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Films
2 Films
Keywords
“Health Health care Healing”
and
“Ritual”
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Series
“Disappearing World Series”
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Country of production
“United Kingdom”
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Colour / Black and white
“Colour”
x
films with a digital version
2
Region
North and Northeast Africa
1
South America
1
Country
Brazil
1
Ethiopia
1
Keywords
Health / Health care / Healing
2
Possession
1
Religion / Belief / Faith
1
Ritual
2
x
Social Conflict
1
Directors
Cross, Stephen
1
Woodhead, Leslie
1
Series
Disappearing World Series
2
x
Country of production
United Kingdom
2
x
Year of production
1977
1
1991
1
Colour / Black and white
Film list
Mursi: The Land is Bad
1991
52
‘
Directed by
Leslie Woodhead
.
A further visit to the Mursi of Southern Ethiopia with whom contact was established 17 years ago, for an important coming of age ceremony which has had to be postponed many times. An elder of the
North and Northeast Africa
Ritual
Social Conflict
Health / Health care / Healing
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