| Location: | Papua New Guinea |
| Subject: | Life and culture; religion; social change; missionaries |
| Length: | 47 minutes |
| Format: | DVD; 1/2-inch VHS |
| Hue: | Color |
| Year Released: | 1992 (1989?) |
| Series: | |
| Director: | Susan Cornwell |
| Producer: | Look Film Productions |
| Distributor: | Filmmakers Library; Penn State Media & Technology Support Services (rental); Indiana University (rental) |
| Library Code: | UHM AV/C VIDEOTAPE 8179; NFVLS |
| Description: | In 1971, Susan Cornwell encountered and filmed the Bedamini in Papua New Guinea, an aggressive people who practiced cannibalism. On her return twenty years later, she finds a people wearing T-shirts instead of nose bones and charging tourists for watching their tribal dances. The skillful intercutting of old and new footage dramatizes the effects of westernization. |
| Record No: | 2113 |
| Resources: | Distributors's List |
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