Dear friends, we are happy to announce that IUAES, International union of anthropological and ethnological sciences, selected the film”The Enchanted Words of the Hupd’äh of the Amazon-Masters of knowledge, narrated by Renato Athias” at IUAES2020 virtual congress (9 to 14th of march 2021).
On sunday 14th march from 12h15 to 14h, there will be a Q&A session with authors of ethnographics films. Renato Athias anthropologist and Mina Rad filmmaker will be happy to exchange with you.
The Enchanted Words of the Hupd’äh of the Amazon – Masters of knowledge, narrated by Renato Athias
A film written and directed by Mina Rad edited by Isabel Castro,World Cultural Diversity productions, 2021, 30’, France , Brazil, With the Hupd’äh: Bihit, Casimiro and Mehtiw,
You can find the film in this link :
(In Memoriam) “Humanity is nature” is what the Hupd’äh think.
In the cosmology of this people, one of the two hundred and ten ethnic groups in Brazil, there is no separation between mineral, vegetable, animal and human nature. Music and words have a transformative power, often incomprehensible to us. The film was produced from the ethnographic collection of the ethnologist Renato Athias, with texts, footage, photographs and music gathered in the 1980s…
