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Magical death [electronic resource] / photographed, directed and narrated by Napoleon A. Chagnon ; edited by Craig Johnson ; production manager, Timothy Asch

Published
Watertown, Ma : Documentary Educational Resources, 1973.
Physical Description
1 streaming video (approximately 30 min.)
Additional Creators
Asch, Timothy, Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-, Johnson, Craig, Neel, James V. (James Van Gundia), 1915-2000, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientiíficas, International Biological Programme, National Science Foundation (U.S.), and University of Michigan. Department of Human Genetics
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Summary
Relates the religious activities of a political leader and shaman from a village in Venezuela to the political and social organization in a Yanomano Indian group.
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Note
"The collaboration of the Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Investigation (I.V.I.C.) is gratefully acknowledged."
"This film was produced on a grant from the National Science Foundation to the Department of Human Genetics of the University of Michigan as part of the anthropological component in a multidisciplinary study of the Yanomamö Indians of Southern Venezuela and Northern Brazil. The multidisciplinary study, directed by James V. Neel, constitutes one of the contributions of the United States to the International Biological Program."
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Data/Place of Event
Filmed in 1971.
Reproduction Note
Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
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