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This program by anthropologist Barrie Machin documents a funeral in a Greek village on the island of Crete. It shows the laments, the procession, and the Orthodox funeral rites. Narration provides insights into the beliefs about death and the services, as well as the eventual exhumation common to this culture.
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In this program by anthropologist Barrie Machin, Ayu Lha-Mo of Sabu calls on an oracle to possess her body. She goes into a trance. The oracle is Dorje Drakden and answers questions about sickness, diagnoses sickness, anything about the future the future, travel plans, children etc. With English subtitles.
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This program is the second part of a documentary by anthropologist Barrie Machin on the Festival of Kahika, a religious festival in India that is a sort of expiation ceremony and that is celebrated at various places in the Kulu region. The main purpose of Kahika is the transference, and thus removal, of sins (paap) or baneful influences (dosh-khot, kaari-shrapni) to a human scapegoat; first 'sacrificed', then brought back to life. In this ritual,...
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This program is the first part of a documentary by anthropologist Barrie Machin on the Festival of Kahika, a religious festival in India that is a sort of expiation ceremony and that is celebrated at various places in the Kulu region. The main purpose of Kahika is the transference, and thus removal, of sins (paap) or baneful influences (dosh-khot, kaari-shrapni) to a human scapegoat; first 'sacrificed', then brought back to life. In this ritual, both...
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The return of the dead in August, Obon has been celebrated since the introduction of Buddhism into Japan in the 6th century during the reign of the Empress Suiko. It is an annual Buddhist ceremony during which ancestral spirits are believed to come back to visit. This program by anthropologist Barrie Machin documents the rituals and beliefs of this celebration in which people honor the dead, proffer food and dance to them, and hang lanterns in front...
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Combining history with culture, the ocean with exploration, and risk with triumph-this rich offering is the only picture book account of Thor Heyerdahl's world-famous Kon-Tiki expedition, during which he sailed a raft 5,000 miles from the coast of South America to the islands of the South Pacific. Author Deborah Kogan Ray clearly and succinctly sets up how Norwegian anthropologist Heyerdahl became convinced that ancient Peruvians arrived in the
...16) Isolated Tribes
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Today, there are approximately 100 tribes in the Amazon rainforest that have not interacted with the modern world. A hundred years ago, there were many more.
17) Tribe: Nenets
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In the frozen tundra of northern Siberia live the Nenet reindeer herders. Bruce Parry spends a month with a Nenet brigade as they carry out their winter migration, travelling hundreds of miles as temperatures drop to minus 40 degrees Celsius. Their warmth and hospitality could not be more different from the extreme cold of their harsh surroundings.