Xavante: Memory, Culture and Resistance
The documentary accompanies the Wapté Mnhõnhõ ritual, a ceremony that marks the passage of the young Xavante into adulthood, initiating a new and important phase of their inclusion in the social environment, and the Wai’á Rini, a spiritual rite that involves sacrifice and the search for healing power.
19 min | Identity,Indigenous Resistance | 2016
Synopsis
The documentary Xavante: Memory, Culture and Resistance accompanies the Wapté Mnhõnhõ ritual, a ceremony that marks the passage of the young Xavante into adulthood, initiating a new and important phase of their inclusion in the social environment, and the Wai’á Rini, a spiritual rite that involves sacrifice and the search for healing power. Songs, dances, body painting and religiosity are components that symbolise the preservation of memory and the process of cultural resistance passed from generation to generation.
Artistic and technic data
Year:
2016
Duration:
19 min
Direction:
Gilson M. Costa
Production:
Gilson M. Costa,Núcleo de Produção Digital – UFMT
Indigenous peoples:
Xavante
Geographic area:
Brazil
Language:
Xavante
Subtitles:
Spanish, English
Subject:
Identity,Indigenous Resistance
Genre(s):
Documentary
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