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Title The return of gods and ancestors : the five year ceremony / by Ha [sic] Tai-Li
Published Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, [©2006]

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Description 1 online resource (1 streaming video (35 min.))
Series Ethnographic video online
Summary The Return of Gods and Ancestors is the first locally made ethnographic film in Taiwan. Under extremely low budget, anthropologist Hu Tai-Li recorded with a hand-cranked Bell & Howell 16 mm camera the most magnificent five year ceremony in Paiwan tribe. The Paiwan people on the one hand expected to receive blessings of the gods and ancestors through piercing rattan balls with extended bamboo poles; on the other, they tried to prevent any harm caused by the evil spirits. During the filming processes, the competitive chiefs were stimulated to reveal the cultural structure in front of the camera. The Paiwan five year ceremony is not only the reunion of the dead and the alive, but the meeting of the old and the new
Credits Director, Tai-Li Hu
Event Originally produced in 1985
Notes Print version record
Subject Paiwan (Taiwan people) -- Social life and customs
Paiwan (Taiwan people) -- Rites and ceremonies
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Nonfiction films.
Documentaires.
Films ethnographiques.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Hu, Taili
Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)