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War of the gods

Presents the religious life of missionaries in the Colombian Panama and the religious life of Indians of the area. Glimpses of the life of Indians attending mission schools emphasise the threat to the indigenous culture.

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  • "Disappearing world (Television program)"@en

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  • "For thousands of years, the Maku and Barasana Indians have lived in the deep forests of northwest Amazonia. Now the traditions of the past are giving way to the forces of Christianity as Catholic missionaries and American evangelists compete to convert the Indians."
  • "Presents the religious life of missionaries in the Colombian Panama and the religious life of Indians of the area. Glimpses of the life of Indians attending mission schools emphasise the threat to the indigenous culture."@en
  • "Anthropologists examine the effects of Christian missions on the way of life of two tribes of Indians in Colombia. Missionaries and evangelists offer Christianity and some of the material benefits of the West to two tribes of South American Indians, the Macu and the Barasona. The Indians have lived their lives in the deep forests of North-west Amazonia. They use the forest as a warehouse full of food and medicine and everything they need for life."@en
  • "While relying on a polemical stance directed against the cultural genocide wrought by missionaries, War of the Gods also contains a wealth of information and detail about Amazonian Indian cosmology, social life and sexual division of labour. Two groups of Indians from the Vaupes region of Colombia are shown, the Maku, who live mainly by hunting and gathering, and the sedentary Barasana, who live mainly by farming. The film contrasts the belief systems and way of life of the Indians, presented by the anthropologists who worked and lived with them, with those of Protestant and Catholic missionaries. The Protestants, North American Fundamentalists from the Summer Institute of Linguistics, are said to have used their organisation as a cover in order to be allowed to work with the Indians, because open Protestant missionary activity would not have been acceptable to the authorities. No attempt is made to gloss over the complexities of contact between Whites and Indians. The Barasana themselves want change, and the missionaries' influence is undoubtedly more beneficial to the Indians than that of rubber gatherers. Included in this film is an interview -- using voice-over -- with a Maku shaman, and there are scenes from the Barasana moloka, the communal house which is a centre of social and domestic activity. The climax of the film is a contrasting look at a church service at the S.I.L. headquarters, a Barasana ritual dance (accompanied by the ritual use of the hallucinogen yage), and a Mass at the Catholic mission attended by some of the Indians who took part in the ritual dance. Some missionaries who have seen this film consider that its editing is unfair to the S.I.L., but the head of another important missionary organisation has said that it should be screened during missionary training courses."@en
  • "Contrasts the belief systems and way of life of the Maku and Barasana Indians, who live in the forests of northwest Amazonia, with the Protestant and Catholic missionaries competing to convert them to Christianity. While relying on a polemical stance directed against missionaries, the film also contains a wealth of information and detail about Amazonian Indian cosmology, social life and sexual division of labor.-- from container."@en
  • "Summary: Set in the rain forests of South America, this film depicts the clash of two worlds - that of the Maku and Barasana Indians of Colombia and that of the Protestant and Roman Catholic missionaries who hope to convert them to Christianity. Anthropologists Peter Silverwood-Cope and Christine and Stephen Hugh-Jones explain the Indian's nature-dominated existence and points out that the white man's influence is destoying their primitive culture, thus leaving the Indian stranded between two worlds. The missionaries also talk of their work and the film contrasts their way of life with that of the Indians."

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  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Ethnographic films"@en

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  • "War of the gods"@en
  • "War of the gods"
  • "War of the gods [Makú and Barasana]"

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