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Title Wawata topu : mermaids of Timor-Leste / by Enrique Alonso and David Palazon
Published New Caledonia : Secretariat of the Pacific Community, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file (33 min.))
Series Ethnographic video online ; volume 3
Summary This is a film about four generations of fisherwomen striving to make a living in the coastal village of Adara, in the small island of Ataúro, Timor-Leste. Wawata topu or Women Divers share their daily lives, their economic practices and their vital concerns, as well as the contradicting discourses and social barriers they face. This ethnographic portrait makes visible their critical contribution to the household economies and the fishing community at large. Their underwater dancing takes place in a context of rapid social change, where the generalization of the formal education, the progressive consolidation of western moral values and the potential openness of more attractive livelihoods not linked to the sea, seem to be forging a social negotiation of the household economic strategies initiated by the oldest generation during the 50's
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed September 16, 2014)
In English
Subject Women fishers -- Timor-Leste
Sex role -- Timor-Leste
Marriage customs and rites -- Timor-Leste
Marriage customs and rites.
Sex role.
Women fishers.
Timor-Leste.
Genre/Form Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Form Streaming video
Author Alonso, Enrique, film director.
Palazon, David, film director.