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Myth of Naro as Told by Dedeheiwä

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Myth of Naro as Told by Dedeheiwä

Price: $320.00
Filmmaker Name: Timothy Asch, Napolean Chagnon
Film Length: 22 min
Film Year: 1975
Duration: 21-45 min
Decade: 1970s
Series: Yanomamö series
Color: color
Region: South America
Subject: Storytelling, Myth and Folklore
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This film presents a version of a myth, different from the Myth of Naro as Told by Kaobawa, in narrative detail and also in the individual raconteur's style. The myth concerns the jealousy of Naro the Ugly toward his brother Yanomamo, who is fragrant and beautiful and has two wives. Desiring the women, Naro kills his brother by blowing magical charms, and is eventually killed himself by a third brother and a variety of ancestors. This is the origin of harmful magic. 

In telling the myth Dedeheiwä is, as always, a true performer, embellishing his words with gestures and evident delight at the drama and evocativeness of his tale. In another film, Kaobawa, also a village headman, tells the same myth in a gentle, more reflective style.


SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Finalist, American Film Festival

CREDITS & INFO

Myth of Naro as Told by Dedeheiwä

Script and Narration
Napoleon A. Chagnon 

Production Assistance
John Marshall
Jean Carroll
Sue Marshall
David Green 

Sound Mix
Chas. Bicking
Cody Co. 

Titles
Miret Film Title Service 

Optical Effects
Film Opticals 

Color
Cine Magnetics 

Negative Cutter
Ben Cantesano 

Camera: Arri BL Film: ECO 7255 
Sound: Nagra III Radio Sync, Stuart Cody 

Produced at the Center for Documentary Anthropology with the financial assistance of Documentary Educational Resources, National Science Foundation, Coast Community College, and District Telecommunications.

The collaboration of our colleagues at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cienti ficas (I.V.I.C.) is greatly appreciated.

©1975 Napoleon A. Chagnon, Timothy Asch and Documentary Educational Resources. 


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