The Feast
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1984.16.7
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 (color sound; 1044 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1968
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 1968 Yanomamo film project shot in the Amazon Basin of southern Venezuela and northern Brazil between the Negro and the Upper Orinoco rivers. Film documents a village feast held to re-establish an alliance between two Yanomamo groups, the Patanowa-teri and the Mahekodo-teri. At this ceremonial event, Yanomamo men adorn their bodies with paint and feathers and display their strength in dance and ritualized aggression. The film provides a context for understanding the social, political, and economic entailments of ceremonial reciprocity among the Yanomamo. 

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Ceremony feasts Yanomano Venezuela ; Weapons ritual aggression Yanomamo ; Dwellings shabono Yanomamo Venezuela ; Aggression ritualized Yanomamo ; Warfare Yanomamo ; Adornment ceremonial feathers body paint Yanomamo ; Dance ritual Yanomamo ; Exchange ceremonial alliances Yanomamo ; Food preparation feasts Yanomamo