Afro-Brazilian Video Project: Maranhão, Northern Brazil (1992.4.1-16)
odd: label: General
content: Local Numbers: HSFA 1992.4.1-16
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Halperin, Daniel
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content: Daniel Halperin videos of Afro-Brazilian traditions in Maranhão, Northern Brazil
physdesc: label: Extent
content: Video recordings
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Human Studies Film Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Video recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Video footage of Afro-Brazilian traditions in Maranhão shot by anthropologist Daniel Halperin. Footage documents performances of music and dance in Praca Santo Antonio for Laboarte's eighteenth anniversary. Records the Cacuria, a folk dance of Afro-Brazilian origin. and includes footage of a Tambor de Mina ritual for the Festival at the Casa Fanti-Ashanti of Pai Euclides.

Legacy Keywords: Trance possession dancing ;  Religion Tambor de Mina Candomble Casa Fanti-Ashanti ;  Music chanting drumming singing ;  Festivals Eighteenth Anniversary of Laboarte Maranhão,Brazil ; Festivals Festival of Thirty-Three Years ;  Dance trance-possession Folk Cacuria Tambor de Mina ;  Ritual centers Casa Fanti-Ashanti Tambor de Mina Candomble ;  Mediums Pai Euclides Maranhão, Brazil