Dani Sweet Potatoes

Duration: 18

Genre: Educational | Ethnographic | Sponsored

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Educational Development Center

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Follows the process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Grand Valley Dani, a Papuan culture in Irian Jaya (West New Guinea). Traces the steps of growing the sweet potatoes from clearing the brush and scooping fertile mud from drainage and irrigation ditches on the beds through planting, seeding, and harvesting. Demonstrates how sweet potatoes are cooked in a steam bundle. Points out sexual division of labor, marital relations, child-parent relations, and mourning rituals. Filmed in 1963 by Karl G. Heider, a member of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition.

Complete Record: Follows the process of sweet potato horticulture developed by the Grand Valley Dani, a Papuan culture in Irian Jaya (West New Guinea). Traces the steps of growing the sweet potatoes from clearing the brush and scooping fertile mud from drainage and irrigation ditches on the beds through planting, seeding, and harvesting. Demonstrates how sweet potatoes are cooked in a steam bundle. Points out sexual division of labor, marital relations, child-parent relations, and mourning rituals. Filmed in 1963 by Karl G. Heider, a member of the Harvard-Peabody Expedition., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.