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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
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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.
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