The Feast

Uses indigenous sounds supplemented by translations to document how an alliance is formed between hostile Yanomamo villages through feasting, trading, dancing, and chanting. Records the arrangements for the feast which include sweeping the compound, preparing the food, and primping their nude bodies with feathers, jewelry, and paints. Notes that the tribe's leader must persuade the others to a course of action through his own activities., Uses indigenous sounds supplemented by translations to document how an alliance is formed between hostile Yanomamo Indian villages through feasting, trading, dancing, and chanting. Records the arrangements for the feast which include sweeping the compound, preparing the food, and primping their nude bodies with feathers, jewelry, and paints. Notes that the tribe's leader must persuade the others to a course of action through his own activities.