Les maitres fous /

Les maitres fous / Pierre Braunberger présente une production des Films de la Pleïade ; un film de Jean Rouch.

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The film depicts the annual ceremony of the Hauku cult, a social and religious movement which was widespread in French colonial Africa from the 1920's to the 1950's. Participants in the ceremony mimic the elaborate military ceremonies of their colonial occupiers, but in more of a trance th...

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Corporate Authors: Films de la Pléiade (Firm), Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France), Institut français d'Afrique noire, Icarus Films
Other Authors: Rouch, Jean (Director), Braunberger, Pierre, 1905-1990 (Producer)
Other title:English title: Mad masters
Format: Electronic Video
Language:French
English
Published: [Brooklyn, N.Y.] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2014]
Subjects:
Cults > Ghana > Accra.
Spirit possession > Ghana > Accra.
Songhai (African people) > Rites and ceremonies.
Cults > Africa, West.
Cults > Niger.
Cults.
Rites and ceremonies.
Spirit possession.
Ghana > Rites and ceremonies.
West Africa.
Ghana.
Ghana > Accra.
Niger.
Documentary films.
Ethnographic films.
Short films.

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Call Number: BL2470.G6 M35 2014b
BL2470.G6 M35 2014b Available

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