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Embera the end of the road

Anthropologist Ariane Deluz examines the lives of the Embera Indians, the river people of Colombia. Their traditional way of life in the remote backwaters is being threatened by the new Alaska-Cape Horn highway, money and contact with people who exploit them. Includes scenes of boat building and pot-making.

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  • "Anthropologist Ariane Deluz examines the lives of the Embera Indians, the river people of Colombia. Their traditional way of life in the remote backwaters is being threatened by the new Alaska-Cape Horn highway, money and contact with people who exploit them. Includes scenes of boat building and pot-making."@en
  • "The way of life of the 10,000 Embera Indians who live in the Choco region of Colombia, South American, is threatened by the encroachments of Negro Libres (descendants of freed slaves) and by the expansion of the Pan-American highway which cuts through their land. The film's main concern is to show the effects of interaction between the Embera river dwellers and two groups of outsiders the Libres with whom they trade, and the local Catholic mission which administers education, religion and civil justice. Although the Embera are exploited by the Libres (who, for example, sell them hunting dogs at very high prices) both groups are poor and largely without rights in Colombian society. In an interview, the Embera explain to the anthropologist that they want protection from the physical attacks of the Libres and legal rights over the land which they have inhabited for many years. Sequences such as this bring out the Embera's plight they are caught between the bulldozers and the banknotes of the Libres. We are shown the material culture and way of life of the Indians (canoe building, pot making, hunting, curing rituals) but not in a romanticised way, and the polemical organisation of the film allows the ethnographic details of the life of these river Indians to be placed in a wide social and economic context."@en
  • "The Embera Indians of Columbia, South America are a river people; hunting, fishing and growing food. The coming of the Pan American highway through their land threatens to change their way of life."@en
  • "The Embera Indians of Columbia, South America are a river people; hunting, fishing and growing food. The coming of the Pan American highway through their land threatens to change their way of life."
  • "Shows the effects of interaction between the Embera people of the Choco region of Colombia and two groups of outsiders: the Negro Libres, descendents of freed slaves, with whom they trade, and the local Catholic mission. The Embera are depicted as caught between the expansion of the Pan-American highway and the exploiting Libres."

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  • "Ethnographic films"
  • "non fiction"
  • "Documentary films"
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  • "Embera, the end of the road"
  • "Embera the end of the road"
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