Moonblood: a Yanomamo Creation Myth as Told by Dedeheiwa
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1984.16.12
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Timothy
label: Collection Creator
content: Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-
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content: Timothy Asch and Napolean Chagnon films of the Yanomamo
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (14 minutes, color sound; 504 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1974
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film from the 1971 Yanomamo film project shot in the Amazon Basin of southern Venezuela and northern Brazil between the Negro and the Upper Orinoco rivers. A Yanomamo shaman tells the myth of the creation of human beings from the blood of the moon spilled by the ancestors. In Yanomamo society the myth is a charter for social relations as it serves the ideological function of accounting for human violence.  

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Shamans storytelling muths Yanomamo Venezuela ; Myths Creation Yanomamo ; Storytelling shamans Yanomamo