I am the Pain Doctor
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1990.2.1
name: label: Creator
content: Baker, Dan
place: label: Place
content: Oceania
label: Place
content: Guam
topic: label: Topic
content: Chamorro (Micronesian people)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Received from Dan Baker in 1990.
creator: label: Creator
content: Baker, Dan
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Film reels (27 minutes, color sound; 1000 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1976
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: HSFA.1990.02
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Film reels
label: Type
content: Sound films
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound films
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Edited film documenting the work of Chamorro traditional curer, Jaun Cepeda, on the island of Guam, Micronesia. Film discusses aspects of the history of Guam and the roots of the indigenous healing tradition practiced by contemporary Guamanian curers. Detailed are the curer's trade and indigenous ideas about the cause of disease, diagnoses and knowledge of materia medica, with examples of the physical and ritual aspects of therapy.

Legacy Keywords: Healers sirahanu Guam ; Therapy magical Guam ; Illness ideas about ; Healing massage infusions Guam ; Medicine indigenous preparation of Guam ; Spirits as cause of disease Guam ; Acculturation medical systems indigenous Guam ; Plants materia medica Guam


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