Children's Magical Death
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1984.16.4
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Timothy
label: Collection Creator
content: Chagnon, Napoleon A., 1938-
setName: label: See more items in
content: Timothy Asch and Napolean Chagnon films of the Yanomamo
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Film reel (7 minutes, color sound; 252 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. Film shows a group of young boys pretending to be shamans. Imitating their fathers' activities, the boys blow ashes into each other's noses and chant to the hekura spirits.  

Legacy Keywords: Language and culture ; Shamanism mimicry of Yanomamo Venezuela ; Play as socialization Yanomamo ; Spirits invocation of Yanomamo