Summary: Documentary of the Voudoun religions of Haiti. Presents rituals performed by the Rada, Petro, and Congo cults, whose devotees commune with cosmic powers through invocations, sacrifices, and possession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mystic Fire Video 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DIVSummary: The title, Ring of Fire, refers to the islands of Indonesia that form a chain of active volcanos arcing down and around into the Pacific. In Borneo, the Blair Brothers travel 800 miles through rainforest to find the last of the Punan Dyaks, a tribe believed extinct. When they do, in fact, find them, the brothers are initiated into the spiritual mysteries of the "dream wanderers" and tattooed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mystic Fire Video 1989
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This 5-film series documents the ten-year voyage of brothers Lorne and Lawrence Blair through the islands of Indonesia. In "Spice Island saga," the Blairs accompany the piratical Bugis tribe through the Spice Islands in search of the Bird of Paradise. "Dance of the warriors" takes the Blairs to Komodo to film the Komodo "dragon", then on to Sumba where they witness a form of human sacrifice,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mystic Fire Video 2003