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Author Marre, Jeremy

Title Spirits of defiance : the Mangbetu people of Zaire / by Jeremy Marre
Published London, England : British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC), 1989

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Description 1 online resource (58 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online
Summary Once feared by explorers as fierce cannibals, the Mangbetu tribe inhabit the edge of the Zaire rainforest in the heart of Africa. Although they don't eat people any more, they still cling to their traditions of hallucinogenic rituals and retain a deep faith in magic and sorcery, despite the efforts of missionaries to change them
Notes Previously released on DVD
Title from resource description page (viewed Nov. 3, 2011)
Credits Director and producer, Jeremy Marre
Event Filmed in Democratic Republic of Congo
Notes English
Subject Mangebetu (African people)
Mangbetu (African people) -- Music
Songs, Mangbetu.
Music -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Mangbetu (African people)
Music.
Songs, Mangbetu.
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Genre/Form Documentary
Music.
Documentary.
Form Streaming video