Asmat (Neuguinea, SŸdwestkŸste) - Streit zwischen Angehšrigen zweier MŠnnerhŠuser / Asmat (New Guinea, Southwest Coast) - Quarrel between Members of Two Men's Houses

Location:Irian Jaya / West Papua
Subject:Gesellschaft ; Vereinswesen ; Irian Jaya (Indonesien) ; Australien/Ozeanien ; ethnology ; society ; clubs and societies ; Australia/Oceania ; Irian Jaya (Indonesia) ; Ethnologie/Kulturanthropologie
Length:2 1/2 min
Format:Film, 16 mm, 26 m
Hue:Color
Year Released:1964
Series:
Director:Gerbrands, Aadrian A. (Leiden)
Producer:Aadrian A. Gebrands (Leiden)
Distributor:IWF (Gšttingen) E 655
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Description:MŠnner und Frauen, Angehšrige zweier rivalisierender ZeremonialhŠuser in Amanamkai, sind wegen des Fischereirechts miteinander in Streit geraten. Sie schreien und gestikulieren.A group of men and women, members of two competing ceremonial houses or yeu, have a quarrel about the injury which a man from one of the yeu has inflicted on a man from the other yeu. All the men, together with a few of the older women from one yeu, form a wild cluster of shouting and gesticulating individuals, while most of the women from the other yeu remain on the outskirts of the central group.
Record No:112
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