Afro-Brazilian Video Project: Maranhão, Northern Brazil (1992.4.1-29)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1992.4.1-29
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Halperin, Daniel
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content: Daniel Halperin videos of Afro-Brazilian traditions in Maranhão, Northern Brazil
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Video recordings
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Video footage of Afro-Brazilian traditions in Maranhão shot by anthropologist Daniel Halperin. Footage documents scenes from Maracana, a rural area of Sao Luis Island, including interviews with an elderly resident who discusses being cured in the 1930's at the Casa das Minas, and with Humberto, a renowned bull dance masquerade (Bumba-Meu-Boi) leader-singer-composer.

Legacy Keywords: Music chanting drumming singing composing Humberto Maranhão,Brazil ; Trance possession dancing ;  Dance trance-possession masquerade Bumba-Meu-Boi Maranhão,Brazil ; Religion Tambor de Mina Dahomean (Vodun) Casa das Minas Maranhão,Brazil ; Ritual centers Casa das Minas Tambor de Mina Dahomean (Vodun) Maranhão,Brazil ; Curing Casa das Minas Maranhão,Brazil