The Xinguana: Aborigines of South America

Duration: 29

Year Published: 1971

Creator: Vision Associates

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Description: Studies the Xinguana, farmer-fishermen of the Upper Xingu River in Brazil, whose primitive dress and culture have remained relatively untouched by modern civilization. Observes the preparation of manioc, paintings, building construction, fishing techniques, weapon-making, transportation, body ornamentation, and puberty rites. Focuses on preparations for and enactments of the Kwarup ceremony, an elaborate ancestral memorial culminating in wrestling matches., Spear dances, bodily ornamentation, and puberty rites are customs exhibited by the Xinguana, a tribe that continues to live untouched by civilization in the vast jungle watershed of the Xingu River in Central Brazil.

Complete Record: Studies the Xinguana, farmer-fishermen of the Upper Xingu River in Brazil, whose primitive dress and culture have remained relatively untouched by modern civilization. Observes the preparation of manioc, paintings, building construction, fishing techniques, weapon-making, transportation, body ornamentation, and puberty rites. Focuses on preparations for and enactments of the Kwarup ceremony, an elaborate ancestral memorial culminating in wrestling matches., Spear dances, bodily ornamentation, and puberty rites are customs exhibited by the Xinguana, a tribe that continues to live untouched by civilization in the vast jungle watershed of the Xingu River in Central Brazil.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.