AUFS Bolivia Aymara Film Project
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 2014.2.3
name: label: Collection Creator
content: American University (Washington, D.C.)
label: Collection Creator
content: Miller, Norman N., 1933-
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection
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content: American University Field Staff Faces of Change collection / Accession 2014-002
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content: 84 Film reels (17 hours, color sound; 36,800 feet, 16mm)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Film reels
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content: Full film record of the American Universities Field Staff "Faces of Change" film series in Bolivia. Footage was shot in a high Andes valley of western Bolivia in the villages of Ayata (a primarily mestizo town) and Vitocota (an Aymara Indian community), both located in Munecas Province, Department of La Paz. The project explored the nature of Altiplano social structure as manifest between the residents of these related communities, focusing on social and cultural factors which unite as well as divide them. Documentation includes: planting and harvesting of potatoes and ocha; manufacture of chicha (corn beer); sheep herding; market days; the Fiesta of Santiago held conjointly between Vitocota and Ayata and the Fiesta of San Lorenzo in Ayata; dispute management and settlement which accompanies these celebrations; syncretic rites (using coca leaves) performed at the beginning of the Aymara year (August 1); the role of Aymara women in the Andean economy; and the syncretic nature of Altiplano Bolivian religious and magical beliefs and practices. The edited films VIRACOCHA, THE CHILDREN KNOW, POTATO PLANTERS, ANDEAN WOMEN, THE SPIRIT POSSESSION OF ALEJANDRO MAMANI, and MAGIC AND CATHOLICISM were produced from this film project.

Legacy Keywords: Syncretism Aymara Bolivia ; Agriculture Bolivia ; Harvests potatoes ocha division of harvest Bolivia ; Festivals religious Aymara mestizo Fiesta of Santiago in Vitocota processions Dea de la Bandeta (Flag Day) Fiesta of San Lorenzo in Ayata Bolivia ; Curing brujos Bolivia ; Drinking social festivals ritualistic drunkenness Bolivia ; Alcoholic beverages chicha manufacture of fermented cane juice drinking of Bolivia ; Chicha drinking manufacture of festivals Bolivia ; Coca use of Bolivia ; Divination use of coca in Aymara Bolivia ; Weaving looms Aymara Bolivia ; Disputes settlement of boundaries Bolivia ; Spirit possession suicide Bolivia ; Musical instruments flutes drums playing the kena-kena(straigt flute) festivals Bolivia ; Herding pigs sheep llamas alpacas Bolivia ; Markets transportation of produce to shopping at trade Bolivia ; Mills sugar cane Bolivia ; Dancing Festival of Santiago mestizo Indian snake dance traditional Bolivia ; Sports soccer Bolivia ; Planting potatoes ochas corn methods consideration of saints' days in Bolivia ; Abortion ideas about birth control Bolivia ; Ploughing Bolivia ; Haciendas prohibition of system Bolivia ; Cultivation corn Bolivia ; Labour mestizo hired conditions division of between men and women conflict of with education wages Bolivia ; Originarios land-owners Bolivia2HRAF ; Music hymns brass bands phonograph records singing of patriotic songs Bolivia2HRAF ; Magic divinations sacrifices invocations magical objects Bolivia2HRAF ; Libations offering of chanting Bolivia ; Sacrifice invocations Bolivia2HRAF ; Washing clothes Bolivia2HRAF ; Churches icons Bolivia2HRAF ; Costume dance masks Bolivia2HRAF ; Masks dance characters Bolivia2HRAF ; Prayer lamentations Santiago Bolivia ; Shelters lamars Festival of Santiago Bolivia2HRAF ; Ritual lamars arcos coca Bolivia2HRAF ; Children treatment of relations between mestizo and Aymara education of Bolivia2HRAF ; Drunkenness festivals attitudes towards Bolivia2HRAF ; Games soccer Bolivia ; Police Aymara mestizos' relations with Bolivia2HRAF ; Debts collection of Bolivia2HRAF ; Icons Santiago San Lorenzo Bolivia ; Visions of Santiago Bolivia ; Social system Agrarian reform criticism of Bolivia2HRAF ; Medicine western travelling "physician" mestizo Bolivia2HRAF ; Education directives schools instruction conflict of with labour teachers language of instruction Bolivia2HRAF ; Conversation Bolivia ; Food eating boiled corn eating soup eating boiled calla eating freeze-dried ocha buthchering lamb Alliance for Progress donations Bolivia2HRAF ; Schools Bolivia2HRAF ; Households chores Bolivia2HRAF ; Houses adobe construction of habitability Bolivia ; Meat butchering of lamb Bolivia2HRAF ; Butchering lamb Bolivia ; Wills and testaments drafting of division of estate Bolivia2HRAF ; Spouses physical abuse of Bolivia2HRAF ; Suicide spirit possession Bolivia2HRAF ; Boundaries fields disputes Bolivia2HRAF ; Military conscription Bolivia2HRAF

Credits: Smith, Hubert filmmaker (1938- ) ; Reichline, Neil, cameraman