Ocamo is My Town
odd: label: Local Number
content: HSFA 1984.16.16
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 (23 minutes, color sound; 828 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. One of two related films on the Yanomamo dealing with the role of Catholic missions. The film describes efforts of an extraordinary Salesian priest to soften the impact of civilization on the local Yanomamo people living in the area of his mission on the Ocamo River. Depicted are a number of the changes which the mission has brought to the Yanomamo such as use of new medicines, the raising of cattle and chicken, and the use of new foods.  

Legacy Keywords: Missions Catholic Yanomamo Venezuela ; Acculturation subsistence practices Yanomamo ; Schools mission teachers Yanomamo ; Fishing Yanomamo ; Language and culture