religion / Belief / Faith
Social Change
Umbanda
1977
52
‘
Directed by
Stephen Cross
.
Umbanda is a syncretic religious movement, combining elements from orthodox Catholicism with submerged African and indigenous Indian spiritual beliefs. In spite of past attempts to suppress it,
South America
Possession
Health / Health care / Healing
Religion / Belief / Faith
Ritual
War of the Gods
1971
52
‘
Directed by
Brian Moser
.
While relying on a polemical stance directed against the cultural genocide wrought by missionaries, ‘War of the Gods’ also contains a wealth of information and detail about Amazonian Indian
South America
Religion / Belief / Faith
Collective / Community identity
Agriculture / Farming
Hunting / Gathering / Fishing