Item Details
Kawelka [videorecording] : Ongka's big moka
Granada Television International.
- Format
- VHS; Video
- Summary
- In Papua New Guinea, status is earned by giving things away rather than acquiring them. Explores the Moka, a ceremony in which people, sometimes the whole tribe, give gifts to members of other tribes, the larger the gift, the greater the victory over the recipient. Follows Ongka as he prepares for the giving of his Moka.
- Director
- Charlie Nairn
- Release Date
- 1974
- Run Time
- 52 min.
- Notes
- Videocassette release of a 1974 production by Granada Television International.
- Commentary in English ; conversations in Trobriand with English subtitles.
- Related title
- Ongka's big moka
- Series
- Disappearing world
- Series statement
- Disappearing world
- ISBN(s)
- 0780001001,
- Credits
- Director/producer, Charlie Nairn ; anthropologist, Andrew Strathern ; camera, Ernest Vincze ; research, Pattie Winter.
- Published
- Chicago, Ill. :Films Incorporated Video,c1991.
- Description
- 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. VHS format [NTSC]
- Technical details
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