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Title Owu : Chidi joins the Okoroshi Secret Society
Published Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1994

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Description 1 online resource (59 min.)
Series Ethnographic video online ; volume 1
Summary Witness an uncompromising portrait of a young man's initiation into a men's secret society. It begins with the elder griot and praise singer talking about the origins of the "Owu" society. Two keepers of tradition, the griot and the town's oldest woman and female griot, Ezenwanyi (Leader of Women), narrate this film continuing their role as commentators in the life of the village. Owu explores the pluralistic lives of Africans as they come up against westernized Christian influence. Many significant rituals are filmed for the first time. The program shows respect for the subject's traditions
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed Apr. 2, 2013)
This edition in English and Igbo with English subtitles
Subject Festivals -- Nigeria
Igbo (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies
Initiation rites -- Nigeria
Secret societies -- Nigeria
Festivals.
Igbo (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies.
Initiation rites.
Secret societies.
Nigeria.
Genre/Form Nonfiction films.
Nonfiction films.
Films autres que de fiction.
Form Streaming video
Author Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)